PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Special issue: Translation Matters on History as Translation. Guest editor: Margarita Savchenkova. Deadline for articles: 15 December 2025.
Special issue: 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
Special issue: Translation Matters on Media Ecologies of Translation (Vol. 9.1, Spring 2027). Guest editor: Raluca Tanasescu. Deadline for articles: 15 July 2026.
Special issue: Translation Matters on Eco-Translation (Vol. 9.2, Autumn 2027). Guest editors: Xany Jansen Van Vuuren, Helen-Mary Cawood and James Kelly. Deadline: 31 August 2026.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Spring School: 16–21 March 2026. IV Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies – Translation and imp/perfection.
Symposium: 12–13 February 2026, New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies IX, NOVA FCSH, Auditorium B3 (Av. Berna), Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline for abstracts: submission to voicestranslation@gmail.com by 10 January 2026.
Course: Literacy in AI Translation for Healthcare Settings, coordinated by Hanna Pieta and Susana Valdez. Available until May 2026 (online).
PUBLICATIONS
The Book of Disquiet, a Selection (FERNANDO PESSOA), translated by Lauren Elstob and edited by Diego Giménez. Shantarin: ISBN: 978-989-9156-46-3.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
CALL FOR PAPERS: conferences
Conference: 24–25 June 2026. From a Local Writer to a World Author: The Circulation of Georges Simenon’s Work in Translations, University of Liège, Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2025.
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. APTIS Conference. Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting. Call for papers: 15 December 2025.
Conference: 23–24 April 2026. Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons. University of Palermo, Italy. Deadline for abstracts: 22 December.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Deadline for abstracts: 5 January 2026.
Conference: 18–19 May 2026. 4th IberTranslatio Symposium: Women Translators and Cultural Mediators from and into Iberian Languages, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2026.
Conference: 28–29 May 2026. PETRA-E Network 3rd International Conference – Creative Translation in the Age of AI. University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. Deadline for abstracts: 12 January 2026.
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. Indirect Translation: A Two-Arched Bridge between Cultures. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026
Conference: 15–17 April IX Congreso Internacional Ciencia y Traducción – Puentes interdisciplinares y difusión del conocimiento científico. University of Trieste, Italy. Deadline for abstract: 20 January 2026.
Conference: 25-27 March 2026. ParaTradit: 2nd International Conference on Paratranslation, Interlinguas, and Transmedia, University of Vigo, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2026.
Conference: 30 May–3 June 2026. Positioning Theory Research Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań). Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2026
Conference: 28–29 May 2026. REPOP – La retraduction en régime populaire: contraintes et pratiques. University of Paris Nanterre, France. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 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: 25–27 June 2026. Translations and Academies in the Eighteenth Century: Sociability, Transnational Networks and Knowledge Circulation. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2026 (100 words to giovanni.lista@izea.uni-halle.de)
Conference: 26-28 August 2026. Children’s Literature and Translation Studies (CLTS) 2026 on Beyond New Voices: Futures of Children’s Literature in Translation. Palacký University Olomouc. Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2026
Conference: 26-27 June 2026. New research in Translation and Interpreting Studies 2026, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2026.
Conference: 4-5 June 2026. Third International Postgraduate Conference – Looking Out / Looking In: New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom. Contact: qubcti2026@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS: journals and other publications
Special issue: Tradumàtica, Dancing Around the Box – Celebrating the Wonderings, the Wanderings, and the What-Ifs: A Festschrift for Olga, 2026.
Special issue: Journal for Translation Studies in Africa, on Translation and the African Diaspora, Vol. 9, 2027. Contact: vanessahanes@id.uff.br
Special Issue: The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Digital Anxiety and Resilience in Translator and Interpreter Education, 2028. Deadline for abstracts: 19 December 2025.
Special Issue: Stridon, Translation, accuracy and integrity in the age of (dis/mal/mis/over)information. Call for finalised papers: 9 January 2026.
Special issue: Investigaciones Feministas on Translation, Feminisms and Human Rights: intersectional and Identity Perspectives for Global Justice. Guest editors: Olga Castro, Naylane A. Matos, & Lupe Romero. Deadline for full articles: 15 January 2026.
Contributions to Human Translators in Focus: Exploring the Human Aspects of Japanese Literary Translation through a Sociological Lens. Edited by Motoko Akashi & James Hadley. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2026.
Special issue: World Literature Studies (WLS) on Mediating Voices: Translation, Representation, and Change. Guest editors: Ivana Hostová, Mária Kusá, & Eva Spišiaková. Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026.
Special issue: Translation Studies on Artificial Intelligence and Translation: New Pathways for Theory and Practice, edited by Piotr Blumczynski, Haiquan Huang, Tong King Lee, Saihong Li, and Binghan Zheng. Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026.
Special issue: World Literature Studies on Mediating Voices: Translation, Representation, and Change, edited by Ivana Hostová, Mária Kusá and Eva Spišiaková. Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026.
