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Reine Meylaerts is a Full Professor and Vice-Rector of Social Sciences and Humanities at KU Leuven (2021-2025). Her research focuses on translation policy for minorities, intercultural mediation, and complexity theory applications in multilingual contexts. With over 150 publications (ORCID: 0000-0002-8088-1519), she has been a keynote speaker at 40+ international conferences and lectured at Harvard University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and others.
- Current leadership: Vice-Rector, KU Leuven (2021-2025)
- Former director: CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies, 2006-2014)
- Former Secretary General: European Society for Translation Studies (2004-2010)
Her research spans historical translation policies (Belgium, China, interwar Europe), crisis communication (pandemics, healthcare), and institutional translation (legal systems, UNESCO). She employs complexity theory and sociology of translation frameworks to analyze multilingual governance, cultural transfer, and translational justice.
Recent publications examine trust dynamics in vaccination messaging, translational practices in superdiverse cities, and relational approaches to translation studies. Her work connects historical policy analysis (1830-1946) with contemporary challenges in multilingual urban environments.
She supervises doctoral students in projects concerning:
- Translation policies in Shanghai and Brussels
- Legal translation history in Belgium
- Museum semiotic translation
- International literary circulation (Flemish authors)
- Translation and censorship in Turkey
