Calls for papers

Language and translation have an important function in determining the production and reception of texts that circulate in Food Studies and in the global food trade sector. They are also key to the shaping and circulation of food narratives. The objective of this special journal issue to is examine the role of language and translation in shaping perceptions of food, its production, and its consumption in the new millennium.  Food Studies has inspired researchers to explore the interlinking concepts of food culture, society, and translation, and their combined impact on human behaviour: ‘Language shapes our perception and tasting of food’ (Temmerman 2017, p.162). Language and translation enhance our understanding of the evolving practices adopted by food industries and also increase our socio-environmental awareness as consumers in the era of globalization. This is because food has a fundamental symbolic and cultural value in its consumption and preparation in different religious and cultural contexts, and also because it is a system of communication that can be used to exchange knowledge, to promote social values, and to reaffirm personal and ethnic identities.  Translation itself is a multi-dimensional phenomenon which can express messages from written texts, pictures, and sound to live multi-media presentations. Surprisingly, the important role played by language, especially by translation, seems to have largely been overlooked by the food industry despite its pivotal function in its development and in global trade (Cavanaugh et al 2014; Karrebæk et al 2018). This is evidenced by recent publications that discuss food mislabelling and inconsistent labelling that recur in different industries around the world, especially the seafood sector, and this raises serious ethical concerns about the identity, value, and safety of sustainable food (Gambarato and Medvedev 2015).  It has been suggested that researchers have so far ‘tended to neglect, ignore or overlook the conceptual connections and familiarities between food and language in different societies and cultures’ (Chiaro and Rossato 2015, p.241). Only The Translator has published a special issue on food-related translation research (2015), which emphasized the importance of tackling ‘the “grey zone” of food translation’ (Chiaro and Rossato, 2015). Although food-related terminology and translation research is still arguably in its infancy (Cronin 2014), the increasing demands and ethical and environmental challenges of the global food trade indicate that there is an urgent need to address systematically the communication issues affecting food culture and society from Translation Studies perspectives.  This special edition on food-related translation welcomes contributions from diverse theoretical backgrounds and subject areas. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate food-related translation methods and insights on translating food culture and society and its cross-cultural communication. Contributions from all areas of food-related studies in translation are welcome, including but not limited to: Theoretical perspectives concerning the translation of food  Food translation across time and space The role of ethics in food-related translation research  Food translation within cultural discourses and narratives Food translation in post-colonial contexts  The translation of food as cultural appropriation Translating food safety and environment-related terms Food mislabelling, misinterpretation, mistranslation, and food adulteration  Translating food in the context of health and wellbeing Translation of food production and animal welfare Translating food and identity Translating food and gender Translating food and race Translating food and social inequality Translating food activism Language and translation in the politics of food, including food sovereignty Translating the social and cultural dimensions of food technologies / production and consumption Submission Instructions Articles should be no more than 9,000 words in length (inclusive of the abstract, tables, references and endnotes) and written in English. Style guidelines are available on the Instructions for Authors section of the journal homepage: https://bit.ly/2J8vLXN. Articles will be evaluated on the following criteria: - Originality of conception and significance of questions asked; - Quality of methodology and sources: we expect a description of methodology, original data, and citation of relevant food studies literature as well as disciplinary literature; - Vigor and cogency of argument: we expect a clear argument stated at the outset and developed throughout the paper; - Felicity of style and organization: we expect clear and grammatical writing with no use of the passive voice; - Contributions to the field of foodways research: we expect explicit discussion of the paper’s contribution through engagement with relevant food studies literature. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent by email to the guest editors at saihong.li@stir.ac.uk and myriam.salama-carr@manchester.ac.uk by 30 January 2021. Schedule 30 January 2021: Deadline for submitting 300-word abstracts to the guest editors 28 February 2021: Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts 30 August 2021: Submission of completed articles to the guest editors 30 October 2021: Feedback on submissions by the guest editors 30 December 2021:  Submission of revised papers to Food and Foodways for peer review  References: Cavanaugh, Jillian R., Kathleen C. Riley, Alexandra Jaffe, Christine Jourdan, Martha Karrebaek, and Amy Paugh (2014) ‘What Words Bring to the Table: The Linguistic Anthropological Toolkit as Applied to the Study of Food’. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 24, 1: 84-97. Chiaro, Delia and Linda Rossato (2015) ‘Food and translation, translation and food’. The Translator, 21, 3: 237–243. Cronin, Michael (2014) ‘Cooking the books: Translation, food and migration’. Comparative Critical Studies, 11, 2–3: 337–354. Gambarato, Renira Rampazo and Medvedev, Sergei Andreevitch (2015) ‘Fish Fight: Transmedia Storytelling Strategies for Food Policy Change’. International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP), Vol 6, 3: 43-59. Karrebæk, Martha Sif, Kathleen C. Riley, and Jillian R. Cavanaugh. (2018) ‘Food and Language: Production, Consumption, and Circulation of Meaning and Value’. Annual Review of Anthropology 47: 17-32. Temmerman, Rita (2017) ‘Terms and descriptors for food and drinks’ (‘Termini e descrittori per alimenti e bevande’, transl. Kim Grego). in I. Bajini, M. V. Calvi, G. Garzone and G. Sergio (eds) Parole per mangiare: Discorsi e culture del cibo, Milan: LED Edizioni: 159–192. Editors: Dr Saihong Li is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Stirling. Her food culture and translation research investigates an increasingly vital issue in globalized business and diplomacy, namely how food (taste) and society interrelate to each other. Her publications outline how the cultural context of language and the individual cultural background of the users of that language is as important as the actual words used. She has been involved in the steering committee in China for food label translation since 2008. The research findings of one of her articles suggest that a multimodal approach to restaurant menu translation - using intralingual (with pinyin), interlingual (English translation) and intersemiotic translation (images) - should become an accepted norm to be used in restaurants in China, the USA, and in countries that thrive on tourism and international business. Her recent food-related publications include ‘A Corpus-Based Multimodal Approach to the Translation of Restaurant Menus’ and ‘Translating Food Terminology as Cultural and Communicative Processes’.  Professor Myriam Salama-Carr is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies. She has published extensively in the field of Translation Studies and her research focuses on the history of translation, with a particular focus on the ideological aspects of the translation of science and the transmission and construction of knowledge. She is the author of La Traduction à l’époque abbasside (Didier Erudition 1990) and the editor of Translating and Interpreting Conflict (Rodopi 2007) and of a special issue of Social Semiotics on Translation and Conflict (2007). She has co-edited a special issue of Forum (2009) on Ideology and Cross-Cultural Encounters, and of The Translator (2011) on Translating Science. More recently she has guest-edited a special issue (2019) of the Translation and Interpreting Journal on the history of translation and interpreting, and is co-editor of the 2019 Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict.  She was the Director of the National Network for Translation (www.nationalnetworkfortranslation.ac.uk) from 2007 to 2017, and was Chair of the Training Committee on IATIS (www.iatis.org) from 2011 to 2016.