Special issue: Translation Studies Theory and Practice on Rethinking Soviet Translation Studies, edited by Brian James Baer. Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026.
Special issue: MonTI, on Gender Translation Studies: Interdisciplinary Encounters, Vol. 19, 2027. Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2026.
Collective book: News Translation and Artificial Intelligence. John Benjamins. Contact: Julie A. Gramaccia (jgramacc@uottawa.ca) & Kyle Conway (kconwa2@uottawa.ca)
Call for translations: Il Pietrisco for Issue 4 (2026). Original previously unpublished translations of 21st century literary texts that explore naratives of crisis. Further information. Submission by: 20 January 2026.
Edited volume: Sabaté-Carrové, Mariona, Lorena Baudo and Mariazell Eugènia Bosch Fábregas (eds). The Niche Nests, Accessibility and Professional Market Needs in Current Translation and Interpreting Practices. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida. Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2026.
Edited volume: Academia-Industry Collaboration in Translation & Interpreting Studies Contact: Olivia Cockburn, o.cockburn@ucl.ac.uk
Edited volume: Translating the Nonhuman in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts. Contact: Yvonne Liebermann, yvkap100@hhu.de
Edited volume: Chapter proposals for the volume Languages off-the-centre in translation. Edited by Elisabeth Bladh & Maricel Botha. Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 15–17 December 2025.
2026
Conference: 27 February 2026. SubComm Symposium [online].
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.
Conference: 12–13 March 2026. 3rd International Conference on PhD Research about Translation. Complutense University of Madrid.
Conference: 19–20 March 2026. III Simposio Internacional de Traducción e Interpretación especializadas, University Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland.
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.
Conference: 24–25 April 2026.Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
Conference: 20–22 April 2025. Cultural Diversity and Funded Translations: Between Institutional Gatekeeping and the Market, Past and Present. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Conference: 24 April 2026. Translating conflict and refuge: language, displacement, and the politics of representation.
Conference: 6–8 May 2026. Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application, University of Mons, Belgium.
Conference: 14–16 May 2026. 7th International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT7). University of Graz, Austria.
Conference (online): 21–22 May 2026. History and Translation Network 2026: New Horizons on the Past. Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025
Conference: 18–19 June 2026. Life Writing and Translation, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Conference: 18–20 June 2026. Translation at the Crossroads of Ideologies and Cultures Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Vilnius University.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Special issue of Feminist Translation Studies, Susam-Saraeva, Şebnem and Carolyn Shread (eds.) 2025. Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation, Vol. 2.
Sendebar, Vol. 36, 2025
Panacea: Revista de Medicina, Lenguaje y Traducción, Vol. 26(61), 2025
TRANS: Revista de Traductología, Vol. 29, 2025
Philosophy of Translation, Vol. 1 (1-2), 2025
NEW BOOKS
Morillas, Esther. 2025. Género negro y traducción: el giallo. Comares.
D’hulst, Lieven, Joseph Verheyden, Cristina D’Ancona, Marie-Alice Belle, Michelle Bolduc, Rebekah Clements, Lena Foljanty, James Thompson, Yves Gambier and Judy Wakabayashi. 2025. A Cultural History of Translation. Bloomsbury.
Walter, Katharina and Marco Agnetta (eds.). 2025. Human-Centred AI in the Translation Industry. Questions on Ethics, Creativity and Sustainability. Special issue of the Yearbook of Translational Hermeneutics, Vol. 5(1)
Penet, J.C., Joss Moorkens and Masaru Yamada (eds). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI: New paradigm, new learning? Language Science Press.
Leoncini, Gianluca. 2025. Traduire Baudelaire : La joute des Italiens. Textuelles.
Bogucki, Łukasz. 2026. Toward a Generative AI Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Springer Nature.
Peeters, Kris, Joke Daems, Claudia Plieseis, Mehmet Şahin and Isabel Rivas Ginel. 2025. AI for Translation and Interpreting. A Roadmap for Users and Policy Makers. Conseil Européen pour les Langues / European Language Council.
MISCELLANEOUS
Job opportunity: Post-doc in Interpreting Studies (50%). University of Innsbruck. Deadline for applications: 17 December 2025
Workshop: 15–19 December 2025. Workshop on Reading Subtitles: Insights from Eye Tracking, Leiden.
Project: Audiovisual Translation for Inclusion and Accessibility (AVTIA).
Survey: Survey for Interpreting Professionals (those working as interpreters) and Survey for Interpreting Trainers (those working at an interpreting-training institution)
Grant: Applications for 2026 European Society for Translation Studies Conference and Training Grant are open. Deadline: 15 February 2026.
Workshop: 21-22 May 2026. The Politics of Small Scales. Digital, Economic, Social, and Aesthetic Transformations of Contemporary Presses. KU Leuven. Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2025