PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
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
Special issue: Translation Matters on Media Ecologies of Translation (Vol. 9.1, Spring 2027). Deadline for articles: 15 July 2026.
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.
Spring School: 16–21 March 2026. IV Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies – Translation and imp/perfection. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2025
Symposium: 12–13 February 2026, New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies IX, NOVA FCSH, Auditorium B3 (Av. Berna), Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline for abstracts: submission to voicestranslation@gmail.com by 10 January 2026
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: 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: 27 February 2026. SubComm Symposium [online]. Deadline for abstracts: 28 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 (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: 24–25 June 2026. From a Local Writer to a World Author: The Circulation of Georges Simenon’s Work in Translations, University of Liège, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2025.
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. APTIS Conference. Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting. Call for papers: 15 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: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2026.
Conference: 18–19 May 2026. 4th IberTranslatio Symposium: Women Translators and Cultural Mediators from and into Iberian Languages, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2026.
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: 26-27 June 2026. New research in Translation and Interpreting Studies 2026, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2026.
Conference: 4-5 June 2026. Third International Postgraduate Conference – Looking Out / Looking In: New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom. Contact: qubcti2026@gmail.com
Call for papers: journals and other publications
Tradumàtica, special issue on Dancing Around the Box – Celebrating the Wonderings, the Wanderings, and the What-Ifs: A Festschrift for Olga, 2026.
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 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: Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) on The Paradoxes in Translation and Interpreting Technology (Vol. 22, 2027). Guest editors: Esther Monzó-Nebot, Deborah Giustini, Ozum Arzik-Erzurumlu, & Marta García González. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025.
Special Issue: The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Digital Anxiety and Resilience in Translator and Interpreter Education, 2028. Deadline for abstracts: 19 December 2025.
Special Issue: Stridon, Translation, accuracy and integrity in the age of (dis/mal/mis/over)information. Call for finalised papers: 9 January 2026.
Special issue: Investigaciones Feministas on Translation, Feminisms and Human Rights: intersectional and Identity Perspectives for Global Justice. Guest editors: Olga Castro, Naylane A. Matos, & Lupe Romero. Deadline for full articles: 15 January 2026.
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)
Call for translations: Il Pietrisco for Issue 4 (2026). Original previously unpublished translations of 21st century literary texts that explore naratives of crisis. Further information. Submission by: 20 January 2026.
Edited volume: Sabaté-Carrové, Mariona, Lorena Baudo and Mariazell Eugènia Bosch Fábregas (eds). The Niche Nests, Accessibility and Professional Market Needs in Current Translation and Interpreting Practices. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida. Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2026.
Edited volume: Academia-Industry Collaboration in Translation & Interpreting Studies Contact: Olivia Cockburn, o.cockburn@ucl.ac.uk
Edited volume: Translating the Nonhuman in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts Contact: Yvonne Liebermann, yvkap100@hhu.de
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
November
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.
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.
2026
Conference: 12–13 March 2026. 3rd International Conference on PhD Research about Translation. Complutense University of Madrid.
Conference: 24–25 April 2026.Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, King’s College, University of Cambridge. Proposals to Georgia Nasseh gsn25@cam.ac.uk
Conference: 6–8 May 2026. Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application, University of Mons, Belgium.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Special issue of Feminist Translation Studies, Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem and Carolyn Shread (eds.) 2025. Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation, Vol. 2.
Sendebar, Vol. 36, 2025
NEW BOOKS
Pavol Šveda, Martin Djovčoš, Emília Perez (Eds) Confronting Digital Dilemmas in Translator and Interpreter Training, Routledge.
Jackie Xiu and Kangte Luo. Audio Description Learning and Assessment in Interpreting Classes. Springer.
MISCELLANEOUS
Job opportunity: Full-time academic in Audiovisual Translation. Institute for Language and Communication (ILC), UCLouvain. Deadline for applications: 12 November 2025.
PhD scholarship: PhD Fellowship in Translation Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. Deadline: 18 November 2025.
PhD scholarship: PhD Position in Translation, Audio Description and Emotion Research (TADGREM Project). University of Murcia, Spain. Contact: marinaramos @um.es; anarojo@um.es
Job opportunity: Three professorships at the University of Hildesheim: Multimodal Communication and Translation; Information Science; Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. Deadline for applications: 23 November 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’.
Project: Audiovisual Translation for Inclusion and Accessibility (AVTIA).
Survey: Survey for Interpreting Professionals (those working as interpreters) and Survey for Interpreting Trainers (those working at an interpreting-training institution)