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King’s College London, 13-15 July 2022 Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council DEADLINE for submission of abstracts: 21st April 2022 Please note: The conference will be free to attend, but you will need to register as places are limited. We hope very much that we will be able to hold this conference entirely offline. It will take place on the Strand Campus […]

Date: 10/02/2022 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: Online via Zoom Speaker: Bart Defrancq (Ghent University, Belgium) Registration Link Abstract: The use of corpus data in interpreting research is recent. In 1998 Miriam Shlesinger called upon the interpreting research community to start collecting corpus data for interpreting and so far mostly small collections have been compiled, which I have called “nano-corpora” elsewhere. As is well […]

Online conference via Zoom   March 18-20, 2022   Keynote speaker: Luis Pérez-González, University of Agder (Norway) CALL FOR PAPERS  Today we are immersed in a world in which language(s) are intertwined with shifting and fast-moving images and sounds. In this reality, translation plays a significant role in our interpretation of meaning. This ongoing, everyday meaning-making interaction is prompting us to ask questions about what constitutes the relationship among translation, […]

Theme: Interpreting and Technology: Interplay and Transformation Dates: 7-9 December 2022 Format: Onsite at Hong Kong Baptist University and Online The field of interpreting is facing a moment of great transformation not witnessed since the advent of simultaneous interpreting. The development of the technology for remote interpreting (including remote simultaneous interpreting, RSI, and video remote interpreting, VRI), computer-aided interpreting (CAI) and machine […]

14th International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media Media localization: Welcome back to the future After a very successful online conference in 2021, we look forward to welcoming you back to Berlin from 7 – 9 November 2022 for the 14th edition of Languages & The Media, the International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media. Languages & The Media 2022 will […]

Call for contributions for an online conference Socio-economic approaches to literary translation Prof. Susan Pickford, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva Dr. Olivia Guillon, Department of Economics and Management, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord 13 June 2022 On September 10, 2021, the prize-winning American literary translator Jennifer Croft wrote an article in the Guardian entitled “Why translators should be […]

We invite submissions of abstracts (20 minutes for presentation, to be followed by 10 minutes for questions) to be scheduled in parallel sessions. All abstracts should include the name, institutional affiliation and email address of the author(s), the paper title, and four-five keywords. The abstract should be approximately 750 words in length. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference […]

Within translation studies, minority has been the concern of scholars and translators whose interest has focused on language varieties (dialects, registers, styles, and discourses) linked to cultures that occupy subordinate positions in social formations, or what J.C. Catford defines as “states of language, ethnicity or sex with their own ghetto territorialities” (1987: 106). Minority languages and cultures challenge dominant, homogenising […]

https://www.npit6.com/index.php/call-for-papers# Nicosia, 25-27 May 2023 ‘Unstated’ mediation: On the ethical aspects of non-professional interpreting and translation Download this page as a pdf by clicking here. Scholars from Translation Studies and other disciplines (such as Sociology or Communication Studies) are increasingly becoming more interested in the multi-faceted and thought-provoking topic of interpreting and translation provided by non-professionals of any age and background, […]

Call for Papers 12th Annual Glendon Graduate Conference in Translation Studies TRANSLATION, IMAGE & SOUND  Online conference via Zoom   March 18-20, 2022   Keynote speaker: Luis Pérez-González, University of Agder (Norway) CALL FOR PAPERS  Today we are immersed in a world in which language(s) are intertwined with shifting and fast-moving images and sounds. In this reality, translation plays a significant role in our interpretation of meaning. This ongoing, everyday meaning-making […]