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Translation Summer School!
This year the Russian workshop will be led by Anna Gunin. The deadline for the early-bird discount is 31 March, but it will still be possible to apply after that date.
See more details at the link here: https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/
Translating Ukraine Summer Institute, co-organized by the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), DUSS UAlberta—Disrupted Ukrainian Scholars and Students Initiative, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, the Yale Ukrainian Program at Yale University, Ukrainian Studies Program at Cambridge University, Kolegium Europy Wschodniej, National Ossolinski Institute, New Eastern Europe, NGO Translatorium, and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US, is currently accepting applications for its Summer 2026 program. The organizers are inviting all eligible candidates to apply by 1 February 2026.
The full call for applications can be found here: https://www.
Program:
Supported by academic partners in Canada, the US, the UK, and Poland, this summer institute will focus on training emerging and mid-career translators in the field of literary and academic translation. In the course of intensive twelve-day training, invited summer institute faculty and experienced professionals will lead workshops and professional development sessions, aimed at building key skills in Ukrainian-English translation. The three offered training modules will center on translation of literary prose, poetry, and nonfiction/academic texts. Please note that each participant will be required to complete all three modules. The program will also offer space for working on and presenting the participants’ individual projects and for fostering mentoring relationships.Location: Wroclaw, Poland
Dates: 6-17 July 2026
a) practitioners with experience in the field of Ukrainian to English translation, be it beginners or mid-career professionals;
b) students enrolled in Ukrainian language courses and translation programs at accredited universities and participating institutions.
To apply:
Fill out the Stage 1 Application Form attaching your CV, statement of interest (max. 2 pages), and indicating the names and email addresses of two referees by 1 February 2026. Please note that only successful Stage 1 applicants will be invited to proceed to the Stage 2 applications where they will be required to submit their translation samples.Deadline: October 20, 2022
The Hryhoriy Kochur Department of Translation Studies and Contrastive Linguistics, Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Studies in partnership with the Center for Academic and Cross-Cultural Communication of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv under the co-organizational support of Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences cordially invite you to participate in the international e-conference SLAVIC LITERARY STUDIES DECONSTRUCTED: TRANSLATING UKRAINE (November 7-8, 2022) that aims to revisit the role, positioning and impact of Ukrainian studies that stood for decades – together with Polish, Czech and Slovakian scholarship – in the shadow of Russian studies within the world leading Slavic academic centers.
As the research community strives for in‐depth investigations into this unduly neglected situation, some researchers have rightly expressed concerns over the academic rigor and trustworthiness of modern Slavic studies with its unequal if not manipulative representations of cultures. Numerous departments of “Russian and Slavic Studies” inviting students to acquire knowledge of Russian literature, culture and language with the elements of other Slavic cultures seem to view the latter as the Other, which, in Said’s sense, is constrained within the frames of imperial knowledge imposed by Russia.
As the paradigm shift in the Slavic Studies is inevitable, the present conference is a research-based, scholarly response to the current moment that calls for deep rethinking of the area, re-reading and actualizing the multi-perspective Ukrainian narrative and opening up new intellectual perspectives. The event will provide a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers and educators in Slavic Studies to present and discuss the most recent concerns, trends and thematic innovations.
The participants of the conference are invited to expand the discussion on the following aspects:
Organizing Committee invites proposals for presentations on any theoretical, empirical, and/or methodological aspect of research related to the conference theme.
The official conference languages are English and Ukrainian. Simultaneous interpreting will be provided.
Keynote speakers confirmed to date:
Rory Finnin, University Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Oleh Ilnytzkyj, Professor Emeritus of Ukrainian Literature, Language & Culture, University of Alberta, Canada
Mariya Zubrytska, Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literary Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine
Marko Pavlyshyn, Emeritus Professor in the Mykola Zerov Centre for Ukrainian Studies, Monash University, Australia.
Two categories of proposals will be considered: (i) individual papers; (ii) panels.
Proposals for individual papers: Each paper presentation will be scheduled for 15-20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. For individual presentations, a max. 350-word abstract (including references) and a bio-note should be sent to the organizing committee conference_slavic_
Proposals for panels: Panels make up a collection of up to four paper presentations, each paper will be scheduled for 15-20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Panel organizers are asked to submit the panel abstracts with a list of invited speakers en bloc to the organizing committee conference_slavic_
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission of proposals October 20, 2022
Notification of acceptance October 27, 2022
Deadline for registration for non-presenting participants November 4, 2022 (please send to the conference email address your contact information).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Professor Oksana Dzera
Associate Professor Iryna Odrekhivska
Professor Olena Haleta
Associate Professor Maryana Hirnyak
Deadline: February 14, 2022
Abstract submission via
https://easychair.org/
submission deadline is 14 Feb 2022.
Details are available in the second call for papers at the
conference web:
https://tt2022.ff.cuni.cz/
The conference is a continuation of the well-established Translation in Transition series that serves as a meeting point for scholars conducting research in translation based on an empirical methodological paradigm. With the previous conferences in mind, held in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona and Kent (Ohio), the Prague edition wants to put special emphasis on three main directions: we would like to draw on the vast resources of the Czech National Corpus (including InterCorp, a large multilingual parallel corpus), and concentrate on the methodological interplay between translation studies and contrastive linguistics. At the same time, prominence will be given to machine translation, as Prague is one of its international centres.
