PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Translation Matters Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: History as Translation
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Translation Matters, special issue on Eco-Translation – From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Rethinking Translation’s Boundaries, Vol. 9(2), 2027. Deadline: 01 December 2026
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
BOOK LAUNCH: On 9 October 2026 (5-6:30 CET / 4-5:30 UK/WEST), Karen Bennett will launch her new book Translationality in Music, published by Routledge in August. Come a listen to a discussion about the book’s key ideas with Karen Bennett and Vidal Claramonte (U. Salamanca), Piotr Blumczynski (Queen’s University, Belfast), Helen Julia Minors (York St John University) and Madeleine Campbell (U. Edinburgh). Register here: https://experientialtranslation.net/research/online-seminar/#9Oct26
SYMPOSIUM: 26 October 2026, Music and Translation, organised by CETAPS and CESEM. Keynote lecture by Malgorzata Grajter of University of Lodz. To submit a 20 min paper please contact: kbennett@fcsh.unl.pt
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
CALL FOR PAPERS: conferences
Conference: 22–23 April 2027. Translating conflict: Language, power and the city. Utrecht University. Submissions to: ticc@uu.nl
Conference: 4 December 2026, La redéfinition des débouchés professionnels pour les jeunes diplômé.e.s à l’ère de l’IA générative: quels horizons pour les formations universitaires en langues et en traduction ? University of Turin, Italy4 December 2026. Contact: ilaria.cennamo@unige.it & marita.mattioda@unito.it
Conference: 1–2 July 2027. 7th International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation, University of Alicante, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2026.
Conference: 23 April 2027, Translating Minoritised Voices, University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France. Deadline for abstract: 30 October 2026.
Conference: 26–28 April 2027, Translation, Space and Power: Reconfiguring the Geographies of Cultural Production University of Trieste, Italy. Deadline for abstract: 15 October 2026,
Conference: 20–23 September 2027, History and Translation Network (HTN) Conference, Ghent University, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2027.
Conference: 21–23 June 2027, Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Translation in the News, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2026.
CALL FOR PAPERS: journals and other publications
Special issue: Cadernos de Literatura em Tradução, on Arabic Literatures in Translation: Practices, Studies, and Trajectories, 2027. Contact: literaturasarabesemtraducao@gmail.com
Special issue: Feminist Translation Studies on Feminist Interpreting: Theoretical, Professional and Educational Approaches, 2028
Special issue: Cadernos de Letras da UFF, special issue on Literary Translation and Representation, Vol. 73, 2027
Special issue: Translation Review, on Audiovisual Translation into English for Global Audiences, 2028
Special issue: Cahiers de littérature orale, on The Twists and Turns of Translation, Vol. 104, 2028
Special issue: Translation Studies: Theory and Practice on Historical Contexts of Translation. Guest editor: Theo Hermans. Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2026
Edited volume: Contributions to Translators at Work in Periodicals: Agency, Mediation, and Cultural Power, edited by Ivana Hostová & Eva Spišiaková. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2026
Special issue: Repères-Dorif, on La poétique des traducteurs à l’âge de l’IA, 2028. Contact: antonio.lavieri@unipa.it
TTR : Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, special issue on Translation and Community: Who Translates? Translating for Whom?, Vol. 40(2), 2027. Contact: traductionetcommunaute@gmail.com
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER
Conference: 9–11 October 2026. Translating and Interpreting in the Era of Algorithms (TIERA), Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
Conference: 15–16 October 2026. TRADIT26 – 2nd International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility: Bridging the Gap between Mediation, Innovation and Inclusion, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, España.
Conference: 15–16 October 2026. The Art of Translation: The Legacy of Jiří Levý and Current Trends in Translation Studies.
Conference: 15–16 October 2026. TRADIT26 – 2nd International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility: Bridging the Gap between Mediation, Innovation and Inclusion. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Conference: 21–23 October 2026, I Congreso Internacional de Traducción y Didáctica de las Lenguas en la era de la Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Pamplona, Colombia
Conference: 22–23 October 2026. Gender in the Spotlight : (In)Visibility in Translation. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
NOVEMBER
Conference: 4–6 November 2026. Languages & the Media – Moving Images that Move Audiences: Localising with Intent. Senate House, London, United Kingdom.
Conference: 12–13 November 2026, Translation Beyond Human Languages and Cultures in Times of Ecological Crises, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Conference: 12–13 November 2026. Francophonies et traduction Sous-titre : Circulation des littératures francophones : singularités, traductions et réception. University of Mons, Belgium.
Conference: 25–26 November 2026. VIAVA-LAB International Congress – Access to Justice through Interpreting: Multilingual and Multimodal Support for Victims of Sexual Violence, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
DECEMBER
Conference: 3–4 December 2026. 19th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2026) – Across Academia and Industry: (In)Visibility and Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting, Dublin City University, Ireland.
Conference: 8–10 December 2026, 47th Translating and the Computer Conference – TC47: AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services Between Promise and Pressure. European Convention Center, Luxembourg
Conference: 11–12 December 2026. Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AI. Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.
Conference: 9–11 December 2026. Retranslation in Context VII: Concepts, Contexts, Prospects, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Conference: 9–12 December 2026. Retranslation in Context VII. Concepts, Contexts, Prospects.
Conference: 8–10 December 2026, 47th Translating and the Computer Conference (TC47) – AI-assisted or AI-eclipsed? Language Services between Promise and Pressure. International Association for Advancement in Language Technology, Luxembourg
Conference: 3–5 March 2027. 2nd International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting (FIRE-TI 2). Tampere University, Finland.
Conference: 18–20 November 2026 Breaking Barriers in Creative Translation, University of Mons, Belgium.
2027
Conference: 28–29 January 2027, Fun for All – 8th International Conference on Video Games Translation and Accessibility: Game Localisation and Accessibility in the Age of Machine Translation and AI, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Conference: 18–19 March 2027. Translation and Neurodiversity. International conference for translation researchers and practitioners.
Conference: 18–19 June 2027. 2nd EATPA Symposium on East Asian Translation Pedagogy. University of Toronto (Scarborough).
NEW PUBLICATIONS
NEW JOURNAL ISSUES
The Journal of Specialised Translation, Vol. 46, 2026
Fordítástudomány, Vol. 28(1), 2026
NEW BOOKS
Bennett, Karen. 2026. Translationality in Music, Routledge.
Monzón, Sofía, Lucie Spezzatti & Elisabeth Goemans (eds). 2026. Affect in Translation and Interpreting. Leuven University Press.
Ávila Cabrera, José Javier, Noa Talaván, Jennifer Lertola and María Pilar Rodríguez Arancón (eds). 2026. Presente y futuro de la traducción audiovisual y accesibilidad en los medios. Editorial UNED.
Grutman, Rainier. 2026. The Poetics of Self-translation. Routledge.
Hermans, Theo. 2026. The World Within Reach: Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1550–1700. Routledge.
Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía. 2026. Interpreting in Armed Conflict. Lessons from the Field. John Benjamins.
Zaragoza-De León, Jeanette. 2026. Interpreting the Amistad Trials: How Interpreters and Translators Make and Shape History. Bloomsbury.
Pym, Anthony. 2026. Method in Translator History. A Plea for Reflexive Empiricism. Routledge.
MISCELLANEOUS
PhD position in Translation Studies at the University of Geneva.
Survey: Legal Translation, MT/AI and Post-editing. A University of Geneva doctoral project is exploring how MT, AI-powered tools, and post-editing affect legal translators in the private sector.