Translationality

‘Beyond epistemicide: translating knowledge in the multilingual paradigm’. Keynote lecture at conference on Textual Identities through Translation. National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, 22-23 February 2019

‘The veiled guest: migration, translation and the limits of hybridization’. Guest participation (sub-plenary) in Round Table on ‘Translation, migrations and asymmetries in the globalised world’. 1st international conference on Translation and Cultural Sustainability: Groundwork, Foundations and Applications. U. Salamanca, 28-30 November 2018.

‘The intersemiotic denseness of being’. Keynote lecture at conference Translation Research – Translator Training, PPCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Budapest. 24-26 May 2018.

‘Creativity in EAP: snapshots from the frontier’, Keynote speaker at seminar organized by English for Academic Purposes Unit, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 28^th April 2017

‘Translating knowledge in the translingual paradigm’. Keynote lecture at ARTIS Symposium on Translation and Knowledge, Ajou Centre for Translating and Interpreting Studies, Ajou University, Suwon, S. Korea. 12^th– 14^th January 2017

‘Combating rigor mortis in academic writing (or breathing new life into a corpse). Keynote lecture at the Conference of the Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes, EAP and Creativity, Oslo, 8^th-10^th June 2016

CETAPS’s strand on Translationality is delighted to inform you that its Translation Matters journal has been successfully indexed in SCOPUS, which is the leading abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature. This important milestone guarantees that the journal’s articles can be readily located when conducting searches related to translation and interpreting. Moreover, it empowers our authors to monitor the frequency of citations their work receives from other researchers. Huge thanks to our authors, peer-reviewers, copy-editors and advisory board for making all this possible!

Founded in 2019, Translation Matters explores all aspects of translation, ranging from the theoretical and descriptive to the practical and technical. It has worked, above all, as a platform for young researchers, a staging post in their trajectory to the wider world of international Translation Studies. Irrespective of the editorial decision, all authors are given constructive advice about how their articles can be improved. We look forward to your submission!

A strand Translationality do CETAPS tem o prazer de informar que a sua revista Translation Matters foi indexada com sucesso na SCOPUS, a base de dados de referência de resumos e citações de literatura revista por pares. Este marco importante garante que os artigos da revista podem ser facilmente localizados em pesquisas relacionadas com a tradução e a interpretação. Além disso, permite aos nossos autores monitorizar a frequência com que o seu trabalho é citado por outros investigadores. Um enorme agradecimento aos nossos autores, revisores, revisores de texto e conselho consultivo por tornarem tudo isto possível!

Fundada em 2019, a Translation Matters explora todos os aspectos da tradução, desde o teórico e descritivo ao prático e técnico. Tem funcionado, acima de tudo, como uma plataforma para jovens investigadores, um ponto de partida na sua trajetória para o mundo mais vasto dos Estudos de Tradução internacionais. Independentemente da decisão editorial, todos os autores recebem conselhos construtivos sobre como os seus artigos podem ser melhorados. Aguardamos com expectativa a sua submissão!

• EPISTRAN (Epistemic Translation: Textual Transits between Paradigms of Knowledge): research project launched in March 2023). URL: epistran.org
• Indirect translation and Sustainable Development
• Machine Translation Literacy for high-risk scenarios in Portugal,
• Verão com Ciência
• Collaboration with CITIUS (Santiago de Compostela). We are developing a collaboration with a research centre specialized in the use of machine learning in the Humanities.

Some recent publications:

Bennett, Karen and R. M. Puga, eds (2023) Translation and Transposition in the Early Modern Period: Knowledge, Literature, Travel, London & New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9780367552169

Bennett, Karen and Angelo Cattaneo, eds (2022) Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period, London and New York: Routledge ISBN 9780367552145/ https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003092445

Pięta, Hanna, Rita Bueno Maia and Ester Torres-Simón. (2022). Indirect translation explained. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367473655

Neves, Marco (2021). O Tradutor Ansioso: Boas Práticas de Tradução Empresarial. Certas Palavras. ISBN 978-9899802711

Bennett, Karen and Rita Queiroz de Barros, eds (2019): Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138307407

Research support activities

• Translation Matters: twice-yearly online academic journal, SCOPUS-indexed. URL: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/tm
• New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies: annual series of graduate conferences designed to foster interest in Translation Studies amongst students and early-stage researchers. URL: https://newvoicespts.wordpress.com/
• Portugal Translation News: Monthly newsletter giving information about translation-related events in Portugal and beyond

• Conference: Picturebooks and graphic narratives in education and translation: Mediation and multimodality. 24-26 June 2021 https://picbookseducation.wordpress.com/
• Symposium Medieval Metamorphosis: Rewritings, Tradition and Translation. 27 May 2021
  Graduate Symposium: New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies IV. 4-5 February 2021 https://newvoicespts.wordpress.com/newvoices2021/
• Graduate Symposium: New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies III. 6 February 2020 https://newvoicespts.wordpress.com/2020-2/
• Conference: A importância do tradutor/intérprete num mundo globalizado, Aptrad – Associação de Profissionais de Tradução e de Interpretação. 1 July 2019. FCSH
• Graduate Symposium: New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies II. 14^th February 2019 https://newvoicespts.wordpress.com/2019-2/
• International interdisciplinary conference: “A host of tongues…”: Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period(co-hosted with CHAM and CEL). 13th to 15th December 2018. https://ahostoftongues.wordpress.com/
• I Jornadas sobre Tradução de Espanhol para Português e de Português para Espanhol. FCSH, 19 de Outubro 2018. https://jornadastraducaoesptptes.weebly.com/
• Graduate Symposium: New Voices in Portuguese Translation Studies I. 25^thJanuary 2018.  https://newvoicespts.wordpress.com/2018-2/

