Category Archives: Call for Papers

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 – Translab4: Translation and Labour

By | February 15, 2023

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

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

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 »

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

By | March 14, 2022

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 »

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

By | March 14, 2022

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 »

Transfers and Traversals: An Interdisciplinary Translation Studies Conference

By | March 12, 2022

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 »

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

By | March 12, 2022

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 »

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

By | December 6, 2021

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 »