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EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS APTIS Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, UK and Ireland 2nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE Newcastle University, 23–24 November 2019 APTIS 2019 - ‘INSIDE THE ACADEMY/OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY’ As the UK and Ireland’s Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, our ambition is to improve the quality of learning and teaching as well as research on translation and interpreting programmes at HE institutions. To achieve this ambition, we encourage scholarly research ‘inside the Academy’ while supporting current and future professionals ‘outside the Academy’ by providing a forum where academics, professional organisations and stakeholders can exchange best practice – across and beyond the Academy. Following the success of our 1st Annual Conference in Aston University in November 2018, our 2nd Annual Conference will act as a platform from which to enable translator and interpreter trainers, professionals and academics alike, to exchange ideas about the interaction and, sometimes, the tension between the academy and the world beyond (23-24 November 2019, Newcastle University). We would therefore like to invite proposals for papers, panels and hands-on workshops that look at the ways in which teaching and learning connects, or indeed, might connect, structures and concerns within the university setting with structures and concerns from outside that setting. Can we go beyond the dichotomy “Inside the Academy/Outside the Academy” in the UK and/or Irish contexts? Particular areas of interest include: • University/industry partnerships in training (e.g. industry trainers working with the Academy, or visits by academics to industry players to learn more about them); • Industry-inspired teaching in the classroom (e.g. how elements from the ‘outside’ feed into university teaching by helping create, for instance, simulated or life-like environments); • Relationships between university programmes (or lecturers or students) and the local language communities surrounding the university; • The potential impact of current ‘outside’ societal issues (which may include current debates on racism, sexism, (in)equality, etc.) on pedagogical approaches ‘inside’ the translation/interpreting classroom; • The transition from university programmes into careers (academic or non-academic) and how we support them before, during and after; • The transition back to university for students who spent time working in T&I outside the academy (free-lance experience, Year Abroad internship etc.); • Work placements or internship programmes as part of study; • Issues with recruiting etc. This conference is open to non-UK/Irish academics and proposals on general translator and interpreter training practices are welcome too. However, the main focus of the conference remains TIS teaching and training in the UK and Ireland; the scientific committee will take this into consideration when reviewing proposals. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ø Prof. Don Kiraly, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz: Ø Prof. Cecilia Wadensjö, Stockholm University PROPOSALS: APTIS invites proposals for 20-minute papers, 90-minute hands-on workshops and 2-hour panels for its 2nd Annual Conference. Proposals should be submitted via EasyChair. You should follow this link, create an account attach a document with the following information: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Title, author’s name and affiliation, email address, abstract (300 words max.), 5 keywords, author biodata (100 words max.), audio-visual requirements. PANEL PROPOSALS: Title of the panel, name of panel coordinator, e-mail and affiliation, and summary of panel. Title of all individual papers, name, e-mail and affiliation of all the members on the panel, summary (300 words max.), each author’s biodata (100 words max.) and audio-visual requirements. HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS: Title, presenter’s name and affiliation, email address, abstract (400-500 words approximately, including whether any previous working knowledge or experience is expected from participants in advance, if and when applicable), 5 keywords, presenter’s biodata (100 words max.), audiovisual and software requirements. DEADLINE: The deadline for sending proposals is Friday 21 June 2019. CONFERENCE FEES: Both days One day APTIS Members (1 delegate sent by member institution) FREE FREE APTIS Members (additional delegates affiliated to member institution) £65 £45 APTIS PG and PhD Students £30 £20 Non-APTIS Members £100 £65 Non-APTIS PG and PhD Students £60 £30 LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Dr JC Penet, Newcastle University Dr Yalta Chen, Newcastle University Dr Jade Du, Newcastle University Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney, Newcastle University Mr Dariush Robertson, Newcastle University Mrs Phoebe Yu, Newcastle University SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Dr JC Penet, Newcastle University Dr Olga Castro, Aston University Dr Maria Fernandez-Parra, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe Dr Erika Fulop, Lancaster University Dr Anne Stokes, University of Stirling Mrs Begoña Rodríguez de Céspedes, University of Portsmouth Dr Anna Strowe, University of Manchester FURTHER INFORMATION: For more information about APTIS’s 2nd Annual Conference, please email the organisers on aptis2019@newcastle.ac.uk or check our website for regular updates: https://www.aptis-translation-interpreting.org/ For more information on how an Irish or UK University can JOIN APTIS (annual institutional membership fee for Universities is currently set at £155 per annum) please contact directly: APTIS President Dr JC Penet (jc.penet@newcastle.ac.uk) or APTIS Secretary Dr Anne Stokes (anne.stokes@stir.ac.uk).

