Calls for papers

National identity is one of the values that has preserved its significance throughout the ages despite the political and social transformations occurring in the world nowadays, as well as current changes witnessed in societies at large. With our theme of National Identity in Translation we wish to draw attention to the central position that national identity occupies in societies, as well as to the manners in which it is approached in translation in this rapidly changing and diversifying world. The main aim of the conference is to provide a platform for fruitful dialogue on the broad spectrum of issues pertaining to the concept of national identity in translation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the complex nature of the relationship between translation and identity in various cultural environments. Therefore, we invite specialists in the areas of literature, linguistics, translation studies, as well as cultural studies to participate in the event. We are open to a wide range of approaches and would welcome researchers specializing in various types of discourse - from literary, historical, social and political discourse, to specialist, professional, audiovisual and other. The conference is going to address a number of issues, including, but not limited to the following: national identity as expressed in translation national traditions in translation national memory in translation censorship in translation cultural elements in translation cultural adaptation in translation translation of humour national stereotypes and translation cultural reception of translation challenges of translating the so far untranslated works recommendations regarding the texts to be translated in the future   It is our sincere hope that the conference will provide an opportunity to examine the current position of research in the field, reflect on the findings, as well as share inspirations and methodological approaches with a view to shaping the path of the future development for the broad area of Translation Studies. Presentations The standard length for presentations will be 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion).There will also be a possibility to present posters. The languages of the conference are English, Polish and Ukrainian. For publication, though, all articles must be submitted in English. Papers Participants are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations or posters. Abstracts of maximum 300 words should be submitted by 15.05.2018, pasted into the registration form. Participants will be notified of acceptance by 31.05.2018. English versions of the articles intended for publication shall be submitted by 31.12.2018. Papers accepted for publication are planned to appear in a peer-reviewed volume published by Peter Lang.   Further details: http://www.natid.ur.edu.pl/index.html

Research on translation in legal and institutional settings is thriving and has considerably enriched the understanding of formal features, translation processes and functions of translations. This growth of knowledge has been achieved by translators, legal practitioners, social workers, officials as well as scholars interested in the enormous potential offered by this ancient, widespread and yet under-researched intellectual activity (Glanert 2014). Mainstream translation studies is opening up to issues such as the design of specific translation methods for legal and institutional literature, the translation of multilingual texts, and interdisciplinarity in legal translation (Prieto Ramos 2014). Conversely, governance studies focus on regulatory functions assigned to institutional translation (Kang 2014; Koskinen 2014; Schäffner et al. 2014), and the relations between translation and multilingualism. Legal studies as well as sociology and political philosophy have become strongly interested in translation as a carrier of legal concepts and systems across national borders, and as a token of linguistic justice (Van Parijs 2011), especially with regard to minority language groups (Branchadell 2005). The aim of this conference is twofold. Firstly, it wishes to document the state of affairs of the expanding and interdisciplinary field of legal and institutional translation, by approaching the latter through the lens of ‘translation policy’. This umbrella concept, as derived from Spolsky’s view on language policy (Gonzalez Nuñez 2016), embraces many features of translational communication: rules, agency, practices and values. In addition, it enables framing of translation across the separate disciplines’ realm, and so becomes a binding factor between the study of forms and techniques, multilingual and transnational translation forms, issues of governance and linguistic justice. Taking stock of translation policy as applied to legal and institutional translation needs accounting for historical (Wolf 2015; Schreiber & D’hulst 2017) as well as contemporary ones, theoretical as well as applied approaches (Gonzalez Nuñez & Meylaerts 2017). Historical insight gained by case studies should offer a basis for comparison, and advance the understanding of the embedding contexts and societal impact of translation policies past and present (Lannoy & Van Gucht 2006). It further needs the investigation of policies construed not only