• Edited collection: Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change. Karen Bennett and Rita Queiroz de Barros (eds). London and New York: Routledge (2019). https://www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Englishes-and-the-Challenges-of-and-for-Translation-Identity-Mobility/Bennett-Queiroz-de-Barros/p/book/9781138307407
• Monograph: Anglolusofilias: Alguns Trânsitos Literários, Jorge Bastos da Silva. Porto: Edições Afrontamento. http://ilcml.com/estudos-de-literatura-comparada/img11/
• e-journal: Translation Matters https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/tm/issue/view/393
• Newsletter: Portugal Translation News  http://cetaps.fcsh.unl.pt/teals-translationality/
• Special Issue: International English and Translation, special issue of The Translator23/4 (2017), Karen Bennett and Rita Queiroz de Barros (eds) https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13556509.2017.1385939

Translation as actor-networking: actors, agencies, and networks in the making of Arthur Waley’s English translation of the Chinese Journey to the West (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies) by Wenyan Luo, New York and Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 246 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0- 367-37502-7; £33.29 (e- book), ISBN 978-0-367-81581-3. Gisele Dionísio da Silva

• Training Grants: the Translationality strand has awarded research initiation grants to junior researchers (2 grants offered in 2022 and 3 in 2024), and one PhD scholarship
• Soundscapes – Translating from Music: short online course held in Spring 2022 to explore the meaning-making potential of music and stimulation the production of intersemiotic translations into other media. URL: https://soundscapestranslatingfrommusic.wordpress.com/
• Workshop Indirect translation in translation practicum: 101 course for translator trainers in the 7th IATIS Congress, UCP, Barcelona, Spain (Link) June-July 2021 This train-the-trainer workshop was about indirect translation , understood as translation done via a third language. It provided translator trainers worldwide with tips about teaching how to translate with a subsequent translation in mind, and how to translate from translation.
• CETAPS Translation School. A series of short-term courses for translators and researchers. URL: https://www.translationschool.org/
• Our researchers also collaborated with FCSH Summer School in different courses throughout the years, mainly in the translation technology field, including Best Practices in Translation Technology in 2017.
• Our researchers are also involved in the CAT@NOVA project, which aims to provide the tools, training and licenses needed for BA and MA students to use CAT tools throughout their degrees.
• –AiVoT Online Educational Resources, co-developed with the University of Leiden, UAB and University of Lisbon: https://rise.articulate.com/share/Ux0ARnkO6IztkTvd53l7eNemHUWXx4zK#/: theseresearch-based educational resources are freely accessible in multiple languages. Developed collaboratively with translation trainers, students, and key decision-makers in translation education, ApiVoT addresses a critical need for open-access teaching materials. Comprising 41 videos enriched with interactive elements, ApiVoT supports the teaching of pivot translation—an essential method in translating digital content—particularly in minority languages. Its mission is to bridge the gap in translation education, empowering trainers and learners globally.
• Machine translation literacy for high-stakes situations: This multilingual MOOC, to be launched in late 2024, targets migrants and healthcare professionals. By the end of this course participants will be able to identify and address the benefits and, more importantly, the risks of an uncritical and standard implementation of machine translation in healthcare settings

• Translation@NOVA. The Translationality team is responsible for a website to shares information about courses and events in our areas and is open for informal publications by students and teachers. URL: https://translationnova.wordpress.com/
• NOVA Translation Talks (organized by CETAPS). This series of talks bring together professionals, students and researchers of translation. URL: https://translationnova.wordpress.com/category/nova-translation-talks/
• CETAPS Talks. Our team is also responsible for a biannual series of talks by internationally distinguished speakers who specialize in translating knowledge in the Humanities to the general public. URL: cetaps-talks.com
• Our researchers are frequently invited to speak to the press, TV and radio stations regarding translation, language and related subjects. They have also been invited to give talks to the general public and to write weekly columns about language and translation.
• Some researchers are particularly active in disseminating translational matters to a broader audience. Examples of their publications include: Neves, Marco (2021). ABC da Tradução. Guerra e Paz. ISBN 978-9897025242;

– The NOVA impACT! Challenges: In 2023, our NObarriers2Health project was among ten top finalists for this competition. The competition is a program created by the NOVA Impact office, together with Santander Universities, to give teams the opportunity to take their innovative projects out of paper and help solve social problems. Researchers from NObarriers2Health received a monetary award and for three weeks, together with a team of experts and mentors, accelerated the project and developed a prototype. In the end, they pitched it live to a jury.

– Exploratory Funding (NOVA FCSH): In 2023, our NObarriers2Health project received this monetary award from the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education to accelerate the preparation of a grant application for EC funding.

– Verão com Ciência (FCT): In 2022, our NObarriers2Health received funding (Bolsas de Iniciação) to hire two researchers who developed participatory, survey-based research on machine translation literacy in Portugal

– YERUN 2023 Open Science Awards: In 2023, the ApiVoT resources developed in collaboration with the University of Leiden under the Indirect Translation and Sustainability project were pre-selected for this award, which recognises and celebrates exceptional Open Science initiatives across the YERUN network.

– 2020: Karen Bennett was awarded the Santander Prize for Internationalization of Research at NOVA FCSH 2020, individual prize (4º place ex-aequo)