Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.

Recently published open access article: Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes. Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess

Super-pleased to have a chapter in this new book on Bible Translation. There is a WILD chasm between Translation Studies and Bible Translation, despite the Bible being the world’s most translated text! Lots of historic reasons, but time to bridge the gap! wipfandstock.com/978166677128...

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We are delighted to share the #CfP for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting 🤩 The deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July. Visit our website or scan the QR code to read the call for papers! Get in touch if you have any questions.

If you happen to be in Oxford on 19 May, please join me for the book launch of Translation Multiples @oxfordcct.bsky.social! It will be a relaxed event & we'll discuss a few texts from my book (hot off the press @princetonupress.bsky.social). Bonus: sandwich lunch! occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/on-mul...

Interested in #Translation and #AI? Join our free #webinar on 2 May @ 3pm CET. The session is a #free introduction to our upcoming #CPD course in collaboration with @fiteurope.bsky.social Register here: shorturl.at/JwMmL

4th Int'l Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture (MTDC25), #HongKong 23-28 June Under MTDC's theoretical module, @neilsadler.bsky.social will explore the role of translation within the practice of #disinformation #MTDC25 Find out more here: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/research-sch...

4th Int'l Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture (#MTDC25 ) #HongKong 23-28 June Also under #MTDC25 's theoretical module, #HenryJones will examine how materiality impacts media translation in digital culture Learn more here: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/research-sch...

This year, the #APTIS conference will be online and hosted by @centras-ucl.bsky.social. #APTIS25 “Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future #language professionals?”) will take place on 3–4 November The Call for Contributions is open until 16 June.

@jossmo.bsky.social will talk about what it might mean to utilize and evaluate technologies while giving equal weight to people, the planet, and performance @CtnHkbu in two weeks. Registration at ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/event/a-trip...

#IPCITI is coming to Warwick in 2025 🤩 Save the date 🗓️ The 18th International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting will take place on 13-14 November @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social CFP coming soon!

CFP conference in Tarragona, Spain. New Literacies in Translation. Keynotes by Sánchez-Gijón and Moorkens. October 9-10, 2025. www.intercultural.urv.cat/en/conferenc...

Now here's a fascinating article: “Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies” by Debra Scoggins Ballentine. In Bible translation studies, we've known for a while that capitalization has its limits (i.e., lost in audio).

We are hiring! @uoylangling.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in Chinese Interpreting and Translation (PT, fixed term). Apply by 03/04/2025. More info 👇 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/associ…

The EST 2025 draft programme is now live - bit.ly/3FBYRMs. Don't forget that reduced rate ‘Early Bird’ registration is also still open until 31 March ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ev...

A promotional post for our new Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation Studies account ( @ctilsleeds.bsky.social) following our recent rebrand. And also, our dedicated EST 2025 account (@estleeds25.bsky.social). Go on! Give us a follow! 😉

Tourism translation research, free online: Destination Italy in English translation and language (1919-1959). Ten texts from a major research project. riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AM...

Spring 2025 Seminar series, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, March 21st, Friday. Join us for my talk "Localization, automation and AI: a human-centered AI (HCAI) approach" Registration: "https://emel.frl.auth.gr/index.php/en/spring-seminar-series-4/program-2025

Summer School in Translation Studies: "Authenticity, Adaptability, and AI: Balancing Trust in Translation and Intercultural Communication”. Venice/Treviso, Italy, 9-13 June 2025

Risk management in translation - new promo for free book youtu.be/ZLrHW1QVIEY?... via @YouTube www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New polemical paper: Risk management in translation. A reply to critics, by Anthony Pym. This adds to and defends the recent book of the same name, contributing to current debates in translation theory without getting too angry. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New issue of Cultus free online: Back to culture. Includes Pym & Katan on cultural translation, authenticity, and fellow travellers www.cultusjournal.com/index.php/cu...

It seems my book is now free to download until 27 February: Risk Management in Translation, by Anthony Pym, being a short explanation of the basic concepts, especially as applied to machine translation and genAI: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Get it while it's hot!

Call for participants. 7-18 July 2025. MC2 Lab’s 3rd International Summer School on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Deadline for applications: 21 February 2025 rebrand.ly/e7konnx

Our paper is out in JoSTrans! Co-authored with Guanpeng, a xiangsheng performer in North America, it explores how xiangsheng grows as translation against political correctness in various political environments while still connected to its roots. Grateful to Lisa, David, Sarah, and all interviewees!