in Europe and the Americas but also in the much less studied areas of Asia and Africa, and the generally overlooked eras before the 20th century (Beukes 2007; Baxter 2013). Secondly, this conference aims at the development of interdisciplinary policies engaging translation studies, legal and institutional studies, and political philosophy. Present-day challenges such as the exponential spread of multilingualism going hand in hand with plural or hybrid forms of citizenship, or the political and societal integration of allophone minorities and immigrants in particular indeed raise new questions. How should one ensure better linguistic integration of minorities in national public spaces and beyond, safeguard equal access to institutions as well as to public and private goods and services, create an inclusive society with due respect for diversity? In sum, in order to handle past, present and future translation policies with a focus on linguistic justice, minority rights, multilingualism or citizenship, this conference calls for the conjunction of several types of expertise: theoretical and applied, historical and modern, legal and institutional, philosophical and political. These types of expertise will be substantiated by contributions pooled under the following topics: Translation policies and multilingualism Translation policies in legal settings Translation policies in institutional settings Translation policies and citizenship The organizers invite proposals from all disciplines, on all periods and geographical areas that may provide a significant contribution to historical and contemporary understandings of translation policies in legal and institutional settings. They especially welcome proposals containing prospects and ideas for future translation policies, such as the design of translation services for linguistic minorities (historical territorial minorities and immigrant minorities), or the role of translation policies in creating and securing linguistic and civil rights. Proposals may also deal with issues that offer overlap with several of the topics mentioned and relate to adjacent disciplines such as cultural, social and political history: (How) is translation pitched as a means to effectuate a democratic regime (e.g. in a young, post-revolutionary nation-state)? (How) were translations used to spread the idea of the nation and spark a patriotic or nationalist sentiment in the public at large? How was translation perceived in general or political discourse? With what other notions and values was it associated (e.g. equity, justice, injustice, equality, expenses, impracticality, danger...)? Which qualities/vices were ascribed to it (explicitly or implicitly, in the shape of suppositions or doxa)?   Abstracts should be submitted by email by 1 February, 2018. Length of submission should be between 500 and 700 words, including references. Please do not forget to mention your name, affiliation and email at the top of your abstract. You will be notified of acceptance by 1 April 2018.   Full details: https://kuleuvencongres.be/litp2018

The University of Cordoba (Spain) and KU Leuven (Belgium) are proud to announce the First International e-conference with the title: Translation in Society and for Society. Investigating Sociological and Cultural Aspects in Literary and Specialised Domains. Following the remarkable success of the e-Conference CNERU for young researchers (Cordoba, 4-5 April 2017), this virtual conference aims to create a shared space for reflection on topics related to sociological aspects concerning translation theory and practice. The conference will be held in English using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, a real-time video conferencing tool that lets you add files, share applications, and use a virtual whiteboard to interact. Collaborate with Blackboard opens right in your browser, so you don’t have to install any software to join the conference. Aim and Scope The “Sociological Turn” in Translation Studies is a phenomenon that has interested the discipline since the 1990s (Snell-Hornby 2006; Wolf and Fukari 2007; Wolf 2010; Angelelli 2014). The success of the first ATISA conference “The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies” (2010) opened up new avenues of research, shifting the focus from textual aspects of translation to a broader analysis of social factors that have an impact on the translator and translations as social products. According to Wolf (2010), the Sociology of Translation has interested research in the field of “T&I training institutions, working conditions, professional institutions and their social role, questions of ethics in translation, (auto)biographies of translators and interpreters, larger accounts such as translation on the global market, sociopolitical aspects of translation, translation and its role in activism, etc.”. The scholar distinguishes three kinds of translation sociology: · The sociology of the agents of translation – focusing on translation activity from the point of view of institutional and individual agents;· The sociology of the translation process – focusing on the social environment and constraints (such as censorship) affecting the production of all types of translation, such as multimodal translation in which different codes coexist in new and changing textual formats;· The sociology of translation as a cultural product – focusing on reception, promotion and literary criticism across time and space. Drawing on the new ways in which these three developments are outlining translation research and practice, this conference aims to shed light on the productive and multi-faceted cross-fertilisation of Translation Studies and Sociology. References Angelelli, Claudia. 