PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
PUBLICATIONS
Music In/And Translation. Special issue of Translation Matters, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2025
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
Conference: Dialogues and Disonnances: The Environmental Humanities from North-South Perspective, NOVA University of Lisbon.
Ecotranslation panel convened by Karen Bennett, A. Ecotranslation I. Translating organisms; B. Ecotranslation II. Translating the landscape and C. Ecotranslation III. Ecological dimensions of interlingual Translations. Full programme to be announced. 25-27 September 2025
Conference: Relational Forms X, 1925, 2025: Which Twenties? Empathy and Estrangement Across Time in Literature and Arts, hosted by Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Portugal, organised by CETAPS. 04-06 December 2025.
Course: Literacy in AI Translation for Healthcare Settings, coordinated by Hanna Pieta and Susana Valdez. Available until May 2026 (online)
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Call for papers: conferences
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: 14–16 May 2026. 7th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT7). University of Graz, Austria. Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2025.
Conference: 30–31 October 2025. International conference on Cognition and the Media. Pescara, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 22 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: 10–12 April 2026. ATISA XII: Translation and Interpreting as Unequal Exchange: A Return to Power? State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025
Conference: 6–8 May 2026. TrIPS International conference 2026 on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application. Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, University of Mons, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2025
Conference: 24–25 April 2026.Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, King’s College, University of Cambridge. Proposals to Georgia Nasseh gsn25 [at] cam.ac.uk). Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2025.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2026.
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.
Conference: New research in Translation and Interpreting Studies 2026, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2026.
Call for papers: journals
Journal: À tradire. Didactique de la traduction pragmatique et de la communication technique, special issue on Écrire et traduire à plusieurs : perspectives didactiques, Vol. 5, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 15 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
Call for contributions to Multilingual Education Yearbook: Digital Medication in Multilingual Education: Translators, Interpreters and Technologies as Agents of change. To be published by Springer Nature. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025.
Journal: Special issue of Feminist Translation Studies. Translating as Feminists: Collectives and Collaborative Work. Guest editors: Elenora Federici and Pascale Sardin. Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2025.
Journal: Special issue of Translation Studies Theory and Practice on Rethinking Soviet Translation Studies, edited by Brian James Baer. Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026
Journal: MonTI, special issue on Gender Translation Studies: Interdisciplinary Encounters, Vol. 19, 2027. Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2026
Proposals for guest-edited issues
Journal: Proposals for thematic issue (26) of LANS-TTS in 2027. Deadline for proposals: 27 October 2025
Journal: Proposals for a guest-edited special issue of Journal of Specialised Translation (JoSTrans 49, January 2028). Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2025
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
September
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.
October
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.
Resilience and Adaptation in Intercultural and Educational Mediation: Rethinking practices in the era of AI. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, at the Treviso Campus. 28–29 October 2025.
(online) AI and Translation Technologies in Dutch as a Foreign Language (NVT) Education. 30–31 October 2025
November
e-conference: APTIS25 – Better Together: How Can Industry and Academia Collaborate to Empower Future Language Professionals?University College London, United Kingdom. 3–4 November 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 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2025) — Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting. University of Warwick. 13-14 November 2025.
The Second International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting. International Christian University (ICU, in Tokyo, Japan). 28–30 November 2025.
December
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
Languaging Diversity and Identity in Digital Environments. University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. 3–5 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.
Conference: Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 15–17 December 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Translation in Society, special issue on In Search of Round Trips: Travelling Concepts in Translation Studies and Beyond, Vol. 4(1), 2025.
NEW BOOKS
Rogl, Regin, Daniela Schlager and Hanna Risku (eds.). 2025. Field Research on Translation and Interpreting. John Benjamins.
Daghigh Ali Jalalian and Pei Soo Ang. 2025. Humanising Critical Journalistic Translation Studies: Insights from the Chinese Context. Routledge.
Djomo Tiokou, C. (ed.). 2025. Against All Odds. Surviving as a Translator or Interpreter in Times of Crisis. Kolatier Books
Fernández Parra, Maria. 2025. Terminology Management for Translators. Routledge.
Lane, Véronique (ed.). 2025. Literary Back-Translation. Edinburgh University Press
Levine, Suzanne Jill. 2025. Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir. Bloomsbury.
Mahadevan, Sheela. 2025. Writing Between Languages: Translation and Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing. Bloomsbury.
MISCELLANEOUS
Course: Foundations of Marketing Strategy for Translators and Interpreters Institute of Translation and Interpreting, United Kingdom
Course: Researching Translation and Interpreting, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Job: Full-time Professor-Researcher in the area of translation. Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, El Colegio de México. Deadline for applications (Spanish required): 30 September 2025
Prize: Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar – 2025–26. Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2025
New platform: NewsTraN website is a ‘shared space for the vibrant and growing community of scholars working on news translation’. https://newstran.org
Workshop: 15–19 December 2025. Workshop on Reading Subtitles: Insights from Eye Tracking, Leiden. Deadline for applications: 15 September 2025