This short presentation aims at introducing the conference and its subject. It will try to reach this aim in two steps. First we present some general considerations on the concepts of Translation, Culture, and Cognition and how they fit into the Research Line Translating Europe across the Ages which hosts this conference. In a second step we describe some of our research areas in relation to the concept of Translation and present briefly the concrete subjects and projects that we are going to discuss in the next two days.
