Category: Events

11-13 October 2023 What do silent film intertitles and TV docu-fiction pop-up captions have in common with WhatsApp and Twitter text alerts? What do multiple language versions in the era of film’s early sound and today’s Netflix in-house multilingual dubbing share in terms of challenges and problematic issues? What were the concerns of silent film actors when sound was first […]

University of Turku, Finland, 7–9 September, 2023 Keynote speakers Guyda Armstrong, University of Manchester ”Travelling things: materializing translation in premodern objects” Outi Paloposki, University of Turku ”Drafts, letters, letter drafts – adventures in translation archives” * Dirk Weissmann, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès ”Behind the surface of the monolingual text: multilingual writers, textual genetics and the monolingual paradigm” * Unfortunately, the […]

The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar   Call for Applications The SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, is pleased to announce that the Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar is now accepting applications for the […]

26 – 28 June 2024 Hosted by The University of Queensland Hybrid conference The East Asian Translation Studies Conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. The 5th Conference, to be held at the University of Queensland in Brisbane (Australia) from 26 to 28 […]

2nd Call for Papers Conference date: 15-16 Sep 2023 Organised by: School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds Host: School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University Theme: Translation Education and Studies in the New Technological Context: Challenges and Opportunities Aims and scope: Translation and interpreting have played […]

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 […]