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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 »

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 »

Call for Papers – Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution

By | June 5, 2021

deadline for submissions: June 30, 2021 full name / name of organization: The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship contact email: jonathan.evans@port.ac.uk The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Call for Papers Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution Editors: Jonathan Evans, Kathleen Dunley and Ernesto Priego This full Call for Papers… Read More »

Quran in Translation: The global Quran book series

By | June 5, 2021

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 »