Newsletter 67

Portuguese Initiatives

Calls for Papers

PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES

Doctoral Scholarships

International call for 2 (two) doctoral research scholarships in Translation Studies. (ref. UIBD2023.3/00126/2020). Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Lisbon. Deadline for application: 22 June 2023.

A PhD Grant to be offered in the ambit of the Epistran Project through CETAPS – FCSH. The candidates must be registered on a relevant PhD programme at the time of the application. Details of the application will be announced soon.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships: CETAPS – FCSH is hosting a postdoctoral fellowship in translation. To apply send a detailed Curriculum Vitae, the title and summary of your research project/work plan, indicating the corresponding research area in CETAPS in which it could be developed, and if you intend to apply for a European or a Global Fellowship, and a motivation letter. Please submit your proposal to cetapsgestao@fcsh.unl.pt until 30 June 2023.

Course: Specialization in Conference Interpreting. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto. Deadline for the 1st phase of applications:  06 July 2023

CALLS FOR PAPERS

International Conference: 14-16 December 2023. Epistemic Translation: Towards an Ecology of Knowledges. Nova University of Lisbon. This interdisciplinary conference, organized within the ambit of the EPISTRAN project, investigates the semiotic processes (verbal and nonverbal) involved in the transfer of information between different ‘epistemic systems’. Its focus are the transactions occurring between western science (the hegemonic knowledge of the globalized world, which purports to be objective, rational, and universal) and the various embedded, embodied and subjective forms of knowledge that have served as its Others in different times and places. Proposals for 20-minute papers (<250 words) should be sent by 1st September 2023 to email@epistran.org, accompanied by a short biosketch (<150 words). Results of the selection process will be announced by 15^th September.

Journal: Compendium, No: 4, Translation And Citation: Creative Entanglements. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023

Journal: Special issue on Semantics and Meaning Representation, Languages. Special issue editors are Rute Costa and Raquel Amaro. Deadline for manuscripts: 15 November 2023.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Translation and the News: State of the Art, Dialogues, Reflections, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Registration form is here. 26-27 June 2023.

Spring Virtual Visit to European Commission, Directorate-General for Translation. The aim of these virtual events is to bring together master students in translation and translators working for the European Commission to offer a sneak peek into the work of DGT. Autumn virtual visit: 24 November 2023.

 Call for the thematic panel “Comunicação e mediação linguística nos diferentes espaços do Direito” at XV Congresso Alemão de Lusitanistas, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau. 19-23 September 2023

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES

Conference: 1-3 November 2023. 5th APTIS Conference on The Teaching and Learning that Matter Today, Queen’s University Belfast. Deadline for abstracts: 16 June 2023

Conference: 24 November 2023. Translation (auto)censored in the French-speaking worlds since 1945 (Saint Etienne), Jean Monnet University, Saint Etienne. Deadline for submissions: 15 July 2023.

Journal: Special issue of FITISPos on Emotions, stress and related phenomena in public service interpreter and translation training. Guest editors: Rachel E. Herring & Macrin Salczyński. Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2023

Journal: Linguaculture, special issue on Genre(s) in Translation, Vol. 14(2), 2023. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 30 June 2023

Journal: Special issue of A tradire on The teaching of interpretation: what developments? Eds: Caterina Falbo & Pascale Janot. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023

Journal: Special issue of Journal of Comparative Studies on Creative Translation and Quoting. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023

Journal: La Main de Thôt, special issue on Translation and Resistance, Vol. 12, 2024: Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2023.

