CfP: Translation and Interpretation in Museum Settings Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 ⏳ journals.akademicka.pl/moap/announc...

SURVEY: ➡️Help our member Tinka Stoessel (University of Geneva) and join her study about sustainability in the interlingual subtitling of Netflix projects targeting German as the target language🙏 (Survey to be filled out in ENG/DE)

You can now register to attend the online #SubComm symposium happening Friday February 27th✨ In partnership with Subtle - The Subtitlers' Association ✅

CfP - Academia-Industry Synergies in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Showcasing Impactful Collaboration lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...

CfP - TRADIT26: 2nd International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility held at UNED, Madrid, Spain, 15-16 October 2026 (in person/virtually). Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2026 blogs.uned.es/tradit26/

CfP Special issue of AI Linguistica: Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface. The aim is to show what scholarship at the boundary of Translation Studies has to offer to our understanding of generative AI. Deadline 30 Jan 2026. Info: tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/roma...

We have teamed up again with Languages & The Media to offer ESIST members a discounted registration fee for the 16th International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media taking place in London, Senate House 4-6 2026. www.languages-media.com Watch this space! 😉

A new report published by @iti-uk.bsky.social summarises recent surveys on translators' work-related quality of life, led by Akiko Sakamoto Kansai. www.iti.org.uk/resource/twr...

APTIS Conference “Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting” 15–17 April 2026 Cardiff University and Swansea University. Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 January 2026

📣 CfP: PhD Conference ➡️Tradition and Innovation in Translation Studies XIV: Mapping Voices, Texts, and Contexts⬅️ 🎤Keynotes: Anna Jankowska and Joss Moorkens 📍 10-11 February 2026 🌍CPU in Nitra, Slovakia - online (ZOOM) 📝 Abstract submission: 9 January 2026 More at: ktr.ff.ukf.sk/en/research/...

Merry Christmas to all #ESISTmembers 🎄

Don’t forget: CfP for the Languages & The Media conference is now open ⏳ www.languages-media.com?fbclid=IwZnR...

We paired up with another appealing conference 🔝 📅 23-24 April 2026, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy 📅 (EXTENDED) Deadline for abstract submission: 7 January 2026 #ESISTmembers attending as speakers will benefit from a reduced registration fee ✅ More info at: www.unipa.it/Artificial-I...

🎉 Announcing the New ESIST Board! 🎉 We are delighted to introduce the newly elected Board of ESIST – the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation✨ esist.org/about-us/exe...

Survey: ➡️ Educational challenges and curriculum development in audio description ➡️ Principal researchers: Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and María Isabel Rivas Ginel (School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University) forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Fresh out of the press📘 Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Fresh out of the press! 📕 Alexander Künzli, Subtitle quality in the streaming era—The subtitling professional’s perspective, Applied Linguistics, Volume 46, Issue 5, October 2025, Pages 744–757. doi.org/10.1093/appl... academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

CfP: Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons Università degli Studi di Palermo, 23–24 April 2026 Deadline for abstract submission: 22 December 2025 Notification of acceptance: 01 February 2026 www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

🎬 SubSign – Subtitling Sign Languages Course 📆 10–16 December 2025 | 📍 Istituto dei Sordi di Torino (Turin, Italy) 🎥 Teaser: youtube.com/watch?v=W3Fn... 📅 Deadline to apply: Monday 17 November 👉 How to apply Fill in the Google Form docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS... [email protected]

Last reminder for all ESIST members 📌 ESIST General Meeting 2025 📍12 November 6pm CET. We’d love to see as many of you there as possible to talk about what we’ve been up to, elect the ESIST board for the next round and celebrate 30 years of our association! See you all tomorrow!!!

Carla Piqueres Centelles is conducting a survey to examine current trends in professional subtitling for social media in Spain. Link for subtitling professionals: jaumei.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Link for professional subtitling clients: jaumei.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Dear #ESISTmembers! Please take a moment to check your mailboxes 📬 for the agenda and additional materials for the ESIST GM📍 Join us to talk about what we’ve been up to, elect the ESIST board for the next round (nominations are open!), and celebrate 30 years of our association 🎂 🥂

📢 Open Call for presentations at the 3rd Forum Without Barriers On Accessible Cinema Topic of 2026 edition: How can cinema and film contribute to social inclusion and accessibility? 📝 Submissions are open until October 31, 2025. Details and submission guidelines: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Event invitation: Intersections: Translation, Accessibility, Inclusion Forum des Savoirs, MSH Dijon + online Thursday 23 October See the programme and register at: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f30751...

Job opportunity 🍀 Full-time Academic in Audiovisual Translation Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Deadline: 12 November 2025 jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

Dear #ESISTmembers, Please take a moment to check your mailboxes 📬 for detailed information about the ESIST General Meeting 2025 📍 We look forward to your participation!