33rd Conference of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies in collaboration with ESIT, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 (France) Keynote speaker: Maria Tymoczko, University of Massachusetts Amherst In political science, subversion is generally negatively connotated, because it implies a form of destruction. From the Latin subversion, or to “overturn, overthrow” (Mahoney, 2002–2019) and ruin, subversion is the “process of trying to destroy the authority of a political, religious, etc. system by attacking it secretly or indirectly” (Oxford, 2019) and “[t]he undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution” (Oxford, n.d.), by encouraging citizens to question the existing order in the aim of overthrowing it. The Termium record for the term classifies it under the fields of “psychological warfare” and “political theories and doctrines,” and its definition provided by NATO is similar to the one we just saw: “Action or a coordinated set of actions of any nature intended to weaken the military, economic or political strength of an established authority by undermining the morale, loyalty or reliability of its members.” (Termium, 2015) in the ultimate aim of destroying it. These definitions include the words “destroy,” “attacking,” “undermining” and “weaken,” which all suggest some degree of violence. To sum up, subversion generally aims to undermine and destabilize the established, more often than not political or religious, order by insidiously demoralizing citizens, who will then overturn or destroy it. However, subversion can also play a positive role through the healthy questioning of the values of a socio-political or religious system. For example, subversively translated poems were produced by early 19th century Decembrists, who wished to renew the Tsarist system in place. Certain poems illustrated the injustices of the system, while others promoted a liberal constitution (Baer 2010). The Russian translators of these poems were not neutral; they were actively engaged in a fight that called upon their resourceful creativity. Their subversive translations opened up alternative avenues to the dominant system and instigated a revolution in the way people thought. This more positive understanding of the term as a catalyst for positive change is that one that tends to have currency in translation studies research that focuses on the relation between translation and power. The issue of subversion has been broached in studies that examine relations between translation and power (see, for example, Tymoczko et Gentzler, 2002), and in those that examine the links between translation and resistance (see, for example, Tymoczko, 2010). Moreover, in 2013, the University of Porto organized a conference on the theme of version and subversion in literature (“Version, Subversion: translation, the canon and its discontents”), and, in 1991, literary translator Suzanne Jill Levine published The Subversive Scribe, in which she explores her collaboration with revolutionary Latin American writers who confront the sexual 2 and cultural taboos of their respective cultures, by treating translation as a creative act that is a form of “(sub) version” (Levine, 1984, p. 84). Nevertheless, the theme has not yet been the object of focussed, yet broad, and in-depth discussion. In fact, translation studies research that touches on subversion is not limited to politics and literature, but rather includes more generally any discipline that involves culture (Alvarez et Vidal, 1996) and that requires creativity. Research findings tend to share the view that one cannot understand translation without taking into account the subjectivity of translators and their translations, and that translations can be manipulated with a subversive aim in view (see, for example, Lefevere, 1992). In contradiction with the myth of the neutral, submissive and docile translator, translating subjects, like all humans, are imprinted with a subjectivity that is inscribed in their history and culture (Fournier-Guillemette, 2011). Researchers have studied subversive translation in the former Soviet Union or in Fascist Italy (Delisle, 2003), in Victorian Great Britain (Merkle, 2010; O’Sullivan, 2010), in Latin America (Bastin, Echeverri and Campo, 2010) and in the French classical era (Ballard and D’hulst, 1996), to name but a few examples. The interest of TS in subversion has thus been manifest at least since the beginning of the 1990s and has taken numerous forms. The time is now ripe to undertake a comprehensive reflection on the place of subversion in translation and interpreting, and the relationship that translators and interpreters have with the subversive practices of their profession. Below we suggest several lines of enquiry to guide critical discussion; however, the list is not intended to be exhaustive. Translation studies (TS) approach centered on:  the product (translation, interpreted discourse; case studies of negative and positive subversion);  the process of subversion (including manipulation); subversive measures;  the agent (translating subject, including interpreters, multilingual writers-translators);  norms (translator/interpreter positioning in relation to norms, whether they be linguistic or institutional; relationship between subversion and transgression). Interdisciplinary TS approaches, considered from the perspective of:  politics and policy;  social psychology;  ideology;  creativity (e.g. literary, semiotic) Critical approaches, looking at in particular:  the relationship between activism and subversion;  the relationship between resistance and subversion;  definitions and limits of the concept subversion and its derivative forms (subversif/ve);  translator and interpreter neutrality.   Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2021 For more information, click here

