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Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies

By | November 5, 2023
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CALL FOR PAPERSGraduate Student Conference on Translation StudiesProgram of Comparative LiteratureUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst April 20-21, 2024 Conference theme: Trace and TransformationKeynote speaker: Dr. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University Call for Papers The art of translation, as Edouard Glissant reminds us, involves “the practice of trace, which, as against systematic thought, points the way to the uncertain, the… Read More »

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11th EST Congress: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies

By | November 5, 2023
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Date: Monday 30 June 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 Location: University House Interval: Every day Until: Friday, 4 July 2025 Cost: TBC About the congress The ever-changing landscape of the translation and interpreting industry and academic research has led in the past ten years to translation taking place in different places, platforms and modalities. It has also led to… Read More »

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IBN TIBBON Doctoral and Teacher Training Translation Studies Summer School (DOTTSS) 2022

By | March 17, 2022
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Granada, Spain: 27 June –8 July 2022 The Doctoral and Teacher-Training Translation Studies Summer School (DOTTSS) is a joint initiative of 5 different universities: University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Turku (Finland), University of Tampere (Finland), University of Granada (Spain) and Boğaziçi University (Turkey). Since 2012 the summer school has hosted doctoral students of TS and teachers of… Read More »

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Public Service Translation And Interpreting: A Way to Accessibility And Inclusion

By | March 14, 2022
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Edited by Carmen VALERO-GARCÉS (University of Alcalá, Spain) and Soňa HODÁKOVÁ (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia) The UN 2030 Agenda, among its main objectives and goals, promotes sustainable, inclusive and equal development. Achieving this objective requires alliances between countries so that a spirit of solidarity and inclusion can grow, and where accessibility to all services must be guaranteed.  Accessibility… Read More »

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Cfp: Special Issue- New Trends, Challenges and Discoveries in the Translation of Multilingualism in Fiction

By | March 14, 2022
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Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, The past decade has seen a substantial rise in research publications focused more and more on the issue of translation tasks and projects having to tackle with texts that are not limited to a single language, dialect, or sociolect (Beseghi 2017, Ranzato and Zanotti 2018, Pérez and de Higes 2019, Rebane and Junkerjürgen… Read More »

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Cfp: Special Issue – Research, pedagogy and practice of translation and interpretation

By | March 14, 2022
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Call for Papers JRHE, the Journal of Research in Higher Education published by Babeș-Bolyai University, the QUALITAS Centre, invites submissions for the forthcoming special issue on the research, pedagogy and practice of translation and interpretation, due out in September 2022. JRHE is a peer-reviewed, open access journal http://jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/, that seeks to address and factor in the major challenges educators, researchers, trainers and trainers… Read More »

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Transfers and Traversals: An Interdisciplinary Translation Studies Conference

By | March 12, 2022
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In December 2022, the University of the Free State will be hosting an interdisciplinary translation studies conference, ‘Transfers | and | Traversals’, for which we are presently inviting abstracts. At this stage, we are planning for a face-to-face conference on the Bloemfontein campus of the university, but our arrangements regarding the format will remain flexible depending on the… Read More »

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INTERSEMIOTICITY, INTERGENERICITY, INTERMEDIALITY: FROM TRANSLATION TO DRAMATISATION, ADAPTATION, PERFORMANCE

By | March 12, 2022
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Call For Papers Concordia Discors vs. Discordia Concors (International Journal for Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies) no. 17-18 / 2022 INTERSEMIOTICITY, INTERGENERICITY, INTERMEDIALITY: FROM TRANSLATION TO DRAMATISATION, ADAPTATION, PERFORMANCE Roman Jakobson’s On Linguistic Aspects of Translation (1959) is still a much quoted (re)source, above all for having introduced the concept of intersemioticity or transmutation as… Read More »

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CfP: Unending Translation: Creative Critical Experiments in Translation and Life Writing

By | December 17, 2021
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Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2022 Organization: Delphine Grass/Lancaster University, Lily Robert-Foley / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier contact email: lily.robert-foley@univ-montp3.fr The aim of this collected edition is to explore different approaches to translation criticism through the medium of life writing. Traditionally assigned to the paratextual, the translator’s point of view rarely occupies the narrative centre of creative writing and essays. In… Read More »

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Call for Papers: Translators’ [In]visibilities