THE FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS, TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE 1-2 February 2020, Ahwaz, Iran The Fourth Annual International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature is organized by different universities and research centers. The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation. Academics and university lecturers are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian. The selective full papers of the conference will be published as the book of conference and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (however, the book of abstracts will be published too). Presentation Strands Academics and university lecturers are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian. The conference will be an opportunity for academics, university lecturers and researcher to share their latest research findings and to keep abreast of the most recent developments in the field. Researchers and scholars from around the world are invited to submit their papers to be evaluated for inclusion in the conference program. The abstracts will be evaluated by International Scientific Committee Members based on their originality, novelty, rigor and relevance to the conference theme. The accepted papers will be scheduled for oral or poster presentations. The selective full papers of the conference will be published as the book of conference and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (however, the book of abstracts will be published too). Absentee Presentation (in case you cannot travel) The conference organizing committee allows absentee presentation. The presenter has to send Power Point slides of his/her article to the Conference Secretariat no later than 31st December 2019 to issue the certificate of paper presentation (Please send Power Point slides of your article through info@pahi.ir). The certificates of presentation will be posted to absentee presenters after the conference. Types of Presentations Oral Presentations These are 15-minute presentations with 5 minutes for Q & A. Poster Presentations These presentations will run throughout the conference. Submission of Abstracts A 150-250 word abstract with a title not exceeding 15 words and 5 key words should be submitted no later than 30th November 2019. The abstract should be included in the registration form and submitted through email (info@pahi.ir). All abstracts will be evaluated based on relevance to the conference theme and originality of approach for possible acceptance as oral or poster presentations. Proposers will be informed within two weeks after submission of abstract whether their abstracts have been accepted. The Conference Secretariat reserves the right to decline abstracts without assigning reasons and to suggest for example that an abstract submitted for an oral presentation may be more suitable for poster presentation and vice-versa. Conference Proceedings In the case of publication, the book of abstracts will be published. In the case of publication of papers, the presenters are invited to submit their full papers by the end of December 2019. The selective full papers of the conference will be published as the book of conference and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (however, the book of abstracts will be published too). Registration Please read the following tips carefully before filling out the registration form. Absentee Presentation (in case you cannot travel) is possible. You need to mention while filling out the registration form. Presentation registration form should be submitted no later than 30th November 2019 to guarantee a place in the conference program (Please send it through info@pahi.ir). To download the form of paper presentation, click here. The participants who wish participate without any paper presentation, should submit the participation form no later than 30th November 2019 (Please send it through info@pahi.ir). To download the form of participation, click here. Co-authors who would like to attend the conference should register separately and pay the participation fee. Presenters/participants need to contact the Conference Secretariat for further information on how to pay the fees. For more information, visit http://llld.ir/en/

Special Issue of MonTI-CTS SPRING-CLEANING: A CRITICAL REFLECTIONEditors: María Calzada Pérez and Sara LaviosaThis special issue is intended to be a self-reflexive research work that looks back and forward upon corpusbased translation studies (CTS). This is not the first time such an endeavour has been carried out. The reason is quite obvious. It is always healthy and productive to assess and re-assess the state-of-the-art before we put forward new (un)desirable premonitions. And, with corpus-based studies, the future and the past merge at an incredibly fast speed. Similarly to other publications in the field (see, by way of example, Laviosa 1998; Laviosa 2002; Olohan 2004; Xiao 2010; Kruger et al. 2011), looking back brings us to, at least 1993, when Mona Baker officially envisaged a turning point in the history of the discipline:  I would like to argue that this turning point will come as a