PORTUGUESE INITIATIVES
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.
Book: (Inter-)Epistemic Translation: New Pathways. 300-word abstracts to be sent to email@epistran.org by 1st December 2024.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
NOVA Translation talks: “Tradução e dobragem no estado espanhol”, Prof. Xoán Montero (U. Vigo). 10 October, 14h-15h30. NOVA-FCSH, Aud. A2.
TranslateCoimbra: Conference organized by APTRAD, Hotel D. Inês, Coimbra, 26th October. https://aptrad.pt/evento/translatecoimbra/
“Os lusófilos europeus no panorama finissecular: tradução e intercâmbios”, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício da Biblioteca – Sala 112.D. 11 October 2024.
Annual virtual visit to the European Commission Directorate General for Translation (DGT). The event will take place on 22 November 2024 from 9.30 to 12.30 Central Europe Time (CET). Register before 15 November
Relational Forms IX on Sustainable Objects? Books, Screens and Creative Transit in the Cultures of the English Language. Porto, Portugal. 7-9 November 2024.
OTHERS
Special issue of Perspectives on Indirect (pivot) audiovisual translation: A burning issue for research and training, edited by Hanna Pieta, Susana Valdez, Rita Menezes & Stavroula Sokoli, Vol 32 (5), 2024.
Translation Matters, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue: (Inter-)epistemic Translation
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Conference: 13-14 March 2025 (in-person and remote). Translation and Interpreting Today: Research and Profession. Association of Scientific and Technical Translators of Serbia, Belgrade. Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024
Conference: 1̵ 4 October 2025. 16th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature on World Poetry Today: Production, Translation, Reception. University of Tartu, Estonia. Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2024
Conference: 6-8 March 2025. Our Food-Webbed World: interdisciplinary culinary landscapes. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024
Conference: 17-18 March 2025. 4th CTER Congress 2025 on New Value(s) in Translation Pedagogy: (Re-)Positioning Human T&I. Kraków. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024
Conference: 14 March 2025 (online colloquium). Script-switching in Literary Texts – LangueFlow. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024
Conference: 28-30 May 2025. 11th Media for All conference on Breaking Barriers: Media Localisation in the Age of Global Platforms. The University of Hong Kong. Extended deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Conference: 25 April 2025 (part hybrid). Translation and Language Education in the Age of AI. University of Manchester. Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Conference: 7-9 July 2025. Transius Conference on Legal and Institutional Translation. University of Geneva. Abstract submissions: 2 November 2024.
Conference: 9-13 July 2025. 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism – The Different Faces of Bilingualism. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián. Abstract submissions: 13 November 2024.
Conference: 3-4 April 2025. Translation-Languages-Teaching / Traduction – Langues – Enseignement. Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2024
Conference: 2-4 April 2025. STIAL VII 7th Symposium for translation and interpreting Spanish-German-Spanish. University of Salamanca. Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of Just on Language Rights and the Teaching of Minoritised Languages. Guest editors: Anna Marzà & Joaquim Dolz. Deadline for full articles: 15 October 2024
Journal: Proposals for a thematic issue of LANS (n°25). Deadline for proposals: 27 October 2024
Journal: Special issue of Translation Ireland: Translation and Death. Guest editors: Trish Van Bolderen & Sarah Berthaud. Deadline for full articles: 1 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of Just on Linguistic vulnerabilities and translation and interpreting in transnational patient mobility. Guest editors: Sonja Pöllabauer & Katia Iacono. Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of EAJESP on Artificial intelligence and EST: Innovations in digital and inclusive teaching. Deadline for submission: 30 November 2024
Journal: Special issue of CLTS (2026) on New Voices in Children’s Literature in Translation. Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2025
Journal: Special Issue of Target (39), 2027, on ‘Literary translation and/as soft power in the twenty-first century’. Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2025
Journal: Tradução de Quadrinhos: entre táticas e críticas. Tradução em Revista. Deadline for submission: 31 January 2025.