CfP: e-Conference SubComm Symposium: AVT Research for Practice 27 February 2026 Deadline for submission: 28th November 2025 subcomm.co.uk/events/

📢 The Call for Proposals is now open for Languages & The Media 2026! 📍 4–6 November 2026 | Senate House, University of London #LAM26 #LanguagesAndMedia #MediaLocalization #MediaAccessibility #Conference2026 #CallForProposals www.languages-media.com

CfP 🔊International Translation Conference: Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons, University of Palermo @unipa.it, 23–24 April 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: 22/12/2025 Full CfP here: www.unipa.it/dipartimenti... www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

Convergence Conference, 17 - 19 June 2026, University of Surrey Guildford, UK. The Centre for Translation Studies is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication. More ifo: www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-trans...

ESIST Member of the week is María López. "My research interests focus on AVT and Accessibility, particularly audio description. I joined ESIST and the Communication Team because I value the exchange of knowledge and collaboration." If you want to be featured, please reach out: [email protected]

It's ESIST Member of the Week Campaign back again! Our MotW is Lucie Couset, PhD candidate researching how AI preserves humour in subtitle translation. "I was thrilled to join ESIST, a community that shares my passion for AVT." To be featured too, please reach out: [email protected]

APTIS25 Online Conference at UCL, 3–4 Nov 2025 “Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future language professionals?” CenTraS is looking forward to hosting the APTIS25 online conference via Zoom Webinar. Info: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aptis25ucl

Meet Fuqiang (Daniel) Zhao, one of the newest members of our Communication Team and this week’s #ESISTMemberOfTheWeek ✨ Daniel is pursuing a PhD in Translation at the University of Bristol (UK), where he is researching the English translations and reception of Jin Yong’s wuxia novels 🍀

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Fuqiang (Daniel) Zhao, María López Rubio and Lucie Couset as the new members of the ESIST Communication Team. Stay tuned to learn more about the new members of our crew 🥰 @serenellamassidda.bsky.social @milijanperez.bsky.social

Summer readings 📖 @serenellamassidda.bsky.social: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI ➡️Published on Translation Spaces, Special Issue "Creative Audiovisual Translation" edited by Irene Ranzato and Frederic CHAUME Varela benjamins.com/catalog/ts.2...

How do you subtitle a language that is visual and spatial? ➡️ Take a look at the first State of the Art report from the Erasmus+ project SubSign – Subtitling Sign Languages and explore how current subtitling practices meet (or fail to meet) the unique features of sign languages ✅ sub-sign.eu/results/

Summer Readings 📕 Vol. 17 No. 2 (2025): Translation & Interpreting - Special issue on audiovisual translation and media accessibility in the age of streaming platforms Guest editors: Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán & Serenella Zanotti www.trans-int.org/index.php/tr...

Second edition of the Summer School in Language and Translation Technologies. Università di Napoli L'Orientale, 16-20 September 2025. sites.google.com/view/ssltt20...

International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application University of Mons, Belgium 6-8 May 2026 Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2025 More information: www.tripsconference2026.com

CfP conference 13-14 Nov 2025. International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2025) — Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting. University of Warwick. Deadline for abstracts: 25 July 2025 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

New publication out✨ Raising the Bar in Audiovisual Translation: Developing a Subtitling Competence Framework by Jorge Díaz-Cintas and Serenella Massidda (2025) siba-ese.unile.it/index.php/li... @serenellamassidda.bsky.social @jorgediazcintas.bsky.social

Out soon ✨ Check out the new volume of Multilingual Matters on Ideologies of Communication in Japan: Speakers, Interaction and the Creation of Difference featuring two interesting studies on #AVT and #GameLocalisation: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

Thank You to Gabriele Uzzo For His Service to ESIST Newsletter 🙏🙏🙏 We deeply appreciate the time and effort he devoted to this role and thank him warmly for his meaningful contribution to the ESIST community 💕

Interesting reading ✅ ➡️Adapted Literature and Theatre in Audiovisual Translation ➡️Edited by Irene Ranzato & Luca Valleriani (2024) token.ujk.edu.pl/volumes/volu...

Do not miss a new En sincronía podcast on accessibility in higher education ✅ www.ensincroniapodcast.com/1112315/epis...

Delighted to announce that the 2025 ESIST Prize for the Most Outstanding PhD Thesis in the field of AVT and Media Accessibility was awarded to Sixin Liao, for her thesis The Impact of Visual and Auditory Information on Subtitle Processing: An Eye Tracking Study at Media for All 11, Hong Kong 2025 🏆

Event invitation: e-Expert Seminar in Translation and Language Teaching (8th edition) ➡️ organised by University College London (UK) and the University of Cordoba (Spain) ➡️ free hybrid event 🔜Monday, 16th June 2025 (9.00 - 18.00) eventos.uco.es/131809/detai...

New article out ✨ Simonetta Falchi and Serenella Massidda: Subtitling The Handmaid’s Tale for an Italian Audience (2025) More at: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.intralinea.org/archive/arti...

Are you attending Media for All 11 in Hong Kong? If you’re an hashtag#ESIST member and you don’t yet have a badge, don’t be shy to ask our President Sharon, who has a stash with her and will be happy to give you one! hashtag#M4All11