PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
CALLS FOR PAPERS: publications
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.
Special issue: Translation Matters on Media Ecologies of Translation (Vol. 9.1, Spring 2027). Guest editor: Raluca Tanasescu. Deadline for articles: 15 July 2026.
Special issue: Translation Matters on Eco-Translation (Vol. 9.2, Autumn 2027). Guest editors: Xany Jansen Van Vuuren, Helen-Mary Cawood and James Kelly. Deadline: 31 August 2026.
CALLS FOR PAPERS: events
Symposium: 12–13 February 2026, New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies IX, NOVA FCSH, Auditorium B3 (Av. Berna), Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline for abstracts: 25 January 2026 to voicestranslation@gmail.com
Conference: 7–8 May 2026, XI Jornadas Tradução na Prática, a Prática da Tradução, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2025.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Spring School: 16–21 March 2026. IV Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies – Translation and imp/perfection.
Course: Literacy in AI Translation for Healthcare Settings, coordinated by Hanna Pieta and Susana Valdez. Available until May 2026 (online).
PUBLICATIONS
Journal: Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025) Translation Matters.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
CALL FOR PAPERS: conferences
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. Indirect Translation: A Two-Arched Bridge between Cultures. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026.
Conference: 4–6 November 2026. Languages & the Media – Moving Images that Move Audiences: Localising with Intent. Senate House, London, United Kingdom. Deadline for abstracts: 16 January 2026.
Conference: 15–17 April IX Congreso Internacional Ciencia y Traducción – Puentes interdisciplinares y difusión del conocimiento científico. University of Trieste, Italy. Deadline for abstract: 20 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: 30 May–3 June 2026. Positioning Theory Research Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań). Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2026.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation. Prague. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2026.
Conference: 22–23 October 2026. Gender in the Spotlight : (In)Visibility in Translation. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2026.
Conference (online): 8–10 March 2026. Lyrics & Crafts: 3rd International Congress on Song Dubbing & Translation for Musical Theatre, Escuela de Doblaje de Canciones, Madrid, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2026.
Conference: 28–29 May 2026. REPOP – La retraduction en régime populaire: contraintes et pratiques. University of Paris Nanterre, France. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2026.
Conference: 25–27 June 2026. Translations and Academies in the Eighteenth Century: Sociability, Transnational Networks and Knowledge Circulation. Deadline for abstracts: 15 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.
Symposium (online): Clarifying Onto-Epistemological Positions in the Eco-Humanities. Deadline for abstracts: 27 February to cawoodh@ufs.ac.za / JansenVanVuurenX@ufs.ac.za
Conference: 26–28 August 2026. Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) 2026 on Beyond New Voices: Futures of Children’s Literature in Translation. Palacký University Olomouc. Deadline for abstracts: 28 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
Conference: 23–26 September 2026 Human-Centered AI in Translation and Interpreting: Concepts, Workflows and Competence Development, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Contact: katharina.walter@uibk.ac.at and marco.agnetta@uibk.ac.at
Conference: 12–13 November 2026, Translation Beyond Human Languages and Cultures in Times of Ecological Crises, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye. Contact: beyondhumanconf@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS: journals and other publications
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: Contributions to Human Translators in Focus: Exploring the Human Aspects of Japanese Literary Translation through a Sociological Lens. Edited by Motoko Akashi & James Hadley. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026.
Special issue: AI Linguistica on Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface. Guest editors: Léa Huotari, Mairi McLaughlin, & Franz Meier. Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026
Special issue: World Literature Studies (WLS) on Mediating Voices: Translation, Representation, and Change. Guest editors: Ivana Hostová, Mária Kusá, & Eva Spišiaková. Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026.
Special issue: Translation Studies on Artificial Intelligence and Translation: New Pathways for Theory and Practice, edited by Piotr Blumczynski, Haiquan Huang, Tong King Lee, Saihong Li, and Binghan Zheng. Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026.
Special issue: East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance on Untranslatability and non-translation in the Japanese context. Edited by: Tamaki Mihic & Martin Ward. Deadline for abstracts: 31 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.
