Newsletter 75
Feb 2024 | Uncategorized
Portuguese Initiatives
CALLS FOR PAPERS
II Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies. 3-8 June 2024. “The translator, the author, the editor, the client & their others”. The Spring School is a six-day event, comprising lectures by national and international scholars, paper sessions (PhD students and early career researchers) and poster sessions (MA students), translation workshops, and a cultural programme. Keynote speakers: Paul Bandia, Kathryn Batchelor, Karen Bennett, Klaus Kaindl, Susan Pickford, Loredana Polezzi, Manuel Portela, Michelle Woods. Deadline for proposals: 29 February 2024 Fuor further details, you can consult to the organisers at mira.castanheira@gmail.com and mlopes@ucp.pt
Journal: Translation Matters, special issue on (Inter-)Epistemic 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 2024. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/tm/index
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. Deadline for proposals: 29 February 2024
NEW PUBLICATION
Translation Matters, 5(2), Special issue on Translation In and From the Middle Ages guest edited by J. Carlos Teixeira
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference: 31 October-01 November 2024. Retranslation in Context VI, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye. Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024.
Conference: 23-25 September 2024. Translation in Transition, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia. Deadline for proposals: 16 February 2024.
Conference: 12-14 September 2024. Ethics and Self-Care in Translation and Other Professions: What can we learn from each other? Newcastle University, UK. Deadline for abstracts: 23 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
Conference: 31 October-2 November 2024. T-RADEX Translation and cross-cultural communication: Radical and extremist narratives. University of Cyprus, Nicosia. Extended deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2024
Conference: 22-24 May 2024. VII International Congress on Science and Translation: Interdisciplinary bridges and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Università del Salento, Lecce (online & onsite). Extended deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2024
Conference: 24-27 June 2024. 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation, Sheffield, UK. Deadline for paper submissions: 8 March 2024
Conference: 26-28 September 2024. 4th Annual Conference Europe in Discourse. Future Trajectories for Europe. Athens. Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 15 March 2024
Conference: 28-29 November 2024. Book translation in multilingual states (1945-2024), Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2024.
Conference: 30 June-3 July 2025. 11th EST Congress 2025. The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies. University of Leeds. Panel proposals by 16 February 2024. Deadline for individual paper abstracts: April 2024
Conference: 13-14 February 202. Self-translation in children’s and young adult books, Università degli Studi di Padova (I). Deadline for abstracts: 8 June 2024.
Journal: Special issue of L10N on New Insights into Game Localisation and Game Accessibility. Editors: Carme Mangiron & Mária Koscelníková. Extended deadline for full submissions: 29 February 2024
Journal: Translation in Society, special issue on Translating Knowledge in, by and for Indigenous Communities: Practices of Epistemic Defiance. Please submit your extended abstracts (600‐800 words) to rafael.schoegler@uni‐graz.at by 1 March 2024
Journal: Proposals for a thematic section for Mikael 18:2 (in Finnish or Swedish only), to appear in the end of 2025. Deadline for proposals: 31 March 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
Journal: Special thematic issue of ANGLICA (2025) on Navigating New Frontiers: New Paradigms in Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility. Guest Editor: Monika Zabrocka. Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2024
Journal: Special issue of Just Journal of Language Rights and Minorities on The Crossroads between Language Rights and Technology. Guest editors: Deborah Giustini & María Jiménez-Andrés. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2024
Journal: Special issue of MonTI 17 (2025) on Theatre translation. Performability and reception from intercultural perspectives. Guest editors: Susan Bassnett & Catalina Iliescu-Gheorghiu. Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2024
Chapter: Edited volume published by Routledge on Retour Interpreting. Editors: R. Moratto & I. Zhang. Deadline for submission: 20 February 2024 Further information: moratto@shisu.edu.cn
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.
Trace and Transformation – 2024 UMass Amherst Graduate Student Conference on Translation Studies. 20-21 April 2024.
4th annual conference of the Translation Studies Network of Ireland – Translation and Creativity. University of Galway. 25-26 April 2024.
(online) II Simposio Internacional de Traducción e Interpretación especializadas. 22-23 May 2024
International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. University of Pisa. 30 May-1 June 2024
Autorship in a Global and Transnational Context, KU Leuven. 30-31 May 2024.
8th meeting of Greek-speaking Translation Studies Scholars, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 30 May-1 June 2024
Multilingual Digital Terminology Today. Design, representation formats and management systems. Granada, Spain. 27-28 June 2024.
New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation: Culture, Power and Transnational Approaches. Stockholm (Sweden). 22–23 August 2024.
The 2024 ESSE Conference, the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. 26-30 August 2024.
International Congress of Linguists: Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies (CTIS) stream. Poznan. 8-14 September 2024
History – Translation – Politics. University of Graz. 11-14 September 2024.
SYNCRONIZING HISTORY, The Transplantation of European Ideas in the Americas. Palermo, Italy. 18-21 September 2024.
Legal Translation & Interpreting on the move. University of Trieste. 2-4 October 2024.
Translation, Transposition, and Travel in the Global Nineteenth Century, Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress. Global Studies Center, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait. 16-19 January 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Mediazioni, special issue on L’intelligenza artificiale per la traduzione: verso una nuova progettazione didattica?, Vol. 39, 2023
NEW BOOKS
Calvo, Elisa and Elena de la Cova (eds.). 2024. A Qualitative Approach to Translation Studies. Spotlighting Translation Problems. Routledge.
Künzli, Alexander and Klaus Kaindl (eds). 2024. Handbuch Audiovisuelle Translation Arbeitsmittel für Wissenschaft, Studium, Praxis. Frank & Timme.
MISCELLANEOUS
Online Research Seminar Series: Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester
15 February 2024. Game Localisation in the Chinese context, by Dr Xiaochun Zhang, University College London
14 March 2024. Beyond Façades of Epistemological Diversity? On the Need of a Dialectical Approach for Intercultural Communication, by Dr Ashley Simpson, University of Edinburgh
11 April 2024. Employability Preparedness of International Students for an Era of Artificial Intelligence, by Dr Yao Wang, Newcastle University, and Dr Thinh Pham, University of Glasgow
18 April 2024. Iraqi Women’s Stories: Pathways of Activism in Paratranslation, by Dr Ruth Abou Rached, University of Manchester
Course: Master of Arts in Accessibility to Media, Arts and Culture (AMAC). The deadline to apply is 15 March 2024, at 1:00 p.m. CET.
Summer School: 24 June – 5 July 2024. DOTTSS Stridon will be held in Piran, Slovenia with Professor Michael Cronin as guest lecturer. Deadline for application: 01 March 2024.
Summer School: Bristol Translates – Literary Translation Summer School, University of Bristol, UK, 1-5 July 2024
Job: Professor of Interpreting Studies and Spanish, KU Leuven, Antwerp. Deadline for applications: 15 February 2024
Job: Assistant Professor, Department of English Language Literature Faculty, Soochow University, Taipei. Deadline for applications: 15 February 2024
Job: Junior or senior professor of translation studies and Hispanic culture, University of Antwerp. Deadline for applications: 26 February 2024
Job: Lecturer in Translation Studies – Translation Research and Instruction Program Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA
Survey on The Interpreter’s Professional Status in the Post-Covid Era. Conducted by Paola Gentile.