PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
CALLS FOR PAPERS: publications
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.
CALLS FOR PAPERS: events
Conference: 7–8 May 2026, XI Jornadas Tradução na Prática, a Prática da Tradução, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2025.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Spring School: 16–21 March 2026. IV Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies – Translation and imp/perfection.
Course: Literacy in AI Translation for Healthcare Settings, coordinated by Hanna Pieta and Susana Valdez. Available until May 2026 (online).
PUBLICATIONS
Journal: Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025) Translation Matters.
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
CALL FOR PAPERS: conferences
Conference: 15–18 April 2026. VI International Congress on the Language of the Vine and Wine and its Translation. University of Valladolid. Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2026 https://rebrand.ly/030kqfd
Conference: 15–17 June 2026. European Association of Machine Translation (EAMT 2026). Tilburg University. Deadline for abstracts: 18 March 2026
Conference: 15–16 October 2026. TRADIT26 – 2nd International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility: Bridging the Gap between Mediation, Innovation and Inclusion, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, España
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. IX Congreso Internacional Ciencia y Traducción – Puentes interdisciplinares y difusión del conocimiento científico University of Trieste, Italy.
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
Symposium (online): Clarifying Onto-Epistemological Positions in the Eco-Humanities. Deadline for abstracts: 27 February 2026 to cawoodh@ufs.ac.za / JansenVanVuurenX@ufs.ac.za
Conference: 19–20 May 2026. CIUTI 2026 Conference – Translation and Interpreting, AI, and the Language Industry: Research and Professional Practice. Milan, Italy. Deadline abstracts: 28 February 2026.
Conference: 22–23 October 2026. Gender in the Spotlight : (In)Visibility in Translation Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2026.
Conference (online): 8–10 March 2026. Lyrics & Crafts: 3rd International Congress on Song Dubbing & Translation for Musical Theatre, Escuela de Doblaje de Canciones, Madrid, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2026.
Conference: 1–2 October 2026. 100 Years of Technology in Conference Interpreting. Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva. Deadline: opens 15 March 2026.
Conference: 22–24 April 2026. VI Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de la Traducción No Literaria: Diccionarios y Traducción (Siglos XVIII–XX), University of Valencia, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2026.
Conference: 16 June 2026. Humans and Machines in Conversation: Linguistic, Social and Relational Perspectives, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 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: 15–16 October 2026. TRADIT26 – 2nd International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility: Bridging the Gap between Mediation, Innovation and Inclusion. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2026.
Workshop: 15 June 2026. TAITT 2026 – 1st International Workshop on Teaching AI-based Translation and Technologies. Tilburg, Netherlands. Abstract deadline: 15 April 2026.
Conference: 30 September–2 October 2026. III International Congress of Academic Translation Studies. The human translator/interpreter: new roles and contexts. Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2026.
Conference: : 30 September–2 October 2026. XII Congreso de la Asociación Ibérica de Estudios de Traducción e Interpretación – «Esta voz que te escribe»: La metamorfosis de la traducción y la interpretación. University of Córdoba, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 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
Conference: 12–13 November 2026. Francophonies et traduction Sous-titre : Circulation des littératures francophones : singularités, traductions et réception University of Mons, Belgium. Deadline for abstract: 1 June 2026.
Conference: 23–26 September 2026 Human-Centered AI in Translation and Interpreting: Concepts, Workflows and Competence Development, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Contact: katharina.walter@uibk.ac.at and marco.agnetta@uibk.ac.at
Conference: 12–13 November 2026, Translation Beyond Human Languages and Cultures in Times of Ecological Crises, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye Contact: beyondhumanconf@gmail.com
Conference: 11-12 December 2026. Translators, Texts, and Contexts: Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of AI. Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.
CALL FOR PAPERS: journals and other publications
Inaugural issue: Cambridge Journal of Literary Translation on Community, Vol. 1, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 10 April 2026.
Special issue: Cadernos de Tradução, on Specialized Discourse in Audiovisual Translation, Vol. 47(1), 2027.
Special issue: New Voices in Translation Studies, on Translation as Resistance, Resilience and Activism: Voices from Palestine and Beyond, Vol. 31(3), 2026.
Special issue: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications on Translating Across Cultures: Literature, Film and Other Media, 2026.
Special issue: Journal of Specialised Translation on Digital Patronage and the Politics of Translation in Algorithmic Culture, issue 49 January 2028. Deadline for submission: 31 March 2026.
Special issue: MonTI, on Gender Translation Studies: Interdisciplinary Encounters, Vol. 19, 2027. Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2026.
