PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Graduate Symposium: 23-24 January 2025. New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies VIII, NOVA FCSH, Campus Berna, Aud. B1. A short abstract of up to 250 words should be sent to voicestranslation@gmail.com by 6th January 2025, accompanied by a brief biosketch (up to 50 words).
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
Annual virtual visit to the European Commission Directorate General for Translation (DGT). The event will take place on 22 November 2024 from 9.30 to 12.30 Central Europe Time (CET). Register before 15 November
EPISTRAN Project Online Lecture Series represents cutting-edge knowledge in the various areas covered by the EPISTRAN project. Lectures are given by members and consultants of the EPISTRAN team, as well as by some outside scholars who have been invited for the purpose. The lectures will mostly take place on Thursday afternoons between 5 and 6.30 pm (WET), and are open to anyone interested. Please, leave your e-mail at this form for us to send you the link for each session beforehand: https://forms.gle/jQqc8DpzDhPSwV9L6
Lecture 1. Thursday 21st November (5-6.30 pm). (Strand B) Translating Cosmovisions: Knowledges in Transformation. Rafael Schögler (University of Graz): ‘The epistemic dimension of translation: Identifying cosmovision factors’. Christina Korak (University of Graz): ‘Translating the Jaguar: Transgressing boundaries of knowledge through translation’.
Lecture 2. Thursday 28th November (11.30am – 1pm). (Strand A) Stabilizing Philosophical Categories as Interepistemic Translation. Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen): ‘Wittgenstein, Austin, and Grice’. Xiaorui Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen): ‘The entanglement between ‘abnormal’ Western philosophy and traditional Chinese thought’.
Lecture 3. Thursday 12th December (5-6.30pm). (Strand E) Cyber-Translation. Marco Neves (Nova University of Lisbon/CETAPS): ‘Cyber-Translation: Proposals for studying human-machine epistemic translation’. Raluca Tanasescu (University of Galway): ‘Literary Translation in Cyberspace: Medium theory and epistemic dimensions’.
Lecture 4. Thursday 19th December (5-6.30). (Strand C) Early Modern Experiments in Inter-Epistemic Translation. Karen Bennett (Nova University of Lisbon/CETAPS): ‘The Jesuits as inter-epistemic translators in the Americas’. Christian Miguel Torres Guttíerrez (University of Oslo): ‘The Mexican Cabinet of Natural History: Scientific (Missed)translations of the Natural World’.
Course: Technologias Emergentes Para a Tradução, delivered by Hanna Pieta. For more information: hannapieta@fcsh.unl.pt. Starting on 26 November 2025.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference: 2-4 April 2025. STIAL VII 7th Symposium for translation and interpreting Spanish-German-Spanish. University of Salamanca. Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2024
Conference: 15-16 May 2025. Polyphony and Silence: Counter-hegemonic Writing Practices, Migration, and Multilingualism. KU Leuven. Deadline for abstracts: 6 December 2024
Conference: 11-12 April 2025. XXII Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies (KäTu 2025) on Certainty / Uncertainty. University of Helsinki. Deadline for workshop proposals: 12 December 2024; deadline for section presentations and posters: 20 January 2025
Conference: : 6 June 2025. VALS/ASLA Symposium on Creativity meets technology – Applied Linguistics at the interface of artificial and human intelligence. Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur. Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2024
Conference: 8-10 July 2025. Encounters between Intersectional Feminisms and Translation & Interpreting (6th European Colloquium on Gender & Translation). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2024
Conference: 27-28 June 2025. 1st EATPA Symposium on East Asian Translation Pedagogy. University of Leeds. Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2025
Conference: 16-18 May 2025. 9th Young Linguists-Meeting (YLMP 2025). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. Deadline for abstracts: 6 January 2025
Conference: 10-12 September 2025. Popular Fiction in Translation: An International Conference. Ghent University, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2025
Conference: 24-26 September 2025. Translation, Interpreting, and Culture 2025 Translators, Interpreters, and Society. Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2025
Conference: 8-10 May 2025. Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology. University of Bologna, Forlì. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2025
Conference: 4-6 September 2025. Trextuality 2 on Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and Circulation. University of Galway. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025
Journal: Special issue of EAJESP on Artificial intelligence and EST: Innovations in digital and inclusive teaching. Deadline for submission: 30 November 2024
Journal: Mutadis Mutandis, La traducción/interpretación como activismo social. Deadline for proposals: 13 December 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: Tradução de Quadrinhos: entre táticas e críticas. Tradução em Revista. Deadline for submission: 31 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 L10N on Technological Advancements in Interpreting: Tools, Trends, and Training. Guest editors: Pavol Šveda & Ivo Poláček. Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2025
Journal: Inqueering Translation: Sexualities, Languages, and Texs. Revista Ártemis. Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2025. Contacts for questions: reisdennys@gmail.com / jandersoncoswosk@gmail.com
Journal: Special issue of Revista Tradumàtica on Translation technologies for professionals within and beyond the language industries. Guest editors: Lynne Bowker, Mary Nurminen, & Pilar Sánchez-Gijón. Deadline for full articles: 31 March 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
Chapter: Contributions to an edited volume on Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Sector. Editors: Sofia Parastatidou & Patrizia Giampieri. Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2025
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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.
Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon. 6-8 March 2025.
Translation and Interpreting Today: Research and Profession. Association of Scientific and Technical Translators of Serbia, Belgrade. 13-14 March 2025 (in-person and remote).
Script-switching in Literary Texts – LangueFlow. 14 March 2025 (online colloquium).
4th CTER Congress 2025 on New Value(s) in Translation Pedagogy: (Re-)Positioning Human T&I. Kraków. 17-18 March 2025.
Translation-Languages-Teaching / Traduction – Langues – Enseignement. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. 3-4 April 2025.
Translation and Language Education in the Age of AI. University of Manchester. 25 April 2025 (part hybrid).
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.
Transius Conference on Legal and Institutional Translation. University of Geneva. 7-9 July 2025.
16th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature on World Poetry Today: Production, Translation, Reception. University of Tartu, Estonia. 1̵ 4 October 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Feminist Translation Studies, Vol. 1(1), 2024
mediAzioni, special issue on Taboo in Language, Media, and Audiovisual Translation, Vol. 43, 2024
Panacea: Revista de Medicina, Lenguaje y Traducción, Vol. 59(1), 2024.
Parallèles, issue 36(2), October 2024,
NEW BOOKS
Deckert, Mikołaj and Krzysztof W. Hejduk (eds). 2024. User-Centric Studies in Game Translation and Accessibility. Routledge.
Ali Jalalian Daghigh and Mark Shuttleworth (eds). 2024. Translation and Neoliberalism. Springer Nature.
Jiménez Hurtado, Catalina and Laura Carlucci (eds). 2024. Lectura fácil. Procesos y entornos de una nueva modalidad de traducción. Tibón: Estudios Traductológicos 6.
Israël, Fortunato. 2024. Repenser la traduction littéraire. Essais critiques. Les Belles Lettres.
Tinedo-Rodríguez, Antonio Jesús. 2024. Autoras que desafían el canon. Subtitulación didáctica, su efecto en el aprendizaje de lenguas y en la conciencia de género. Editorial Comares.
MISCELLANEOUS
Job: Profesor-investigador de tiempo completo en el área de traducción Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, El Colegio de México. Deadline for applications: 15 January 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