Category Archives: Call for Papers

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 »

Cfp: Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer

By | November 23, 2021

International Conference University of Tartu, Estonia10-11 May 2022 Over the past decades, Translation Studies scholars have systematically broadened the horizon of translation, moving beyond the textual and linguistic level to consider different forms of cultural transfer that entail processes of remediation. Museums, as places of encounter, transfer and learning, have thus been conceptualized as translational places, that is,… 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 »

Call for Papers: Translation and the Formation of Collectivities

By | June 20, 2021

Special Issue of ‘Translation in Society’ 2:1 Guest editors: Dilek Dizdar, dizdar@uni-mainz.de Tomasz Rozmysłowicz, tomasz.rozmyslowicz@univie.ac.at The social world is not only a precondition for but itself a product of translation processes, as research into the role of translation in the construction of national or ethnic communities has shown (for example Brisset 1996; Cronin 1996; Venuti 1998; Kristmannsson 2005;… 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 »

Southeast Asian Literatures and the Anthropocene

By | June 13, 2021

Call for Papers: 4th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Workshop-August 23-24, 2021 Organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment –Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia Deadline: 25th June 2021Contact: Dr Agnes Yeow and Dr Florence TohEmail: asleaseanabstracts@gmail.com In his seminal work “The Climate… Read More »