direct consequence of access to large corpora of both original and translated texts, and the development of specific methods and tools for interrogating such corpora in ways which are appropriate to the needs of translation scholars. (Baker 1993: 235) Baker was not the first person to undertake corpus-based research (see, for example, (Gellerstam 1986; Lindquist 1989), but she was undoubtedly the scholar who most forcefully predicted what the future had in store. And her premonitions were realized in virtually no time. Already in 1998, there was enough corpusbased work for Sara Laviosa to put forward possibly the most well-known compilation on the subject in a special issue for Meta. Journal des traducteurs. By 2004, corpus-based studies was, in Baker’s (Baker 2004: 169) own words “too much rather than too little to go on”. Indeed, research has grown exponentially from 1993 onwards, as all monographs testify, in the very aspects Baker had anticipated. Corpora became larger and larger; and then smaller and smaller (but more specialized). They are, as (Xiao & Yue 2009) show us, monolingual and multilingual; parallel, comparable, comparative; general and specialized; they adopt simple or complex configurations, as (Zanettin 2012) , reminds us when he talks about star- or diamond-shaped corpora. They are built upon multiple layers of parameters (cf. Laviosa 2012). Methods (and theoretical results) have also proliferated and have meant “new ways of looking at translation” (Kenny in Laviosa 2011: 13) . Drawing on Partington, Duguid, & Taylor (2013: 13) , these new perspectives can be said to derive from different forms of comparison. Thus, simple comparisons entail the analysis of two different subcorpora (like when Moropa 2011 studies a set of texts in English vis-à-vis their Xhosa translations); serial comparisons involve the contrastive analysis of corpus A and corpus B, and then corpus A and corpus C, and so on (like when, for instance, Bosseaux 2006 examines Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and two of its translations into French). Multiple comparisons occur when corpus A is set against a pool of subcorpora at once. Partington et al. (2013: 13) explain that “those studies which employ the BNC [British National Corpus] or the Bank of English [BoE] as a background or reference corpus are of this multiple-comparison type” (for example, when Kenny 2001 double-checks her GEPCOLT results against the BNC, she is performing multiple comparisons). Diachronic comparisons involve the exploration of translation-related corpus throughout time and are still, admittedly, rare (Calzada Perez 2017; Calzada Pérez 2018) however, does precisely this with her European Comparable and Parallel Corpus Archive, ENPC). All these comparative methods have been put at the service of notably descriptive and applied translation studies. The aim was to unveil regularities of various kinds (as Zanettin 2012, most aptly exemplifies): of translation, of translators, of languages, of learning behaviour, of interpreting protocols. Corpus tools have also beed devised at a frantic speed. There are all kinds of programs for each of the stages of compilation: web crawlers (some of which specialized in corpus building such as BootCaT), editing suites for a wide variety of formats (from txt raw corpora to xml marked up and annotated corpora); parsers, taggers and annotators (such as CLAWS, Tree Tagger, FreeLing; USAS); Corpus Management systems of very different types (like IMS Open Corpus Workbench, MODNLP; CQPWeb, SketchEngine; WMatrix); Concordancers (like AntConc, WordSmith Tools, TCA2, Glossa). There are also a wide variety of plugins generating all kinds of information for analysis: statistics, word lists, keyword lists, concordances, collocates, word clouds, word profiles, tree graphs. With such an exponential growth, some predictions have been fulfilled, others have been abandoned. Hence, we believe it is time we pause and reflect (critically) upon our research domain. And we want to do so in what we see is a relatively innovative way: by importing Taylor and Marchi 's (2018) spirit from corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) into CTS. Like them, we want to place our emphasis precisely on the faulty areas within our studies. We believe that, rather than hiding them under the carpet, we can learn valuable lessons from them. Thus, we aim to deal with the issues we have left undone; or those we have neglected. In short, and drawing on Taylor and Marchi’s (2008) work, we propose to devote this volume to revisiting our own partiality and cleaning some of our dustiest corners. Regarding partiality, Taylor and Marchi (2018: 8) argue that  Understandably, most people just get on with the task of doing their research rather than discussing what didn’t work and how they balanced it. However, this then means that any new comers to the area, or colleagues starting out on a new project, have to reinvent those checks and balances anew each time. Going back to our previous research, identifying some of its pitfalls, and having another goal at what did not work is a second chance we believe we deserve. Looking at objects of