Category: Events

The Languages of Covid-19: Implications for Global Healthcare Date 14 September 2020, 11.00pm – 11.59pm Institute Institute of Modern Languages Research Venue Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Call for Participation: submission by 14 September 2020 Online Workshops followed by Conference on 21-22 June 2021    This British Academy-funded project examines the role that modern languages and translation studies can […]

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International Symposium PaCor 2021 Vitoria-Gasteiz, 24-25 June 2021 The research group TRALIMA/ITZULIK GIC IT 1209-19 of the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) is pleased to organise the III International Symposium on Parallel Corpora, PaCor 2021. This conference will take place on 24-25 June 2021 at the Micaela Portilla Research Institute in Vitoria-Gasteiz (University’s Campus of Álava). PaCor 2021 aims to contribute […]

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3rd International Conference on Translation, Interpreting & Cognition After the success of ICTIC 1 (Mendoza, Argentina) and ICTIC 2 (Germersheim, Germany), ICTIC is holding its third edition at the Forlì Campus of the Università di Bologna, Italy, from June 28 to 30, 2021. In just two editions, ICTIC has become one of the most important venues for scholars working at […]

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International Conference: Field Research on Translation and Interpreting 18–20 February 2021, Vienna The research group Socio-Cognitive Translation Studies: Processes and Networks (socotrans) at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna is delighted to announce an International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting: Practices, Processes, Networks (FIRE-TI) to be held in Vienna from 18 to 20 February 2021. The aim of the conference […]

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Shanghai translation awards open for submissions by Yao Minji       Organizers in Shanghai are calling for global submissions of both literary and performing arts works for a new translation award. The deadline for the inaugural Shanghai Literature and Art Translation Awards is August 31. Publishers, producers, performing arts troupes and other relevant organizations can submit literary works or […]

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The Present and Future of Interlingual Live Subtitling: Research, Training and Practice Practitioners and educators in the fields of accessibility, audiovisual translation and interpreting studies are invited to join this event on interlingual live subtitling and speech-to-text interpreting as new ways of achieving access and barrier-free communication. The programme will feature progress reports by members of the ILSA project group […]

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Exploring Theatre Translation – virtual event Date: 13 July 2020, 10.00am – 17 July 2020, 9.30pm Institute: Institute of Modern Languages Research Venue: Virtual event     Description How would you translate ‘Top Shop’ into Spanish? What’s the equivalent of an English character using the word ‘Nada’?  These were two of the first questions raised when playwright John Donnelly, actor […]

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CFP Panel for IATIS 2021 Conference in Barcelona Submission details here: https://www.iatis.org/index.php/7th-conference-barcelona-2021/item/2078-conference-presentations-formats Deadline 15 September for abstracts Panel 1: Translation in the global media ecology: New patterns of translation and distribution in the streaming age Convenors: Jinsil Choi (Keimyung University), Jonathan Evans (University of Portsmouth) & Kyung Hye Kim (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Keywords: media, centre/periphery, dominant/dominated, streaming, fansubbing, attention ecology. […]

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR A CONFERENCE ON “THE COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL-CULTURAL EMERGENCE: BIOSEMIOTICS, SEMIOTICS AND TRANSLATION STUDIES”     Organizers: Kobus Marais, University of the Free State Reine Meylaerts, KU Leuven Maud Gonne, UNamur/ UCLouvain Since the emergence of complexity thinking, scholars from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities are renewing efforts to construct a unified […]

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Translation as Position-Taking in the Literary Field: Agents and institutions of translated literature in Italy and of Italian literature abroad (20th and 21st Century) 23-24 April 2021, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK) Abstract Proposal Deadline: 1 September 2020 E-mail: tptlf21@gmail.com “Translations do not take place in a vacuum” (Blakesley 2018). They cannot be seen as isolated textual entities, detached from the field in […]

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