Special issue: Yale French Studies on Translators, 2026. Contact patrick.hersant@ens.fr
Special issue: Investigaciones Feministas, on Translation, Feminisms and Human Rights: Intersectional and Identity Perspectives for Global Justice, Vol. 17(1), 2026
Special issue: Ilha do Desterro on Artificial Intelligence for Linguistics, Literature, and Translation, Vol. 79(2), 2026. Contact: lincoln.fernandes@ufsc.br; d.asimakoulas@surrey.ac.uk; ewerton@ufpa.br
Proposals: Thematic issue of Mikael, the Finnish Journal of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2026
Edited volume: Translating Ruins: Mutable Grounds, Mediated Encounters, and Mobile Precarities, edited by Yaqi Xi & Shaoyu Yang. Deadline for abstracts: 23 February 2026
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Conversation: 24 February 2025 (6pm) Conversation with Polish writer Mariusz Szcygiel and translation Antonia Lloyd-Jones. William Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street, Cambridge.
Public lecture: 25 February 2026 (5-6pm). Translating German Poetry: the Rike translations of J.B. Leishman. John Guthrie, Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Room 142, Raised Faculty Building, University of Cambridge.
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.
Special interest group (online): 13 March 2026. Music, Creativity and Translation, Cultural Literacy Research Network Interest Group.
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: 25–27 March 2026. ParaTradit: 2nd International Conference on Paratranslation, Interlinguas, and Transmedia, University of Vigo, Spain. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2026.
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. Indirect Translation: A Two-Arched Bridge between Cultures. Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Conference: 15–17 April IX Congreso Internacional Ciencia y Traducción – Puentes interdisciplinares y difusión del conocimiento científico. University of Trieste, Italy.
Conference: 15–17 April 2026. APTIS Conference. Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting
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: 23–24 April 2026. Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons. University of Palermo, Italy.
Conference: 24–25 April 2026.Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
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: 18–19 May 2026. 4th IberTranslatio Symposium: Women Translators and Cultural Mediators from and into Iberian Languages, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Conference (online): 21–22 May 2026. History and Translation Network 2026: New Horizons on the Past.
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.
Conference: 28–29 May 2026. REPOP – La retraduction en régime populaire: contraintes et pratiques. University of Paris Nanterre, France.
Conference: 30 May–3 June 2026. Positioning Theory Research Conference, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań).
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: 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.
Conference: 25–27 June 2026. Translations and Academies in the Eighteenth Century: Sociability, Transnational Networks and Knowledge Circulation.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Translation in Transition Conference 8, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Conference: 9–11 September 2026. Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation. Prague.
Conference: 4–6 November 2026. Languages & the Media – Moving Images that Move Audiences: Localising with Intent. Senate House, London, United Kingdom.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Special issue: Stridon, special issue on Responding to the 21st-century Migration Challenge: Community Interpreting in the European Periphery, Vol. 5(2), 2025
Special issue: JoTrans Sports translation No. 45 (2026) https://www.jostrans.org/
Fordítástudomány – Translation Studies, Vol. 27(2), 2025
Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (LANS – TTS), special issue on Machine and Computer-assisted Interpreting, Vol. 24, 2025
Hikma, special issue on Construyendo puentes: La traducción audiovisual didáctica en el cruce de caminos de la Lingüística, la Traducción y la Educación, Vol.24(3), 2025
NEW BOOKS
Kathryn Batchelor and Iryna Odrekhivska Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’ Nothing happened? https://uclpress.co.uk/book/translation-studies-before-translation-studies/
Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte. 2026. Textile Translations. Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings
Andaluz-Pinedo, Olaia. 2025. Translating English-Language Theatre into Spanish (1939-2019). Peter Lang.
Varela Salinas, María José, Cristina Plaza Lara and Julia Mihalache (eds). 2025. Accesibilidad en la comunicación. Comares.
Karin Murris, Mirka Koro (eds). 2026. Interpretation in Qualitative Research: Key Concepts in Qualitative Methods. Routledge.
Marion Winters, Sharon Deane-Cox, Ursula Böser (eds) 2025. Translation, Interpreting and Technological Change: Innovations in Research, Practice and Training. Bloomsbury
MISCELLANEOUS
Experiential translation residency: La traduction dans tous ses états / Translation Beside Itself. Call for participants and further information: ludivine.bouton-kelly@univ-angers.fr, lily.robert-foley@univ-montp3.fr, ricarda.vidal@kcl.ac.uk before 16 March 2026.
Job: Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Closing date: 25 February 2026.
Job: Traducción asistida por Computadora, Aplicaciones de la IA en la Traducción Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico. Closing date: 9 March 2026.
Job: Research Fellow in NLP for Sign Language Translation, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Closing date: 11 March 2026.
Course: 24 August–2 September 2026. CETRA Summer School 2026, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Faculty Position in Translation and Interpreting Studies (for Non-Turkish Citizens)
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye. Contact: transintbu@gmail.com. Deadline: 15 April.