Parallèles publishes high-quality original research in translation and interpreting, as well as other forms of multilingual and multimodal communication. The journal is double-blind peer reviewed, open access and operates under a continuous publication model. Parallèles is a multilingual journal. It welcomes contributions in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The journal is published bi-annually – in April and October – and alternates between thematic and non-thematic issues. Special issue proposals are examined once a year. Deadline for submitting a special issue proposal (issue 35:1, 2023) is April 1, 2021 For more information, click here

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Emeritus Professor Clive Scott, FBA (UEA) Professor Kathryn Batchelor (UCL) Call for Papers While we hope to hold this conference as a face-to-face event , Breaking Down The Walls of Babel may need to be held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We will keep you updated as developments take place. Translation Studies is a comparatively young scholarly discipline, often formally dated back to James Holmes 1972 essay “The Name and Nature of Translation Studies”, and the place and role of translation in the university, particularly in the English-speaking world, is a matter of ongoing debate and negotiation. Is translation part of the Modern Languages curriculum? Or does translation belong to Applied Linguistics or Literary Studies? Is it merely a vocational pathway or can it also be a mode of thought within the humanities? Why are so many departments sceptical towards it? The difficult position of translation in academia seems somehow related to its interdisciplinary nature. Translation theory and practice are in fact inherently concerned with different fields of enquiry (literature, linguistics, modern languages, politics, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy). Not only is translation inherently multifaceted, it also seems to occupy a special position in relation to other fields. The humanities in general, the social sciences (including law and philosophy), media studies, and the natural sciences all necessarily engage with and communicate through translation, even if they do not always do this explicitly. Translation is also embedded in art and, in the context of globalization, increasingly encountered in everyday life. Interestingly, French translation theorist Antoine Berman wrote about the particular status of translation in relation to his own academic context at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris, but what he had to say is much more widely applicable: "Of all the programmes at the Collège international de philosophie, the ‘translation’ programme has a particular status. This particular status resides first of all in the fact that all of the other programmes […], irrespective of theme, are concerned with translation: wherever and whenever we look, our intellectual work encounters the ‘problem’ of the translation of certain texts. But the importance of translation for the Collège is more genuinely located in the fact that these various epistemologies or enquiries all encounter the question of translation (whether these are epistemologies that take an institutional form like philosophy, psychoanalysis, the sciences, law, literature and literary criticism, or the intersciences that exist only within the Collège)"[1] While the interdisciplinary nature of translation and its necessary importance in other fields may potentially lead to an enriching dialogue between different areas of study, lamentably there is often a lack of communication between different fields of enquiry. Scholars and practitioners engaged with translation are often isolated in and by their areas of research and communication is often hindered by institutional structures. The aim of this conference is to offer a space where translation can take centre stage, and to further a dialogue between disciplines that engage with translation which may lead to the reciprocal enrichment of Translation Studies and other fields. [1] Berman, Antoine. 2018. The Age of Translation: A Commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”. Translated by Chantal Wright. New York: Routledge, p. 19. Deadline for submissions: 8 January 2021 For more information, click here

