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

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Conference: More Pride, Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto. 2–3 October 2025.

Conference: Writing, Taking Action, Resisting: Reconfigurations of Literary Engagement. University of Aveiro, 6–7 November 2025.

Conference: Relational Forms X, 1925, 2025: Which Twenties? Empathy and Estrangement Across Time in Literature and Arts,  hosted by Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Portugal, organised by CETAPS. 04-06 December 2025.

Conference: TranslateAveiro2026 – 7a Edição: Novos cenários, novas estratégias. 16 May 2026.

Course: Literacy in AI Translation for Healthcare Settings, coordinated by Hanna Pieta and Susana Valdez. Available until May 2026 (online)

 

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES

Call for papers: conferences

Conference (online): 30–31 October 2025. AI and Translation Technologies in Dutch as a Foreign Language (NVT) Education. Deadline for abstracts: 10 August 2025 dagen2025@wp.pl

Conference: 15–17 December. Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 August. dhintranslation@cuhk.edu.hk

Conference: 28–29 October 2025. Resilience and Adaptation in Intercultural and Educational Mediation: Rethinking practices in the era of AI. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, at the Treviso Campus. Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2025.

Conference: 16–18 October 2025. Linguistic Form: 1025. Bible Translation as a Way to Preserve and Develop Languages: Traditions and New Approaches. Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2025.

Conference: 9–10 October 2025. Beyond Words: (Inter)Lingual Reflections in Practice. Translation Studies Faculty, Ventspils University of Applied Sciences. Deadline for abstracts: 22 August 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: 29–31 October 2025. 4th International Conference: Translation and the Language of Tourism. University of Córdoba, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2025.

Conference: 14–16 May 2026. 7^th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT7). University of Graz, Austria. Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2025.

Conference: 30–31 October 2025. International conference on Cognition and the Media. Pescara, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 22 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.

Conference: 10–12 April 2026. ATISA XII: Translation and Interpreting as Unequal Exchange: A Return to Power? State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz. Deadline for abstracts:  30 September 2025

Conference: 6–8 May 2026.  TrIPS International conference 2026 on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application. Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, University of Mons, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2025

Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2026.

Conference: 18–20 June 2026. Translation at the Crossroads of Ideologies and Cultures Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Vilnius University. Deadline for abstracts: 16 February 2026.

Conference: New research in Translation and Interpreting Studies 2026, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2026.

 

Call for papers: journals

Journal: Special issue of International Journal of Language, Translation, and Intercultural Communication (IJLTIC) on The Sustainability of Interpreting as a Profession in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. Guest Editors: Stefanos Vlachopoulos, Anastasios Ioannidis, Effrosyni Fragkou. Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2025

Journal: Panace@: Revista de Medicina, Lenguaje y Traducción, special issue on Herramientas informáticas e inteligencia artificial, Vol. 62, 2025. Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2025.

Journal: À tradire. Didactique de la traduction pragmatique et de la communication technique, special issue on Écrire et traduire à plusieurs : perspectives didactiques, Vol. 5, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 15 September 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: Special issue of Just on Linguistic vulnerabilities and translation and interpreting in translational patient mobility. Guest editors: Sonja Pöllabauer & Katia Iacono. Deadline for manuscripts: 1 October 2025.

Journal: Special issue of Feminist Translation Studies. Translating as Feminists: Collectives and Collaborative Work. Guest editors: Elenora Federici and Pascale Sardin. Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2025.

Journal: MonTI, special issue on Gender Translation Studies: Interdisciplinary Encounters, Vol. 19, 2027. Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2026

Call for contributions to Multilingual Education Yearbook: Digital Medication in Multilingual Education: Translators, Interpreters and Technologies as Agents of change. To be published by Springer Nature. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025.

 

Proposals for guest-edited issues

Journal: Proposals for a guest-edited special issue 16(1) of Translation Spaces (articles online first; print issue: July 2027). Deadline for proposals: 1 September 2025

Journal: Proposals for a guest-edited special issue of Journal of Specialised Translation (JoSTrans 49, January 2028). Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2025

 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

 September

 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.

 Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation – GLOTECH, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain. 25-26 September.

 October

 SKY Symposium 2025 on Meaning in language, machines and humans. Tampere University.  2-3 October 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.

New Literacies in Translation. The Intercultural Studies Group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. 9-10 October 2025.

GenDJus Final Conference, (De)constructing Gender in International Judicial Discourse: Actors, Norms, and Practices. University of Trieste. 16-17 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.

 

November

Putting Translators on the Map: Literary (Self-)Representation in Translations from and into French. Historical and Contemporary Strategies.  Ghent/Leuven. 4-5 November 2025.

XV Encontro e IX Encontro Internacional de Pesquisa em Tradução (XV ENTRAD) – Bahia of All Translations: Diversity, Community and Alterity. Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. 10–14 November 2025

The 18^th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2025) — Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting. University of Warwick. 13-14 November 2025.

The Second International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting. International Christian University (ICU, in Tokyo, Japan). 28–30 November 2025.

 

December

Graduate conference on Fragments in the present time: an interdisciplinary reflection on linguistics, literature, identity, and narratives of modernity. University of Naples L’Orientale. 01-03 December 2025

Languaging Diversity and Identity in Digital Environments. University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. 3–5 December 2025.

Possession and its Expressions: Corpus Linguistics, Specialised Languages, Translation, Acquisition/Learning. Valenciennes, France. 3–5 December 2025.

8th IATIS International Conference on Translation and Intercultural Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges. Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat. 10-13 December 2025.

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

Revista Artemis, Vol. 39 (1), 2025

Simone de Beauvoir Studies Vol 36 (2025)

Translation Matters: Music In/And Translation: Vol. 7 (1) 2025

trans-kom Vol 18 (1) 2025

 

NEW BOOKS

Anderson de la Torre, María Antonia. (2025) Hispanic Pop Culture in Translation. Routledge

Asscher, Omri. (2025) Machine Translation and Translation Theory. Routledge.

Attig, Remy & Derrick Roshwanda (Eds.) (2025) Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories. Routledge.

Corrochano, Carmen Cedillo. (2025) Protocolo Internacional para Traductore e Intérpretes. Saber Ser y Saber Estar. Editorial Comares.

Rigual, Cesáreo Calvo (eds.). (2025) El Traductor Importa: Perfiles de Tradcutores Españoles de la Edad de Plata. Editorail Comares.

Tselius, Elisabet (2025). Conference Interpreting Explained. Routledge.

Walker, Callum and Lambert, Joseph (eds.). (2025) The Routledge Handbook of the Translation Industry. Routledge

Jun, Xu. (2025) On Translation. Routledge.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Job: Teaching Fellow (Maternity cover), Translation and Transcultural Studies team, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Closing date: 17 August 2025.

Job: Lecturer in German and Translation Studies, School of Humanities, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Reading. Closing date: 25 August 2025.

PhD scholarship: PhD Scholarship with Graduate Teaching Assistantship (German) – four-year fixed term position at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Closing date: 25 August 2025.

Course: 15 September – 15 October (online). Course 3: Quantitative Methods, Research Methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies (ReMeTIS), University of Geneva. Registration deadline: 25 August 2025.

Survey: Survey by an EST member for PhD project on language education with or for translation and interpreting. Celine Garbutt, University of Exeter. Call open until: 31 August 2025

Survey: Survey on the Interpreter’s Professional Status in the Post-Covid Era. https://rebrand.ly/6l8o2d6

Call for submissions: Sheikh Zayed Book Award’s 20th edition for translation into or out of Arabic. Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2025 https://rebrand.ly/dy0f5km

New platform: NewsTraN website is a ‘shared space for the vibrant and growing community of scholars working on news translation’. https://newstran.org