PEN Translates Offers Funding for Literary Translation Projects
Call for Papers: The Translatability of the Scriptures in Christianity and Islam
Cfp- Translation as a process of resistance, resilience and activism
Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies
11th EST Congress: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies
Funding opportunity for publishers | Deadline: 30 November 2026 PEN Translates, the literary translation award administered by English PEN, is accepting applications for its latest funding round until 11.59pm GMT on 30 November 2026. Launched in 2012 with support from Arts Council England, PEN Translates aims to encourage UK publishers to acquire and publish contemporary literature from other… Read More »
International Conference | 12–14 April 2027 | Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies (CMCS) Oxford and the United Bible Societies’ TAZI initiative (Taurat Anbiya Zabur Injil) will host an international conference exploring the question of scriptural translatability in Christianity and Islam from 12 to 14 April 2027. Titled “The Translatability of the Scriptures in… Read More »
Translation as a Process of Resistance, Resilience and Activism The Case of Palestine and the Broader Arab Region Call for Contributions: “Translation as a Means of Resistance, Resilience and Activism: The Case of Palestine and the Broader Arab Region” Recent research has increasingly focused on the intersection of activism and translation. Shwaikh’s 2020 chapter on the Gaza Strip… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Applications invited for the post of Assistant Professor in Translation Studies and Translation Theory at the Department of French and Italian and the Program in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, UC Santa Barbara. Position overview Percent time: 100% Anticipated start: 07/01/2022 Application Window Open date: October 12th, 2021 Last review date: Monday, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:59pm (Pacific… Read More »
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 Translations 2021 The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies publishes translations of outstanding scholarly and creative work on cinema. The originals may be in any language and come from any period or geographic region. We welcome two types of proposals: (1) a single text such as a journal article, book chapter, or self-contained section of a book that focuses on a… Read More »
JOB DESCRIPTION The Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University invites applications for a full-time appointment for the duration of two years at the rank of Assistant Professor in Translation Studies. The position starts January 1, 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter), and will be in the Translation Studies group (situated within the section English… Read More »