study from various viewpoints (out of new personal projects or joined efforts) may bring about a polyhedric multiplicity that we think will add up to what we already know. Plunging into (relatively) new practices, such as triangulation (see Malamatidou 2017), from our CTS springboard, may be one of the ways in which we can now contribute to going back to post-modernity; and do things differently. As to dusty corners (“both the neglected aspects of analysis and under-researched topics and text types” (Taylor and Marchi, 2018: 9), we share many of  those presented by Taylor and Marchi at the Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies Conference in 2018. In this way, we need further methods to identify (translated) absence; we could benefit from further protocols and tools to delve into similarities (as well as differences); we would do well to concentrate on voices that are still silent, non-dominant languages, non-named languages, multimodal texts, amongst many other concerns. The present CFP, then, is interested in theoretical, descriptive, applied and critical papers (from CTS and external fields) that make a contribution to tackling CTS partiality and dusty spots of any kind. We particularly (but not only) welcome papers including:• critical evaluation of one’s own work• awareness of (old/new) research design issues• use of new protocols and tools to examine corpora• identification of areas where accountability is required and methods to guarantee accountability• cases of triangulation of all kinds• studies of absences in originals and/or translations• studies of new voices, minoritised (and non-named) languages, multimodal texts, etc.• pro-active proposals to bring CTS forward Practical information and deadlinesPlease submit abstracts (in Catalan, English, Italian, and Spanish) of approximately 500 words, including  relevant references (not included in the word count), to both calzada@uji.es and saralaviosa@gmail.com.Abstract deadline: 1 November 2019Acceptance of proposals: 1 January 2020Submission of papers: 31 May 2020Acceptance of papers: 15 September 2020Submission of final versions of papers: 15 November 2020Publication: December 2020

The Centre for Translation Technology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong is calling for papers for the Conference “Translation Studies and the Digital Humanities” to be held during 9 - 11 December 2019. The deadline of abstract submission, 31 May 2019, is quickly approaching. For details, please refer to the poster below and the conference webpage at http://dh.tra.cuhk.edu.hk/. 

Out of the Wings Festival 2019, 30 July-3rd August, London Worldmaking on Stage and the Work of Theatre Translation Beyond the Stage 30th July 2019, King’s College London Call for Presenters Following the success of Worldmaking on Stage: Theatre Translation Research as Practice held as part of the 2018 Out of the Wings Festival, Out of the Wings is once again coming together with Language Acts and Worldmaking and Translation Studies@Goldsmiths, University of London to offer a one-day discussion forum aimed at practitioners and researchers. Taking place on the opening day of the Out of the Wings Festival, 30 July - 3rd August 2019, the forum sets the scene for a week of play readings from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain, presented in English translation every evening at Omnibus Theatre. At the forum, we will bring together practitioners and researchers - actors, directors, producers, literary managers, commissioning editors, dramaturges, writers, translators, research students, theatre translation trainers, theatre translation lecturers, and academics - to engage with ideas on staging, teaching, and researching translated theatre. We will explore questions about the work of theatre translation beyond the stage. How can theatre translation techniques be used productively in other sectors? How do we teach creativity to theatre translation trainees and students? Are there approaches to translating for the stage that can be transferred across disciplines? Animated by these questions, panels of presenters will focus on broad themes of creativity in theatre translation practice and translation pedagogy. Informal networking sessions will support interaction between participants and presenters and encourage new partnerships. We invite short proposals for ten-minute provocations engaging with any of the following topic areas: Opportunities for sharing theatre translation practice across sectors e.g. therapeutic interventions and therapeutic practiceCreating spaces for sharing translations in the form of readings and performancesSetting up fruitful collaborationsWays of working inside and outside of universities to reach a range of audiencesChallenges and opportunities for creative translation in university programmes Please send both your proposal (200 words) and a brief bio (100 words) by email to: Dr Sophie Stevens, Language Acts and Worldmaking (sophie.stevens@kcl.ac.uk) and Dr Sarah Maitland, Translation Studies@Goldsmiths, University of London (s.maitland@gold.ac.uk). The deadline for receipt of proposals is Thursday 23 May 2019 at 17.00 UK time.

