translation studies

DEADLINE EXTENDED:

updated: 
Saturday, April 18, 2026 - 6:50am
“Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIRGINIA WOOLF
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

 “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIRGINIA WOOLFISTANBUL, TURKEY deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 full name / name of organization: 35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/virginia-woolf-conference-2026/  contact email: woolftranssound26@gmail.com 

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — THE ANTONYM ONLINE

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:54pm
The Antonym
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Languages travel. We are here to listen.
The Antonym Online is now open for submissions.
We invite translators from across the world to bring voices across linguistic borders and into English. We are committed to publishing works that carry the texture, rhythm, and cultural nuance of their original language while finding new life in translation.
What we are looking for:
Translated short stories
Translated poetry
Translated non-fiction
We accept translations from any language into English.
Submission Guidelines:

Call for Submissions Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:52pm
PAMLA Conference 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Call for SubmissionsComparative Media Panel (In-Person)
PAMLA Conference 2026Primary Area - Secondary Area:
Film and Media Studies - Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, ConflictSession Chair:
Violet Luxton (Claremont Graduate University)
violet.luxton2@cgu.edu PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MAY 25, 2026

Translational Convergences and Divergences in the Global Children’s Literature

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:50pm
 Children's Literature in Education
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

This special issue aims to cultivate greater convergence and contribute to the broader discourse on cross-cultural exchange, particularly in contexts beyond the Euro-American center. We encourage investigations into how cultural values, ideological frameworks, and aesthetic sensibilities shape the translation and reception of children’s literature across diverse cultural contexts. We also encourage the integration of new theoretical lenses and trends, such as transcreation, affect theory, audiovisual translation, cognitive translation studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to gender and ecology, and the impact of AI, in the discussion of translational convergences and divergences in global children’s literature.

 

1st DL2 International Workshop

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:50pm
Digital Language Learning (DL2)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

1st DL2 International Workshop

  • Date: 3-4 December 2026

  • Venue: Hybrid - University of Alicante (campus) and online 

  • Paper submission deadline: 30th September 2026

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 1st DL2 International Workshop, which will be held in hybrid format on 3rd and 4th December 2026 at the University of Alicante and online. We kindly ask you to distribute this invitation among your colleagues and staff.

 

EATS6: Arts and Technology in East Asian Translation Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:21pm
Arizona State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. 

Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Dr. Roshni Subba (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Calcutta) & Injam Ahmed Molla (Independent Researcher, UGC NET Qualified)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposed Edited Volume 

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

Editors

Dr. Roshni Subba

Assistant Professor, Department of English

University of Calcutta

Injam Ahmed Molla

Independent Researcher(UGC NET Qualified)

 

About the Volume

Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE, SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118, PUNJAB, INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Indian Knowledge System Cell,

Post Graduate Department of English,

And

Post Graduate Department of Economics,

SRI GURU TEG BAHADUR KHALSA COLLEGE,

SRI ANANDPUR SAHIB-140118,

PUNJAB, INDIA

organizes

Two-days International Conference

(Offline Mode)

On

Indian Knowledge System: Perspectives and Imperatives

(6-7 August, 2026)

From Cosmopolitan Promise to Cosmopolitan Crisis: Asian Literary and Cinematic Formations of Diaspora, Memory, and Global Belonging

updated: 
Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 8:09pm
Asian Comparative Literature and Film Panel, RMMLA 2026 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

What happens when cosmopolitanism no longer promises the world but reveals its limits?

 

Cosmopolitanism has long been associated with mobility, openness, translation, and coexistence across difference. In Asian literary and cinematic contexts, it has often been linked to port cities, diasporic networks, colonial encounters, and transregional circulation. Yet this cosmopolitan promise has never been equally available to all.

 

CFP: Intermediality in Communication. Translation, Media, Discourse.