Journal: Call for proposals for a Special Issue of Target (Volume 38, 2026). Extended deadline for proposals: 1 August 2023

Journal: Special issue of Perspectives on Turning the Page. Para-Literary Translation in Periodicals. Eds: Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar, Brecht de Groote, & Gaëtan Regniers. Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2023

Journal: Special issue of Estudios de Traducción on Retóricas en los géneros religiosos: traducción y discurso. Guest editors: Alicia Silvestre Miralles & Rubén Gonzalez Vallejo. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023

Journal: Special issue of L10N on Video Game Localization in Central and Eastern Europe – Chances and Challenges. Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2023

Journal: Special issue of BRIDGE (Vol. 4, Nr. 2) on Paratexts as a Valid Component of (Re)translations. Guest editor: Francesca Raffi, Emilia Perez & Matej Martinkovič. Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2023

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

 Authors and their Translators: The Genealogy of an Asymmetric Relationship International conference, University of Tours, France). 12-13 June 2023.

24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. University of Tampere. 12-15 June 2023

 3rd Conference of Association for Translation Studies in Africa (ATSA) – Contemporary Issues in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Mediation, University of Buea, Cameroon. 20-24 June 2023

The international circulation and translation of Shakespeare criticism, Leuven. 26-27 June 2023

13th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies. 30 June 2023.

14th International Symposium on Bilingualism with the theme “Diversity Now”. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. 26-30 June 2023.

5th International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation. Universidad de Alicante. 27-29 June 2023.

Media For All 10: human agency in the age of technology. University of Antwerp, Belgium. 6-7 July 2023.

Translab 4: Translation and Labour, University of Westminster, London, UK. 6-7 July 2023.

Using Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Studies. Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. 10-12 July 2023.

International Symposium on Translation Communication & Intercultural Studies 2023. Nanyand University of Technology, Singapore.  26-29 July 2023.

Users Track, Machine Translation Summit 2023, Macau SAR, China. 4-8 September 2023.

ICTIC 4 with the theme “Methods We Live By”, Universidad de Santiago Chile. 6-8 September 2023.

TREXTUALITY: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translated and Multilingual Texts, University of Turku, Finland. 7-9 September 2023.

52nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland. Thematic session on Combining theories and integrating methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies. 13-15 September 2023.

Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland. Special thematic session on Eye-tracking in reading research and translation reception studies. 13-15 September 2023.

Translation and the periodical, Ghent University. 14-15 September 2023.

Translation, Interpreting and Culture 3: Virality and Isolation in the Era of Deepening Divides, Bratislava, Slovakia. 20-22 September 2023.

GAL Jahrestagung (Translation and Interpreting Studies section), University of Mainz, Germany. 20-22 September 2023

Translation in Totalitarian Regimes Linguistic, Literary and Historical Aspects. Bucharest.  22-23 September 2023.

Women and the Politics of Translation in/of the Middle East: ​​​Encounters, Dynamics, and Prospects, KU Leuven (Brussels campus). 19-20 October 2023.

Literary Self-Translation and its Metadiscourse: Power Relations in Postcolonial Contexts. University of Liege, Belgium. 26-27 October 2023

Transnational Feminism: Explorations, Communications, Challenges and Horizons, Badr University, Cairo, Egypt. 28-29 October 2023.

IPCITI 2023 The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting. Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.  23-24 November 2023.

4th International Symposium PaCor 2023: Parallel Corpora Across Disciplines: New Challenges Ahead, University of León, Spain. 22-24 November 2023.  

The Challenges and Consequences of cultural Misunderstanding, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. 14-16 March 2024.

NEW PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

Parallèles, special issue on Retranslation, Thirty-odd Years After Berman, 35(1), 2023

NEW BOOKS

Peter Flynn. (2023). Translating in the Local Community. Routledge.

Ines Dorn. (2023). Subjektive Faktoren in der Translation: Eine Untersuchung an deutschen Übersetzungen der Hebräischen Bibel, Frank & Timme.

MISCELLANEOUS

Summer School: 26 June – 9 July 2023. International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture. SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies. Registration deadline: 25 June 2023.

Summer School: 4-8 September 2023. Lexicon Doctoral Summer School on Terminology management in the age of artificial intelligence, Almuñecar (Granada). Deadline for applications: 1 July 2023