Call for Papers The Department of English Language and Literature at Sultan Qaboos University is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation: Exploring Cultural Intersections, to be held February 6 – 8, 2020 in Muscat, Oman at the Sultanate’spremier university.The conference will focus on the dynamics of culture and its representations in the fields of Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation. It aims to emphasize cultural intersections and explore ways in which such intersections could be conceptualized, critiqued or disrupted and ultimately reconstructed. We invite contributions on the theoretical and analytical frameworks that examine cultural intersections, as well as those which explore the practical and pedagogical implications of such intersections. Publication Opportunities As in previous conferences of the Department of English Language and Literature, an edited volume will be published, along with conference proceedings. Accepted presenters must submit their full papers by January 1, 2020 to be considered for publication. Further details will be provided at a later date. Conference Themes The themes of the conference include but are not limited to Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation. We encourage a broad interpretation of the central theme of Cultural Intersections in Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation. GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION * Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. * Please mention whether your abstract is part of a panel or an individual presentation. * Please click here to submit your abstract (sign up to view the link.) THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS JUNE 30, 2019 * All submissions will be acknowledged. * Accepted presenters will be notified by July 31, 2019. For more information, or to submit an abstcat, contact Dr. Sandhya Rao Mehta, Department of English, Sultan Qaboos University at omanconf2020@squ.edu.om    

7-8 October 2019​, Aga Khan Centre, London The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation studies for a two-day conference on translations of legal discourse in Arabic-speaking contexts. What is the impact of translation on the diffusion of legal concepts between domains of discourse? Does the translation of legal terminology modify the perception of the corresponding legal phenomena in observable and applied ways? How are words translated from legal discourse into everyday discourse, and does translation happen in the other direction? We welcome papers examining translation in the broad senses of mediation, transposition and modification, where at least one of the languages is Arabic in any of its varieties and registers, as used in law-making and law-enforcing contexts, or in popular representations of the law. The papers need not be limited to a specific time period or geographical region; for instance, we will accept papers of demonstrable quality that conduct conversation analysis of legal hearings, as well as intertextual analysis of historical lawbooks, or papers that ethnographically examine understandings of the law in Arabic-speaking countries, as well as study the sociology of translation in state offices handling asylum applications from Arab refugees. Our goal is to set up a framework for exploring the effects of the moment of translation on how law is applied and understood in Arabic and/or by Arabic speakers. Please send abstracts of 500 words (excluding bibliography) to ismc.governance@aku.edu by 31 May 2019. Notifications of acceptance decisions will be sent out by 30 June 2019. A limited fund to support scholars who do not have access to institutional funding will be available to cover travel and accommodation costs. Please indicate if you need this financial support when applying. Organiser This conference is organised by AKU-ISMC's Governance Programme. The Governance Programme’s annual workshops and conferences on a range of themes explore how Muslim societies develop political systems that promote public welfare, achieve popular legitimacy and recognise minority rights in a time marked by heated debates over tradition, religion and modernity. Confirmed Keynote Speakers Prof Myriam Salama-Carr, University of Manchester. Prof Baudouin Dupret, Sciences Po Bordeaux. Prof Roberta Aluffi, University of Turin. Dr Neveen Al Saeed, Ain Shams University, Cairo. Time and Venue 7-8 October 2019 Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN Booking Free registration to attend will open on 1 July 2019.

