translation studies

Taking its cue from Lawrence Venuti's work on the scandal of translation, the ways that translations of texts originally produced in other languages carry the power to affront the norms and assumptions of both source and target languages and cultures, this roundtable for the South Atlantic Modern Language Association's conference, which will take place at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL, 13–15 November 2020, welcomes submissions on either particularly scandalous adaptations or the scandal of adaptation generally.

 WVTESOL 23rd Annual Conference

Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV
March 20th and 21st, 2020

Conference website: https://www.tesolwv.org/

The 2020 WVTESOL Conference Committee welcomes and encourages you to submit a proposal to our 23rd Annual Conference to be held in Fairmont, WV, on March 21st with pre-conference activities on March 20th. Proposals for papers, panel discussions, workshops, resource sharing, posters/exhibits and teaching ideas are expected to address the conference theme: Culture and Identity in the English Language Classroom.

Important Dates

Call for Papers

In Comparative Literature, the increasingly contested field of “World Literature”, and Translation Studies, the notion of the “untranslatability” of literature has gained purchase in recent years, due in part to the work of Emily Apter and the continual rediscoveries of the work of Walter Benjamin. Literary translation is conceived of, in one view, as impossible, and in another view as an activity (even an art form) with infinite possibilities for the translator but minimal responsibilities toward that which is being translated.

CALL FOR PAPERS – SPRING 2020

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open access academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

CALL FOR PAPERS 

2nd International Conference on Intersemiotic Translation 

TRANSMEDIAL TURN? POTENTIALS, PROBLEMS, AND POINTS TO CONSIDER 

8-11 December 2020, University of Tartu, Estonia 

transmedia.ut.ee 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

Irina Rajewsky, Free University of Berlin 

Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware 

Anthony Pym, University of Melbourne 

HONORARY SPEAKER 

Peeter Torop, University of Tartu 

Translation Review is a peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing the best new scholarship on all aspects of literary translation studies. Each issue highlights a translator in an interview and features articles and essays on the history, practice, and theory of translation, as well as translations of contemporary international writers into English. 

Please see instructions for authors available at the link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=utrv20&page=instructions

Cesare Pavese left an unforgettable mark on Twentieth century Italian culture. His multifaceted intellectual personality took many shapes. He was a poet, a translator, a member of the Einaudi publishing house, a novelist: in short, he was a complete intellectual. His literary production was characterized by an extraordinary open-mindedness: he was the first to translate into Italian the American authors who influenced him; with "Dialoghi con Leucò" he reinterpreted classical mythology; he was interested in cinema. Seventy years after his death, what methodologies can we employ to study his work? How  can we interpret his open-mindedness, based on the cultural context of the first half of the Twentieth century and looking at the present time? 

PHANTASMIC BINDS: CULTURE AS POLTERGEIST

Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature 

Biennial Graduate Student Conference

April 3-4, 2020

Keynote: Professor Lydia Liu, Columbia University

Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations

Beyond the Anglocentric Fantastic

28th – 29th May 2020

https://gifcon.org/home/

S13: Intralingual Translation: Rewriting for new contexts and readers

Al-Kīmīya  - Revue de la Faculté de langues et de traduction

Appel à contributions pour le numéro 18

Le dossier thématique

Le numéro 18 d’Al-Kīmīya, la Revue de la Faculté de langues et de traduction de l’Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, reprend la thématique du numéro 17 : « Transformations : traduction et langues »

Call For Submissions: Special Issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal

International Dickinson: Scholarship in English Translation

The conference will focus on linguistic fragmentation as a means of cultural inclusion. In the passage from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, a number of written translations in various vernaculars and dialects already appear – suffice it to think of the first attempts at translating the Bible, of the effect of Carolingian culture, or of King Alfred’s cultural policy, aimed at making vernaculars the vehicle of faith and knowledge. As we move towards the late Middle Ages, translation becomes an essential instrument for the transmission of literature, religion and science. The proliferation of translations, through the linguistic fragmentation represented by target languages, allowed the transferral of texts to an ever-wider audience.