PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
Translation Matters, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue: (Inter-)epistemic Translation
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Journal: Translation Matters, Special Issue Music and/in Translation.. Articles, in English or in Portuguese, should be 6000-8000 words in length, including references and footnotes, and be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given on the journal’s website. Papers should be uploaded onto the site by 7th March 2025. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/tm/index. Any inquiries should be addressed to kbennett@fcsh.unl.pt.
Book: (Inter-)Epistemic Translation: New Pathways. 300-word abstracts to be sent to email@epistran.org by 1st December 2024.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Relational Forms IX on Sustainable Objects? Books, Screens and Creative Transit in the Cultures of the English Language. Porto, Portugal. 7-9 November 2024.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference: 7-9 July 2025. Transius Conference on Legal and Institutional Translation. University of Geneva. Abstract submissions: 2 September – 2 November 2024.
Conference: Training Translators and Interpreters Today: Perspectives and Evolutions, promoted by IULM University, Milan. Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2024. Submissions at marta.muscariello@iulm.it
Conference: 6-8 November 2024 (online). 4th International Congress of Language and Translation Studies, hosted by Selcuk University, Konya, Türkiye. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2024
Conference: 9-13 July 2025. 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism – The Different Faces of Bilingualism. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián. Deadline for symposium proposals: 16 September 2024; abstract submissions for individual papers: 18 September-13 November 2024.
Conference: 6-8 November 2024 (online). 4th International Congress of Language and Translation Studies, hosted by Selcuk University, Konya, Türkiye. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2024
Conference: 7-9 November 2024. Translating Shakespeare between the East and West. University of Birmingham. Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2024
Conference: 13-14 March 2025 (in-person and remote). Translation and Interpreting Today: Research and Profession. Association of Scientific and Technical Translators of Serbia, Belgrade. Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024
Conference: 17-18 March 2025. 4th CTER Congress 2025 on New Value(s) in Translation Pedagogy: (Re-)Positioning Human T&I. Kraków. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024
Conference: 14 March 2025 (online colloquium). Script-switching in Literary Texts – LangueFlow. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024
Conference: 25 April 2025 (part hybrid). Translation and Language Education in the Age of AI. University of Manchester. Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures on Translating and Publishing of Turkish Literature in the Anglosphere. Guest editors: Özlem Berk Albachten & Daniela La Penna. Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2024
Journal: Special issue of InContext Journal on Human-centeredness in translation: Advancing Translation Studies in a Human-Centered AI era. Guest editor: Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo. Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2024
Journal: Special issue of Tertium Linguistic Journal on Migration, translation, identity. Guest editors: Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst & Joanna Dybiec-Gajer. Deadline for submissions: 31 September 2024
Journal: Special issue of Just on Language Rights and the Teaching of Minoritised Languages. Guest editors: Anna Marzà & Joaquim Dolz. Deadline for full articles: 15 October 2024
Journal: Special issue of Translation Ireland: Translation and Death. Guest editors: Trish Van Bolderen & Sarah Berthaud. Deadline for full articles: 1 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of Just on Linguistic vulnerabilities and translation and interpreting in transnational patient mobility. Guest editors: Sonja Pöllabauer & Katia Iacono. Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of EAJESP on Artificial intelligence and EST: Innovations in digital and inclusive teaching. Deadline for submission: 30 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of CLTS (2026) on New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation. Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2025
Journal: Special Issue of Target (39), 2027, on ‘Literary translation and/as soft power in the twenty-first century’. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2025
Journal: Monographic Special Issue of Estudios de Traducción on Training Non-Professional Interpreters and Translators in Public Service. Guest editor: Carmen Pena. Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2025
Journal: Special issue of Perspectives (2026) on Multimethod research in cognitive translation and interpreting studies: Constructs and indicators. Guest editors: Binghan Zheng, Ricardo Muñoz Martín, & Yu Weng. Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2025
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
International Congress of Linguists: Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies (CTIS) stream. Poznan. 8-14 September 2024
Ethics and Self-Care in Translation and Other Professions: What can we learn from each other? Newcastle University, UK. 12-14 September 2024.