Founded in 1997, the Journal of Translation Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed bilingual journal (English and Chinese) devoted to all aspects of translation studies. While the journal has a special focus on the history, theory and practice of Chinese-English, English-Chinese translation, it also publishes highquality articles on research regarding other language combinations and/or general theoretical aspects of translation. In 2017, the journal launched a new series under the joint editorship of Professors Lawrence Wang-chi Wong and James St. André, both from the Department of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The journal has two numbers per year, one in June, the other in December. Four issues in the new series have been published to date, with the fifth due out in June 2019. The journal accepts submission of original research articles of up to 15,000 words (English) or 20,000 characters (Chinese). For details regarding how to submit an article, please visit our departmental website (traserver.tra.cuhk.edu.hk) and under “publications” download the “notice to contributors.” The journal also publishes book reviews, although normally these are by invitation. If you are interested in contributing a book review, please contact the review editor, Professor Duncan Poupard. The Journal of Translation Studies is a joint publication of the Department of Translation of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University Press. E‐mail: jts.tra@cuhk.edu.hk Website: traserver.tra.cuhk.edu.hk  

An international conference hosted by theCentre for Translation and the Translation Programme,Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In collaboration with theGenealogies of Knowledge Project, University of Manchester, UK 7-9 April 2020   This conference builds on and extends the theme of Genealogies of Knowledge I, which was held in Manchester in December 2017 and focused on the role of translation in the production and circulation of political, scientific and other key concepts in social life across time and space. Hosted by the Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University, Genealogies of Knowledge II will continue to explore how (re)translation, rewriting and other forms of mediation participate in the production and contestation of knowledge and how they renegotiate and/or transform the meaning of key concepts and values at specific historical junctures. This concluding event of the Genealogies of Knowledge project will further seek to widen the platform for enquiry into processes of knowledge construction and circulation by examining how criteria for the recognition and validation of ideas, sources of knowledge, theories and research methods have shifted across cultural spaces, within and across disciplines, and the contribution of translation to effecting such shifts. Abstracts of 300-500 words should be sent by 30 April 2019 to: Mona Baker (Mona.Baker@manchester.ac.uk), Luis Pérez-González (Luis.Perez-gonzalez@manchester.ac.uk) and Stephen Todd (Stephen.Todd@manchester.ac.uk). Notification of acceptance will be given by 30 June 2019. Panel proposals should be submitted by 31 May 2019 to Mona Baker (Mona.Baker@manchester.ac.uk), Luis Pérez-González (Luis.Perez-gonzalez@manchester.ac.uk) and Stephen Todd (Stephen.Todd@manchester.ac.uk). Panel proposals should consist of: proposed title of panel a short outline of the panel/theme (150-200 words) name, affiliation and brief resumé of the panel convener list of presenters (if known) Panels should consist of 3 papers of 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion each. Multiple panels on the same theme will also be considered. Notification of acceptance will be given by 30 June 2019.   Important Dates Deadline for Submission of Abstracts for Individual Presentations: 30 April 2019 Deadline for Submission of Panel Proposals: 31 May 2019 Notification of acceptance for Individual Presentations: 30 June 2019 Notification of acceptance for Panel Proposals: 30 June 2019   Full details: http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/gokconf2020/  

26-27 September 2019 55.003 - main floor Building 55. Tànger Departament of Translation and Language Sciences Campus del Poblenou - Universitat Pompeu Fabra On the 26th and 27th September 2019, the annual meeting of the PhD students participating in the Franco-German PhD College “Collocations and Discourse Traditions” (2016-2019) will take place at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. The meeting is organised by the network’s three partner universities: University of Potsdam (Germany), Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (France) and Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). The meeting takes the form of a workshop and offers a platform for presenting on-going PhD theses in the field of linguistics and related disciplines. It is also an opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences