Hanna Risku was appointed CETRA Chair Professor at the 34th Research Summer School in Translation Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

The summer school has a long history:In 1989 José Lambert created a special research program in Translation Studies at the University of Leuven in order to promote research training in the study of translational phenomena and to stimulate high-level research into the cultural functions of translation.

Since then, this unique program has attracted talented PhD students, postdocs and young scholars who spend two weeks of research under the supervision of a team of prominent scholars as well as of the supervision of the Chair Professor, an annually appointed expert in the field of Translation Studies. From 1989 on, the program has hosted participants from Austria to Australia, from Brazil to Burundi, and from China to the Czech Republic.

Titles of Hanna Risku's lectures during the 2023 CETRA Summer School

1.    Socio-cognitive translation studies and the situatedness of translation

2.    Distributed translatorship: A comparison of individualized, situated and extended agency

3.    Field research in translation studies: The challenging journey of doing research at the workplace

4.    Rethinking translation expertise: Lived practice and social construction

5.    Practitioner and employer views on translation expertise: Insights from ongoing empirical research