Inviting chapter proposals for a volume entitled Instrumentalising Foreign LanguageDidactics in Translator and Interpreter Training: Methods, Goals and Perspectives. John Benjaminsseriously considers publishing the collection pending review. Welcoming contributions exploring the instrumentalisation of foreign language didactics intranslation and interpreting training from both a theoretical as well as practical approach (eitherfrom a language-specific or cross-linguistic perspective but, in any case, with respect to B2-level ofthe CEFRL and above). Read the full call for chapters here: https://bit.ly/3fism4O . 

Edited by Cornelia Zwischenberger (University of Vienna, Austria) and Alexa Alfer (University of Westminster, UK), contracted with Frank & Timme, Berlin Translaboration, as an essentially ‘blended concept” (Fauconnier & Turner 2002), responds to the confluence of ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’ that is increasingly widespread not only in Translation Studies but also in a range of neighbouring disciplines. Translaboration’s central aim is to bring ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’, as well as the often highly heterogeneous practices associated with these two notions, into dialogue with one another. This edited volume builds on exchanges first aired at our successful ‘Living Translation as Translaboration’ panel at the 2019 EST-conference at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and will focus on the ‘translation as collaboration’ vector of the translaboration concept (cf. Alfer & Zwischenberger 2020; Zwischenberger 2020). Deadline for proposals: 15th of December 2020 For more information, click here

Translaboration, as an essentially ‘blended concept” (Fauconnier & Turner 2002), responds to the confluence of ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’ that is increasingly widespread not only in Translation Studies but also in a range of neighbouring disciplines. Translaboration’s central aim is to bring ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’, as well as the often highly heterogeneous practices associated with these two notions, into dialogue with one another. This edited volume builds on exchanges first aired at our successful ‘Living Translation as Translaboration’ panel at the 2019 EST-conference at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and will focus on the ‘translation as collaboration’ vector of the translaboration concept (cf. Alfer & Zwischenberger 2020; Zwischenberger 2020). The deadline for submitting contributions is the 15th of December 2020. Read more here

2nd Call for Papers (Deadline for abstract submission extended to 15 December 2020)   The Second HKBU International Conference on Interpreting will now be held in mixed modes on 8-9 April 2021. It will take place on the campus of Hong Kong Baptist University and online via Zoom Webinar. Following on the great success of the conference on “History of Interpreting” in 2017, we will dedicate this second conference to the theme of “Cognitive Approaches” in interpreting. This broad theme will allow us to take stock of the multifaceted research conducted from this perspective, present the state of the art, and pave the way for future research adopting cognitive approaches. We also recognize the increasing convergence of research on both spoken language interpreting and signed language interpreting and will attempt to connect the two fields under the common theme of this conference. As keynote speakers for this year’s conference, we will have two of the most highly regarded scholars who study spoken language interpreting and signed language interpreting taking cognitive approaches. We welcome oral presentations and posters on both basic and applied research that fit the sub-themes of the conference or that are related to the conference theme in a broader sense. Sub-themes: bimodal and unimodal bilingualism and their implications in interpreting studies modality (bimodal or unimodal) effects in interpreting cognitive processes and constructs in different modalities and modes of interpreting neurological substrates of interpreting attention and memory in interpreting cognitive workload in different modes of interpreting cognitive considerations in machine-aided interpreting cognitive abilities as interpreting aptitude cognition-informed training of interpreters skill acquisition and attrition in interpreters interpreter’s cognition throughout the life span For more information, click here

