Calls for papers

Literary self-translation is defined as the phenomenon of authors translating their own writing and producing more than one linguistic version of a given literary work. While research on the topic has surged since the turn of the 21st century (for reference, see the Bibliography on Self-Translation), scholarship is overwhelmingly dominated by a restricted set of focal points: bilingual practices, literary figures of international renown (typically in the West), 20th-century contexts, a selection of major Western European languages, and minority-language settings in Spain.This special issue of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism explores 21st-century self-translation related to languages, regions, writers, and literary genres that have thus far received little to no critical attention within self-translation research.We welcome case studies, ethnographic research, larger-scale studies, genetic criticism, theoretical reflections, and any other approach that engages with and adds meaningful new perspectives to existing self-translation research. Possible research questions include:• How do understandings of self-translation shift when we account for projects that are not limited to transfers between English, French, and/or Spanish, such as those incorporating lesser-translated languages like Bulgarian (e.g. Miroslav Penkov), Slovenian (e.g. Brina Svit), Swedish (e.g. Linda Olsson) or Yiddish (e.g. Chava Rosenfarb)? • What idiosyncrasies characterize the self-translation process when writers work with three or more languages, as in the case of Lisa Carducci (English-French-Italian-Spanish), Laià Fabregas (Catalan-Dutch-Spanish) or Monika Zgustovà (Catalan-Czech-Spanish)? • How can self-translation be mapped out in geopolitical regions or sociocultural spaces whose self-translation practices remain un(der)studied, such as Guatemala, India, Japan, and New Zealand? • How is the decision to self-translate shaped by linguistic and cultural minority settings, such as in Ireland (e.g. Doireann Ní Ghríofa), within the Francophonie like the Occitanie (e.g. Aurélia Lassaque) or Saint Boniface (e.g. J.R. Léveillé), or in indigenous communities in regions like Guatemala (e.g. Humberto Ak’abal), Canada (e.g. Joséphine Bacon), or Paraguay (e.g. Susi Delgado)? • How does the question of audience affect approaches to self-translating children’s literature, such as in works by Tomson Highway or Lene Kaaberbøl? • What can graphic novels, like those by Geneviève Castrée, Apostolos Doxiadis, or Nora Krug, tell us about intersemiotic self-translation and collaborative forms of self-translation? • How might the notion of the authorial self be complicated by the creative process involved in the self-translation of plays, as in those by Rudi Bekaert, Nilo Cruz, or Gilles Poulin-Denis? Deadline for abstract submission: 30 October 2022 For more information, click here

APTIS 2022 will be in person! Finally, an excellentopportunity to network and disseminate research in personin a central and convenient location after so many monthsunder restrictions.*If you have accessibility needs around issues like disability, healthconcerns, or caring duties, including those that might preventparticipation in an in-person conference, please contact theorganisers.The University of Leeds is proud to host the 4th Conference of theAssociation of Programmes in Translation and InterpretingStudies, UK and Ireland (APTIS) on 18-19 November 2022 (inperson).APTIS encourages research into all aspects of translation andinterpreting, and especially research that aims to inform theteaching and learning of these subjects at UK and Irish HigherEducation Institutions. Previous conferences examinedchallenges and opportunities involved in the teaching and learningof translation and interpreting and looked to make connectionsbetween academic and non-academic settings for such efforts.The upcoming conference will focus on new opportunities andchallenges for translation and interpreting training in the postpandemic era. In particular we will seek to understand anddisseminate the valuable experiences of the pandemic on whichwe can draw and capitalise to provide more and better trainingopportunities to a wider array of students.To this end we invite scholars, practitioners, and otherstakeholders to propose papers or workshops that engage largelybut not exclusively with the conference theme on translation andinterpreting (T&I) training. We welcome contributions from allareas of translation and interpreting studies, ranging fromtechnical translation, to audiovisual translation, sign-languageinterpreting, machine learning, human-computer interaction andother less investigated topics of T&I. Deadline for submissions: Extended to July 14 For more information, click here

Volume editors: Joanna Sobesto (Jagiellonian University, Poland)Garda Elsherif (University of Mainz, Germany) Beginning in the early 20th century with the works of Karl Mannheim (1925) and LudwickFleck (1935), many sociologists of knowledge and philosophers of science developed aheightened awareness of the historicity and social embeddedness of scientific knowledge.Starting from the assumption that pure, unmediated knowledge does not exist in itself, attentionis directed to the “existential determination of knowledge” (Seinsgebundenheit des Denkens –Karl Mannheim), that is, to the geographical and temporal position from which an object isstudied. Moreover, with the ‘linguistic turn’ in philosophy, the notion of language as atransparent medium for grasping and conveying reality began losing ground to a newunderstanding of language as a formative condition of thought. These developments called theuniversality of scientific knowledge into question and exposed the temporal, geographic andlinguistic determinants of the scientific process.The volume applies this tradition of reflection to the field of Translation Studies – oftenconsidered interdisciplinary, hybrid and multidimensional by definition (Bachmann-Medick2016). It thus investigates the historical, geopolitical and linguistic positions of TranslationStudies and its scholars in order to examine the impact this situatedness had on the developmentof Translation Studies as a discipline and to the further redefinitions of the field. Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2022 For more information, click here

Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society Call for Papers EDITORS Stefan Baumgarten | University of Graz, Austria | stefan.baumgarten@uni-graz.at Michael Tieber | University of Graz, Austria | michael.tieber@uni-graz.at SUMMARY OVERVIEW The Handbook of Translation Technology and Society aims to contribute to a better understanding both on the increasing digitalisation of our globalising societies as well as the largely unexplored spaces across translation technology, culture, society and the economy. The handbook will showcase new interdisciplinary cross-sections, critical theoretical avenues and methodological approaches that explore the impact of translation technology on society and vice versa. We welcome contributions from established scholars, up and coming researchers, practitioners and activists affiliated with Translation Studies or other pertinent areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The handbook also aims to gather a critical mass of contributors from the Philosophy and Sociology of Technology as well as from Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS). We encourage individual and co-authored contributions from all continents in order to achieve a critical global outlook, both in view of geographical spread and regional relevance. In a first step of recruitment, we have already secured a variety of contributions especially on application-oriented aspects of translation technologies. We are now seeking contributions from wider interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives which draw on theories, concepts, ideas and viewpoints from social and cultural theory, from ideology studies, from business or organization studies, and other fields. We are, particularly, seeking contributions on various disciplinary, epistemological, historical, social, cultural or economic implications and aspects in connection with translation technologies: Artificial intelligence in the anthropocene  Augmented and virtual realities in translation Critical theory and posthumanism Digital activism  Digital Humanities and Translation Studies Disability studies and accessibility Data and Neural Machine Translation Ethics, culture and ideology History of translation technology Human-machine interaction International relations and diplomacy  Knowledge, data and automation Markets and localization Philosophical approaches to translation technology Platform economy and capitalism Technology assessment Transhumanism and technoscientific ideologies Translation technology in conflict situations and crisis interventions  KEY DEADLINES AND ABSTRACTS Submission of abstracts: 31 August 2022 Notification on accepted abstracts: 30 September 2022 Submission of full papers: 28 February 2023 Notification on peer review outcome: 31 August 2023 Revised manuscripts: 31 December 2023 Final manuscripts: 31 March 2024 Publication: Summer 2024 Please send abstracts of between 300-500 words in one email by 31 August 2022 to stefan.baumgarten@uni-graz.at and michael.tieber@uni-graz.at. You are, of course, also welcome to provide an abstract with your own title idea, which may be inspired from any of the themes listed above. If your abstract is accepted, you will receive further detailed guidelines from the editors. June 2022 / Stefan Baumgarten & Michael Tieber

Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society Call for Papers EDITORS Stefan Baumgarten | University of Graz, Austria | stefan.baumgarten@uni-graz.at Michael Tieber | University of Graz, Austria | michael.tieber@uni-graz.at SUMMARY OVERVIEW The Handbook of Translation Technology and Society aims to contribute to a better understanding both on the increasing digitalisation of our globalising societies as well as the largely unexplored spaces across translation technology, culture, society and the economy. The handbook will showcase new interdisciplinary cross-sections, critical theoretical avenues and methodological approaches that explore the impact of translation technology on society and vice versa. We welcome contributions from established scholars, up and coming researchers, practitioners and activists affiliated with Translation Studies or other pertinent areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The handbook also aims to gather a critical mass of contributors from the Philosophy and Sociology of Technology as well as from Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS). We encourage individual and co-authored contributions from all continents in order to achieve a critical global outlook, both in view of geographical spread and regional relevance. In a first step of recruitment, we have already secured a variety of contributions especially on application-oriented aspects of translation technologies. We are now seeking contributions from wider interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives which draw on theories, concepts, ideas and viewpoints from social and cultural theory, from ideology studies, from business or organization studies, and other fields. We are, particularly, seeking contributions on various disciplinary, epistemological, historical, social, cultural or economic implications and aspects in connection with translation technologies: Artificial intelligence in the anthropocene  Augmented and virtual realities in translation Critical theory and posthumanism Digital activism  Digital Humanities and Translation Studies Disability studies and accessibility Data and Neural Machine Translation Ethics, culture and ideology History of translation technology Human-machine interaction International relations and diplomacy  Knowledge, data and automation Markets and localization Philosophical approaches to translation technology Platform economy and capitalism Technology assessment Transhumanism and technoscientific ideologies Translation technology in conflict situations and crisis interventions  KEY DEADLINES AND ABSTRACTS Submission of abstracts: 31 August 2022 Notification on accepted abstracts: 30 September 2022 Submission of full papers: 28 February 2023 Notification on peer review outcome: 31 August 2023 Revised manuscripts: 31 December 2023 Final manuscripts: 31 March 2024 Publication: Summer 2024 Please send abstracts of between 300-500 words in one email by 31 August 2022 to stefan.baumgarten@uni-graz.at and michael.tieber@uni-graz.at. You are, of course, also welcome to provide an abstract with your own title idea, which may be inspired from any of the themes listed above. If your abstract is accepted, you will receive further detailed guidelines from the editors. June 2022 / Stefan Baumgarten & Michael Tieber

