Newsletter 73

Portuguese Initiatives

Calls for Papers

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Graduate Symposium: 25-26 January 2024. New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies VII. NOVA FCSH Auditorium B2. Keynote Speaker: Marec Pawelek, “Cat Tools in Literary Translation”. Deadline for 250-word proposals: 7 January 2024.

A Tradução na Prática & A Prática da Tradução. Jornadas TPPT. Tradução e Liberdade. 10-11 de maio de 2024. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra. A chamada será anunciada em breve.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Guest Lecture: Michael Cronin – “La traduction comme moyen de se perdre”. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. 7 December 2023, 11:00. Anfiteatro III, 4º piso.

Conference: Epistemic Translation: Towards an Ecology of Knowledges. NOVA-FCSH 14-16 December 2023. Aud. B1

Keynote Lectures:

• Douglas Robinson. “What is interepistemic translation?” (14^th Dec/9.30)
• Piotr Blumczynski. “Translating experience, experiencing translationality” (14^th Dec/17.00)
• Maria Cármen Africa Vidal Claramonte. “Ethnotranslation: Rewriting knowledge from/with indigenous epistemologies” (15^th Dec/9.00)
• Michael Cronin (via videolink). “A slice of life: food and transversal subjectivity” (15^th Dec/17.00)
• Kobus Marais. “Co-constructing the Vredefort dome? The implications of new materialism for epistemic translation” (16^th Dec/11.30)

 

NEW PUBLICATION

Karen Bennett and Rogério Miguel Puga (Eds.). (2024). Translation and Transposition in the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Literature, Travel. Routledge.

 
COURSE

A interpretação hospitalar hoje: Modelos FTF, OPI e VRI. CURSO INTENSIVO a cargo de Isabel Pinto Franco, Intérprete Hospitalar certificada pela IMIA (International Medical Interpreters Association). Local: FLUC Organização: CELGA-ILTEC; Secção de Tradução; Mestrado em Tradução.

• Módulo I – Interpretação hospitalar em modelo presencial (FTF): 16 de fevereiro de 2024, das 14h às 17h
• Módulo II – Interpretação hospitalar em modelo remoto por telefone (OPI): 23 de fevereiro de 2024, das 14h às 17h
• Módulo III – Interpretação hospitalar em modelo remoto por videoconferência (VRI): 1 de março de 2024, das 14h às 17h 

 

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES

CALLS FOR PAPERS

Conference: 30 May-1 June 2024 International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. University of Pisa. Extended deadline: 15 December 2023.

Conference: 30-31 May 2024. Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, KU Leuven. Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2023.

Conference: 27-28 June 2024. Multilingual Digital Terminology Today. Design, representation formats and management systems. Granada, Spain. Deadline for proposals: 22 December 2023.

Conference: 20-21 April 2024. Trace and Transformation – 2024 UMass Amherst Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2023

Conference: 8-14 September 2024. International Congress of Linguists: Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies (CTIS) stream. Poznan. Deadline for abstracts and posters: 8 January 2024

Conference: 18-21 September 2024. SYNCRONIZING HISTORY, The Transplantation of European Ideas in the Americas. Palermo, Italy. Deadline for proposals: 08 January 2024. For information: Europe.Americasinfo2024@gmail.com.

Conference (online):  22-23 May 2024. II Simposio Internacional de Traducción e Interpretación especializadas. Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2024

Conference: 31 October-01 November 2024. Retranslation in Context VI, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye. Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2024.

Conference: 30 May-1 June 2024 8^th meeting of Greek-speaking Translation Studies Scholars, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2024 

Conference: 26-30 August 2024. The 2024 ESSE Conference, the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2024.

Conference: 11-14 September 2024. History – Translation – Politics. University of Graz. Deadline for paper proposals: 1 February 2024

Conference: 30 June-3 July 2025. 11th EST Congress 2025. The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies. University of Leeds. Deadline for panel proposals: 2 February 2024; for individual paper abstracts: April 2024

Conference: 23-25 September 2024. Translation in Transition, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia. Deadline for proposals: 16 February 2024.

Conference: 20-22 March 2024. ParatradIT-2024_UVigo_T&P. International Congress of Paratranslation Interlinguas and Transmedia.  Universidade de Vigo (onsite and remote). Deadline for abstracts: 26 February 2024

Workshop: 26-27 April 2024. Laughs in Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approacto Translating Humour in Vocal Music. University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Please send a brief abstract (300 words) for a 15-minute talk, and a short biography to iseult.grandjean@univie.ac.at. Deadline: 31 December 2023.

Journal: Special issue of Interpreter and Translation Trainer on Transforming translation education through artificial intelligence. Guest editors: Feng Cui, Defeng Li, & Chiyuan Zhuang. Deadline for abstracts: 20 December 2023

Journal: Special issue of Target on Translation and Labour. Deadline for abstract: 15 January 2024.

Journal: Special issue of Syn-Thèses on La didactique de la terminologie dans l’espace universitaire francophone: approches innovantes et outillées. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2024

Journal: Special issue of LANS-TTS on Machine and computer-assisted interpreting. Guest editors: Lu Xinchao & Claudio Fantinuoli. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2024

Chapter: Contributions to an edited volume on Translating Chinese Internet Literature: Global Adaptation and Circulation. Guest editors: Wenqian Zhang & Sui He. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2023

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

The Challenges and Consequences of cultural Misunderstanding, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. 14-16 March 2024.

Writers’ Tongues: Shaping Literary Selves in Eighteenth-Century Multilingual Europe, KU Leuven. 22 March 2024.

ATISA XI Conference, Trajectories of translation and interpreting studies: Between the digital and the post national. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. 5-7 April 2024.

XXI Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies, KäTu 24: Connection. University of Tampere, Finland. 19-20 April 2024.

New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation: Culture, Power and Transnational Approaches. Stockholm (Sweden). 22–23 August 2024.

Legal Translation & Interpreting on the move. University of Trieste. 2-4 October 2024.

 

NEW PUBLICATIONS

JOURNALS

Stridon, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2023

Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, special issue on Translation, Affects, and Body Politics: Towards Transformative Thinking and Action, Vol. 62(2), 2023

Audiovisual Translation in Context: Granting Access to Digital Mediascapes, special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, Vol. 9:3, 2023

 

NEW BOOKS

Canepari, Michela. 2023. Specialized Languages and Graphic Art: Translating Specialized Discourse Intralingually and Intersemiotically. Peter Lang.

Miletich, Marko (ed.). 2023. Transfiction: Characters in Search of Translation Studies. Vernon Press.

The Ethical Demands of Translating Gender-Based Violence: A Practice-Based Research Project. The University of Edinburgh.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Job: Lecturer in French and Translation. The Open University, UK. Deadline for applications: 11 December 2023

Job: Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor. Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou. Deadline for applications: 14 December 2023

 Job: Assistant/Associate Professor. Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Deadline for applications: 5 January 2024

Lecture: “Prismatic Jane Eyre: An experiment in the study of translations”, by Prof. Matthew Reynolds, University of Oxford, on 14 December 2023. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkdOiurjwrGNxTd1pJHLNRAuKDUKWsIPTa

Award: MA Thesis /PhD Dissertation on Collaborative Translation Award promoted by the International Center for Research on Collaborative Translation (IULM University, Italy). The MA Thesis /PhD Dissertation must be sent to collaborativetranslation@iulm.it in a single PDF file (maximum file size 50 MB). Deadline for proposals: 30 January 2024