Romania/International Study and Creativity Day on “Language(s) and Translation” in Bucharest
Open to doctoral students and early-career researchers, as well as college and high school teachers, this year’s International Study and Creativity Day on “Language(s) and Translation” will focus on “the said, the unsaid, and the oversaid about colors—from precision to necessary approximations.” Scheduled for November 28, 2026, in a hybrid format at the University of Bucharest, the event will offer an interdisciplinary exploration of color, viewed in turn as a sign, mark, marker, symbol, or indicator of a phenomenon in various fields, but also as a true driving force behind creation and creativity.
What is the significance of this issue?
The title of the event revolves around the word “color,” which must be considered in relation to two other key concepts: “said” and “approximation.” The choice of color as a subject of research is not arbitrary. In all fields of science—whether the exact sciences or the social sciences and humanities—color carries meanings that are seemingly unspoken, overstated, or approximate, yet are essentially defining—truly expressed with varying degrees of precision.
Bringing together diverse bodies of work and content in research, and attempting to synthesize them to identify points of convergence or divergence, is the primary focus of this Day of Study and Creativity. Another objective of this collaborative Study Day is to genuinely embrace interdisciplinarity in research and to foster multifaceted, synergistic cooperation within a cross-disciplinary research network in order to implement joint projects. Contributors may focus on a single aspect centered on one of the theme’s keywords—the (un)spoken, approximation, color—or combine all the components of the call’s title.
Contributors may propose various linguistic approaches (by exploring the levels of morphosyntactic, semantic, pragmatic-discursive, encyclopedic, semiotic, and semiological analysis, etc.) to identify what is truly expressed by color, or what remains unsaid, oversaid, vague, or approximate.
The study day will be complemented by a Day of Creation and Creativity, during which interested participants are invited to join the creativity workshops offered in the following areas: literary creation, artistic creation (music, drawing, painting, advertising, multimodal documents—video sequences, short videos produced using the LMP lab provided by AUF), and translation.
Areas for Reflection (non-exhaustive)
To cover this vast field of research and foster methodological and theoretical exchanges among Study Day participants, the following areas of focus have been identified:
– culture(s) and civilization(s) – cultural and civilizational aspects influencing the life of words and discourses centered on the said, the unsaid, the oversaid, approximation, and the precision of color
– general discourse (literary and everyday) – issues of morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, and argumentation
– specialized languages – terminologies; phraseology; semantic-lexical and pragmatic-argumentative aspects
– theory and practice of bi- or multilingual terminology
– Jurilinguistics – linguistic and cultural aspects of legal discourse
– medicine and pharmacology – aspects specific to the health field in general, conceptual analysis, specialized or popular discourse, development of doctor-patient communication
– other fields: economics, religion, computer science, exact sciences, etc. Virtually all fields may be relevant when discussing how color can convey specific or approximate knowledge—whether stated, implied, or overstated
– translation and interpreting: the challenges of translating technical language and natural language; contrastive analysis of French and Romanian; French and another foreign language; issues in interpreting
– Translation, anthropology, and intercultural management
– pedagogy—teaching and learning specialized languages across various fields of activity and research
– pedagogy in various fields—medicine, law, economics, religion, etc.
The conference is open to researchers, teachers, teacher educators, doctoral students, and program directors interested in the intersections between literature, language teaching, higher education, and educational policy.
Submission and Timeline
Proposals (in French, Romanian, Spanish, Italian, or English) must include:
– a title
– five keywords
– a bibliography of no more than four titles
– a body of text of approximately 500 words presenting the research question, the methodological framework, the corpus analyzed, and the main expected results.
Following review of the final manuscripts by the editorial board, the papers will be published in a volume. The conference proceedings will be published by the University of Bucharest Press. Authors are asked to explicitly indicate the section in which they wish to participate.
Proposals must be submitted by October 30, 2026, to the following addresses (please send to all three addresses simultaneously): soniaberbinski@yahoo.com, turculet.claudiu@yahoo.com, and miruna.stegaru@gmail.com
Conference format: hybrid (the link will be provided before the event begins)
Event date: November 28, 2026
Source: www.auf.org/
