From Translation to Organization to International Business: an Academic No Man’s Land

Abstract

Universities claim to represent a crucial component in the contemporary world of knowledge, which involves a given degree of selfcriticism and the redefinition of a few priorities. The recognition of new departments, such as Translation Studies (TS) is obviously part of this historical movement of self-criticism, and TS itself reflects similar processes in its own history, or rather prehistory. Although TS claims to have integrated Globalization and the new international world into its academic program, exactly how it will combine its initial self-definitions (built around translator training) with academic definitions