Calls for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on Translation under DictatorshipsSubmissions are invited for a special issue of the electronic journal, Translation Matters, on the subject of Translation under Dictatorships, and seeks to attract specialists who will make a serious contribution to scholarship in the field.While it is expected that many of the submissions will be concerned with translation under the Portuguese Estado Novo, the Call is by no means restricted to this reality. We are also interested in general or theoretical reflections about translation under censorship conditions, as well as individual case studies from different geographical and temporal contexts.Articles, in English or in Portuguese, should be 6000-8000 words in length, including references and footnotes, and be formatted in accordance with the guidelines given on the journal’s website. Papers should be uploaded onto the site by 28th February 2020. http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/tm/user.

The International Conference on Field Research on Translation and Interpreting: Practices, Processes, Networks (FIRE-TI) will be held at the Centre for Translation Studies in Vienna from 18 to 20 February 2021. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers who study translation and interpreting (T&I) practices, processes or networks in situ using a variety of different (inter)disciplinary approaches, e. g. from sociological, cognitive, anthropological or ergonomic perspectives. The primary objective thereby is to create a common reflection space for T&I field and workplace research where experts can share insights into the diversity and complexity of translation and interpreting practices. In doing so, the conference also seeks to bring to the fore those particular aspects that are hard to reconstruct through product analyses or in a laboratory setting. Further information can be found on the conference website: https://fireti.univie.ac.at/  Call for Papers: https://fireti.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/k-fireti/Call_for_Papers_FIRE-TI_2021.pdf Submissions of papers by 12 July 2020

It is our belief that the broadening of the notion of text has largely come about thanks to contributions from semiotic studies, according to a movement that has brought translation studies closer to semiotics. The relevancy of general sign studies to translation theory and practice has helped translation studies to move away from the verbo-centric dogmatism of the sixties and seventies when only systems ruled by double articulation were recognized the dignity of language (Eco, 1976). As Torop (2014) argues, “text is what we understand in culture and it is through the text that we understand something of culture”. Thanks to our primary modelling system or language (“language as modelling” which conditions communication and translation through the great multiplicity of different verbal and nonverbal “languages” with which human beings enter into contact with each other, signify, interpret, and respond to each other), understanding in culture occurs through texts of the semiotic order, verbal and nonverbal texts, multimodal texts, in the unending chain of responses among texts, engendered in the relation among speakers and listeners, readers and writers. Texts are created, interpreted and re-created in dialogic relations among participants in communication. Their sense and meaning is modeled, developed and amplified through the processes of transmutation ensuing from and at once promoting the cultural spaces of encounter. Torop (2014) argues that the text is located in a wide intersemiotic space, and that the analysis of a text demands investigation of its creation, construction, and reception: the text is a process in intersemiotic space. If we accept Marais’ (2018) argument that all socio-cultural phenomena have a translation dimension, it is difficult to disagree with Gentzler’s (2001) observation that translation theory can quickly enmesh the researcher in the entire intersemiotic network of language and culture, one touching on all disciplines and discourses. Nor could it be otherwise if we consider that the material of language and culture is sign material and that the sign as such is in translation. This means to say that to be this sign here the sign must be other, to be this text here the text must be other. The signifying specificity of a text develops in translational processes among signs and interpretants, utterers and listeners, writers and readers, across semiosic spheres and disciplines, across intersemiotic, or transemiotic spaces in the signifying universe, verbal and nonverbal. The notion of text has evolved significantly thanks to contributions not only from the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics but also from the French School, with important implications for the question of translatability, a fundamental property and specific characteristic of all semiotic systems – as stated, the “sign is in translation”. It ensues that translatability subtends the semantic process (Greimas & Courtés 1993), and with Charles Morris (1938) interpreted by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (1954, 1975, 1992), we know that meaning not only concerns the semantic dimension of semiosis, but also the syntactical and the pragmatic dimensions. With reference to interlingual translation, as Petrilli (2003) claims, translatability indicates an open relation between a text in the original and its translation. In this volume of Punctum, we will investigate this open relation. Contributions (case studies or theoretical articles) are welcome in one or more of the axes below: • intersemiotic translation, translation by illustration • adaptation, transposition, transduction, recreation • intericonicity in intersemiotic and in art studies • translation in auto-communication, cognition and perception • multimodal and intermedial translation • cultural translation, anthropological translation • (bio)semiotic approaches Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 300 words by mail to the guest editors, Drs. Evangelos Kourdis (ekourdis@frl.auth.gr) and Susan Petrilli (susan.petrilli@gmail.com), including their affiliation and contact information. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all research articles will be subjected to the journal’s double peer review process. Timeline:Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2019Notification of acceptance of the abstract: January 15, 2020Deadline for submission of full papers: April 30, 2020Reviewers’ report: June 15, 2020Final revised papers due: July 15, 2020Publication: Volume 6, Number 1 (July 2020)