By | December 17, 2021
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25-26 February 2022, University of Calgary This call for papers is for a two-day workshop on the theme Translators’ [In]visibilities focussing on the idea of ‘invisibility’ from multiple perspectives. Informed by scholarship in translation studies, in particular the work of Lawrence Venuti, especially The Translator’s Invisibility (3rd edition; Routledge 2018), we want to explore the ideas of visibility and invisibility… Read More »

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CFP- Special Issue: Literary Multilingualism Studies: The Future of the Field

By | December 6, 2021
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Full name / Name of organisation: Journal of Literary Multilingualism Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2022 Contact email: j.taylor-batty@leedstrinity.ac.uk Literary multilingualism studies is a relatively new but burgeoning area of research. With the impact of translation studies, the ‘transnational turn’ within literary studies, and the growing relevance of the ‘postmonolingual condition’ in the contemporary world, multilingual and translingual writing practices –… Read More »

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Cfp: Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer

By | November 23, 2021
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International Conference University of Tartu, Estonia10-11 May 2022 Over the past decades, Translation Studies scholars have systematically broadened the horizon of translation, moving beyond the textual and linguistic level to consider different forms of cultural transfer that entail processes of remediation. Museums, as places of encounter, transfer and learning, have thus been conceptualized as translational places, that is,… Read More »

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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2022

By | November 5, 2021
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The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to The Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Fellowships scheme, for Fellowships starting in the 2022/23 academic year. The three-year Fellowship contributes 100% of the Fellow’s salary in the first year, and thereafter 50% of the salary, with the balance being paid by the… Read More »

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Cfp: Translation and Resistance

By | November 5, 2021
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Translation and resistance

One-day conference, May 20 2022Laboratoire Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès The practice of translation lends itself to a continued conversation around the notion of resistance, on a number of levels. Whether it be in terms of the text chosen for translation or the strategy deployed by the person translating it, or indeed the conditions in which the project… Read More »

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Cfp: VII International Seminar On Translation

By | June 25, 2021
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VII International Seminar On Translation

VII INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON TRANSLATION (Barcelona, 29th-30th November 2021) THE UNCHARTED LETTER: TRANSLATION AND RECEPTION OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN WRITERS ERC Project WINK, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge, Universitat Pompeu Fabra DiCAM, Università di Messina CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: July 15th 2021 The practice of literary translation has always been a… Read More »

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Call For Translations: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

By | June 22, 2021
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Call for Translations 2021 The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies publishes translations of outstanding scholarly and creative work on cinema. The originals may be in any language and come from any period or geographic region. We welcome two types of proposals: (1) a single text such as a journal article, book chapter, or self-contained section of a book that focuses on a… Read More »

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Assistant Professor of Translation Studies (1.0 FTE) at Utrecht University, Netherlands

By | June 21, 2021
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JOB DESCRIPTION The Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University invites applications for a full-time appointment for the duration of two years at the rank of Assistant Professor in Translation Studies. The position starts January 1, 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter), and will be in the Translation Studies group (situated within the section English… Read More »

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Cfp: Who’s Afraid Of Translator Studies? The Human Translator in Focus

By | June 21, 2021
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A conference for postgraduate, doctoral and early-career researchers Where? : Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, University of Dublin When?: May 12-13, 2022 Call for Papers While Translation Studies continues to evolve, entering into dialogue with diverse disciplines and following multifarious directions, translators still represent the underlying and essential agency that makes such evolution possible. However, it… Read More »

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Call for Papers: Translation and the Formation of Collectivities

By | June 20, 2021
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Special Issue of ‘Translation in Society’ 2:1 Guest editors: Dilek Dizdar, dizdar@uni-mainz.de Tomasz Rozmysłowicz, tomasz.rozmyslowicz@univie.ac.at The social world is not only a precondition for but itself a product of translation processes, as research into the role of translation in the construction of national or ethnic communities has shown (for example Brisset 1996; Cronin 1996; Venuti 1998; Kristmannsson 2005;… Read More »

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University Assistant with doctorate at the Institute of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria

By | June 14, 2021
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At the University of Graz, researchers and students work across a broad disciplinary spectrum to enlarge our knowledge, and find strategies to deal with challenges our society is confronted with and to shape tomorrow’s world. The University of Graz is a place which combines high quality academic research and teaching, where achievement is rewarded, careers are promoted, and… Read More »