The situation of #ModernLanguage programmes in the UK continues to worsen. Cardiff University has recently announced plans to cut 400 members of staff and programmes, including modern languages, nursing and music. Save MLANG at Cardiff University! chng.it/rgZnmfWdsT

CfP CIUTI Conference 2025: Language Mediation in Flux: Assessing the Impact of Generative AI, 20-21 May, 2025, Madrid, Spain. Extended Deadline: 14 March 2025. Honored to be invited as a keynote speaker. eventos.comillas.edu/123396/secti...

Have you shared your views on #subtitles yet by filling out the The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey? If not, now’s your chance! uksubtitlingaudiences.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/l... Please also share widely with friends, family - anyone you think may be interested. Your views are valued!

Join our panel on IATIS 12 Dec. 10-12, 2025: "Advancing sustainability in Translation Studies in a Social and Human-Centered AI era". Submissions via EasyChair: shorturl.at/hRCly Submission guidelines: iatis.org/index.php/it... www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...

CfP conference: 4-6 September 2025. Trextuality 2 on Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and Circulation. University of Galway. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025 rebrand.ly/3padman

A fully funded PhD studentship to work with the wonderful @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on perceptions of disinformation and trust in the context of Russian foreign influence operations in the Baltics, Afghanistan or Libya www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN069/p...

My (pretty critical) review of Doug Robinson's Questions for Translation Studies has been published in Translation Studies. 50 free downloads are available here. Recommended for anyone who likes arguing: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VR7MX...

CfP: Conference "Translation, Society and Gen AI", Ferdowski University of Mashhad, aitranslation.um.ac.ir. Thanks Prof. Khoshsaligheh for the invitation to deliver a keynote!

Upcoming conference: "Self-translation in children’s and young adult books", University of Padua (jointly organized by the Universities of Padua, Bologna, and Udine), February 13-14 & online. Register here: unipd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there! #translation #traduction

Our SRHE Multilingual University Network event was well attended today. An interesting hybrid event on AI and multilingualism in higher education, with an interdisciplinary panel of speakers and discussants. Well done Jennie Li for leading this and thanks to the University of Hong Kong for hosting.

New for our SI on 'Getting critical about critique' is the paper 'The art of Naqd: communicating critique in Arabic thought' by Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... More interesting articles are coming through in coming days and weeks. Please keep a look out for them.

Call for papers: Conference on Teaching Translation and Interpreting 7 (TTI7) University of Lodz, Poland 23-24 May 2025 www.tti.uni.lodz.pl

Call for papers: Conference theme: Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing University of Granada, Spain 24-25 June 2025 (Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025) sites.google.com/view/humans-...

Call for abstracts & papers: Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation - LANS-TTS issue 25, publication year 2026 Guest Editors: Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University) Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University) lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...

Job opening: Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (but the job seems to be in Suzhou) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ230/s...

🚨 Call for Papers: TSNI 2025! 📅 May 8-9, 2025 📍 Dublin City University Theme: Challenges in Translation & Interpreting 🌍 Explore ethics, AI, accessibility, gender sensitivity & more. 📝 Submit by: Jan 31, 2025 📖 Details: ctts.ie/tsni-5/ And you know what? Registration is free!

Can’t wait to have a read!

Call for Chapters: Public Translation and Interpreting Studies – Goals, Paths, and Epistemologies Ed. Esther Monzó-Nebot & Christopher Mellinger DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20395.76329 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting 28–30 November 2025 at International Christian University (ICU) Tokyo: sites.google.com/view/2nd-int...

RA Post: From Lab to Screen - #Subtitling Research dissemination Sara Ramos Pinto (Leeds) and Carol O'Sullivan (Bristol) are looking for a research #assistant to support a timely transfer project. 6 months from March 2025 Deadline to apply: 30 Jan jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Joss Moorkens in Singapore will speak on AI, sustainability, and translation ethics, online on 10 Jan 2025, 4–6 pm! Zoom: nus-sg.zoom.us/j/8912872590... (Passcode: 551819)

Coming soon: Risk Management in Translation, by Anthony Pym. New expected online publication date: 14 February 2025 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Podcast: Should translators fear the machines?, with Anthony Pym, Yu Hao and Elise Wu. The Secret Life of Language, December 17, 2024. arts.unimelb.edu.au/school-of-la...