Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies

By | November 5, 2023

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 »

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

By | November 5, 2023

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 »

Call for Papers: Translators’ [In]visibilities

By | December 17, 2021

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 »

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2022

By | November 5, 2021

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 »

Cfp: Translation and Resistance

By | November 5, 2021

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 »

Cfp: VII International Seminar On Translation

By | June 25, 2021

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 »

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

By | June 21, 2021

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 »

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

By | June 14, 2021

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 »

Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation (Teaching and Scholarship)

By | June 8, 2021

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 »

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

By | June 8, 2021

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 »