Promoting a vibrant research culture to study language and translation practices is at the heart of this forum. Cluster members are actively engaged with a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to the application of language interpretation and translation, as well as political and cultural issues related to the processes of communicating across language systems. The rich portfolio of our researchers includes specialized language expertise to study both textual and audiovisual translation, facilitating intellectual conversations on these different translation phenomena. This group moves discussion of translation practice and theory beyond the contemporary, understanding it from a broad global and historical perspective.