Towards a Processual Sensitivity in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Invitation

Dear All,

The Centre for Cognitive Research in Language and Communication at the University of Wrocław is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Prof. Piotr Blumczyński (bio-note and abstract attached), entitled: „Towards a Processual Sensitivity in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies”.

This lecture offers a phenomenological, epistemological, and ontological corrective to the widespread tendency to frame translational processing primarily in terms of its productivity. Drawing on A.N. Whitehead’s process thought, especially its foundational concept of becoming, contrasted with Aristotelian substance metaphysics, Prof. Blumczyński rethinks the notion of process in translation studies.

Prof. Piotr Blumczyński is Professor of Translation and Intercultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of Ubiquitous Translation (2016) and Experiencing Translationality (2023), and co-editor of Translating Values (2016), The Languages of COVID-19 (2022), and Writing Forward (2025). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Translation Studies (Taylor & Francis) and has supervised over thirty PhD theses in translation, interpreting, linguistics, and education.

Best regards,

Marek Kuźniak