Category: Events

In December 2022, the University of the Free State will be hosting an interdisciplinary translation studies conference, ‘Transfers | and | Traversals’, for which we are presently inviting abstracts. At this stage, we are planning for a face-to-face conference on the Bloemfontein campus of the university, but our arrangements regarding the format will remain flexible depending on the pandemic. Conference […]

Université Paris Nanterre, 30-31 March 2023 & Université de Lille, February/March 2024 Over the past 500 years, English has gone from a marginal language hardly spoken by anyone outside of England to a global lingua franca with speakers, native and non-native, all over the world. This has created situations of multilingualism both within countries where English is the main language […]

The 11th International Symposium for Young Researchers in Translation, Interpreting, Intercultural Studies and East Asian Studies will be held on July 1st, 2022. The Symposium is aimed at students who have recently begun their research as M.A. students, PhD students or those who have recently completed their PhD theses. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a scientific forum within […]

IATIS Online Training Event, 21 April 2022, co-hosted by the Training Committee, International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and the Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication at TH Köln In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) has become a dominant force in the field of translation, profoundly reshaping the cognitive processes of translators working in NMT-assisted translation scenarios, […]

(ONLINE RESEARCH EVENT. Free live broadcast from University of Cordoba, Spain) Date and time of event: Wednesday 11th May 2022. Times TBC. The University of Cordoba (Spain) and University College London (UK) are proud to announce the 6th E-Expert Seminar in Translation and Language Teaching about Feminism and Gender Awareness in Modern Foreign Languages and Translation. This sixth virtual expert seminar aims […]

1 – 10 March 2022 This online event, made up of 4 related webinars held over 2 weeks, is co-hosted by the Training Committee, International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and The Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS), at Heriot-Watt University. Museum translation, an encompassing term which can be understood as translation activities in their […]

King’s College London, 13-15 July 2022 Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council DEADLINE for submission of abstracts: 21st April 2022 Please note: The conference will be free to attend, but you will need to register as places are limited. We hope very much that we will be able to hold this conference entirely offline. It will take place on the Strand Campus […]

Date: 10/02/2022 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: Online via Zoom Speaker: Bart Defrancq (Ghent University, Belgium) Registration Link Abstract: The use of corpus data in interpreting research is recent. In 1998 Miriam Shlesinger called upon the interpreting research community to start collecting corpus data for interpreting and so far mostly small collections have been compiled, which I have called “nano-corpora” elsewhere. As is well […]

Online conference via Zoom   March 18-20, 2022   Keynote speaker: Luis Pérez-González, University of Agder (Norway) CALL FOR PAPERS  Today we are immersed in a world in which language(s) are intertwined with shifting and fast-moving images and sounds. In this reality, translation plays a significant role in our interpretation of meaning. This ongoing, everyday meaning-making interaction is prompting us to ask questions about what constitutes the relationship among translation, […]

Theme: Interpreting and Technology: Interplay and Transformation Dates: 7-9 December 2022 Format: Onsite at Hong Kong Baptist University and Online The field of interpreting is facing a moment of great transformation not witnessed since the advent of simultaneous interpreting. The development of the technology for remote interpreting (including remote simultaneous interpreting, RSI, and video remote interpreting, VRI), computer-aided interpreting (CAI) and machine […]