and bring together students from different countries and universities in order to strengthen cooperation and international exchange. The topic of the workshop continues the research issues discussed in former meetings. Primarily, it focuses on the development of collocations in the framework of certain discourse traditions and the introduction of the latter by means of translation. In addition, the modification of collocations may indicate a change of the established discourse traditions. The research in the network favours approaches relying on text linguistics, discourse analysis and variational linguistics, both from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The main emphasis is placed on the description and frequency of collocations in a corpus-driven approach. Other lines of research are connected to foreign language linguistics and didactics. The annual workshop centres on studying discourse traditions from intra-linguistic, cross-linguistic and translational points of view. It is open to PhD projects comparing collocations and discourse traditions between several European languages, in different text types and discourse genres. The workshop takes place within the framework of the Franco-German PhD Network “Collocations and Discourse Traditions” (2016-2019, DFDK/CDFA 04-10), funded by the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule – Université Franco-Allemande of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). We invite contributions on applied and theoretical topics, including but by no means limited to: The concept of discourse traditions from linguistic and translational perspectives,Establishment of discourse traditions through translation, Comparison and development of the theoretical description of collocations,Multi-word units (phraseological units), lexicalisation and grammaticalisation,Types of collocations and their presence in different text types and discourse genres, Delimitation between syntagmas, collocations, compounds, etc., and possible transition zones, Intra-linguistic description of the development of collocations over time and in various discourse genres,Cross-linguistic studies on the differences between typical combinations of words and the creation or transmission of collocations,Translational approaches to discourse traditions and studies of collocations in translation. Papers presentation The languages of the workshop are German, Spanish, French and English. In order to facilitate comprehension and discussion, we suggest that participants that wish to do their presentations in French, German or Spanish should provide slides in English. The lenght of presentations should not exceed 20 minutes each, in order to leave sufficient time for discussion of the contributions (10 minutes). Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding figures and references) and via the "Abstract submission" and by which you will also register to the workshop. The submission deadline is 30 June 2019 and acceptance or rejection will be communicated by 28 July 2019.

The rapid increase of involvement of translation and interpreting in almost all domains of government and institutional activities has highlighted the need for a better understanding of their socio-cultural and ideological relevance. This forum will continue to explore the theme of previous discussions pursued in the Symposium on Critical Translation Studies (Shanghai, Jan 2019) and the Special Issue of The Translator 13(2) on‘Translation and Identity’but will be more focused on identity and representation in translation and interpreting within the Chinese context. Under the theme of identity and representation in translation and interpreting, relevant presentations are called for on topics such as the following: 1) What are represented in translation and interpreting? 2) How are they represented in translation and interpreting? 3) Representation and identity in political discourse, in news discourse, in literary texts, etc. 4) Linguistic, discoursal and literary analysis of representation and identity 5) How is the identity of translators and interpreters represented socially and culturally? We welcome particularly those presentations linking up ideological interpretation and explanation with linguistic, textual and discoursal analysis. Invited keynote speakers: Jeremy Munday, Professor of translation studies, University of Leeds Binhua Wang, Professor of interpreting and translation studies, University of Leeds Kaibao Hu, Professor of translation studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Key dates: Abstract submission deadline: 10 May 2019 Notice of acceptance: 31 May 2019 Conference date: 22 Jun 2019 - 23 Jun 2019 Abstract submission: Abstracts for twenty-minute presentations or panel discussions can be submitted to ctssjtu@163.com

