PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Journal: Special issue of Translation Matters on History as Translation. Guest editor: Margarita SAVCHENKOVA. Deadline for articles: 15 December 2025
Journal: Special issue of Translation Matters on Retranslation (Vol. 8.2, Autumn 2026). Guest editor: Ahu Selin ERKUL YAĞCI & Selahattin KARAGÖZ & Merve Engin KURT. Deadline for articles: 15 February 2026. Any inquiries should be addressed to: selinerkulyagci@gmail.com
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
EPISTRAN Online Lecture Series represents cutting-edge knowledge in the domain of (Inter-)Epistemic Translation. Please leave your e-mail on this form for us to send you the link for each session beforehand. Thursday 12th June (5pm-6.30) (Strand A) Translation Across the Humanities
Maria Mencia (Kingston School of Art): Creative Methodologies as Translation for Inclusive Creative Research Practice Margarita Savchenkova (U. Salamanca): Traumatic experiences through the lens of translation
Thursday 10th July (5pm-6.30) (Strand A) Science Communication Jack Mc Martin U. Leuven): Science translation cultures in Flanders and the Netherlands Phillippa May Bennett (U. Coimbra/CETAPS): Cardiology in transit: from text to screen
Conference: 6-7 November 2025. Writing, Taking Action, Resisting: Reconfigurations of Literary Engagement. Universidade de Aveiro.
Online course: Literacy in AI Translation for Healthcare Settings, coordinated by Hanna Pieta and Susana Valdez. Available until May 2026.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference (online): 3–4 November 2025. APTIS25 Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future language professionals? UCL Centre for Translation Studies. Deadline for abstracts: 16 June 202
Conference: 21-22 November 2025. Professional Translation and Language Services in the AI Era: Opportunities and Challenges. The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Extended deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2025
Conference: 24-26 September 2025. 5th International Congress of Language and Translation Studies. Selçuk University, Konya, Türkiye. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025
Conference: 23-24 October 2025. Pornography in Babel: Translation, Sexuality, Obscenity. University of Antwerp. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025
Conference: 3–5 December 2025. Languaging Diversity and Identity in Digital Environments. University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2025.
Conference: 13-14 November 2025. International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2025) — Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting. University of Warwick. Deadline for abstracts: 25 July 2025
Conference: 11-13 March 2026. 9th International conference on public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) on Experience and Transformation in PSIT. University of Alcalá, Madrid. Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2025
Conference: 29-31 October 2025. 4th International Conference: Translation and the Language of Tourism. University of Córdoba, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2025.
Conference: 26-27 March 2026. The First International Conference Translating Music #1 The Idea of a Musical Work and Its Transformations. Academy of Music in Lodz. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Conference: 18–20 June 2026. Translation at the Crossroads of Ideologies and Cultures Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Vilnius University. Deadline for abstracts: 16 February 2026.
Journal: Special issue of À tradire. Didactique de la traduction pragmatique et de la communication technique (2025) on Collaboration. Guest editors: Yannick Hamon, Giuseppe Sofo & David ar Rouz. Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2025
Journal: JoSTrans Issue 46 (July 2026). Non-thematic issue. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2025.
Journal: Encounters in Translation, special issue on Modernity in Translation, 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2025.
Journal: Special issue of ITT on Value(s) in and of T&I Pedagogy: Educating Professionals for Today’s Language Industry. Guest editors: Gary Massey, JC Penet, & Olga Mastela. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2025
Journal: L10N Journal: Translation in Software, Software in Translation, special issue on Advancing Game Translation User Research (GTUR), Vol 4(2), 2025. Manuscript submission: 1 August 2025.
Journal: Special issue of International Journal of Language, Translation, and Intercultural Communication (IJLTIC) on The Sustainability of Interpreting as a Profession in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Guest Editors: Stefanos Vlachopoulos, Anastasios Ioannidis, Effrosyni Fragkou. Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2025
Journal: Panace@: Revista de Medicina, Lenguaje y Traducción, special issue on Herramientas informáticas e inteligencia artificial, Vol. 62, 2025. Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2025.