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:04pm
Kaunas University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Research group “Translation and Language Studies” (Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology) is organising an international conference on linguistics, discourse, media, communication, translation, cultural literacy and impact on society “Intermediality in Communication: Translation, Media, Discourse” held in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The scope of the conference includes 8 thematic sections with their own set of topics:

Linguistics. This section aims to examine the current directions in linguistic research, particularly focusing on how language interacts with different forms of media. 

(PAMLA)Affect and Emotion in World Literature (Panel / In-Person)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - 10:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

Abstract

This session invites papers exploring the role of affect and emotion in contemporary world literature. Recent developments in affect theory—particularly the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant—have emphasized how emotions circulate across individuals, communities, and cultural contexts. Literary texts offer a powerful site for examining how affect shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and social transformation within global and transnational frameworks.

Vol. 33 The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:02pm
The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Call for Papers of the academic journal The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies for its following volume is open until May 31, 2026. Volume 33 will be published in December 2026.

The Grove is a peer-reviewed, indexed periodical. Published annually and distributed both nationally and internationally, The Grove is sponsored by the research group HUM-271 of the Regional Andalusian Government, published by the University of Jaén (Spain).

The primary scope of The Grove is literatures in English, critical theory, English language and linguistics, translation, English as a foreign language and cultural studies.

Call for Abstracts: Fifth International Language-for-All Conference

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:54pm
Cukurova University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye.

Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary, and cultural practices relate to questions of power, knowledge, ideology, and social inequality

English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers - “Global Queer and Trans Class Relations”

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:53pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

English Language Notes (ELN) Call for Papers 

“Global Queer and Trans Class Relations” 
 

A special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), Vol. 65, No. 2 (October 2027) 

Edited by Matt Brim and Emmanuel David 

Submissions due September 1, 2026 

 

 

Literary Druid - Regular Issue April 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:40pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Name of Organisation: Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)

Contact email: literarydruid@gmail.com  

 

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”

updated: 
Friday, March 27, 2026 - 3:39pm
35th International Conference Virginia Woolf
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 

35th International Conference Virginia Woolf 

Open Forum “Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation”, Istambul, Jun 24-Jun 28, 2026

Update: We are currently working to transform this forum into a hybrid format. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would prefer to participate in person or online.

WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM

updated: 
Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 4:01pm
University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

CFP: WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM

**The deadline for this CFP has now been extended to Wednesday, April 1.** 

 

October 15 and 16, 2026, in Rome, Italy

 

MLA 2027 Guaranteed Panels: 'Empowering Language Change' and 'Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation'

updated: 
Thursday, March 19, 2026 - 12:59pm
Modern Languages Association - LSL Language Change Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The LSL Language Change Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the 2027 MLA Annual Conference in Los Angeles:

Empowering Language Change

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how linguistic changes enable—and emerge from—emancipatory practices across spoken, written, digital, pedagogical, and/or related contexts.

Listening to Language Change: Evidence of Emancipation

This guaranteed panel invites papers examining how emancipatory movements become visible through linguistic changes—historically, contemporarily, or in imagined futures—across disciplines.

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:50pm
University of Silesia in Katowice and Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris and the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Silesia in Katowice cordially invite you to the academic conference entitled:

IN COLLABORATION ON COOPERATION: RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS WITHIN FRENCH-POLISH TEAMS

9–10 July 2026
Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
74 Rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France

MLA 2027: Revoicing Non-Humans through Ecological Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:44pm
MLA 2027 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 29, 2026

In recent years, critiques of human exceptionalism and extractivism have prompted scholars to reconsider the role of translation as a communicative practice capable of engaging with nonhuman voices. Dominant strands of Western thought, from Descartes to Heidegger, have long reinforced the perceived superiority of humans over other forms of life and expression. Challenging this hierarchy requires not only rethinking human–nonhuman relations but also reconsidering how communication itself is understood within translation studies.

