Category: Events

Montreal, Quebec June 10, 11, 12, and 13, 2024 To mark the 35th anniversary of the journal TTR, the conference “Redefining translation? Historical fluctuations, new practices, and epistemologies in the making” will bring together established and emerging scholars to address themes related to translation (including interpretation), terminology, and writing. Translation, together with terminology and professional writing, constitutes a complex set […]

The Centre for Translation Technology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong is going to organize the captioned conference on 8 and 9 December 2023 (Friday and Saturday).  You are cordially invited to submit proposals either for individual papers or panels with details as follow: The final decades of the twentieth century witnessed the birth of the digital age. Now, […]

Selçuk University, Konya, Türkiye 2-3 November 2023 You should apply to the conference with an abstract prepared in Turkish and English. The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 09, 2023.   ABSTRACT WRITING RULES 1- Your abstract should be at least 300 and at most 400 words 2- Must have at least 3 keywords 3- Should be written using […]

Frequently rehearsed narratives of Translation Studies typically trace the origins of the discipline to James Holmes’s 1972 paper, ‘The Name and Nature of Translation Studies’, and suggest that little of interest happened prior to that date, or at least prior to the 1950s. Reflections on translation from earlier periods have been characterised as sterile, imprecise, or circular, or as taking […]

Introduction The final decades of the twentieth century witnessed the birth of the digital age. Now, almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, we are still only beginning to grasp the full meaning of this revolution in information storage, retrieval, and analysis. In particular, the advent of groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies such as […]

The programme for the Translab4: Translation and Labour-symposium has been announced. The symposium is organized by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger and will be held at the University of Westminster, London, UK, on July, 6-7. Interested participants are kindly asked to register until 23 June 2023. Further information: https://transcultcom.univie.ac.at/translab4/ 

Creativity and Translation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Organization Dr. Katharina Walter (katharina.walter@uibk.ac.at) and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Marco Agnetta (marco.agnetta@uibk.ac.at) Call for Papers The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) poses new challenges for language mediators. As machine translation systems are making great strides and many language services have come to be supported or partially automated by AI, the job […]

Postgraduate research is anything but linear. Instead, it is a process of continual untangling – of plucking at a single thread within the tapestry. Methods and methodologies are the tools we use to find and follow those threads, sometimes without really knowing where they might lead. The new and shifting world we live in presents a complex tapestry, and innovative […]

CfP The submission deadline for the two-day symposium organized by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger, held 6-7th July 2023 in London, UK, has been extended. The symposium will be held at the university of Westminster, London, UK and is devoted to explorations of the concept of labour arising from Translab’s hallmark blending of ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’. To explore translation from […]