Journal: The Journal of Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (JoNPIT), Special issue on Issue on Non-Professional Interpreting in Healthcare. Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2025.
Journal: Special issue of Perspectives on Evolving Dialogues between Western and Chinese Translation Theories. Guest editors: Lichun Tao, Yanmei Liu & Shaoshuang Wang. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025
Chapter: A Meta-methodological Edited Volume: Doing Archival Research on Translation-related Topics, edited by Yves Gamvier, Laura Ivaska, & Outi Paloposki. Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2025
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
2nd workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology. Co-located with the MT Summit 2025, Geneva. 24 June 2025.
1st EATPA Symposium on East Asian Translation Pedagogy. University of Leeds. 27-28 June 2025.
Translation and Music: An interdisciplinary dialogue, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau). 29 June-01 July 2025
11th EST Congress: The changing faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Leeds. 30 June-3 July 2025.
16th International Conference on Live Subtitling and Speech-to-Text Interpreting. University of Leeds, UK. 4 July 2025.
Transius Conference on Legal and Institutional Translation. University of Geneva. 7-9 July 2025.
Encounters between Intersectional Feminisms and Translation & Interpreting (6th European Colloquium on Gender & Translation). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 8-10 July 2025.
Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture, and Communication (GLECC2025). Manchester. 30-31 July 2025.
Trextuality 2 on Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and Circulation. University of Galway. 4-6 September 2025.
8th edition of UCCTS: Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. University of Hildesheim, Germany. 8-10 September 2025.
Popular Fiction in Translation: An International Conference. Ghent University, Belgium. 10-12 September 2025.
Translation, Interpreting, and Culture 2025 Translators, Interpreters, and Society. Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 24-26 September 2025.
SKY Symposium 2025 on Meaning in language, machines and humans. Tampere University. 2-3 October 2025.
16th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature on World Poetry Today: Production, Translation, Reception. University of Tartu, Estonia. 1̵ 4 October 2025.
Translation and Surrealism. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. 9-10 October 2025.
New Literacies in Translation. The Intercultural Studies Group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. 9-10 October 2025.
GenDJus Final Conference, (De)constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms, and Practices. University of Trieste. 16-17 October 2025
Human Translators in Focus: Exploring the Human Aspects of Japanese Literary Translation through a Sociological Lens. Trinity College Dublin. 22-24 October 2025.
1st International Conference on Ethics and Translation. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. 22-24 October 2025.
Putting Translators on the Map: Literary (Self-)Representation in Translations from and into French. Historical and Contemporary Strategies. Ghent/Leuven. 4-5 November 2025.
XV Encontro e IX Encontro Internacional de Pesquisa em Tradução (XV ENTRAD) – Bahia of All Translations: Diversity, Community and Alterity. Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. 10–14 November 2025
The Second International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting. International Christian University (ICU, in Tokyo, Japan). 28–30 November 2025.
Graduate conference on Fragments in the present time: an interdisciplinary reflection on linguistics, literature, identity, and narratives of modernity. University of Naples L’Orientale. 01-03 December 2025
8th IATIS International Conference on Translation and Intercultural Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges. Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat. 10-13 December 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
FITISPos International Journal, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025)
Journal of World Literature, Volume 10 (2025): Issue 1 (Feb 2025): Special Issue: World Literature and Migration Literature
Estudios de Traducción, Vol. 15(1), 2025
NEW BOOKS
Bosseaux, Charlotte. 2025. A Voice of Their Own: Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation. Springer Nature.
Regattin, Fabio. 2005. Pour une traductologie élargie – Quand la traduction va au-delà de la traduction. Peter Lang.
Al-Zaum, Malek, Héba Medhat-Lecocq and Delombera Negga (eds). 2025. Former des traducteurs et des interprètes. Des prérequis au marché du travail. Editions des archives contemporaines.
MISCELLANEOUS
Summer School: 7-10 July 2025. 16th Edition of the PhD Summer School in Translation, Intercultural and East Asian Studies. Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Deadline for applications: 27 June 2025