Artists study the reality they are surrounded by, people they live among, themselves, their instruments of work and how these areas are interconnected. Their work addresses complex issues, establishing dynamic relationships to a whole variety of other disciplines, from philosophy to new technologies. Their creative activity generates knowledge that could not be gained otherwise. Artistic knowledge is acquired through sensory and emotional perception and is practice-based, practice-driven, ‘felt’, ‘embodied’. It crosses the borders of different countries, languages, cultures, disciplines. Many artistic research projects are genuinely multicultural and interdisciplinary. Yet artists still often have to justify the idea that their practice is research. Academic research too has become increasingly inter- and multidisciplinary. Cultural Literacy [CL] is the ability to think in literary ways about any topic or question, using the key concepts of textuality, fictionality, rhetoricity and historicity (see http://cleurope.eu/about/key-concepts/). How can the creative arts and CL come together to think about the contemporary world? This Symposium is designed to generate active discussion, focusing on thinking and talking rather than formal presentations. If your proposal is accepted, it will be included in a ‘book of presentations’ that all participants will be asked to read in advance of the Symposium. The contributions will be grouped together into parallel break-out sessions of 90 minutes during which each presenter will briefly summarise their points and the subsequent discussion will aim to explore the key theme of the panel. Deadline for submissions: 29 November 2019 For further details, click here

ATISA X: Translation, Interpreting and movement(s). Biennial Conference of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association University of California, Santa Barbara / April 24-26, 2020 Keynote Speakers: Moira Inghilleri (UMass - Amherst) and Douglas Robinson (Hong Kong Baptist University) The idea of movement is embedded in the very word translation. Acts of translation and interpreting involve ontological, physical, exegetical and epistemological movements that define both process and product. Translators and interpreters are themselves bodies in movement, travelling across languages and cultures and physically enacting the translation and interpreting process. And so, as we move further into the cyber era, what effect might this have on the translator’s body and the movement of translated texts? At the same time, the physical movement of peoples – in 2017 there were more displaced persons (refugees, asylum seekers and the internally displaced persons) than ever in history (UNHCR, 2018) – has produced a sharp increase in demand for translation and interpreting services. How is our understanding of the role and ethics of translation and interpreting affected by the conditions behind this unprecedented movement of peoples: migration, war and conflict, along with the rise of autocratic regimes and illiberal democracies? Also relevant here is the role and nature of translation and interpreting in various political and social movements. Moreover, the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies itself has been full of movements – shifts in perspectives, theories, space and place, and power. A field whose flux has often been presented as unproblematically linear and diachronic is now being challenged within more heterogeneous, transnational and rhizomatic paradigms. In addition, translation and interpreting, once banished from the language learning classroom, have been repositioning themselves as potentially effective language learning activities and as a way to teach learners about the nature of language. Call for papers deadline: 1 November 2019 For more information, click here

KäTu2020: Translation and Interpreting: Focusing on Quality University of Helsinki, 17–18 April 2020 The annual KäTu symposia offer researchers, teachers and practitioners of translation and interpreting a forum where they can discuss the diverse phenomena of the field, their ongoing research projects, and the state and development of Translation Studies in general. Doctoral students, in particular, are an important KäTu target group. They are offered the opportunity to present their work in its different stages of development, and receive valuable feedback. For seventeen years, the KäTu symposia have brought together a wide array of participants interested in the field and its research: audience members and speakers, translators and interpreters of spoken as well as sign languages, researchers and teachers of translation and interpreting. The KäTu symposia are organised as a collaborative effort between the Teachers’ and Researchers’ Section of the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters (SKTL), and the different Finnish universities which train future translators and interpreters. Hosting the symposium is rotated between these Finnish universities. The 2020 symposium will be held at the University of Helsinki, which is proud to be organising and hosting the event for the fourth time. Proposals for workshops and thematic sessions should be submitted no later than Friday 15th November 2019. Suggestions for thematic sessions must include the titles of the presentations to be included as part of those sessions. Proposals for session presentations and posters must be submitted no later than Friday 17th January 2020. For more information, click here

