PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
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.
- Session 8. Thursday 6th February (5-6.30). Eco-Translation I. i. Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (University of Edinburgh): ‘Translation rights of the more-than-human’. ii) Helen-Mary Cawood & Xany Jansen van Vuuren (University of the Free State, South Africa): ‘Urban wildlife photography as activism: A visual translation of solastalgia’
- Session 9. Thursday 20th February (5-6.30) Epistemic Emergence. Kobus Marais (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein): ‘Culture and thermodynamics: Revisiting Juri Lotman’s semiosphere’; ii. Matt Valler (independent scholar): ‘Taking the measure of inhuman knowledge: translation as relational ontology’
- Session 10. Thursday 27th February (5-6.30): Translating between Law and Economics. i. Fabrizio Esposito (Nova University of Lisbon): ‘Epistemic translation in law and economics: a tentative typology’. ii. Anne-Lise Sibony (Catholic University of Louvain): ‘Translating economic thinking and behavioural insights into legal argument’.
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)
NEW PUBLICATION
Translation Matters, 6 (2), 2024.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
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.
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. Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2025. For submission and further inquiries: tppt.trad@gmail.com
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference: 8-10 September 2025. 8th edition of UCCTS: Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. University of Hildesheim, Germany. Deadline for abstracts: 10 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
Conference: (hybrid): 22-23 May 2025. Annual Graduate/PG Conference. Research Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation, Glasgow. Deadline for abstracts: 3 March 2025
Conference: 24 June 2025. 2nd workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology. Co-located with the MT Summit 2025, Geneva. Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2025
Conference: 21-23 May 2023. III Colóquio Tradução e Criação. Universidade Federal Fluminense. Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2025
Conference: 22-24 October 2025. 1st International Conference on Ethics and Translation. Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2025.
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: 30-31 July 2025. Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture, and Communication (GLECC2025). Manchester. Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025
Workshop: 23 June 2025. 1st workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain language in Institutional Contexts. Co-located with the MT Summit 2025, Geneva. Deadline for proposals: 10 March 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: Special issue of Stridon on Responding to the 21st-century Migration Challenge: Community Interpreting in the European Periphery. Guest Editors: Jonathan Maurice Ross & Tamara Mikolič Južnič. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 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
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: 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.
Chapter: Contributions to a volume on Public Translation Studies. Goals, Paths, and Epistemologies. Edited by Esther Monzó-Nebot & Christopher D. Mellinger. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025
Chapter: Contributions to a volume on Large-scale Projects in Translation and Interpreting History: Challenges and Outlooks. Editors: Lieven D’hulst & Yves Gambier. Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2025
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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.
(onsite and online) VIII International Congress on Science and Translation on Interdisciplinary bridges and dissemination of scientific knowledge. University of Innsbruck. 26-28 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.
STIAL VII 7th Symposium for translation and interpreting Spanish-German-Spanish. University of Salamanca. 2-4 April 2025.
Translation-Languages-Teaching / Traduction – Langues – Enseignement. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. 3-4 April 2025.
XXII Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies (KäTu 2025) on Certainty / Uncertainty. University of Helsinki. 11-12 April 2025.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Human Translators in Focus: Exploring the Human Aspects of Japanese Literary Translation through a Sociological Lens. Trinity College Dublin. 22-24 October 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Cadernos de Tradução, Vol. 44(1), 2024
La main de Thôt, special issue on Traduction et résistances, Vol. 12, 2024
NEW BOOKS
Borodo, Michał and Jorge Díaz-Cintas (eds). 2025. The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences. Routledge
He, Sui. 2025. Metaphor Translation in Popular Science: From Minds to Languages. Routledge.
MISCELLANEOUS
Summer school: 3-6 June 2025. 3rd Translation in History – History in Translation Summer School on Digitizing Translation History: Methods, Tools, and Approaches. Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz. Deadline for applications: 15 February 2025
Summer school: 2025 CETRA Research Summer in Translation Studies (online, 25 August to 5 September). Application deadline: 28 March 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
Summer School: 23-27 June 2025. FUSP – Nida Centre for Advanced Research on Translation Summer School on Translation in a Turbulent World II: Translation and/as Collaboration. Rimini, Italy. Deadline for applications: 13 March 2025
Summer School: 1-12 September 2025. Doctoral and Teacher-Training Translation Studies Summer School-DOTTSS. Bosphorus, Istanbul. Deadline for applications: 1 April 2025
Doctoral studentship: Funded position for doctoral studies in intersemiotic translation (4 years, Tampere University, Finland). Deadline for application: 10 February 2025
Job: Full-time (tenure-track) professor (ZAP) in the field of Applied Linguistics with a focus on German and Translation Studies or Multilingual Communication. Translation Studies Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. Deadline for applications: 13 February 2025