2014. The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies. Edited by Claudia Angelelli. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Snell-Hornby, Mary. 2006. The Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoints? Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Wolf, Michaela. 2010. “Sociology of Translation.” In Handbook of Translation Studies - Volume 1, edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, 337–43. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Wolf, Michaela., and Alexandra. Fukari. 2007. Constructing a Sociology of Translation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. We invite papers related but not limited to the following topics: · Translation and interdisciplinarity: the sociological approach · Legal and sworn translation with the new migration flows · Gender issues in translation · Sociological aspects related to multimodal translation · The role of multimedial translation in a mass-media society · The reception and promotion of translation · Imagology and translation · Translation for the cultural industry · Ethical challenges for translators in the 21st century · The status of the translation profession · Industrial translation vs. professional translation · Pros and cons of machine translation and its impact on the market · Translation and power relations · Translation of minorized languages and cultures Submissions are invited for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words (excluding references). Please submit your abstract including the title of the paper, author name, affiliation and e-mail address to: lr1romum@uco.es; transieco@uco.es Do not forget to fill in the following form in order to submit your abstract (Abstract_Form) Selected papers will be published in an edited volume following a peer-review process. Key dates• Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2018• Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2018• Registration open: 15 May 2018• Early-bird registration available until: 31 August 2018 Conference fees Early registration fee (before 31 August 2018): €20 Fee after 31 August 2018: €30

CIUTI conference - Translation and interpreting in an era of demographic and technological change: Innovations in research, practice and training 30-31 May 2018 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Second Call for Papers Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof. Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University Key dates• Abstract submission deadline: 31 January 2018• Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2018• Registration open: 28 February 2018• Early-bird registration available until: 31 March 2018 TopicsWe invite papers related but not limited to the following translation and interpreting (T&I) areas:• T&I in the digital economy• T&I and new technologies• Accessibility issues in T&I (e.g. data sharing, maintenance, copyright)• New methodologies in T&I• Multimodality in T&I• T&I and the media• T&I and literature• T&I in the public sector• T&I in politics and law• Ethics, equality and diversity in T&I• T&I in education Submissions are invited for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 400 words (excluding references) and clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Please submit your abstract as a file attachment including the title of the paper, author name, affiliation and e-mail address to CIUTIconference2018@hw.ac.uk. The subject header of the submission email should read: Abstract CIUTI. Further details will soon be available via http://www.ctiss.hw.ac.uk/research/conferences1.html.

What strikes the reader of academic essays on non-hegemonic languages and contexts is the abundance and variety of vocabulary that points at the precariousness of such a state: ‘minor,’ ‘minority,’ ‘minoritized,’ ‘small,’ ‘less-translated,’ and so on. In a way, this is the story of a Poor Little Rich Girl whose life was turned by a servant’s mistake—in our case, by a translation mistake, as Kafka’s kleine Literaturen was mistranslated as ‘minor’ (Casanova 2004) and came to lead Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ‘astray’ (Larose 2009, Grutman 2016). Small may be beautiful, but minor is less (Folaron 2015). However, the apparent precariousness of minorness (for lack of a better term) is essential, as it translates into an infinite potential for affirmation and creativity: from unspeakability in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (1998) or Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject (1982) and from carnival in Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of grotesque body(1993) or Georges Bataille’s notion of excess (1991), to the potentially revolutionary Body without Organs that embarks on various lines of flight (Deleuze and Guattari 1988) in order to escape sameness and embrace