When: 23–24 January 2020 Where: Cardiff University (Wales, UK) This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the mobility of comics and graphic novels along three axes: time, space, and media. Mobility is understood to include all processes of transformation undergone by comics in their jour­ney across history (time), cultural and linguistic bound­aries (space), and different forms of artistic expression (media). These three axes of comics’ mobility are often inter­con­nected but have so far mostly been explored in isolation and from the perspective of a single dis­cipline or language. The opportunities and challenges of comics’ translation into different languages, and their adaptation especially from/into narrative prose and film, have received increasing attention in recent years. Comics’ travel through time has not been explored with the same frequency and analytical depth. Here, aspects such as the different textual and paratextual environments in antholo­gies and re-editions, changes to the artwork, and practices of re-drawing deserve closer attention. Keynote speakers Prof Jan Baetens (KU Leuven) Prof Federico Zanettin (Università degli Studi di Perugia) Panel 1: Transformation: Comics Mobility Across Time Panel 2: Translation: Comics Mobility Across Space Panel 3: Adaptation: Comics Mobility Across Artistic Media We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers that explore any of the dimensions of comics’ mobility outlined above. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long (excluding references). Please send your abstracts (in English) to Dr Tilmann Altenberg at: AltenbergTG@cardiff.ac.uk by 30 November 2019. Notifications will be sent out no later than 13 December 2019. The conference is supported by the Institute of Modern Languages Research (London).

In recent years, comic studies have experienced a remarkable boost in Spain. This has been motivated by the recognition of their value as cultural artifacts, as means of artistic expression, and as sources of study in their own right. As a consequence, an increasing number of conferences, seminars and courses approaching this medium are being held. The International Conference Comics in Dialogue / Conversaciones en torno al comics tries to be a space for dialogue in which Spanish and foreign creators occupy a prominent position in round tables, keynote speeches, interviews and tributes. At the same time, it aims at becoming a meeting point for researchers of different areas (literary and cultural studies, comparative literature, art history, communication, translation studies, history, education, gender studies...) working on comic studies. The Conference is organized around the thematic areas described below. Conference languages are English, French, and Spanish. Deadline for reception of abstracts is 31 Oct. 2019 For more information, click here

Call for papers The Department of Translation Studies of the School of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is pleased to announce the 7th Meeting of Greek-speaking Translation Studies Scholars to be held in Thessaloniki, on 29 and 30 May 2020, in collaboration with the Hellenic Society for Translation Studies. The purpose of the meeting is to bring Greek-speaking scholars and researchers active in the field of Translation Studies together, in an attempt to contribute to the promotion of this rapidly growing research field in Greece. In Greece and Cyprus, the field of Translation Studies is constantly evolving and the number of academic books and articles related to the field of Translation Studies has increased. Additionally, there is a systematic effort to make the profession of the translator visible, as well as to highlight the need to reconsider its practice. However, there are a lot of issues to be solved and questions to be answered regarding Translation Studies in Greece; the status of Greek academic language in an age of increasing pressure to publish in foreign languages, the recognition of the field by services and institutions, quality assessment criteria regarding academic production in Greece, as well as its position in the international community. This is a list of questions related to the recently established Greek-speaking Translation Studies field along with other complex ones that the international community attempts to answer. For example, there has recently been a turn towards more complex analyses of translation. Moreover, the interdisciplinary nature of the field of Translation Studies is now widely accepted and this has led to a fruitful convergence among scholars. At the same time, the friction caused by globalization and digitalism has seen both the practice of translation and the academic field move in new directions. We invite scholars, researchers and professional translators to submit abstracts related to either theoretical and methodological issues or topics dealing with the practice of Translation and Translatology. Taking into consideration the changes that have occurred in the field, the following topics are suggested for discussion: Translation, language, society, and culture Translation in crisis situtuations Τranslations flow within and outside Europe Comparative approaches: New perspectives Multilingualism and translation in digital communication Technological development and translation technology Literary translation and World Literature Models of translation teaching New conditions in professional practice Translation, politics, and ideology in the 21st century Establishing and operating the Translation Studies field Terms, conditions, problems, and prospects of translation-related research in Greece, Cyprus and all the Greek-speaking translation studies field Interdisciplinary approaches to translationSemiotic and intersemiotic approaches to translation Voluntary and non-professional translation Translation, bilingualism and the construction of a hybrid identity Current translation concepts Facets of Interpreting: social and judiciary interpreting, conference interpreting etc. Genres and their translation: from children’s literature to comicsInterlingual translation This year we are delighted to welcome the following scholars as invited speakers: Nicolas Froeliger, Professor, University Denis-Diderot (Paris 7) Panagiotis Kelandrias, Professor, Ionian University Those interested in presenting a paper are kindly requested to submit their abstracts (maximum 300 words) by January 31, 2020. Abstracts should be sent in electronic form only and in two files, according to the submission guidelines below, to the following e-mail address: metafrasi@frl.auth.gr * Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 2020. Web page of the meeting http://echo.frl.auth.gr/7th_trad_congress Mail metafrasi@frl.auth.gr

