Oppression is not a point of view
Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies Call for Abstracts Organizers: Kobus Marais, University of the Free State Reine Meylaerts, KU Leuven Maud Gonne, UNamur/ UCLouvain Since the emergence of complexity thinking, scholars from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities are renewing efforts to construct a unified framework that would unite all scholarly activity. The work of
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CULTUS 14: Translation plus The added value of the translator Call for abstracts: May 30th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2020 Call for papers: October 30th, 2020 Translators, when not getting any press tend to get bad press, and the translation profession itself appears to be suffering an existential crisis (low play, status and uncertain future). However, this is
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Guest editors Raffaela Merlini (University of Macerata, Italy) Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom) Call for abstracts: 16 December, 2019 Notification of acceptance: 23 December 2019 Call for papers: 16 March, 2020 Contributions must be sent to: submission2020@cultusjournal.com Our contemporary world is characterised by mobility and migration. People are on the move for
» Read moreGuest Editors: Michela Baldo (University of Hull) Jonathan Evans (University of Portsmouth) Ting Guo (University of Exeter) Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association This special issue will focus on the role that translation plays in global LGBT+/Queer activism. It will analyze the practices of translation as part of
» Read moreSpecial Issue of Target Edited by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger In recent years, ‘translation’ has become an increasingly widely used metaphor within and across disciplines to describe, broadly, the processes by which knowledge is generated, shared and applied. At the same time, ‘collaboration’ has emerged as a buzzword in translation circles. Discussions of the latter frequently centre on recent
» Read moreSpecial Issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) Call for Papers Guest Editor María Constanza Guzmán, Glendon College, York University Periodicals, including magazines, newspapers, and journals, are important sites of translation. As vectors of intellectual exchanges, they are privileged spaces for the circulation of ideas. They are thus key cultural artifacts of the historical archive. Periodical publications have traditionally been considered
» Read moreTarget is looking for reviewers for a special issue for ‘Target – International Journal of Translation Studies’. See below a list of titles. Those interested should contact the journal’s book review editor, Reine Meylaerts, at reine.meylaerts@kuleuven.be. The deadline for the reviews is 1 November 2016. The reviews will be published next year in spring. Stefan Baumgarten MONOGRAPHS • Hanna,
» Read moreCall for Chapters: Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution Editors Dr. Olaf Immanuel Seel, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: July 30, 2016 Full Chapters Due: November 30, 2016 Submission Date: March 30, 2017 Introduction Since the mid 80’s, when the cultural turn took place in translation studies,
» Read moreCall for Papers International Conference Translation Education in a New Age Organized by School of Humanities and Social Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 15-16 April 2016 Aim of the Conference The School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, is pleased to announce the holding of an international conference on translation education
» Read moreA Dialogue between Process-oriented and Sociological Approaches THE FOURTH DURHAM POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM ON TRANSLATION STUDIES CALL FOR PAPERS ORGANIZER Center for Intercultural Mediation, Durham University, UK ORGANISING COMMITTEE Di Xiao, Hao Zhou and Yazid Haroun (PhD Researchers in Translation Studies, Durham University) Date: April 30 – May 1, 2016 Venue: Durham Castle, Durham University, UK Language: English KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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