PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
PUBLICATIONS
Music In/And Translation. Special issue of Translation Matters, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2025
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Special issue: Translation Matters on History as Translation. Guest editor: Margarita SAVCHENKOVA. Deadline for articles: 15 December 2025
Special issue: 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: 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: 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: 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: 12–13 March 2026. 3rd International Conference on PhD Research about Translation. Complutense University of Madrid. Deadline for abstracts: 19 October 2025
Conference: 6–8 May 2026, Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application, University of Mons, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2025 (extended)
Conference: 19–20 March 2026. III Simposio Internacional de Traducción e Interpretación especializadas, University Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland. Deadline for abstracts: 12 November 2025
Conference: 18-19 June 2026. Life Writing and Translation, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline for abstracts: 16 November 2025
Conference: 20–22 April 2025. Cultural Diversity and Funded Translations: Between Institutional Gatekeeping and the Market, Past and Present. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025 Abstracts to: lcampanella@uoc.edu
Conference: 24 April 2026. Translating conflict and refuge: language, displacement, and the politics of representation. Deadline for abstract: 5 December 2025
Conference: 23–24 April 2026. Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons. University of Palermo, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 22 December
Conference: 25-27 March 2026 ParaTradit: 2nd International Conference on Paratranslation, Interlinguas, and Transmedia, University of Vigo, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 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: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 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 and other publications
Special issue: Feminist Translation Studies. Translating as Feminists: Collectives and Collaborative Work. Guest editors: Elenora Federici and Pascale Sardin. Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2025.
Special issue: Feminist Translation Studies on Translating as Feminists: Collectives and Collaborative Work. Guest editors: Eleonora Federici & Pascale Sardin. Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2025
Publication: 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: Multilingual Education Yearbook 2027 on Digital Mediation in Multilingual Education: Translators, Interpreters, and Technologies as Agents of Change, edited by Kangte Luo & Jackie Xiu Yan. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025
Special issue: Journal for Translation Studies in Africa, on Translation and the African Diaspora, Vol. 9, 2027. Contact: vanessahanes@id.uff.br
Special issue: Translation in Society on City Translation: Bridging Established Frameworks and Novel Directions. Guest editors: Irmak Mertens & Federico Bellentani. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025
Special issue: 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. Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025
Special Issue: Translation and Interpreting on Community Translation for Equity and Inclusion: Non-Governmental Organizations and Grassroots Initiatives. Guest editors: Anne Beinchet & Marija Todorova. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025
Special Issue: Translation Spaces (Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2027) on Exploring Translator Norms. Guest edited by Anna Strowe, Richard Mansell, & Helle V. Dam. Deadline for abstracts: 24 November 2025
Special issue: Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics on Understanding – Interpreting – Translating. Translation Studies under the Sign of Umberto Eco, edited by Marco Agnetta, Larisa Cercel, & Brian O’Keeffe. Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2025
Special Issue: Target on Translating the Climate Crisis: Language, power, and socio-environmental justice. Guest editors: Marija Todorova & Nancy Piñeiro. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Special issue: Strenæ, special issue on Self-translation in Children’s and Young Adult Books, Vol. 29, 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Special Issue: The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, special issue on Digital Anxiety and Resilience in Translator and Interpreter Education, 2028. Deadline for abstracts: 19 December 2025
Special issue: Translation Studies Theory and Practice on Rethinking Soviet Translation Studies, edited by Brian James Baer. Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026
Special issue: MonTI, on Gender Translation Studies: Interdisciplinary Encounters, Vol. 19, 2027. Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2026
Collective book: News Translation and Artificial Intelligence. John Benjamins. Contact: Julie A. Gramaccia (jgramacc@uottawa.ca) & Kyle Conway (kconwa2@uottawa.ca)
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
October
GenDJus Final Conference, (De)constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms, and Practices. University of Trieste. 16–17 October 2025.
Translational Epistemologies and Open Science: Towards Equitable and Sustainable Ecosystems of Knowledge Production and Dissemination, University of Oslo, Norway. 21 October 2025.
Is Everything Well? Assessing Translator Wellbeing via Self-reported Narratives of Belonging, Esteem and Self-actualisation, Dr JC Penet, Newcastle University. 23 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, Italy. 28–29 October 2025.
4th International Conference: Translation and the Language of Tourism. University of Córdoba, Spain. 29–31 October 2025.
IV International Conference on Translation and Tourist Discourse. University of Córdoba, 29-31 October 2025.
International conference on Cognition and the Media. Pescara, Italy. 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
Annual virtual visit to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) on 20 November. Register online by: 13 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.
A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research. Dr Delphine Grass, Lancaster University, Dr Anna Lafranchi, University of Warwick, and Dr Kasia Szymanska. University of Manchester. 13 November 2025
Annual virtual visit to DG Translation Registration until 13 November. 20 November 2025.
Experiencing the Uninhabited Traumascape of a Divided Capital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Nicosia’s UN-controlled Buffer Zone. Dr Christiana Themistocleous, University of Reading. University of Manchester. 20 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. 03–05 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.
Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 15–17 December 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Syn-Thèses, special issue on La Didactique de la terminologie dans l’espace universitaire francophone : approches innovantes et outillées, Vol. 16, 2025.
Cadernos de Tradução, special issue on Tradução e Interculturalidade Chinês-Português, vol. 45(3), 2025.
Il Pietrisco Translations, special issue on Flashpoints: Contemporary Microfiction, Vol. 3, 2025.
Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 3(2), 2025.
NEW BOOKS
Guerini, Andreia and Morgana Matos (eds). 2025. Traducción y Paratraducción: Literaturas y Transmedialidad. Peter Lang.
Riggs, Ashley and Lucile Davier (eds). 2025. Constructive Journalism Across Language and Cultures. Routledge.
Baumgarten, Stefan and Tieber, Michael (eds). 2025. The Routledge Handbook of Technology and Society. Routledge.
Othman, Ahd. (2025). Eurocentrism, Qur’anic Translation and Decoloniality. Routledge.
Sasso, Elenora (2025). Minority Languages and Cultures in Audiovisual translation. Routledge.
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
e-Course: Translation and AI. Institute of Translation and Interpreting and University of Surrey, United Kingdom. 10 October –12 December 2025
Course: Curso de subtitulador de películas, Instituto Cervantes, London, United Kingdom. 14–17 October 2025
Job opportunity: Postdoc in Creativity, Translation and Technology. University of Groningen. Deadline for applications: 12 October 2025
Job opportunity: Full-time academic in Audiovisual Translation. Institute for Language and Communication (ILC), UCLouvain. Deadline for applications: 12 November 2025
Call for candidates: Prix Danica Selekovitsch 2026. Deadline for applications: 31 October 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
Workshop: 15–19 December 2025. Workshop on Reading Subtitles: Insights from Eye Tracking, Leiden.
New platform: NewsTraN website is a ‘shared space for the vibrant and growing community of scholars working on news translation’.