difference. In all its forms, the minor has the potential to be truly free: in becoming, in already and still being constructed, and as a way to acknowledge interstices and particularity, ethnic diversity, and cultural heterogeneity. Resembling anything but semantic vacancy, we need to acknowledge that ‘minorness’ allows the casting of a wide net. In a globalized world, linguistic minorities are apparently set for extinction, with linguistic diversity plummeting at an unprecedented rate. In this respect, translation becomes a tool for their survival and inclusion, making it “crucial to understand the operation of the translation process itself as the continued existence of the language and the self-perception and self-confidence of its speakers are intimately bound up with translation effects.” (Cronin 1995) In the same globalized world, minor cultures are oftentimes judged in terms of economic influence, facing an unjust comparative bias. In this case, translation restores the balance, since small cultures are disproportionately important in terms of translation productivity; their contribution is much more relevant to translation studies than the limited contribution of ‘major’ contexts, which do not welcome translations in their cultures to the same extent. In the same globalized world, ‘minority’ is a central concept which implies resistance to the mainstream, to what is considered ‘normal’ or part of a dominant discourse. In this respect, translation makes the voices of minorities heard and attenuates the cultural sway they experience; and even helps them have an influence on the larger system that absorbed them (Pym 2013). Finally, in a world in which translation follows a novel politics of microspection and new regimes of attention (Cronin 2012; 2016), scholars need, we suggest, to capitalize on precariousness in order to become fully aware of the complexity of this world. Many of the above-mentioned facets of non-hegemonic translation have been broached in 2016 and 2017 by presentations at the “Translation and Minority” conferences organized by the University of Ottawa’s School of Translation and Interpretation. In addition to those, we invite papers that dwell on the following possible themes: the intricacies of local politics of translation;translators as denizens (or agents of meaningful change);indigenous and nomadic languages;the digital revolution as a means to overcome precarious states. We will pre-screen and retain fifteen contributions which are to be subsequently peer-reviewed. The deadline for submitting your 6000 to 8000-word article (excluding bibliography) in French or English is May 1, 2018. Please use the TTR Style Guide: https://retro.erudit.org//revue/documentation/guidelinesAuthorsTTR.pdf. Submissions are to be sent by e-mail to Marc Charron and Raluca Tanasescu.   Further details: https://translationandminority.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/the-politics-of-precariousness-call-for-publication/

Book history and translation studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of print culture. Although driven respectively by bibliographic and comparativist linguistic interests, the two fields have converged into a shared perception of texts as cultural and social products controlled by interconnected networks of agents. Efforts to delve deeper into the nature of these networks and into the mobility of printed texts have led to fruitful cross-disciplinary intersections. As a result, translation scholars are becoming increasingly receptive to the relevance of textual materiality while book historians are turning to comparative approaches and the transnational side of publishing. On a general level, texts and their trajectories are more and more frequently analysed by integrating conceptual, methodological and theoretical frameworks originally developed in either book history or translation studies (see for example Heilbrom 2008; Bachleitner 2010; Freedman 2012; O’Sullivan 2012; Armstrong 2013; Littau 2016; Belle & Hosington 2017). The success of this interdisciplinary approach is leading to a growing awareness that further dialogue between studies and book history is needed to achieve more accurate representations of the transnational life of print culture. This special issue aims at exploring and further promoting intersections between the two fields with a particular focus on the multifaceted international publishing panorama that characterised the period between 1700 and 1950. Contributions are especially encouraged on thematic areas including: - The materiality of translation- Translations’ paratext and translation of paratext- Translation and the transnationalisation of print culture- Translation and the sociology of texts- Translation and textual bibliography- Agents involved in the production and distribution of translations and their relation on anational and international level- Translation of popular literature and ephemera- Translation and book illustration- Translation, religion and book history- Translation and musical texts- Terminology of the book across languages- Translation and the transformation of reading habits and attitudes- Research methodologies in translation studies and book history Instructions for authors Submission instructionsArticles will be about 7000 words in length, in English (including notes and references) Abstracts of 500-700 words (including references) should be sent together with a short biographical note to the guest editors at translationbookhistory@gmail.com Schedule28 February 2018 – deadline to submit abstracts and biographical note to the guest editors23 March 2018 – deadline for decisions on abstracts31 August 2018 – deadline for submission of articles23 November 2018 – submission of final version of papersJune 2019 – publication of the issue All articles will be reviewed by two readers. For information please contact Alice Colombo at translationbookhistory@gmail.comFor information about the journal please visit http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ccs