Since 2011, when it was held for the first time, the Translation and Interpreting Forum Olomouc has established itself as an open platform which is not limited only to an academic exchange within translation and interpreting studies research but embraces discussion with all players in the field of cross-language communication. The 2022 conference theme "Room for (Ex)Change in T&I Training" revisits the topic of education and training of translators/interpreters. The featured guest speakers for TIFO 2022 are Łucja Biel (University of Warsaw), Elisabet Tiselius (Stockholm University) and Federico Zanettin (University of Perugia).  Deadline for submissions: 31 July, 2022 For more information, click here  

guest edited by Alejandro Bolaños (UCL, UK), Noa Talaván (UNED, Spain) and AlbertoFernández-Costales (University of Oviedo, Spain) We welcome studies on all AVT modalities as long as there is a clear pedagogicalapplication to the field of language learning and teaching. We are interested inhow AVT can be integrated into any educational setting, context, or stage.Contributions are not limited to the analysis of the possible benefits, challengesand disadvantages of using AVT as a didactic tool; they may also focus onaccessibility issues in language learning, translator training, translationstrategies, or the implications this emerging trend may have in TS scholarship aswell as the relevance of translation as a mediation tool in educational contexts ofcommunication (Pintado-Gutiérrez, 2018; Muñoz-Basols, 2019; GonzálezDavies, 2020). We would be happy to consider proposals on the following research topics:- Didactic subtitling (including interlingual and intralingual captioning)- Didactic revoicing (including dubbing, voice-over, and free commentary)- Didactic media accessibility (including audio description and subtitling forthe deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences)- Didactic applications of less frequent AVT practices (including respeaking,surtitling, easy-to-read)- Using AVT in translator training scenarios- Assessing the use of didactic AVT in formal contexts- Experiences of didactic AVT implementation in higher education- Experiences of didactic AVT implementation in non-formal educationscenarios- Didactic AVT in bilingual education and plurilingual settings- Evaluating language gains through subtitling and dubbing- Subtitling or dubbing? Implications for L2 proficiency- Fansubbing and language learning- Technology-enhanced didactic AVT- Authentic audiovisual language and language education- Culture and humour in audiovisual translation to teach languages- Audiovisual translation as a mediation tool in language teaching & learning Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2022 For more information, click here  

Following the International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting: Practices, Processes, Networks (FIRE-TI) that was held at the University of Vienna in February 2022, we are now calling for contributions for an edited volume under the provisional title Field Research on Translation and Interpreting to be included in a prestigious series by an international publishing house. The book will be a peer-reviewed volume of full-length contributions showcasing the practice and potentials of field research in translation and interpreting studies. Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2022 For more information, click here

