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 »

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2022

By | November 5, 2021

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to The Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Fellowships scheme, for Fellowships starting in the 2022/23 academic year. The three-year Fellowship contributes 100% of the Fellow’s salary in the first year, and thereafter 50% of the salary, with the balance being paid by 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 »

Cfp: VII International Seminar On Translation

By | June 25, 2021

VII INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON TRANSLATION (Barcelona, 29th-30th November 2021) THE UNCHARTED LETTER: TRANSLATION AND RECEPTION OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN WRITERS ERC Project WINK, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge, Universitat Pompeu Fabra DiCAM, Università di Messina CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: July 15th 2021 The practice of literary translation has always been a… Read More »

Call For Translations: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

By | June 22, 2021

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 »