Marija Todorova
Call for Papers (Issue 27, October 2022) [deadline extended]
Special issue on
Trauma & Interpreting: Challenges, Current Practice, and Future Directions
(deadline extended)
Call for abstracts: Panel Themes for the EST22 Oslo Congress
Panel 28: “Advancing Translation Studies by understanding the Labour in Translaboration“ and it is convened by Cornelia Zwischenberger (University of Vienna) and Alexa Alfer (University of Westminster).
Deardline for submission 15 October 2021
Discussions of ‘translaboration’ have so far focused on the investigative potential of the conceptual blending of ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’. A further and rather central concept that emerges in/from translaboration is ‘labour’. Labour, as the production of appropriated surplus value, remains, we argue, an under-researched and under-discussed dimension of translation. To advance our understanding of both translation and Translation Studies, and the ways in which both fields of activity intersect with critical areas of human interest, the concept of labour, as distinct from ‘work’ (Narotzky 2018), warrants more sustained engagement. Our focus for this panel is the work/labour dimension of collaborative translation.
Read more here.
Amnesty Australia Open Letter on Afghan Interpreters
IATIS is joining Amnesty International, Amnesty Australia and the international community of translators and interpreters in seeking protection for Afgan Interpreters.
Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar
Interview with Professor Wangui wa Goro
Our Executive Council member Professor Wangui wa Goro is the recipient of the 2021 Flora Nwapa Society Award. Read more about her thoughts on translation in an interview with IATIS President Professor Loredana Polezzi.
New book: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health, edited by Şebnem Susam-Saraeva and Eva Spišiaková
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health provides a bridge between translation studies and the burgeoning field of health humanities, which seeks novel ways of understanding health and illness. As discourses around health and illness are dependent on languages for their transmission, impact, spread, acceptance and rejection in local settings, translation studies offers a wealth of data, theoretical approaches and methods for studying health and illness globally.
Translation and health intersect in a multitude of settings, historical moments, genres, media and users. This volume brings together topics ranging from interpreting in healthcare settings to translation within medical sciences, from historical and contemporary travels of medicine through translation to areas such as global epidemics, disaster situations, interpreting for children, mental health, women’s health, disability, maternal health, queer feminisms and sexual health, and nutrition. Contributors come from a wide range of disciplines, not only from various branches of translation and interpreting studies, but also from disciplines such as psychotherapy, informatics, health communication, interdisciplinary health science and classical Islamic studies.
Find out more on this link.
Barbara Ahrens/Silvia Hansen-Schirra/Monika Krein-Kühle/Michael Schreiber/Ursula Wienen (Hg. / eds.): Translation – Kunstkommunikation – Museum / Translation – Art Communication – Museum"
This volume collects articles on translation in the field of art communication and the museum, a relatively recent and still under-researched field of translation studies. It attempts to shed more light on this transdisciplinary field by bringing together different experts, sharing their perspectives on the specific features, conditions and requirements of art translation from both a theoretical and an applied point of view. For more follow link here.
Eco-Translation: Responding to the Work of Michael Cronin
BCLT Online Conference, 14-15 May 2021
This two-day online conference focuses on the work of our keynote speaker, the influential Irish translation theorist Michael Cronin. Leading UK and international scholars of translation, eco-criticism and environmental studies will be addressing issues highlighted in Cronin’s recent work, in particular Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017). Cronin’s book explores the challenges to translation posed by human-induced environmental change, with topics ranging from the translation of travel literature to endangered languages and inter-species communication.
Attendance is free but pre-registration is required here
Translation Fest a series of online seminars
We are delighted to announce the Translation Fest, a series of online seminars which will take place between 11th and 14th May 2021. The seminars, discussing a wide range of topical subjects to date, have been designed to reflect on the interlinks between the theory and practice of translation and to celebrate the richness and complexity of Translation Studies as an inter-discipline. Prominent speakers include academic scholars spread around the world (from the UK to Australia and back to Italy, Belgium, Spain and the US!), translators of international calibre operating in Italy and multicultural writers as self-translators. Translation Fest have been jointly organised by the University of Exeter, UK (Dr Eliana Maestri) and the University of Ferrara, Italy (Prof. Eleonora Federici and Dr Giulia Giorgi) and supported financially by Exeter Global Partnerships (2020-21 Outward Mobility Academic Fellowship), POT Uni-Sco (Piano di Orientamento e Tutorato) and the Humanities at Ferrara (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici). Translation Fest is hosted by the Centre for Translating Cultures, the University of Exeter.
All are welcome. Postgraduate students in Translation Studies are particularly invited to attend.
The registration link is now live here.
Please register by 10th May 2021 to receive the link to the Meet sessions before the start of the webinars.
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: TRANSLATING MINORITIES AND CONFLICT IN LITERATURE
10-11 June 2021
Cordoba
DUE TO THE COVID-19 EMERGENCY, THIS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ONLINE
Learn more about the conference from their website.