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New Publication:Title: Translating Sicily, Adapting Sicily (Liverpool University Press)Author: Liz Wren-Owens Content:Documenting, Authenticating, Mediating: The Englished Verga.Translating the Transnational: Leonardo Sciascia’s Multilingual, Multicultural and Multitemporal Sicily in Translation and AdaptationWhere is Montalbano? Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano Series in Translation, on Television, in the Graphic Novel and in Fan CommunitiesRead more: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805968597

Upcoming ConferenceAbout: The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Interpretation is organising the Interpreting Europe Conference. It brings together language professionals, institutional representatives, industry experts, academics, researchers, and students in the fields of interpreting, language technologies, and related areas.Theme: Human voices, smart technologies: Rethinking multilingual communication.Date: 26-27 Nov 2026Venue: Brussels, BelgiumRead more about the speakers and the conference program: https://commission.europa.eu/get-involved/events/interpreting-europe-conference-2026-11-26_en

New Publication: Title: Translating Books for Publication (Routledge)Author: Susan PickfordContent: Chapter 1. What training and skills does a budding translator-for-publication need?Chapter 2. Does translating make you happy?Chapter 3. Does the business hat fit?Chapter 4. The global translation publishing marketplaceChapter 5. Think like a publisherChapter 6. Money mattersChapter 7. Getting your foot in the doorChapter 8. What does a successful career look like?Chapter 9. Looking to the futureRead more: https://www.routledge.com/Translating-Books-for-Publication/Pickford/p/book/9781032901855

New Publication:Title: Translation Studies between Disciplines and Practices (John Benjamins)Editors: Luc van Doorslaer and Yves Gambier Content:Chapter 1. From interdisciplinarity to blurring disciplinary boundaries: The background chapterChapter 2. Periodical studies and translation studies: Interdisciplinary perspectivesChapter 3. African studies and translation studies: Bordering and language-related human differentiationChapter 4. Memory studies and translation studies: From local histories to transcultural mnemonic landscapesChapter 5. Geography and translation studies: A conversation across distant disciplinesChapter 6. Cognitive linguistics in translation and interpreting studiesChapter 7. Semiotics of culture and translation studies: Building the bridgeChapter 8. Film studies and translation studies: A translational cinema?Chapter 9. Anthropology and translation (studies): Crossing borders and creating spacesChapter 10. Imagology and translation studies: Moving images from one (geo)cultural memory into anotherChapter 11. Philosophy and translation studies: On the ontological status of a translation as the originalChapter 12. Language industry and translation studies: A question of translationChapter 13. International business and translation studies: More interactive than you thinkChapter 14. Museum practice and translation studies: The translator’s role in museum exhibitionsChapter 15. Travel writing and translation studies: Translation is travel, travel is translationChapter 16. Fashion and translationChapter 17. Religion and translation: Meaning-making of the sacredChapter 18. Translational medicine vis-à-vis medical translation: Starting a dialogueChapter 19. Rhetoric and translationChapter 20. PostludeRead more: https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.174

New Publication:Title: Translating at Work: Paraprofessional translation in organizations.Editor: Kaisa Koskinen Content: Chapter 1. Paraprofessional translation at work: An introductionChapter 2. Paraprofessional translators as translatorial agentsChapter 3. Zooming in, zooming out on paraprofessional translators: A translation ecology perspective from Organization Studies and International BusinessChapter 4. Are boundary spanners in international firms paraprofessional translators?Chapter 5. Learning from news translation research to unblackbox paraprofessional translationChapter 6. Translation policy research and paraprofessional translationChapter 7. Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international businessChapter 8. Paraprofessional translation in a Franco-German joint-stock company: The case of SaarlorChapter 9. Synergistic and strategic translation work: Navigating translatorial spaces in multinational corporationsChapter 10. Translation and translating in a multilingual IT customer service unitChapter 11. Beliefs and practices in paraprofessional translators’ work: Towards a conceptual frameworkChapter 12. The implicit corporate translation policyChapter 13. Spaces of translatoriality within hospital knowledge departments in EnglandChapter 14. Paraprofessionals’ approaches to subtitling work: Insights from a university contextChapter 15. Paraprofessional translation in researchChapter 16. Exploring next steps: Expanding translation capacities of organizations, researchers and disciplinesChapter 17. AfterwordRead more: https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.171