We are pleased to make a call for submissions to the First Crisis MT Workshop, which will be held on Tuesday, 20th August, 2019 at the MT Summit 2019 Conference in Dublin City University. Workshop Context Timely and accurate information is known to save lives in crisis or disaster settings (Fischer 2008), and is now considered to be a human right (Greenwood et al. 2017; O’Brien et al. 2018). Crises (broadly understood) are known to have cascading effects (Pescaroli and Alexander 2015), to be transboundary, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic. However, the role of translation as an enabler for crisis communication, in all stages of a crisis (preparedness, resilience building, response, recovery) is rarely considered, and the role of technologies such as machine translation, to aid multilingual crisis communication has received even less attention. Some exceptions to this were the work of Lewis (2010) and Lewis et al (2011) in response to the Haiti earthquake and the work of Translators without Borders (Zetsche 2017). More recently, researchers in the EU-funded INTERACT project have been tackling various aspects of this issue by testing pivoting techniques for MT (Liu et al 2018; Silva et al 2018), creating “How to” course content for citizen translators and post-editors, and considering and commenting on the ethical dimension of translation and translation technology in crisis response. MT for crisis settings brings with it a considerable number of challenges, such as data sparsity, translating between “unusual”, or low-resource, language pairs, for languages that have sometimes never been heard of in the commercial world of MT, with very little time, potentially no power or internet connections, and with potentially negative consequences if the output is inaccurate. The proposed workshop seeks to address the many challenges of crisis MT and is open to all researchers interested in this topic, from areas such as NLP, translation studies, disaster and humanitarian response. Call for Extended Abstracts We call for extended abstracts (400–500 words). Abstracts must follow the structure below: 1. Title of talk; name and affiliation of contributors 2. Topic covered (from list below or additional topics) 3. Problem statement (what is the issue being tackled in the proposed talk?) 4. Design/method/approach (how did you investigate the topic?) 5. Findings (what findings do you propose to present?) 6. Contribution (what is the contribution to the field of crisis MT? Note that there has to be clear and direct applicability to the topic) Topics can include, but are not limited to: Machine translation for low-resource languages that may be needed in crisis, emergency or disaster settings, including topics such as:Data curation for “readiness” or “preparedness” for disasters; Challenges of rapid response MT engine creation and how these might be tackled;Data sparsity challenges and how they can be overcome, e.g. domain tuning, pivoting, hybrid approaches, artificial data, back translated data etc.;Evaluation challenges;MT for mobile devices, including feature phones;MT for offline use;Multimodal MT and how this might be of benefit to crisis settings; Quality estimation or other techniques for triaging MT output in high-risk settings; Quality assessment and quality assurance for MT in crisis settings;Ethical challenges of using MT and related technologies for timely and accurate crisis communication and how these might be overcome or tempered;Genres of texts and communication that are included in crisis settings and the various challenges they introduce for MT (e.g. non-standardised writing systems, “textspeak”, typos, use of emoticons in text, cross-domain communication including medical, technical and general communication etc.);MT for social media content in crisis settings;Text to speech and vice versa with MT in the loop for crisis response;Terminologies and their management and use in crisis translation settings;Citizen post-editing;Training for MT usage in crisis settings;Related translation technologies and their usefulness for crisis response (e.g. translation memory, terminology tools);Simplification of crisis communication content and whether this has any impact on MT output;Authorship, copyright and licensing of data needed to build crisis MT systems;Best use of web-crawled monolingual, and parallel/comparable data for crisis MT systems. Important Dates Friday, 03rd May 2019: Submission deadline for extended abstracts (400-500 words)Friday, 31st May 2019: NotificationTuesday, 20th August 2019: Workshop Workshop Format This will be a full-day workshop composed of a keynote address (tbc), accepted oral presentations, and an interactive, participative “think-in” on how the challenges raised might be tackled in the future. All participants should be willing to fully engage in the interactive session. Submission Instructions Submit your 400-500 word abstract in PDF format to the following email address by 12 midnight GMT on 03 May: crisismtworkshop2019@gmail.com Please ensure that the abstract is structured using the headings listed above.