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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Call for Papers: Translation and Comics

By | October 6, 2020
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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
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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 »

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 »

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Translation Studies

By | September 16, 2020
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Postdoctoral fellowship in critical translation Studies

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 »