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 »

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 »

Second Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting

By | September 13, 2020
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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
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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 »