Translating the Neighbourhood: Migration, dialogue and spaces of translation in the 21st century National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) 28-29 May, 2020 This conference is specifically preoccupied with translation in society and beyond the text: translation as the managing of difference, a tool for inclusion or exclusion within the context of the contemporary urban space. As a multi-disciplinary, multi-media event, the conference intends to explore the different instances where people perform translation on the social stage in response to the many challenges and stimuli of 21st century globalization. Some of these translations are performed by professionals, some by non-professionals; some are intended to impact policy or contribute to a public debate, while others may last the short space of an oral exchange. Call for papers deadline: January 10, 2020 For more information, click here

The Łódź session of the Duo Colloquium will be held from 28-30 May 2020 at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Łódź, 171/173 Pomorska Street, 90-236 Łódź, Poland. The follow-up event at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, will take place from 3-5 September 2020. A separate call for the ZHAW session will be issued early in 2020. In line with the previous sessions held in Łódź, the 2020 Łódź session will be geared towards theory and will deal with theoretical aspects of the central theme of the Duo Colloquium and the sub-themes suggested for it. The ZHAW session will have a more applied orientation. This year’s central theme is Contextuality in Translation and Interpreting. Contextuality can be understood at any level, from the geopolitical to the textual, and embraces both academic and professional considerations of translational and interpreting phenomena. The conference sub-themes are focussed on context(s) and/or decontextualisation in translation and interpreting theory and practice. They embrace both academic and professional considerations of meaning in translation and interpreting from a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. The deadline for submission of abstracts for the Łódź session is 15 February 2020. Notification of acceptance will be emailed to participants by 15 March 2020. For more information, click here

Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants, immigrants and refugees. It has a direct impact on the experiences and choices of individuals displaced by war, terror, or natural disasters and the decisions made by agents who provide (or fail to provide) relief, services, and status. Distilled through memory, it shapes the fictions, poems, memoirs, films and song lyrics in which migrants render loss and displacement, integration and discovery, the translation of history and culture, and the trials of identity. This interdisciplinary, international symposium on Language and Migration will examine the role of language in the lives and works of migrants. Part One (Thursday 7 May to Friday 8 May, New York) will consider how language affects the experiences of permanently or temporarily settled refugees and migrants, those in transit, and the larger population around them. Such groups vary by age and gender, literacy and educational attainment, culture and religion, and the political, economic and cultural contexts in which they seek to settle. They suffer from language problems, loss of language, and linguistic abuse – and their host populations are often linguistically unready to receive them, to attend to their basic needs, or to educate their children. Such linguistic problems are a major challenge to the agencies and NGOs involved. Part Two (Friday 8 May to Saturday 9 May, Princeton University) will focus on memory in the cultural work of migrants and immigrants. On Friday evening the symposium will resume with a reading by eminent faculty novelists, followed on Saturday by a keynote address and a full-day session on memory, language, and migration. We particularly welcome papers addressing the literature, psychology, and ethnography of migration. To foster conversation across disciplinary borders, participants are strongly urged to attend both parts of the symposium. Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2019 For more information, click here