Category Archives: Opportunities

Calls for papers, academic jobs, PhD and postdoctoral positions, fellowships, grants, conferences, workshops and other opportunities in Translation and Interpreting Studies.

Southeast Asian Literatures and the Anthropocene

By | October 4, 2026
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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 »

CFP: Centering Black Cultural Production in Translation

By | October 4, 2026
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As recent debates around the translation of Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem demonstrate, public discourse generally lacks a sophisticated means for discussing the circulation of Black-authored texts or the position of Black translators within the world literary system. Even within translation studies as a discipline, the topic of Black-authored and -translated texts has been marginalized. This situation must be… Read More »

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Department of Foreign Languages and Translation) at the University of Agder, Norway

By | October 4, 2026
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A fixed-term 100 % position is available at the University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow affiliated to the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, for a period of two years. The position is located at the University of Agder’s Kristiansand campus. The starting date is according to agreement. About the Faculty:h… Read More »

Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation (Teaching and Scholarship)

By | October 4, 2026
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Location:  Leeds – Main Campus Faculty/Service:  Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures School/Institute:  School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Category:  Academic Grade:  Grade 8 Salary:  £41,526 to £49,553 p.a. Working Time:  100% Post Type:  Full Time Contract Type:  Ongoing Release Date:  Thursday 03 June 2021 Closing Date:  Thursday 17 June 2021 Reference:  AHCLC1140 Are you an expert in the theory 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 Papers: Transgressive Translations

By | October 4, 2026
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Deadline: Saturday, 31 July, 2021 We are pleased to invite submissions for the 16th issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, slated for publication in December 2021. Young activists, independent researchers, graduate students and fresh graduates are particularly encouraged to apply. We also welcome submissions from seminal contributors in the field. With the urgency of transnational… Read More »

Special Issue “Machine Translation for Conquering Language Barriers”

By | October 4, 2026
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The MDPI journal Information invites submissions to a Special Issue on “Machine Translation for Conquering Language Barriers”. Machine translation is increasingly becoming a hot research topic due to its potential of becoming one of the most significant disruptive technologies today. It battles various aspects of existing language barriers in challenging ways, thus striving to enable effective communication and transferring of… 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 »

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 »

Call for Papers: Translation and Comics

By | October 4, 2026
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Estudios de Traducción Call for Papers: Translation and Comics The translation of comics shows certain specificities inherent to the medium that transcend its interlinguistic dimension (Reyns-Chikuma & Tarif 2016). Consequently, it is commonly defined as a hybrid discipline conditioned by an equally hybrid medium that blurs the boundaries between the categories seeing/reading through texts, paratexts and images. In… Read More »