Public Service Translation And Interpreting: A Way to Accessibility And Inclusion

By | March 14, 2022

Edited by Carmen VALERO-GARCÉS (University of Alcalá, Spain) and Soňa HODÁKOVÁ (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia) The UN 2030 Agenda, among its main objectives and goals, promotes sustainable, inclusive and equal development. Achieving this objective requires alliances between countries so that a spirit of solidarity and inclusion can grow, and where accessibility to all services must be guaranteed.  Accessibility… Read More »

Cfp: Special Issue- New Trends, Challenges and Discoveries in the Translation of Multilingualism in Fiction

By | March 14, 2022

Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, The past decade has seen a substantial rise in research publications focused more and more on the issue of translation tasks and projects having to tackle with texts that are not limited to a single language, dialect, or sociolect (Beseghi 2017, Ranzato and Zanotti 2018, Pérez and de Higes 2019, Rebane and Junkerjürgen… Read More »

Cfp: Special Issue – Research, pedagogy and practice of translation and interpretation

By | March 14, 2022

Call for Papers JRHE, the Journal of Research in Higher Education published by Babeș-Bolyai University, the QUALITAS Centre, invites submissions for the forthcoming special issue on the research, pedagogy and practice of translation and interpretation, due out in September 2022. JRHE is a peer-reviewed, open access journal http://jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/, that seeks to address and factor in the major challenges educators, researchers, trainers and trainers… Read More »

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: Unending Translation: Creative Critical Experiments in Translation and Life Writing

By | December 17, 2021

Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2022 Organization: Delphine Grass/Lancaster University, Lily Robert-Foley / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier contact email: lily.robert-foley@univ-montp3.fr The aim of this collected edition is to explore different approaches to translation criticism through the medium of life writing. Traditionally assigned to the paratextual, the translator’s point of view rarely occupies the narrative centre of creative writing and essays. In… Read More »

Call for Papers: Translators’ [In]visibilities

By | December 17, 2021

25-26 February 2022, University of Calgary This call for papers is for a two-day workshop on the theme Translators’ [In]visibilities focussing on the idea of ‘invisibility’ from multiple perspectives. Informed by scholarship in translation studies, in particular the work of Lawrence Venuti, especially The Translator’s Invisibility (3rd edition; Routledge 2018), we want to explore the ideas of visibility and invisibility… 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 »

Assistant Professor – Translation Studies and Translation Theory

By | November 19, 2021

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 »