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WACL4 at COLING’2025 with focus on Arabic Dialects The workshop will be held online on January 20th, 2025 in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The field of Arabic language research using corpora and corpus methods has experienced significant growth and development in recent years. What once were isolated efforts have now transformed […]

Translation Studies scholars have shown a growing interest in the role affect and emotions play in the translation process. Research in this vein has explored links between affect and translation in various domains, including literature, business, governance, and translator/interpreter training (Kußmaul 1991, Jääskeläinen 1996, Ruokonen & Koskinen 2017, Shadman 2020). Various methodologies have been brought to bear, ranging from qualitative […]

SISU TRSS 2022 | Virtual Event [Registration is now closed.] 1st SISU Translation Research Summer School 27 June – 8 July 2022 School Directors: Mona Baker and Kyung Hye Kim Click here to view an introductory video The first edition of the SISU Translation Research Summer School, organised by the Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at Shanghai International Studies […]

SISU Translation Research Summer School SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies 27 June – 8 July 2022   Directors: Professor Mona Baker, SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, China and University of Oslo, Norway Dr Kyung-Hye Kim, SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, China Tutors: Professor Mona Baker, […]

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/11/16/translating-and-analysing-charles-darwin-and-darwinism-into-european-languages-1859 Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2022 Full name / name of organization: Felix Sprang / ESSE Contact email: felix.sprang@uni-siegen.de Translating and Analysing Charles Darwin and Darwinism in(to) European languages (1859-2022) If Charles Darwin is “perhaps the most discussed writer in English besides Shakespeare”, in George Levine’s words, he certainly is also one of the most debated authors in any […]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420921006786?dgcid=coauthor By R.I.Ogie, S.O’Brien, F.M.Federici Abstract Collaboration in language translation has a long history and continues to develop in the form of crowdsourced and community translation. More recently, efforts in collaborative translation for crisis communication have been noted. These efforts are far from being mature in nature. We propose that Agent Based Modelling (ABM) for crisis translation could have significant […]

Conveners: Cornelia Zwischenberger, Alexa Alfer 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 […]