Austrian Negatives - In the Darkroom of the Habsburg Empire (7-8 Oct. 2026)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:42pm
Österreichisches Historisches Institut in Rom
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Internationale Tagung
Istituto Storico Austriaco a Roma

Austrian Negatives
In the Darkroom of the Habsburg Empire
Maria Giovanna Campobasso, Flavia Di Battista, Matteo Zupancic
7-8 October 2026
Deadline: 10th May, 2026

Peace in Literature, Literature for Peace: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Humanistic Futures

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:41pm
Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

In a world increasingly marked by geopolitical strife, cultural polarization, and digital fragmentation, literature continues to stand as one of humanity’s most profound instruments for fostering peace, empathy, and human solidarity. From ancient oral traditions to contemporary narratives, literary expression has served as a repository of shared human experience—preserving collective memory, resisting violence, and envisioning alternative futures grounded in compassion and coexistence. The pursuit and preservation of peace have remained among the fundamental purposes and aesthetic aspirations of literature since antiquity.

MLA 2027: Mother Tongues and Fatherlands: Nation and Language in South Asian Literature

updated: 
Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 11:50am
South Asian Literary Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Seeking presentations addressing multilingualism and linguistic rights in South Asian literature and culture for a guaranteed panel of the MLA-allied South Asian Literary Association. 300-word abstract and short CV.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Hans-Georg Erney, Georgia Southern U (herney@georgiasouthern.edu )

BABEL-AFIAL Special Issue: Babel/s in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:45pm
Dept. of English, University of Vigo, Spain.
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

 

BABEL AFIAL journal. Dept of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain. Call for Papers for No. 35, Special Issue: “BABEL/S IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NEGOTIATIONS, CULTURAL (MIS)ENCOUNTERS AND TEXTUAL VARIATIONS IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD”. Deadline:  31 March 2026. Contact info: babelafial@uvigo.gal. Journal info (both English & Spanish versions) at: https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/announcement/view/38

 

Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:44pm
Lancaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation

Lancaster University, UK

1-2 October 2026

Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID

Abstract submission deadline: 20 April 2026

 

Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Ursula K. Heise (UCLA), Prof. Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (Edinburgh University).

Confirmed keynote performance: Khairani Barokka

On Sean Bonney: Poetic Radicalism at the Turn of the Third Millennium

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:32pm
Université Paris Cité
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

On Sean Bonney: Poetic Radicalism at the Turn of the Third Millennium

 

A two-day international conference to take place at

Université Paris Cité

 

10th and 11th of December, 2026

 

Organising committee:

Bastien Goursaud (Université de Picardie – Jules Verne)

Andrew Hodgson (Université Paris Cité)

Abigail Lang (Université Paris Cité)

Elise Legal (Université Paris 8)

Sean Mark (Université Catholique de Lille)

 

Chinese Poetry: Institution and Life

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:14pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

CFP: Chinese Poetry: Institution and Life
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Annual Convention
Conference Dates: October 8-10, 2026
Location: Marriott Courtyard in Ogden, Utah

Session 1 The Institutions of Chinese Poetry

Postgraduate Conference - The New Human: Posthumanist Perspectives in Comparative Literature and Translation

updated: 
Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - 12:37pm
Research Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 15, 2026

 

If literature has long played a central role in defining what it means to be human, posthumanist thought urges us to reconsider that definition in the face of unprecedented technological, ecological, and cultural transformations. Rather than announcing the ‘end’ of the human, posthumanism interrogates the category itself, foregrounding humanity’s entanglements with other species, material environments, and technological systems. In doing so, it challenges human exceptionalism and exposes the historical contingency and political implications of the ‘human’ as a normative construct.

Translating Resistance: Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity

updated: 
Monday, March 2, 2026 - 1:23pm
International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Translating Resistance:
Literary Activism in Conflict and Solidarity

  • Hosted by The Translation Research & Instruction Program (TRIP) at Binghamton University
  • October 3–4, 2026

Funded in part by The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Regional Workshop Fund


Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
  • Professor Samah Selim (Rutgers University, USA)
  • Dr. Ruth Abou Rached (University of Manchester, UK) 

Call for Papers:

Scholars, researchers, and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this two-day workshop, hosted by Binghamton University (SUNY), to be held in New York on October 3–4, 2026. 

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