In response to the rapidly changing translation training environment, New Voices in Translation Studies cordially invites research letters which explore the impact of COVID-19 on translation and interpreting training and offer innovative approaches and practices that are of interest to the translation and interpreting community. These letters will be published alongside the full-length articles already submitted to New Voices in Translation Studies earlier in the year for this Special Issue. With such contributions, the issue will represent the widest possible range of input from around the world on this rapidly changing environment, leading towards further research and debate. Different from full research papers, research letters are concise and focused, consisting of 2500-3000 words (excluding references). They do not need to include either detailed background information or a comprehensive evaluation. Instead, the focus is on quick and timely publication of preliminary results and key elements of a research study. Research letters for this issue should contain a short abstract (50-100 words), a very limited introduction or discussion of the literature and a focus on the method and results. The number of references should not exceed 15. We welcome submissions particularly from trainers, educators and researchers in the field of translation and interpreting. All submissions considered for publication will go through the peer review process. Formatting requirements are the same as full papers and can be found on our website (https://www.iatis.org/images/stories/publications/new-voices/NV_StyleSheet_01-2014.pdf). All submissions should be e-mailed to newvoices@iatis.org.

Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts and Maud Gonne are organisng a conference on ‘The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies’, to be celebrated on 26-28 August 2021 at the KU Leuven. The call for papers can be found here Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2020

Translation and interpreting have played and will continue to play important roles in various aspects of UK-China relations and people-to-people exchanges. In addition to the translation and interpreting activities in various forms linking bilateral relations and bridging peoples’ hearts and minds, the English/Chinese stream has been established and developed in dozens of translation and interpreting programmes in the UK and in over two hundred T&I programmes in China. Against this background the UK-China Symposium on Translation Studies is designed to be a biannual event co-organised by a UK university and a China university in order to promote exchanges among T&I scholars from both countries and to explore various aspects of Translation Studies with a focus on English/Chinese translation & interpreting and their education. The 1st UK-China Symposium on Translation Studies will be held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Centre for Translation Studies in the University of Leeds. We welcome submission of abstracts on the following themes. Quality submissions might be considered for special issues tobe proposed for international journals. Themes: Translation and interpreting studies in China and UK: Unity and diversity Chinese discourse on translation and interpreting Studies on T&I master and doctoral education in China and UK Studies on language-pair specificity in English/Chinese translation and interpreting Digital humanities in translation and interpreting studies Corpus studies in translation and interpreting studies Cross-frontier translation and interpreting studies Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2021 For more information, click here

Guest Editors Dr Hannah SilvesterUniversity College Cork Dr Tiina TuominenYLE  In the past two decades, we have seen a huge growth in research on audiovisual translation and accessibility. However, the findings of these research projects are often published in academic journals and books that are not always easily accessible to practitioners, or are not designed to address the practical implications of the research. With this special issue, we would like to offer an opportunity for practitioners to benefit from the flourishing research in the field, and for researchers to make their cutting edge AVT and accessibility research available and accessible to practitioners. The open-access Journal of Audiovisual Translation presents the perfect forum for this exchange. As Jorge Díaz-Cintas (2020: 216) has pointed out, “Striking a happy balance between [the industry and academia] is of paramount importance to safeguard the well-being of the discipline and the profession.” Indeed, Díaz-Cintas (2020: 216-217) mentions that a great deal of AVT research is informed by the industry, but there has been less activity in the opposite direction. We propose to address that shortcoming in this special issue. We invite audiovisual translation and accessibility researchers to highlight the practical significance of their work by publishing pieces that seek to answer crucial questions related to the work of audiovisual translation and accessibility professionals. We envision this special issue to demonstrate how research is useful to practitioners, how it can improve working practices and stakeholders’ experiences in the industry, and what the academic community can do to better communicate their discoveries to the professional audience. Our goal is to facilitate a dialogue between researchers and practitioners that will enrich the industry and academia alike. Through this dialogue, we hope that further avenues for collaboration and community-building can be explored. Authors should consider AVT and accessibility practitioners as their primary audience when writing their article. This will be an academic, peer-reviewed publication, but we would like the texts to be accessible to non-academics and applicable to their professional experience. We welcome contributions from all areas of AVT and accessibility studies, including, but not limited to, interlingual translation (subtitling, dubbing, surtitling, interpreting, voice over, video game localisation) and media accessibility (SDH, audio description, respeaking). The range of potentially relevant themes is broad, and could include, for example: the reception and use/usability of audiovisual translations and access services.; translation and production processes; the potential value of other disciplines (e.g. media studies, psychology, sociology, ethnography) in AVT and accessibility; AVT and accessibility policy; technological tools, including machine translation; AVT and accessibility professionals’ workflow, working contexts and conditions; analyses of different textual, cultural, linguistic and communicative aspects of audiovisual translations and access services; collaborative practices; studies of norms and guidelines; quality in AVT and accessibility. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 16 November 2020 For more information, click here