After finishing his career as a Professor Emeritus at KULeuven (2006), José Lambert continued active teaching in Brazil (2011-2020: UFSC and UFC). Since the mid-seventies he has also functioned in many countries as a visiting professor and researcher (Amsterdam, Paris-Sorbonne (three times), Namur, Univ. of Pennsylvania), New York (NYU), Edmonton, Gottingen, South-Africa. His career has always combined organizational functions with interdisciplinary research and methodology. He was the European Secretary of ICLA and FILLM (1985-1991), the Founding Vice-President of both the Societe Belge de Litterature Generale et Comparee and the European Society for Translation Studies (1992). But he is mainly known as one of the fathers of TS (Translation Studies), first with James S Holmes and Gideon Toury (since Leuven 1976) (in a group including Even-Zohar, Bassnet, Lefevere, Vanden Broeck, Van Gorp). These were the founding years of the new discipline TS, when Target (John Benjamins) and several other publications were created, as well as the European Society for TS (EST) and CETRA (it trained almost 1000 scholars on 5 continents). Together with his research options, Lambert's work moved between CL and TS, -and beyond. While first exploring French, German, romantic traditions, he moved more and more into Internationalization where he revised the too narrow Source/Target dilemma. He insisted on Internationalization and Interdisciplinarity together with pioneers like Anthony Pym, Michael Cronin, Yves Gambier, and Daniel Gile. Franz Pochhacker, Christina Schaffaer).