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  • A teacher in interpreting sitting by a table in the foreground, wearing headphones and writing on a piece of papper. I the background three students wearing headphones sitting in three interpreting boots.

    Conference: EMCI Student Meeting 2027

    Welcome to the 9th edition of the European Masters in Conference Interpreting Student Meeting. For three days conference interpreting students from all over Europe will meet, practice and learn at Stockholm University. Come prepared with speeches for exercies in simultaneous and consecutive for your level.

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    Open lecture 10 Nov.: Audio description – in Sweden and in the world

    During this open lecture, two experts will shed light on audio description as a practice and as a field of research: Joel Snyder will host a workshop and Peter Lilliecrona will talk about the organisation Syntolkning Nu.

    Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies
  • Valérie Alfvén behind a lectern, with a big projector screen in the background.

    Valérie Alfvén Keynote speaker at CLTS 2026 in Olomouc

    Valérie Alfvén gave one of the keynote lectures at the international conference Children's Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) 2026 at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 26–28 August 2026.

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  • Svefler has a new Facebook page

    Welcome to follow our new Facebook page, where we share information about research and education at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, including the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Swedish as a Foreign Language, and TÖI, the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies.

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    New book: Metaphors in Audiovisual Translation

    In this monograph, Jan Pedersen investigates how metaphors are handled in three different genres of televisual light entertainment. Jan Pedersen conducts research on subtitling and is Associated Professor in Translation Studies at the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Stockholm University.

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  • New doctoral thesis 2025 in Translation Studies: Style in subtitles

    Lova Meister defended her doctoral thesis in Translation Studies in 2025: Style in Subtitles: A Dialogical Approach to Characterisation in Subtitled Film and Television Drama. The Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University.

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  • International conference in Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) 2024

    Welcome to the International conference in Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) on 22–23 August 2024, in Stockholm 2024. The theme is New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation: Culture, Power and Transnational Approaches. Deadline for abstract: 30 November 2023. For information about call for papers, abstract proposal, keynote speakers, honorary speakers, organizing committee, scientific committe and contact, please see: tolk.su.se/CLTS

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    Two researchers at TÖI awarded SUBIC time grant

    Aleksandra Adler and Laura Babcock at the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies are two out of four researchers at Stockholm University to receive time grant from Stockholm University Brain Imaging Center (SUBIC).

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  • New thesis 2023 in Translation Studies: Cognitive load in dialogue interpreting –

    'Cognitive load in dialogue interpreting. Experience and directionality'. This dissertation by Aleksandra Adler investigates the effect of experience and language direction on cognitive load in dialogue interpreting. The Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Stockholm University.

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