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News and developments from the international Translation and Interpreting Studies community, including research, publishing, technology and language policy.

University Assistant with doctorate at the Institute of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria

By | October 4, 2026
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At the University of Graz, researchers and students work across a broad disciplinary spectrum to enlarge our knowledge, and find strategies to deal with challenges our society is confronted with and to shape tomorrow’s world. The University of Graz is a place which combines high quality academic research and teaching, where achievement is rewarded, careers are promoted, and… Read More »

Lecturer in Translation Studies, with Mandarin Chinese (Teaching and Scholarship)

By | October 4, 2026
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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 »

Call for Proposals —Role Reversal: Audiovisual Translation into English

By | October 4, 2026
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Guest editors Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London) Lydia Hayes (University College London & University of Bristol) In the privileged position of de facto lingua franca worldwide, English has been either the source or pivot language of innumerable translations over the past century, especially insofar as audiovisual texts are concerned. With the arrival of the talkies, the film industry began to… Read More »

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

By | October 4, 2026
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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 | October 4, 2026
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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: 56th Linguistics Colloquium

By | October 4, 2026
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International conference comprising all fields of linguistics For the first time the event taking place as a free online event Special theme: Translation, Multilinguality and  Cognition  Submission of abstracts: October 12, 2020 Submission of full papers: February 28                                                      Keynote speakers Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University, USA Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czech Republic Christopher Manning, Stanford University,… Read More »

Doctoral Candidate in Translation Studies at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies

By | October 4, 2026
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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 »

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Translation Studies

By | October 4, 2026
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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 »

Second Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting

By | October 4, 2026
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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 »

The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies

By | October 4, 2026
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The Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce the launch of The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar The Award is established in honour of the late Professor Martha Cheung (1953-2013), formerly Chair Professor of Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University. Professor Cheung… Read More »