History – Translation – Politics. University of Graz. 11-14 September 2024.
SYNCRONIZING HISTORY, The Transplantation of European Ideas in the Americas. Palermo, Italy. 18-21 September 2024.
TRANSLATA V Interfaces in Translation. University of Innsbruck. 19-21 September 2024.
Translation in Transition, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia. 23-25 September 2024.
4th Annual Conference Europe in Discourse. Future Trajectories for Europe. Athens. 26-28 September 2024.
2nd International Congress on Academic Studies in Translation and Interpreting Studies (ICASTIS). Translation and Interpreting Studies Department of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey. 30 September-2 October 2024.
Legal Translation & Interpreting on the move. University of Trieste. 2-4 October 2024.
Retranslation in Context VI, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye. 31 October-01 November 2024.
T-RADEX Translation and cross-cultural communication: Radical and extremist narratives. University of Cyprus, Nicosia. 31 October-2 November 2024.
APTIS 2024 – Taking Stock and Breaking the Mould, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 7-9 November 2024.
17th Complutense Symposium on Translation International Conference: The Interwar Period (1918-1939). University Institute of Modern Languages and Translators UCM 13 – 15 November 2024
TC46 Navigating the Future of Language: Innovation, Integration, Inspiration. European Convention Center Luxembourg. 18-20 November 2024.
Enseigner la Langue à Travers la Traduction Perspectives Franco-Italiennes Comparées Entre Renaissance et Ère Numérique. University of Ferrara, Italy. 21-22 November 2024.
Book translation in multilingual states (1945-2024), Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium. 28-29 November 2024.
The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) 2024, New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Studies. University of Manchester. 5-6 December 2024.
Translation, Transposition, and Travel in the Global Nineteenth Century, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress. Global Studies Center, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait. 16-19 January 2025.
Sorting and translating: Politics – borders – belongings. Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies, University of Mainz/Germersheim. 30 January-1 February 2025.
Self-translation in children’s and young adult books, Università degli Studi di Padova (I). 13-14 February 2025.
11th Media for All conference on Breaking Barriers: Media Localisation in the Age of Global Platforms. The University of Hong Kong. 28-30 May 2025.
Fifth International Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (ICTIC 5). University of Agder, Kristiansand. 2-4 June 2025.
11th EST Congress: The changing faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Leeds. 30 June-3 July 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Al Kimiya, Vol. 24, 2024
Babel, special issue on Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer, Vol. 70(5), 2024
Journal of Pragmatics, special issue on The Translation of Swearwords: A Pragmatics Perspective, 2024
The Journal of Specialised Translation, Vol. 42, 2024
NEW BOOKS
Bolaños García-Escribano, A. and Oaknín, M. (eds). 2024. Inclusion, Diversity and Innovation in Translation Education. UCL Press.
Marais, K. (Eds) (2024). Translation Beyond Translation Studies. Bloomsbury.
Vidal Claramonte, C. A. (2025). Translation and Objects: Rewriting Migrancy and Displacement through the Materiality of Art. Routledge.
Vergopoulou, S. (Stave). 2024. Gender Representations in Commercials – Original and Translation. Frank & Timme
Suriani da Silva, A. C., Ludemir, J., Andrade Salgueiro, M. A. (Eds). Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction. UCL Press.
Delisle, J. 2024. Les Traducteurs imaginaires : Représentation des traducteurs, traductrices et interprètes dans la littérature québécoise. Presses de l’Université Laval.
MISCELLANEOUS
Doctoral Scholarship: Doctoral Scholarship Holder Translation Studies and Media Accessibility, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Deadline for application: 16 September 2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship: The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick welcomes expressions of interest for the 2024-2025 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. Deadline for application: 2 October 2024
Award: ESIST Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in the field of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility. Applications: 1-30 September 2024.
Job: Associate Professor(s)/ Assistant Professor(s), Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024
Survey: Survey on speech-to-text interpreting around the world (STTI) initiated by colleagues at the University of Vienna for the purposes of input for a course book on the topic. Closing date of survey: 30 November 2024
Game: Telephone translation arts game is open.