translation studies. retrospective and prospective views

Editors’ Note
The summer of 2006 witnessed a new event in the calendar of
international scientific events hosted by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de
Jos” University of Galaţi: the international conference Translation Studies:
Retrospective and Prospective Views which benefited from the contribution of
32 participants. The interest shown by the community of would-be and
professional translators, master students specializing in translation and
interpreting as well as teachers of the theory and practice of translation
supported the conference organizing committee to continue the project.
Thus, the second edition of 2007 enjoyed wider success as it brought
together 67 participants. After the first two successfully-developed projects
whose proceedings were published in two volumes by the CNCSISaccredited
EUROPLUS Publishing House in Galaţi, Romania, the 2008
edition followed.
The conference preserved the same specific demands: a) to provide an
academic framework for productive discussion for professional and wouldbe
translators, teachers and MA or PhD students interested in
disseminating the results of their research, and b) to show how research in
these fields was prepared to meet the challenges of the globalizing
imperatives at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and how the local
background managed to adjust to these challenges. Although the main
purpose of the conference was to focus on translation studies exclusively,
the organizing committee were open to suggestions and accepted other
topics proposed by participants as well. This explains the flexible scientific
profile creating an opportunity for younger researchers to present,
describe, disseminate and, thus, submit the results of their scientific quest
or exploration to other (more experienced) specialists for discussion,
suggestions and (eventually) recommendations for further reading.
Since the third edition of the conference on translation studies in 2008
registered 87 participation offers, the conference proceedings publication
format required some changes. The conference organizing committee
decided that the participants’ contributions selected and refereed should be
published in a specialist review. This review published in three issues
annually, is meant to gather a number of the articles presented in the yearly
editions of this conference as well as other submitted contributions (such as
short essays, book reviews, calls for books/papers, conference chronicles,
announcements related to the field of translation studies). The first three
issues will also publish papers not originally presented in the conference,
whose authors could not participate in the event proper but had submitted
their paper according to the conference calendar or while the editing work
on the review was still in progress.
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