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Cfp: The Conceptualisation of Translation in Translation Studies: Past, Present and Future

By | June 14, 2021
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Translation Studies Special Issue

Translation Studies Special Issue Editor(s) Sergey Tyulenev, Durham Universitysergey.tyulenev@durham.ac.uk Binghan Zheng, Durham Universitybinghan.zheng@durham.ac.uk Kobus Marais, University of the Free Statejmarais@ufs.ac.za So far, the predominant tendency in Translation Studies (TS) has been to prioritise, implicitly or explicitly, (inter)lingual types of translation and interpreting. Having said that, there have also been various attempts to go beyond such a narrow conceptualisation. Why is there… Read More »

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Southeast Asian Literatures and the Anthropocene

By | June 13, 2021
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Call for Papers: 4th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Workshop-August 23-24, 2021 Organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment –Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia Deadline: 25th June 2021Contact: Dr Agnes Yeow and Dr Florence TohEmail: asleaseanabstracts@gmail.com In his seminal work “The Climate… Read More »

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CFP: Centering Black Cultural Production in Translation

By | June 10, 2021
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As recent debates around the translation of Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem demonstrate, public discourse generally lacks a sophisticated means for discussing the circulation of Black-authored texts or the position of Black translators within the world literary system. Even within translation studies as a discipline, the topic of Black-authored and -translated texts has been marginalized. This situation must be… Read More »

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Department of Foreign Languages and Translation) at the University of Agder, Norway

By | June 10, 2021
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A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow affiliated to the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, for a period of two years. The position is located at the University of Agder’s Kristiansand campus. The starting date is according to agreement. About the Faculty:h… Read More »

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Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation (Teaching and Scholarship)

By | June 8, 2021
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Location:  Leeds – Main Campus Faculty/Service:  Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures School/Institute:  School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Category:  Academic Grade:  Grade 8 Salary:  £41,526 to £49,553 p.a. Working Time:  100% Post Type:  Full Time Contract Type:  Ongoing Release Date:  Thursday 03 June 2021 Closing Date:  Thursday 17 June 2021 Reference:  AHCLC1140 Are you an expert in the theory and… Read More »

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Lecturer in Translation Studies, with Mandarin Chinese (Teaching and Scholarship)

By | June 8, 2021
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Job reference: HUM-016808 Location: University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester Closing date :15/06/2021 Salary: £36,914 to £51,034 per annum, depending on relevant experience Employment type: Permanent Faculty/Organisation: Humanities School/ Directorate: Modern Languages and Cultures Hours per week: Full Time Contract Duration: From 1 September 2021 Applications are invited for the teaching and scholarship (teaching-focused) post of Lecturer in Translation Studies, which is tenable from 1 September… Read More »

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Call for Papers: Transgressive Translations

By | June 7, 2021
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Deadline: Saturday, 31 July, 2021 We are pleased to invite submissions for the 16th issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, slated for publication in December 2021. Young activists, independent researchers, graduate students and fresh graduates are particularly encouraged to apply. We also welcome submissions from seminal contributors in the field. With the urgency of transnational… Read More »

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Special Issue “Machine Translation for Conquering Language Barriers”

By | June 7, 2021
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The MDPI journal Information invites submissions to a Special Issue on “Machine Translation for Conquering Language Barriers”. Machine translation is increasingly becoming a hot research topic due to its potential of becoming one of the most significant disruptive technologies today. It battles various aspects of existing language barriers in challenging ways, thus striving to enable effective communication and transferring of… Read More »

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Call for Proposals —Role Reversal: Audiovisual Translation into English

By | June 5, 2021
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Guest editors Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London) Lydia Hayes (University College London & University of Bristol) In the privileged position of de facto lingua franca worldwide, English has been either the source or pivot language of innumerable translations over the past century, especially insofar as audiovisual texts are concerned. With the arrival of the talkies, the film industry began to… Read More »

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Call for Papers – Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution

By | June 5, 2021
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deadline for submissions: June 30, 2021 full name / name of organization: The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship contact email: jonathan.evans@port.ac.uk The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Call for Papers Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution Editors: Jonathan Evans, Kathleen Dunley and Ernesto Priego This full Call for Papers… Read More »

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Quran in Translation: The global Quran book series

By | June 5, 2021
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Quran Translation

