📅 Thursday 17 September, 6 pm to 7:30 pm
📍 CO.AS.IT. Conference Room, 189 Faraday Street, Carlton
🎟️ Free, but please register
Globally, publishing houses have begun to explore AI for literary translation.
This development has exposed what Jitka Zehnalová & Helena Kubátová (“The Profession of Literary Translator in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, 2026) call the “constant tension between a sense of purpose, systemic vulnerability, and everyday negotiation” in the profession. The tension is illustrated by a UK survey (Society of Authors 2024): over 30% of book translators reported losing work to generative AI. A similar proportion had used generative AI in their translation process, sometimes in response to a publisher’s request. Our panel will take up questions that follow from this, including:
- How is the work of literary translation meaningful in the age of AI?
- In what ways does human translation differ from machine translation?
- Is co-translation with AI desirable, and under what conditions?
- What is gained, and what is lost?
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