People who move to other countries may do so for different reasons: some may like to improve the languages they know or experience new cultures, others strive for better work opportunities to improve their lives. Be they from developed or developing countries, these people can lead to the creation of more dynamic societies that reflect today’s globalised world. Multi-ethnic communities are becoming increasingly common, and their members often possess a bilingual (or even trilingual) background. They use code-switching and code-mixing to express and assert their bicultural identity (Monti 2016: 69). It is not surprising, therefore, that fictional representations of multilingualism in film, television and novels, which may involve not two but three or more languages, attempt to capture these phenomena, and “it matters relatively little in itself whether it is ‘national’, ‘dead’ or ‘artificial’ languages, slang, dialects, sociolects, or idiolects, that make up the multilingual sequences. What matters more is their textual inter-play” (Delabastita & Grutman 2005: 16; emphasis added). This multilingual inter-play can be used to convey conflict, character configuration, spatial opposition, mimesis, and suspense management. Most importantly, interlingual misunderstandings and mistranslations can be used for comic effect by bringing about what humour theorists would call an incongruity or conflict between different cognitive schemes (ibid 18-24). Many scholars in Translation Studies have focused their attention on how heterolingual texts are translated (e.g. Delabastita 2002, Grutman 2006, Bleichenbacher 2008), but much more can certainly be done (Meylaerts 2006), especially when these fictional texts exploit multilingualism for humorous purposes (cf. Corrius & Zabalbeascoa 2011 and Zabalbeascoa & Voellmer 2014 on the translation of the third language in audiovisual texts and Dore forthcoming on the functional manipulation of audiovisual texts). As a matter of fact, in today’s hyper-politically correct world, the development of a heightened sensitivity may pose a series of challenges regarding how multilingual humour is created, processed and dealt with in translation. Hence, the present thematic issue aims to bring the following issues to the fore: How is multilingual humour created? What are the linguistic and cultural implications involved in creating multilingual humorous texts? What are the challenges multilingual humour poses to translators? Can the audience’s (supposed) perception and interpretation of these works influence their translation? Can any theoretical and methodological lessons be learnt from the investigation of these practices? If so, can such lessons be systematically conceptualised to enhance the translation of multilingual humorous texts? Contributions are sought concerning, but not limited to, issues such as: Identity and social issues in multilingual humour and translation Language- and culture-bound challenges in translating multilingual humourAudiences’ perception and appreciation of multilingual humour and its translation Functional manipulation in translated multilingual texts Time frame: Abstract submission (margherita.dore@uniroma1.it): March 30th, 2018 Notification of acceptance by: April 20th, 2018 Article deadline and start of peer-reviewing: September 30th, 2018 References Bleichenbacher, L. (2008) Multilingualism in the Movies. Hollywood Characters and their Language Choices. Tübingen: Francke. Corrius, M. & Zabalbeascoa, P. (2011). “Language variation in source texts and their translations: The case of L3 in film translation”. Target, 23(1), 113–130. Delabastita, D. (2002) “A Great Feast of Languages”, The Translator 8:2. 303–340. Delabastita, D. & Grutman, R. (2005) “Introduction: fictional representations of multilingualism and translation,” in D. Delabastita and R. Grutman (eds.), “Fictionalising translation and multilingualism,” Linguistica Antverpiensia 4: 11–34. Dore, M. (forthcoming) ‘Revoicing Otherness and Stereotypes via Dialects and Accents in Animated Films’, InTralinea. Grutman, Rainier (2006), “Refraction and recognition. Literary multilingualism in translation”, his/her language? An introduction”. Target 18:1. 1–15. Meylaerts, R. (2006) “Heterolingualism in/and translation. How legitimate are the Other and Target 18:1. 17–47. Zabalbeascoa, P. & Voellmer, E. (2014). “Accounting for Multilingual Films in Translation Studies: Intratextual Translation in Dubbing”, in D. Abend-David (Ed.), Media and translation: An interdisciplinary approach (pp. 25–52). London: Continuum.

