PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Journal: Special issue of Translation Matters on History as Translation. Guest editor: Margarita SAVCHENKOVA. Deadline for articles: 15 December 2025
Journal: Special issue of 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. Any inquiries should be addressed to: selinerkulyagci@gmail.com
Conference: 6-7 November 2025. Writing, Taking Action, Resisting: Reconfigurations of Literary Engagement. Universidade de Aveiro. Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2025.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
EPISTRAN Online Lecture Series represents cutting-edge knowledge in the domain of (Inter-)Epistemic Translation. Please leave your e-mail on this form for us to send you the link for each session beforehand.
- Thursday 10th April (6pm-7.30) (Strand B) Indigenous Voices II
Zsolt Györegy (U. Oslo): Skillful Tupinambá: A Translational Epistemology of Colonial Encounters
Joshua Price (Toronto Metropolitan University): Haunting and Attunement - Thursday 24th April (11.30am-1pm) (Strand D) Asemic Nature Writing.
Harriet Carter and Ricarda Vidal (King’s College London): The nature of the asemic: Drawing on the more-than-human experience.
Madeleine Campbell (University of Edinburgh): Towards a holistic frame of reference for experiential translation: The sonic paradigm as a fundamental episteme - Thursday 29th May (5pm-6.30) (Strand A) Philosophical Encounters
Niki Young (U. Malta): Translating Alterity: On Alphonso Lingis
Pietro Gori (NOVA-FCSH): Nietzsche's late reflections on understanding
Workshop: Lost in Trextuality: Challenges and Trends in the Study of Translated and Translingual Texts, May 8-9, 2025, Casa do Comum, Lisbon (by invitation)
Conference: 8-9 May 2025. Tradução na Prática / A Prática da Tradução X: A Tradução no Futuro ∞ O Futuro da Tradução. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference: 10-13 December 2025. 8th IATIS International Conference on Translation and Intercultural Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges. Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat. Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2025
Conference: 1-3 December 2025. Graduate conference on Fragments in the present time: an interdisciplinary reflection on linguistics, literature, identity, and narratives of modernity. University of Naples L’Orientale. Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2025
Conference: 2-3 October 2025. SKY Symposium 2025 on Meaning in language, machines and humans. Tampere University. Deadline for abstracts: 22 April 2025
Conference: 28–30 November 2025. The Second International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting. International Christian University (ICU, in Tokyo, Japan). Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025
Conference: 30-31 July 2025. Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture, and Communication (GLECC2025). Manchester. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025
Conference: 16-17 October 2025. GenDJus Final Conference, (De)constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms, and Practices. University of Trieste. Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2025
Conference: 21-22 November 2025. Professional Translation and Language Services in the AI Era: Opportunities and Challenges. The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2025
Conference: 4-5 November 2025. Putting Translators on the Map: Literary (Self-)Representation in Translations from and into French. Historical and Contemporary Strategies. Ghent/Leuven. Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2025
Conference: 9-10 October 2025. New Literacies in Translation. The Intercultural Studies Group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2025
Conference: 24-26 September 2025. 5th International Congress of Language and Translation Studies. Selçuk University, Konya, Türkiye. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2025
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. Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2025
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. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025.
Journal: ContactZone, special issue on Science Fiction in Translation: Accommodation and Creativity. Deadline for abstracts: 13 April 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
Journal: Special issue of EJES on Accessing Shakespearean Drama through (Re)translation and Audiovisual Adaptation in the 21st Century. Guest Editors: Judit Mudriczki & Irene Ranzato. Deadline for proposals: 20 April 2025
Journal: Special issue of LANS-TTS (2026) on Human-centered, augmented machine translation. Guest editors: Vicent Briva-Iglesias & Sharon O’Brien. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2025
Journal: Special issue of À tradire. Didactique de la traduction pragmatique et de la communication technique (2025) on Collaboration. Guest editors: Yannick Hamon, Giuseppe Sofo & David ar Rouz. Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2025
Journal: JoSTrans Issue 46 (July 2026). Non-thematic issue. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2025.
Journal: Encounters in Translation, special issue on Modernity in Translation, 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2025.
Journal: L10N Journal: Translation in Software, Software in Translation, special issue on Advancing Game Translation User Research (GTUR), Vol 4(2), 2025. Manuscript submission: 1 August 2025.