New Publication:Title: Beyond the Untranslatable: Theorizing Postcolonial TranslationEditors: Talal Asad, Jun’ichi Isomae, Naoki Sakai, Katsuya Hirano, Gouranga Charan PradhanContent:Introduction: On the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies: Translation of the UntranslatablePart 1: Translating the Untranslatable 1. Translating the Untranslatable: Inheritance of the Postcolonial Studies2. Politics of Translation in East Asia: Natsume Sōseki and his idea of Untranslatability3. How to Count Languages; How to Classify HumanityPart 2: Ambivalent Power of Translations 4. What Is It to Be Secular? 5. Settler-Colonial Translation: “Civilization” and the Ainu Voice 6. Translating God(s): Religious Studies After the Postcolonial Moment 7. China and the Conditions of Spatial Revolution: Twentieth-Century China as an Object of ThoughtPart 3: Round Table: Translating the Untranslatable8. Round Table: Translating the Untranslatable Epilogue: Reflections on the Question of UntranslatabilityRead more: https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-the-Untranslatable-Theorizing-Postcolonial-Translation/Asad-Isomae-Sakai-Hirano-CharanPradhan/p/book/9781041123767

New Publication:Title: A New Materialist Theory of Translation: Negotiating More-than-Human Co-ExistenceAuthor: Matt VallerContent: Introduction 1. Changing places: identity, space, and translationality2. Indeterminate encounters: translations in Modernity's ruins3. Taking the measure: a New Materialist theory of translation4. Translation and place: story-time after The End of the World 5. Taking the measure of High Cross6. Terms of settlement: negotiating more-than-human co-existenceRead more: https://www.routledge.com/A-New-Materialist-Theory-of-Translation-Negotiating-More-than-Human-Co-Existence/Valler/p/book/9781041203759

We are pleased to announce the publication of our second issue for this year: New Voices in Translation Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2026). This issue brings together contributions from eighteen scholars whose work engages with languages such as Arabic, Chinese, English, Finnish, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. The issue comprises an editorial, seven research articles, two book reviews, and three PhD thesis abstracts.Read the whole issue at: https://newvoices.arts.chula.ac.th/index.php/en/issue/view/40

New Publication: Title: The Poetics of Self-translation (Routledge)Author: Rainier GrutmanContent:Introduction. The scope of self-translation  Chapter 1. Translating (by) themselves?  Chapter 2. Two-way traffic: Bidirectionality and feedback  Chapter 3. Time trumps space  Chapter 4. Freedom revisited  Conclusion: (re-)situating self-translationRead more: https://www.routledge.com/The-Poetics-of-Self-translation/Grutman/p/book/9781138493124

New Issue releasedJournal: Translation & Interpreting, Vol. 18 No. 2 (2026)Articles:Jiun Huh: Gamified group interpreting practice for T&I students: Design and implementationEassa Ali, Abbas Brashi, Dana Awad, Rafik Jamoussi, Aladdin Al Zahran: Assessing English-Arabic translation of verb phrase ellipsis: A comparative study of Google Translate and ChatGPT-4oNoureldin Mohamed Abdelaal: Machine translation pedagogy in the Arabic-English classroom: Insights from a UAE-based data-informed approachAgus Darma Yoga Pratama, Falentinus Ndruru, Ni Made Sri Satyawati, Novia Mudzayyanah: Reconceptualising subtitling as multimodal literacy: Introducing the Multimodal Subtitling Competence ModelAli Beikian, Aida Bakhshizadeh: Toward a Persian website post-localization testing rubric: Identifying essential components through a sequential mixed-methods designMedha Sengupta, Ida Stevia Diget, Simon Rosenbaum, Holly Seale: Lost in translation? A review of Australian government guidelines for multilingual resource developmentElena Ruiz-Cortés: From better sources to better translations: A classroom proposal for plain text design of administrative textsAída Martínez-Gómez, Cristina Lozano-Argüelles: Self-perceptions of visibility and agency among young adult language brokers and the role of interpreter educationBook Review:Pan, J., Halverson, S.L., & Munday, J. (Eds.). (2024). Interlingual readings of political discourse: Translation, interpreting and contrastive analysis. Brill.Read more: https://trans-int.org/index.php/transint

Call for Application:The Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University, is pleased to announce that the Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar is now accepting applications for the 2026/27 round. The Award is established in honour of the late Professor Martha Cheung (1953-2013), formerly Chair Professor of Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University. It aims to recognize research excellence in the output of early-career researchers, and since its establishment in 2018 has attracted a substantial number of high-quality applications that have positioned it as one of the top awards in the field.Application closing date for the 2027 Award:           31 OctoberMore info: https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/martha-cheung-award.html

New Publication:Title: Interpreting in Armed Conflict: Lessons from the field.Author: Lucía Ruiz Rosendo Content: Chapter 1. Premise and background Chapter 2. On the nature and definition of armed conflict Chapter 3. On interpreting in armed conflicts Chapter 4. Engaging interpretersChapter 5. Triangulating ethics Chapter 6. Emotions and trauma Chapter 7. Learning and training Chapter 8. Conclusions: Lessons from the field Read more: https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/btl.170