The Global Qur’an is a new book series by Open Books Publishers that looks at Muslim engagement with the Qur’an in a global perspective. They publish studies that focus on the translation and interpretation of the Qur’an or on the social, cultural, pedagogical, aesthetic, and devotional place of the Qur’an in Muslim societies worldwide. They particularly encourage comparative… Read More »

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Doctoral Candidate in Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies

By | October 6, 2020
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Applications are open until 14 October 2020 for 1 (one) position of Doctoral Candidate (Ph.D. fellow) in Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. Detailed job description and the procedures are described in the Era Careers Portal. Applicants should always refer to the Portuguese version of the call. Below is a brief outline of… Read More »

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Call for Chapter Proposals: The Human Translator in the 2020s

By | September 20, 2020
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Chapter proposals are invited for a volume entitled The Human Translator in the 2020s, to be edited by Gary Massey, David Katan and Elsa Huertas Barros. The advance of machine translation (MT) into the routine cognitive work hitherto done by translators creates an increasing demand for post-editing and related technology-led skills, but it is also opening spaces for… Read More »

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Lecture Series by Centre for Comparative Literature, UoH

By | September 18, 2020
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Comparative Literature Hyderabad University

Centre for Comparative Literature at University of Hyderabad conducts series of online lectures on various topics featuring prominent academicians across the globe. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Prof. Rupa Viswanath (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen). Title: “Permanent Minorities and Political Domination: Ambedkar on Representative Democracy” Date: 18 Sept 18 2020Time: 7.30 PM, IST… Read More »

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KTDRR’s 2020 Virtual Conference: Social Media Strategies for Knowledge Translation

By | September 14, 2020
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KTDRR’s 2020 Virtual Conference: Social Media Strategies for Knowledge Translation

KTDRR’s 2020 Virtual Conference: Social Media Strategies for Knowledge Translation KTDRR’s 2020 Virtual Knowledge Translation Conference theme is  is “Social Media Strategies for Knowledge Translation.” Presenters will address key questions pertinent to any researcher or product developer: How can social media help me understand what people need? or want to know from my work? How can it be… Read More »

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10th AIETI International Congress 2021: Transtextual and cultural circumnavigations

By | September 13, 2020
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10th AIETI 2021 International Congress 17 – 19 June 2021 | University of Minho, Braga The University of Minho, through its Institute of Letters and Human Sciences (ILCH) and the Center for Humanistic Studies (CEHUM), will organize the 10th International Congress of the Iberian Association of Translation and Interpretation Studies (AIETI), which will take place on the  17th , 18… Read More »

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Submission call: Translation and Women – Exploring the Indian Subcontinent

By | September 12, 2020
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Translation as an act exists in the intersection of the creative and the critical. In engaging with different language systems it opens up new dialogic spaces. In a world that is becoming largely intolerant of multiple perspectives and where survival of a number of languages are becoming a matter of concern, translation can be one of the important… Read More »

Cfp- Translation as a process of resistance, resilience and activism

By | August 13, 2024
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Translation as a Process of Resistance, Resilience and Activism The Case of Palestine and the Broader Arab Region Call for Contributions: “Translation as a Means of Resistance, Resilience and Activism: The Case of Palestine and the Broader Arab Region” Recent research has increasingly focused on the intersection of activism and translation. Shwaikh’s 2020 chapter on the Gaza Strip… Read More »

Call for Papers – Translab4: Translation and Labour

By | February 15, 2023
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03.04.2023Two-day symposium organized by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger, held 6-7th July 2023 in London, UK This symposium will be devoted to explorations of the concept of labour arising from Translab’s hallmark blending of ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’. It posits that the concept of labour, as distinct from ‘work’ (Arendt 1958/1998; Narotzky 2018), warrants more sustained engagement on the… Read More »

Bristol Literary Translation Summer School

By | February 14, 2023
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Date: 3–7 July 2023 Aimed at practising translators at any stage of their career and at language enthusiasts who want to explore the world of literary translation, Bristol Translates offers the opportunity to work with leading professional translators to translate texts across the literary genres into English. Bristol Translates summer school takes place entirely online, making it accessible… Read More »

The 24th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation

By | February 14, 2023
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The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2023 conference taking place in Tampere, from 12 to 14 June 2023 with workshops held on 15 June. We solicit proposals in all areas of machine translation. EAMT workshops are intended to provide the opportunity for MT-related communities of… Read More »