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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Chapter proposals are invited for a volume entitled The Human Translator in the 2020s, to be edited by Gary Massey, David Katan and Elsa Huertas Barros. The advance of machine translation (MT) into the routine cognitive work hitherto done by translators creates an increasing demand for post-editing and related technology-led skills, but it is also opening spaces for… Read More »
Centre for Comparative Literature at University of Hyderabad conducts series of online lectures on various topics featuring prominent academicians across the globe. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Prof. Rupa Viswanath (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen). Title: “Permanent Minorities and Political Domination: Ambedkar on Representative Democracy” Date: 18 Sept 18 2020Time: 7.30 PM, IST… Read More »
