Yearly Archives: 2020

Call for Papers: 56th Linguistics Colloquium

By | October 12, 2020

International conference comprising all fields of linguistics For the first time the event taking place as a free online event Special theme: Translation, Multilinguality and  Cognition  Submission of abstracts: October 12, 2020 Submission of full papers: February 28                                                      Keynote speakers Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University, USA Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic Christopher Manning, Stanford University,… Read More »

Call for Papers: Translation and Comics

By | October 6, 2020

Estudios de Traducción Call for Papers: Translation and Comics The translation of comics shows certain specificities inherent to the medium that transcend its interlinguistic dimension (Reyns-Chikuma & Tarif 2016). Consequently, it is commonly defined as a hybrid discipline conditioned by an equally hybrid medium that blurs the boundaries between the categories seeing/reading through texts, paratexts and images. In… Read More »

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

By | October 6, 2020

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 »

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

By | September 20, 2020

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 »

Lecture Series by Centre for Comparative Literature, UoH

By | September 18, 2020

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 »

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Translation Studies

By | September 16, 2020

Positions are available for the 2021-22 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN CRITICAL TRANSLATION STUDIESThe Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan announces a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Translation Studies. The fellowship is funded by the Mellon Foundation in conjunction with a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest . The candidate will have… Read More »

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

By | September 14, 2020

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 »

Second Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting

By | September 13, 2020

Second Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting Theme COGNITIVE APPROACHES Dates 8-9 April 2021 Venue Dr. Wu Yee Sun Lecture Theatre (WLB109) Shaw Campus Hong Kong Baptist University Organizers Centre for Translation and Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies Hong Kong Baptist University Cognitive approaches to studying interpreting have been one of the main streams… Read More »

10th AIETI International Congress 2021: Transtextual and cultural circumnavigations

By | September 13, 2020

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 »

Submission call: Translation and Women – Exploring the Indian Subcontinent

By | September 12, 2020

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 »