May 2026: TTT Core group meeting in Ghent

On May 26 and 27 2026, representatives of all five institutes belonging to the Translating Through Time core group came together in Ghent to discuss upcoming events and the key outputs of the TTT project; the online Glossary, an edited volume, and a manifesto article. The meeting was organised by Brecht de Groote (Ghent University) and attended by Beatrijs Vanacker (KU Leuven), Noreen Humble (University of Calgary), Michelle Bolduc (University of Exeter), Freyja Cox Jensen (University of Exeter), and Alisa van de Haar (Leiden University). Eleonora Buonocore and Rachel Friedman (University of Calgary) joined part of the meeting online.

During the Ghent meeting, we initiated work on the online Glossary with a pilot phase focusing on the terms ‘Modern’, ‘Authority’, ‘Actor’, ‘Patronage’, and ‘Translator’. The core group will continue working on these terms during an online session in October 2026. During the meeting, we also celebrated the publication of volume 14 of the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, which focuses on Lucian and was prepared by core group member Keith Sidwell.

On the second day of the meeting, an online information session was organized for the TTT partner institutes. It was attended by representatives of University College London, the Université Catholique de Louvain, the Université de Lausanne, the KU Leuven (Lectio), the University of Antwerp, and the Université de Liège. We announced a number of upcoming meetings, to which we warmly invite colleagues from partner institutes. In November 2026, an Online Reading Group will be organized by Freyja Cox Jensen. On 28-29 April 2027, a TTT symposium will take place at Leiden University on the topic of ‘Actors and Agents of Early Modern Translation’. The symposium will be preceded by a masterclass for Early Career Researchers, and will include a session on the online Glossary.

Watch this space for more information about the upcoming Online Reading Group and the Symposium at Leiden!