Department of Translation and Interpretation Studies at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University cordially invites you to celebrate its 25th anniversary by revisiting the place, role and impact of translation in the broad, dynamic social and multicultural communicational context, and to take part at the international conference on Translation, Ideology, Ethics: Response and Credibility which will include the international workshop on Multiple Perspectives of Translation Research. Nowadays global processes invite ever-increasing multicultural interaction, exchange of ideas and multinational coordination, therefore the demand for translation and its significance are growing, respectively raising visibility of translation as mediation, and of its participants. As translation never takes place in the vacuum and the need for it emanates in the contexts that are saturated with various ideologies, cultures and stands, the very process of translation, its product, and participants are affected by these contexts and make an impact on them. Recent geopolitical changes, fast-growing communication technology, media intervention into the spheres that used to belong exclusively to home affairs, global quest for information and its deliberation in social networks highlighted the questions of reliability of translation and trust in it, and emphasised responsibility of translators and translation technologies. The collisions of ideologies, combined with the ethical stances that translators have to assume in response have drawn attention to the risks associated with translation situations that extend beyond the text and directly affect the participants of those situations. These developments consequently touch the field of Translation Studies which, as it is rightly noted by Susan Bassnett and David Johnston, is necessarily situated in the context of the ‘issues alive in the perceptions and relationships of our world today.’ We hope to expand the discussion on interrelation between translation, ideology and ethics, by inviting papers addressing, but not limited to the following questions: How do ideologies affect the field of translation? What is characteristic of the process of translation in crisis situations? What are translator’s ethical choices in crisis situations? What are the ideological assumptions and implications of translation from/into major and minor languages? How does translation influence our positions and values, and form our images and perception of ourselves and others? How do we perceive history of translation? How does the history of translation function in the collective and individual memory? What is a rendition quality of ideological and ethical contents in human and machine translation? Who is to be held responsible for reliability of translation? How is the notion of translation ethics changing? What skills are to be acquired by translators in the developing situation when they cease being perceived as merely a passive channel of transmission and assume a more active role of a communication moderator?  How do these changes affect translator training? How do Translation Studies respond to the changing milieu? What problems and ethical challenges do researchers in TS face? How is the inquiry into translation enriched by the multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and supradisciplinary research approach? Is the translation research trusted in the view of ideological and ethical differences? What are the most relevant perspectives in nowadays translation research? Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2022 For more information, click here

The conference will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to phraseology and invites submissions on a wide range of topics, covering, but not limited to: computational, corpus-based, psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches to the study of phraseology, and practical applications in computational linguistics, translation, lexicography and language learning, teaching and assessment. These topics cover include the following: Computational approaches to the study of multiword expressions, e.g. automatic detection, classification and extraction of multiword expressions; automatic translation of multiword expressions; computational treatment of proper names; multiword expressions in NLP tasks and applications such as parsing, machine translation, text summarisation, term extraction, web search; Corpus-based approaches to phraseology, e.g. corpus-based empirical studies of phraseology, task-orientated typologies of phraseological units (e.g. for annotation, lexicographic representation, etc.), annotation schemes, applications in applied linguistics and more specifically translation, interpreting, lexicography, terminology, language learning, teaching and assessment (see also below); Phraseology in mono- and bilingual lexicography and terminography, e.g. new forms of presenting phraseological units in dictionaries and other lexical resources based on corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches; domain-specific terminology; Phraseology in translation and cross-linguistic studies, e.g. use parallel and comparable corpora for translating of phraseological units; phraseological units in computer-aided translation; study of phraseology across languages; Phraseology in specialised languages and language dialects, e.g. phraseology of specialised languages, study of phraseological use in different dialects or varieties of a specific language; Phraseology in language learning, teaching and assessment: e.g. second language/bilingual processing of phraseological units and formulaic language; phraseological units in learner language; Theoretical and descriptive approaches to phraseology, e.g. phraseological units and the lexis-grammar interface, the relevance of phraseology for theoretical models of grammar, the representation of phraseological units in constituency and dependency theories, phraseology and its interaction with semantics; Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches: e.g. cognitive models of phraseological unit comprehension and production; on-line measures of phraseological unit processing (e.g. eye tracking, event-related potentials, self-paced reading); phraseology and language disorders; phraseology and text readability; The above list is indicative and not exhaustive. Any submission presenting a study related to the alternative terms of phraseological units, multiword expressions, multiword units, formulaic language or polylexical expressions, will be considered. Deadline for abstracts: 20 May 2022 For more information, click here

It is a pleasure to invite you to this year’s hybrid AUSIT National Conference to be held in Brisbane on 25-26 November 2022. The conference will take place at the beautiful campus of the University of Queensland, as well as online. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Rebuild and Belong: Evolution, Transformation and Growth’. It aims to offer participants a forum to discuss practical and theoretical issues relating to the T&I profession across a variety of different areas, focusing on rebuilding and re-connecting after two long years of dealing with the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Organising Committee (OC) is calling for the submission of abstracts for papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary theoretical and practical perspectives. Submissions are organised into the following sub-themes: Cultivating connections with colleagues – the power of comradery, and team building; Self-growth – issues affecting practitioners and their businesses (mental health, adapting, professional skills, ethics and values, new mindset and new focus); Joining forces with other professions – new opportunities, relationships between T&I practitioners and professional end-users; Engaging with the community – current issues affecting community translation and interpreting; Innovation in the world – the T&I industry in the post-pandemic world, accessibility, new technologies and new advances. Deadline for abstracts: 24 June 2022 For more information, click here