Submission information

Submissions and publications

Convergence 2026 invites the following types of submissions on one of the conference themes:

  • Long papers – describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices
  • Short papers – describing work in progress. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + unlimited number of pages for references and appendices

The conference aims to be a platform for in-depth discussion of prevalent themes while also offering contributors the opportunity for swift publication of their work. The event will provide the wide community of Translation and Interpreting Studies and the disciplines it intersects with, a space for networking, collective brainstorming and looking into the future of communication, all sustained by a robust set of papers published in the conference proceedings.

Both long and short papers can be associated with rigorous empirical work or conceptual approaches to the themes of the conference. PhD students are also invited to submit papers regardless of the stage of their PhD journey. If accepted, their papers may be selected to any of the sessions of the conference, including a dynamic poster session, in which students may receive feedback and consider new developments for their work.

For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the two column ACL format and use the following templates:

The papers should be submitted using the START system using the following link https://softconf.com/p/convergence2026 before the deadline.

The papers should not be anonymised. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only.

The final versions of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. Authors may add one additional page to their final submission to incorporate the feedback from reviewers. 

A draft version of the proceedings will be published before the conference. After the conference, the authors will be given the opportunity to make minor changes to their papers in order to incorporate feedback received at the conference. The final version of the proceedings will be published in September 2026. We have started the process to have the final version of the conference proceedings included in the ACL anthology. 

Should you have any questions do not hesitate to get in touch with us by sending an email to cts_inquiries@surrey.ac.uk.