Professionalism
All teachers working at the Department of Translation Studies, FA, CPU in Nitra have a lot of translation and interpreting experience and participate in significant local and international research projects in the field of translation and interpreting studies, computer linguistics, machine or audiovisual translation, etc.
Quality
Master’s study programmes in translation and interpreting FA CPU were awarded the international quality certificate European Master’s in Translation (EMT), adding our master’s studies to the network of the highest quality translation studies programmes among European universities entitled to use the label and logo EMT.
Tradition
We follow the rich tradition of theoretical research in translation studies in Nitra going back to the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, Nitra was already well known in the field of translation studies both in Slovakia and abroad thanks to Professor Anton Popovič and his colleagues from the Institute of Literary Communication at the former Pedagogical Faculty in Nitra.
You are invited to the event Translation and Interpreting in Time of Crisis to be held on November 30th 2023.
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Published: 02 November 2023
You are invited to the event Summer School of PSIT to be held on September 4th 2023.
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Published: 31 August 2023
Dear colleagues and students,
We invite you to participate in the "Bilinguals and translation: who translates what and where" lecture by Prof. Dr. Esther Álvarez de la Fuente a Prof. Dr. Raquel Fernández Fuertes from the University of Valladolid Language Acquisition Lab (UVALAL), Spain. The lecture will take place at 12.00 PM on 9th May 2022 in the lecture hall P9 (Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra) and online: https://meet.ukf.sk/BilingualsandtranslationMay92022. You can find the details here.
The lecture will be held in English, but you can participate in the discussion in Spanish as well.
We look forward to your participation.
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Published: 05 May 2022
The upcoming conference Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of European Context will take place in Bratislava on 12-15 May 2022. The organizer's goal is to help disseminate the results of research into translation done in Ukraine and by doing so support their deep conviction that Ukraine shares European values and is – and has always been – an integral part of Europe.
The conference will see presentations by significant translation studies scholars from Ukraine and elsewhere, such as Oleksandr Kalnychenko, Lada Kolomiyets, Leonid Chernovaty, Viacheslav Karaban, Maksym.V.Strikha, Susan Bassnett, Andrew Chesterman, and many others.
You can find further information about the conference in here and the programme here. Participation in the conference is free, but all participants must register here: https://forms.gle/8PE4oayFh5zeA6eK9.
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Published: 28 April 2022
Following the transition to face-to-face education (since 7 March 2022), the Department of Translation Studies FA CPU Nitra will provide access to education also to students who are unable to participate in face-to-face classes due to objective reasons caused by the military conflict in Ukraine.
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Published: 01 March 2022
The Department of Translation Studies FA CPU in Nitra is opening a call for volunteers to help people arriving from Ukraine.
If you are able to help with translations and interpreting for people arriving from Ukraine, or you wish to help families that have arrived directly to Nitra and surrounding areas communicate, please register via the short questionnaire below. The help is being coordinated by the team at the Department of Translation Studies FA CPU in Nitra in collaboration with the non-profit organizations Pokoj a dobro - pomoc nudznym - Peace and Good and OZ Mareena.
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Published: 28 February 2022