The transformation of women's sense of self - individually and collectively - is one of the most significant socio-cultural events of the past 50 years to have occurred around the globe. The focus of this Conference is on translocal, transcultural and translingual connections between texts and their authors. We adopt a broad understanding of 'text', which includes both published and unpublished work, recorded and unrecorded words, and can range from literary fiction to oral testimony and activist pamphlets. Feminism, too, is defined here in very broad terms - including any action aimed at subverting the gender status quo and foregrounding female agency. Finally, we understand translation as a process of cultural transfer across languages, but also within the lexicons and registers of single languages. While the prime focus of the Network has been on the period since 1945, papers incorporating longer-term perspectives and earlier periods are very welcome. Panels and themes will include: *Intersectional approaches in translation · *Feminist vocabularies and dictionaries · *LGBTQ+ translation · *Narrating feminism in translation · *Feminist magazines and translation · *Self-translation/intimate translation · *Intergenerational translation · *Pedagogies of feminist translation · *Sexism in/and language · *Feminism and specialized translation (e.g., medical or legal translation) · *Feminism, translation and international institutions · *Men and feminism · *Multilingual spaces of negotiation (e.g., book fairs) · *Social media · *Translation and diaspora communities · *Translating the reproductive body Please note the Conference will also feature a strand on 'Feminist Translating: Activists and Professionals', organized in collaboration with Glasgow's Centre for Gender History, and involving roundtable discussions and workshops with activist-translator communities and publishers working with a feminist ethos. If you would like to be part of this strand (or have other questions) please contact the conference organisers: Dr. Emily Ryder, Dr. Maud Bracke and Dr. Penelope Morris, University of Glasgow at: translatingfeminism@gmail.com Leverhulme International Network: 'Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (ca. 1960-1990)' https://translatingfeminism.org/

PACTE (Process of Acquisition of Translation Competence and Evaluation) is organising the Fourth International Conference on Research into the Didactics of Translation (didTRAD), which will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 20-22 June, 2018. This conference aims to provide a forum for researchers in the field of translator training.   Conference Topics Teaching translation: introduction to translation; legal translation; scientific-technical translation; literary translation; audiovisual translation; localization; inverse translation, etc. Teaching interpreting: simultaneous interpreting; consecutive interpreting, community interpreting, etc. Teaching signed languages interpreting and translation. Teaching technologies for translators and interpreters. Teaching language for translators and interpreters (L1 and L2). Teaching professional aspects. Cross-cutting aspects of curriculum design: tutorials, final-year dissertations, placements, etc.   Deadline: January 14, 2018. Follow this link for more information on how to submit your abstract: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/pacte/en/content/abstract-submission Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2018.   Further information: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/pacte/en/secondcircular2018

This year, Voyages in Translation Studies will explore the role of translation in shaping languages and challenge the notion of “living languages” in political, social and cultural spheres. We are honoured to welcome Myriam Suchet, professor of French language and literature at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3, and Director of Paris 3’s Centre d’études québécoises, as our keynote speaker. Language, according to Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin ([1975] 1981), “is not an abstract system of normative forms but rather a concrete heteroglot conception of the world.” Yet, as Suchet (2016) notes, being immersed in one language on a daily basis may lead us to define language boundaries where none exist. Languages interact and overlap, and in examining their history and the role of translation in that history, it is clear that the strategy of portraying languages as unitary entities has been repeatedly used to assist in the construction of national identities. Works by France Daigle, Ahmadou Kourouma, Juan Goytisolo and Paul Celan challenge dominant narratives by revealing how language boundaries have been historically established. According to Rainier Grutman (1997), heterolingual texts are characterized by their use of multiple languages, idioms or varieties; for Suchet (2014), they also conjure up alternative representations that redefine one’s relationship with the Other. Suchet has called for translation to be studied from the perspective of heterolingual writing, which would involve questioning prevalent linguistic assumptions and examining how heterolingual texts transgress such assumptions. Indigenous storytellers have long been aware of how reciprocal relations in translation are closely associated to the vitality of a language, and they have made use of heterolingual techniques to create bonds within and outside of their communities. Authors such as Tomson Highway, Marilyn Dumont and Joséphine Bacon often contribute to the tremendous efforts undertaken in their communities to revitalize Indigenous languages, leading to various questions about the function of these voices in translation and whether concepts such as “dormant languages” can dispel myths of extinction. Such work presents new ways of envisioning our relationship with language itself, and as Niigaanwewidam Sinclair (2014) has stated, “It is not to assume that we own language. It is to know that we are only a participant in its energy, a relation, a cousin that visits and shares tea, drinking in its power.” In Eco-Translation (2017), Michael Cronin builds on this idea in a more environmental sphere, calling into question the