Special issue: Yale French Studies on Translators, 2026. Contact patrick.hersant@ens.fr
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.
Special issue: Ilha do Desterro on Artificial Intelligence for Linguistics, Literature, and Translation, Vol. 79(2), 2026. Contact: lincoln.fernandes@ufsc.br; d.asimakoulas@surrey.ac.uk; ewerton@ufpa.br
Edited volume: Chapter proposals for the volume Languages off-the-centre in translation. Edited by Elisabeth Bladh & Maricel Botha. Deadline for abstracts: 30 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: Translating Ruins: Mutable Grounds, Mediated Encounters, and Mobile Precarities, edited by Yaqi Xi & Shaoyu Yang. Deadline for abstracts: 23 February 2026
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Conference: 30 January 2026. #TQ2026 | Traduction & Qualité 2026 : Comment rester créatif face à la machine? University of Lille, France.
Conference: 27 February 2026. SubComm Symposium [online].
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.
Conference: 12–13 March 2026. 3rd International Conference on PhD Research about Translation. Complutense University of Madrid.
Conference: 19–20 March 2026. III Simposio Internacional de Traducción e Interpretación especializadas, University Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland.
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.
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. APTIS Conference. Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting
Conference: 23–24 April 2026. Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons. University of Palermo, Italy.
Conference: 24–25 April 2026.Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
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.
Conference: 24 April 2026. Translating conflict and refuge: language, displacement, and the politics of representation.
Conference: 6–8 May 2026. Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application, University of Mons, Belgium.
Conference: 14–16 May 2026. 7th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT7). University of Graz, Austria.
Conference: 18–19 May 2026. 4th IberTranslatio Symposium: Women Translators and Cultural Mediators from and into Iberian Languages, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Conference (online): 21–22 May 2026. History and Translation Network 2026: New Horizons on the Past.
Conference: 28–29 May 2026. PETRA-E Network 3rd International Conference – Creative Translation in the Age of AI. University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.
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.
Conference: 18–19 June 2026. Life Writing and Translation, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Conference: 18–20 June 2026. Translation at the Crossroads of Ideologies and Cultures. Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Vilnius University.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Special issue: Stridon, special issue on Responding to the 21st-century Migration Challenge: Community Interpreting in the European Periphery, Vol. 5(2), 2025
Fordítástudomány – Translation Studies, Vol. 27(2), 2025
Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (LANS – TTS), special issue on Machine and Computer-assisted Interpreting, Vol. 24, 2025
Cadernos de Tradução, Vol. 45, 2025
NEW BOOKS
Vladislav Rjéoutski, Guido Braun, Indravati Félicité, Sophie Holm, Translation in Early Modern Diplomacy, Routledge.
Vidal Claramonte, Mª Carmen África. 2025. Translating His-stories. Cambridge Elements.
Alberdi Urquizu, Carmen and Marian Panchón Hidalgo. 2025. ¿Traductor o traductoide? Reflexiones en torno al uso de la inteligencia artificial en traducción literaria. Monográficos Vertere de Traducción e Interpretación.
Kapsaskis, Dionysios. 2026. Translation and the Myth of Universal Cinema: A Critical Translational Perspective on Film. Routledge.
Leonardi, Vanessa and Patrizia Giampieri. 2025. Legal English through the Ages: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Change and Continuity. Palgrave Macmillan.
Todorova, Marija and Lucía Ruiz Rosendo (eds). 2026. The Routledge Handbook of Translating and Interpreting Conflict. Routledge.
Giannakopoulou, Vasso and Elin Sütiste (eds.). 2025. Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation. John Benjamins.
MISCELLANEOUS
Course: 24 August–2 September 2026. CETRA Summer School 2026, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Grant: Applications for 2026 European Society for Translation Studies Conference and Training Grant are open. Deadline: 15 February 2026.
Job opportunity: Professor of Interpreting Studies. TH Köln/Cologne Technical University of Applied Sciences. Deadline for applications: 18 January 2026.