On the occasion of Spain’s participation as a Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022, Acción Cultural Española created in 2019 these translation grants to promote Spanish literary works among foreign publishers. Application Deadline: 6 October – 15 November 2020 The AC/E translation grants seek to encourage the sale of rights to foreign publishers and to publish Spanish […]
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Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies may be considered the oldest empirical domain within modern Translation Studies, and one of the few concentrating on the human how. Researching mental processes associated to translating, interpreting and other forms of multilectal mediated communication is a promising approach because such processes are assumed to be the same in all humans through the times, even […]
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6-7 May 2021, University of Leuven CETRA member Núria Codina is organising an international conference on “World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation”, which will take place online on 6 and 7 May 2021. Conference website https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/world-literature-and-the-minor-figuration-circulation-translation Call for papers (abridged version) The conference “World Literature and the Minor: Figuration, Circulation, Translation” will explore the multifaceted meanings of the minor from different disciplinary perspectives—as […]
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Date: 24/09/2020 Time: 5:00-7:00PM Location: Online via Zoom Speaker: Professor Anthony Pym Registration at Zoom Abstract: How does a translator know which strategy to use? What is the overall aim of our work between languages and cultures? An ethics of cooperation posits that the goal of cross-cultural communication is to achieve mutual benefits for all communication partners, including the mediator. Any strategy is […]
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TRANSMEDIAL TURN?: POTENTIALS, PROBLEMS AND POINTS TO CONSIDER 8–11 December 2020, University of Tartu, Estonia We are happy to invite you to participate in the conference “Transmedial turn?” – the second conference in a series of academic gatherings dedicated to the study of intersemiotic processes in culture. The conference will take place as an e-conference. Registration is now open! Early bird registration ends 30 september 2020. As the title […]
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Translation is voyage and the poet takes a translation across the ocean. Any ship of any description may be qualified to reach port, sailing across the sea of fidelity or the sea of license. The port too will suggest in its name the conditions of the sea by which the ship reaches its destination. So the port where the cargo […]
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Decolonising Modern Languages: A Symposium for Sharing Practices and Ideas Date: 8 September 2020, 10.15am – 11 September 2020, 4.00pm Institute: Institute of Modern Languages Research Type: Conference / Symposium Venue: Online All times are in BST Day 1 Tuesday 8 September 10:15 Welcome & Introduction from the Organisers 10:30 Panel 1: De-Colonial Teaching and ‘Epistemic Decolonisation’ Elizabeth Ward (University […]
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Deadline 24 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) While there have been calls to ‘recenter globalization’ since the early 2000s (Iwabuchi 2002), the development of streaming media […]
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AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2020 “COLLANA RICERCA CONTINUA” Associazione “Ricerca Continua” is the Association of PhD students and Alumni of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Its editorial series, named “Collana Ricerca Continua,” is currently launching a call for proposals for its sixth issue, due in early 2021, and is going to welcome essays from scholars from every corner […]
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Second Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting Theme: COGNITIVE APPROACHES Dates: 8-9 April 2021 Venue: Dr. Wu Yee Sun Lecture Theatre (WLB109), Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University Organizers: Centre for Translation and Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University Cognitive approaches to studying interpreting have been one of the main streams of research in Interpreting Studies since […]
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