anthropocentrism of translation theory and describing the alarming state of the planet on which we speak and translate. Cronin invites us to reflect on the role translation studies research could play in restructuring the boundaries of communication that we have built in order to account for interactions with other living species and our environment. The “living” component of languages can also be studied through a more biological lens. Maria Tymoczko (2005) has suggested that in the near future, neuroscientists and translation studies scholars will join forces, “radically [changing] the way translation is thought about and approached.” Such joint efforts could lead to new insights into how brain processes such as perception, memory and brain plasticity contribute to the translation process (Tymoczko 2012). The following is a non-exhaustive list of other topics that relate to the conference theme: —The history of languages and the impact of (re)translation on a language’s development —The impact of intercultural contact and migration on languages —The evolution and translation of Indigenous languages, oral histories and narratives —The role of linguistics and translation in the revitalization of endangered languages and cultural heritage (the notion of “living” and “dead” languages, the revival of Hebrew, invented languages, etc.) —Political resistance of languages in colonial and postcolonial contexts —Translation and terminology issues in the life sciences —User-centered translation —Gender-related language issues We welcome proposals for oral presentations (20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute question period) and poster presentations on these and other topics related to the conference theme. Proposals may be written in English or French. They must include a title and a 300-word abstract accompanied by the following information: name, email address, university and program of study, as well as a brief bio-bibliography (100 words). Please indicate whether you have a preference for an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Given the limited number of oral presentation slots, the Organizing Committee may suggest that you prepare a poster instead of an oral presentation. Proposals must be sent to tragrad1@gmail.com by December 22, 2017.   https://docs.google.com/document/d/11oLwS0jNiSIyUJJEQR7S-ukZjMo609nSER8lyPatbfA/edit

The Cologne Conference on Specialised Translation was founded in 2010 at the Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication at the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne. The aim was to host intermittent conferences to provide a forum for focusing on state of the art research in the various areas of translation and interpreting. The second Cologne Conference on Translation, Interpreting and Technical Documentation will take place from 29-30 November 2018 at the TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Cologne. We will continue to focus on the significant fields of translation and interpreting, while extending the remit to include technical communication. Given the fact that all three areas are highly interrelated and new developments are continuing apace, the overarching theme of the conference will be “Interdependence and Innovation”. The goals of the conference are to reflect on recent theoretical and methodological approaches in the various strands of translation, interpreting and technical communication, to explore potential forms of interdependence and synergies resulting from these, and to thus contribute to the current state of the art in research in these areas, with a view to preparing the ground for future developments. We especially welcome papers which reflect the diversity of current research in Translation and Interpreting Studies and Technical Communication and invite submission of abstracts for papers in the following areas: - Translation and Interpreting in Specialised Contexts - Processes and Products of Technical Communication - Language and Translation Technology - Terminology and Knowledge Representation - Social Impact of Translation and Interpreting - Process Research in Translation and Interpreting - Translation and Interpreting Didactics - Corpora in Translation and Interpreting Studies and Practice - Crowd Translation - Games/Website Localization   Abstracts on further topics related to the overarching conference theme are also expressly encouraged. Abstracts of up to 200 words excluding references should be submitted by 28 February 2018 to CGN18-ITMK@f03.th-koeln.de. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by 1 June 2018. Current information on the conference can be found at the conference website: xl8.link/CGN18en

  The publication will cover issues related to a broadly conceived thematic field of translation science, including: Cultural and social aspects of translation (literary translation, legal translation, technical translation); Translation and creativity; Theoretical and practical issues in translation and interpreting; Localization and audiovisual translation (software/video game localization); Translation in the age of New Media; The translation process as an intercultural dialogue; Interpreter/translator as a cultural mediator; The role of an interpreter/a translator in society (community interpreting); Contextual aspects of translation; Translation as/at the crossroads of culture; Translation and globalization processes; Aspects of teaching and training translation.   An abstract of the manuscript (150-300 words long) should be sent to translatologica[at]uwr[dot]edu[dot]pl by 26 December 2017. Contributors will receive notification of acceptance within 1-3 weeks of submission. The deadline for manuscript submission is 24 April 2018. All submitted papers must be clearly written in academic English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal. Papers must not exceed 25 pages (5000-7500 words) including figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts must be submitted on the journal template, which can be downloaded through the Submission Guidelines tab. The publication date of the 2018 issue is September 2018 If you face problems with paper submission, please feel free to contact the editor at translatologica[at]uwr[dot]edu[dot]pl