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.

The sixth East Asian Translation Studies conference (EATS6) will be hosted by Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, from February 25–27, 2027, on the theme of Arts and Technology in East Asian Translation. We welcome presentations and participation in discussion by both researchers and practitioners.

 We welcome proposals for panels and individual papers on topics including but not limited to the following:

• The art of translation in East Asian contexts
• Translation as a technology
• East Asian technologies of publishing/printing and their relationship to translation
• Translation of art writing
• Technologies of film and media translation
• Theorizing translation in terms of art and technology
• The place of technical translation in translation education and theorizing
• Translation education in our current intellectual and political climates
• Translation as art / art as translation
• Artificial Intelligence and translation

The conference will be held in-person, but some online panels and presentations may be available, depending on circumstances.

Proposed keynote speakers:

• Haun Saussy, University of Chicago
• Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University
• Janet Hong, Translator

ASU Organizing Committee:

Lucas Klein (chair), Sue Hyon Bae, Sookja Cho, Chris Du, William Hedberg, Liang-Jing Y. Zhu, Zhiqiang Liu, Kendra McDuffie, Antonella Morgillo, Young Oh, Fangzhou Shi, Robert Tuck, Nicholas Morrow Williams, Michaela Mengxue Wu, Fay Zhen

Steering Committee

• Prof. Nana Sato-Rossberg (SOAS, University of London)
• Prof. Sharon Tzu-Yun Lai (National Taiwan Normal University)
• Prof. HUI Ting Yan-Isaac (Lingnan University)
• Dr. Eun-Kyoung Choi (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Scientific Committee

• The conference organizing committee and advisory board members