Journal: Monographic Special Issue of Estudios de Traducción on Training Non-Professional Interpreters and Translators in Public Service. Guest editor: Carmen Pena. Deadline for submissions: 15 January 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: 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 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
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Lecture: “Twice upon a time: translating histories through herstories” by María Carmen África Claramonte. Queen’s University Belfast, Graduate School TR6, 8 October 2024, 2 pm.
Seminar (hybrid): “Insights into Translation Industry” by Dr Callum Walker (University of Leeds). University of Manchester, Samuel Alexander Building, room A101. Online participation here. 10 October 2024, 14 – 15:30 BST.
Retranslation in Context VI, Ege University, Izmir, Türkiye. 31 October-01 November 2024.
T-RADEX Translation and cross-cultural communication: Radical and extremist narratives. University of Cyprus, Nicosia. 31 October-2 November 2024.
4th International Congress of Language and Translation Studies, hosted by Selcuk University, Konya, Türkiye. 6-8 November 2024 (online).
APTIS 2024 – Taking Stock and Breaking the Mould, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 7-9 November 2024.
13 – 15 November 2024
TC46 Navigating the Future of Language: Innovation, Integration, Inspiration. European Convention Center Luxembourg. 18-20 November 2024.
Enseigner la Langue à Travers la Traduction Perspectives Franco-Italiennes Comparées Entre Renaissance et Ère Numérique. University of Ferrara, Italy. 21-22 November 2024.
Book translation in multilingual states (1945-2024), Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium. 28-29 November 2024.
The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) 2024, New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Studies. University of Manchester. 5-6 December 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.
Sorting and translating: Politics – borders – belongings. Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies, University of Mainz/Germersheim. 30 January-1 February 2025.
Self-translation in children’s and young adult books, Università degli Studi di Padova (I). 13-14 February 2025.
Fifth International Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (ICTIC 5). University of Agder, Kristiansand. 2-4 June 2025.
11th EST Congress: The changing faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies. Leeds. 30 June-3 July 2025.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
Babel, Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer, Vol. 70 (5), 2024
Mutatis Mutandis. Revista Latinoamericana de Traducción, special issue on La traducción en la historia iberoamericana del libro, la edición y la lectura, Vol. 17(2), 2024
NEW BOOKS
Bacci, Simone. 2024. Sous-titrer le dialecte : Professionnels, amateurs et IA face à la série Gomorra. L’Harmattan.
Baños, Rocío. 2024. La oralidad prefabricada en la ficción audiovisual original y doblada: Siete vidas y Friends. Trama.
Galasso, Regina. 2024. Becoming a Translator for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons.
Floros, Georgios, Konstantinos Kritsis and Rafaella Athanasiadi (eds). 2024. ‘Unstated’ Mediation: On the Ethical Aspects of Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation. University of Cyprus.
Kvam, Sigmund, Anastasia Parianou, Jürgen F. Schopp, Kåre Solfjeld and Anu Viljanmaa (eds). 2024. Translation im Kontext. Frank & Timme.
Moorkens, Joss, Andy Way, and Séamus Lankford. 2025. Automating Translation. Routledge.
Szarkowska, Agnieszka and Anna Jankowska. 2025. Introducing Audiovisual Translation. Routledge.
Valdenebro Sánchez, Jorge, Nejmeddine Khalfallah and Fu’ad Al-Qaisi (eds). 2024. Regards lexiculturels sur la traduction juridique. Peter Lang.
MISCELLANEOUS
PhD Scholarship: The Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Faculty of Arts, The University of Antwerp. Deadline for application: 15 October 2024.
Job: Associate Professor(s)/ Assistant Professor(s), Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024
Job: Profesor-investigador de tiempo completo en el área de traducción Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, El Colegio de México. Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024.
Survey: Survey on speech-to-text interpreting around the world (STTI) initiated by colleagues at the University of Vienna for the purposes of input for a course book on the topic. Closing date of survey: 30 November 2024