Journal: The Journal of Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (JoNPIT), Special issue on Issue on Non-Professional Interpreting in Healthcare. Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2025.
Journal: Special issue of Perspectives on Evolving Dialogues between Western and Chinese Translation Theories. Guest editors: Lichun Tao, Yanmei Liu & Shaoshuang Wang. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025
Journal: Dragoman Journal of Translation Studies. Open for submission throughout the year.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Translation and Language Education in the Age of AI. University of Manchester. 25 April 2025 (part hybrid).
Spring research seminar on Archives, Language, and Translation. Glendon College, Toronto (Canada). 6-9 May 2025.
Translation Studies Network of Ireland Conference (TSNI 5) on Challenges in Translation and Interpreting. Dublin City University. 8-9 May 2025.
Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology. University of Bologna, Forlì. 8-10 May 2025.
2nd CRLCC International Conference on Contact and Engagement: Languages, Cultures and Knowledges and the 14th Annual Glendon Graduate Student Conference in Translation Studies. Glendon College, York University, Toronto. 9-10 May 2025.
Polyphony and Silence: Counter-hegemonic Writing Practices, Migration, and Multilingualism. KU Leuven. 15-16 May 2025.
9th Young Linguists-Meeting (YLMP 2025). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. 16-18 May 2025.
Music to my Ears: Creative Practices in Music and Translation. Goldsmiths, University of London. 16 May 2025.
III Colóquio Tradução e Criação. Universidade Federal Fluminense. 21-23 May 2023.
(hybrid) Annual Graduate/PG Conference. Research Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation, Glasgow. 22-23 May 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.
VALS/ASLA Symposium on Creativity meets technology – Applied Linguistics at the interface of artificial and human intelligence. Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur. 6 June 2025.
2nd workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology. Co-located with the MT Summit 2025, Geneva. 24 June 2025.
1st EATPA Symposium on East Asian Translation Pedagogy. University of Leeds. 27-28 June 2025.
11th EST Congress: The changing faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Leeds. 30 June-3 July 2025.
16th International Conference on Live Subtitling and Speech-to-Text Interpreting. University of Leeds, UK. 4 July 2025.
Transius Conference on Legal and Institutional Translation. University of Geneva. 7-9 July 2025.
Encounters between Intersectional Feminisms and Translation & Interpreting (6th European Colloquium on Gender & Translation). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 8-10 July 2025.
Trextuality 2 on Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and Circulation. University of Galway. 4-6 September 2025.
8th edition of UCCTS: Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. University of Hildesheim, Germany. 8-10 September 2025.
Popular Fiction in Translation: An International Conference. Ghent University, Belgium. 10-12 September 2025.
Translation, Interpreting, and Culture 2025 Translators, Interpreters, and Society. Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 24-26 September 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.
Translation and Surrealism. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. 9-10 October 2025.
Human Translators in Focus: Exploring the Human Aspects of Japanese Literary Translation through a Sociological Lens. Trinity College Dublin. 22-24 October 2025.
1st International Conference on Ethics and Translation. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. 22-24 October 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
NEW BOOKS
García Luque, Francisca. 2025. Manual de Traducción Audiovisual (Francés–Español). Comares.
Delplanque, Hervé and Stephanie Schwerter (eds). 2025. L’incompréhension culturelle à l’épreuve du droit. Frank & Timme.
Redit – Revista Electrónica de Didáctica de la Traducción y la Interpretación, Vol. 19, 2025
MISCELLANEOUS
Summer school: 9-13 June 2025. 4th Ca’ Foscari Summer School in Translation Studies on Authenticity, Adaptability, and AI: Balancing Trust in Translation and Intercultural Communication. Venice/Treviso, Italy. Deadline for applications: 1 May 2025
Summer school: 21-27 September 2025. SummerTrans IX on Man vs machine translation with a focus on legal translation. Bozen. Early bird deadline for applications: 15 May 2025
Job: Doctoral Position in Translation Studies with a Focus on Translation, Ethics, and Digital Transformation. Graz University, Austria. Deadline for application: 09 April 2025
Job: Professor of Interpreting Studies with a Focus on Technology. University of Viena, Austria. Deadline for application: 15 April 2025
Job: Professor of Translation, Université Laval, Quebec City. Deadline for applications: 28 April 2025