This volume reproduces selected presentations from the graduate conference “New Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies” held in Tarragona in May 2011, together with Professor Chakravorty Spivak’s speech made on the occasion of her being invested as Doctor Honoris Causa of our university, also in May 2011. These two events coincided, allowing the conference participants to attend the seminar with Professor Spivak that can be seen on the front cover of this book.

As in previous years, the papers included here indicate the enormous range of Translation Studies, in this case running from the politics of the Quran to the cognitive processes of simultaneous interpreters. It is all translation, and all worthy of our interest.

I would like to express my personal thanks to David Orrego Carmona for doing a lot of the editorial spadework, without which this publication would not have been possible.