Today, 23 April, is World Book and Copyright Day. This year’s event coincides with the 80th anniversary of Index Translationum, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is observing the day under the theme “Books, Translation, Reading and Copyright”. In a message to mark the event, the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, recalls as follows:
"Translation is the first step towards the rapprochement of peoples, and is also a decentralizing experience, teaching diversity and dialogue. Translation is one of the driving principles of our creative diversity, which enriches each language through contact with all the others."
Translation Research Summer School 2012
The TRANSLATION RESEARCH SUMMER SCHOOL (TRSS), a joint initiative of three British universities, organizes an annual two-week course offering intensive research training in translation and intercultural studies for prospective researchers in the field.
On 27 and 28 April 2012, the Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria, will host an international research symposium on the theme "Remapping 'Habitus' in Translation Studies".
Invited speakers: Abdallah, Kristiina (University of Vaasa, Finland); Gouanvic, Jean-Marc (Université Concordia, Montréal, Canada); Grbić, Nadja (Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz); Hanna, Sameh F. (The University of Salford, UK); Hernández, Tania Paola (University of Manchester, UK); Kaindl Klaus (University of Vienna, Austria); Meylaerts, Reine (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Pasmatzi, Kalliopi (University of Manchester, UK); Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Tahir Gürҫağlar, Şehnaz (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey); Torikai, Kumiko (Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan); Vorderobermeier, Gisella M. (University of Graz, Austria); Yannakopoulou, Vasso (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece).
Language Director
Translation Studies
University of Bristol - School of Modern Languages
Reference: 17077
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £39,257 - £44,166 Level c in Pathway 3
Closing date for applications: 9:00am 04 May 2012
Anticipated start date: 01 Aug 2012
The journal translation is issuing a call for papers specifically
for its website articles. Articles are to be approximately 1,000 words
in length and will be published solely on the website.
Translation and Modernization
in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Century
An International Conference
Organized by the
Research Centre for Translation,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
29-31 May 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
TRANSLATION IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM:
THEORY, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Special Issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Volume 8, Number 1, 2014
Deadline for submission of abstracts (of around 500 words): 15 June 2012
