translation studies

While Percival Everett’s novel James (2024) functions as a radical reworking of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)–freeing Twain’s literary creation from the constraints of the nineteenth century novel as well as the expectations of its original audience–”tellings and retellings” have long served as a mode for revising and reimagining canonical narratives.  From Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) and Ursula K Le Guin’s Lavinia (2008) to Sandra Newman’s Julia (2023), literary retellings often expose the ideological foundations of the canon while amplifying voices historically marginalized or silenced within it.

Society for Cinema & Media Studies – Translation/Publication Committee

in collaboration with

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2026-2027

"Digital Memory and the Translation of World Literature"

Conference organized by the American Comparative Literature Association
Official Seminar organized by The ICLA Translation Committee
To submit a proposal, please follow the link:
https://www.acla.org/seminar/fde38874-a710-4e69-b62e-f169ab7f722e

Venue: VIRTUAL 2027 Annual Meeting

15-16 May 2027, Virtual

Rethinking Cultural Mediation in Global Media

NeMLA 2027 – Panel

How does culture change as it travels across languages, media, technologies, and national borders? What roles do translators, audiences, institutions, platforms, and emerging technologies play in shaping how cultural meanings are represented, circulated, and received?

What if craft is not the lesser twin of art, but another theory of making, one in which the hand thinks, the material answers, and form emerges through a dialogue with earth, fibre, clay, metal, wood, stone, pigment, or thread? What if the translator is not a mere carrier but a craftsperson, whose hands weaves culture, sound, meaning and memory? Is craft merely an act of mechanical repetition, or is it a profound performance of material translation? Is translation a routine reproduction or a craftsperson of cultural artefacts?

We are currently inviting abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue on “Reparation in Sinophone Literatures”. We are delighted that this issue will be guest-edited by Dr Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Editor-in-Chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Honorary Researcher at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, and former Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE), Saarland University.

The deadline for abstracts for this Special Issue is 15 October 2026, while full papers are expected by 28 February 2027.

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DYNAREL CONFERENCE 2027

"Neighboring Textual and Intellectual Traditions: Dialogues, Polemics, and Translations"

Description: While many works of literature have been translated across the globe, there are still many texts that have been neglected in translation studies. If we compare Germans Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to Ion Creanga, a 19th century Moldovan/Romanian author who adapted some of their stories into Romanian, we can recognize at once that untranslated voices can marginalize literary communities. Creanga’s “Capru cu trei iezi” (or The Goat and Her Three Kids), an adaptation of “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” by the Brothers Grimm, has been told to every Romanian child at bedtime since the turn of the 20th century, and yet, most outside of the country have not heard his version.