We welcome contributions grounded in empirical approaches to studying translation, as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics:
- Italian (mentored by Howard Curtis)
- Japanese (mentored by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
- Korean (mentored by Anton Hur)
- Latvian (mentored by Kaija Straumanis)
- Norwegian (mentored by Kari Dickson)
- Polish (mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
- Russian (mentored by Oliver Ready)
- Swiss German (mentored by Jamie Lee Searle)
- 2 x Visible Communities Mentorships: one mentorship for a UK-based Black or Brown literary translator and one for a UK-based literary translator from the diaspora, heritage or community languages of the UK(mentored by either Meena Kandasamy or Sawad Hussain)
- British Centre for Literary Translation and British Council Mentorship: one mentorship for a literary translator currently resident in a country on the OECD list of countries qualifying for Official Development Assistance, or (in the case of refugees or asylum-seekers from ODA-eligible countries) who has been resident in their destination country for 12 months or fewer (mentored by Canan Marasligil). Two runners-up will receive two digital mentoring sessions each (mentored by Ros Schwartz)
Here is the link with all the info: https://
Here at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), we are looking forward to our 44th annual conference this fall, and I’m writing to you all to encourage you to participate in this year's conference!
After careful consideration of the ever-evolving situation surrounding the ongoing pandemic, the ALTA staff, Board, and Conference Committee have determined to hold the 2021 ALTA conference jointly online and in person. Conference events will take place throughout the fall in partnership with the University of Arizona College of Humanities, including online pitch sessions in September, online workshops in October, an online weekend on October 15-17, and an in-person weekend on November 11-13 in Tucson, AZ.
This year’s theme is “Inflection Points.” As we begin to emerge from this moment of crisis, the ALTA44 theme allows us to reflect on how the field of literature in translation might take new turns, rather than return to an unsustainable normal at a time when change must occur. We invite roundtables and seminars that address the theme “Inflection Points,” broadly conceived. The full call for participation can be found on our website, along with proposal guidelines.
The deadline for proposals for ALTA44 is June 21, 2021. We look forward to seeing the creative roundtables and seminars our members submit, as we connect the literary translation community around the world!
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with Program Manager Kelsi Vanada with any questions you might have, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
We are actively seeking essays for a new, Open Access volume which is aimed at stimulating and consolidating scholarship about the global imprint of Russian literature in translation. See below for more details.
Scholars with expertise in English Studies, Modern Languages including Russian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies are invited to submit essays for a new edited volume on the global translation and reception of Russian literary fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context (2023) is intended to constitute the first geographically coherent, culturally inclusive, and theoretically consistent model of the distribution and influence of translated Russian literature on global cultures from 1900 to the present day. Given that many leading studies in this field have privileged Russian cultural transmission in Britain and/or Russian influence on British writers (May 1994; Kaye 1999; Beasley and Bullock 2013; Beasley 2020), the editors particularly invite new scholarship on the transmission of Russian culture and on intertextualities between specific Russian writers and non-Anglophone literatures. We envisage selecting up to 20 essays for our Open Access publication, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme in connection with the University of Exeter-based RusTrans Project (www.rustrans.exeter.ac.uk), Grant Agreement no. 802437.
‘Translation is the foremost example of a particular type of consecration in the literary world’ (Casanova, 2007, p. 133). Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and consecration of Russian literature as a world-wide process. Marks (2002) was among the first Western scholars to demonstrate the significance of individual Russian authors, read in translation, on major writers in post-colonial states; for example, the influence of Dostoevsky on the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz; or of Tolstoy upon Gandhi. Recent monographs on the transmission and/or translation of Russian literature in Brazil (Gomide 2011), China (Gamsa 2008), Korea (Cho 2016), and South Africa (Jackson 2015), have demonstrated both the reach of Russian literary culture, and its enduring relevance in diverse milieux. This volume aims firstly to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’, and secondly to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and reception of Russian literature across the globe. Our overall research questions, given here for guidance, include the following:
The editors particularly encourage new research on the transmission of Russian literature in non-Anglophone literatures and post-colonial nations, including:
Essays should conform to one of the following models, drawing on appropriate Translation Studies theoretical apparatus (such as Venuti 1995, Pym 1998, Casanova 1999/2007, Damrosch 2003, Heilbron & Sapiro 2007, Munday 2014), in addition to topic-specific criticism and theory:
While prose fiction for adults is this volume’s major focus, the editors will also consider proposals relating to poetry and plays. Following an initial selection process by the volume editors, authors of longlisted abstracts will be invited to submit a full-length essay by December 2021. Essays should range in length between 5,000 and 8,000 words; each essay should focus on the transmission and subsequent influence of Russian literature in the culture of a particular nation, region, or ethnic group. Following double-blind peer review and subsequent contributor revision, publication in print and online should take place no later than Spring 2023.
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding bibliography, to the editors (Dr Muireann Maguire and Dr Cathy McAteer) at rustrans@exeter.ac.uk, by March 31st, 2021. Any enquiries should be sent to the same address.
American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the next round of the AAUS Book, Article, and Translation Prizes. For this round, works published in 2019 and 2020 are eligible (as long as they were not nominated last year, as each work can be considered for a prize only once). Eligibility criteria are as follows. Deadline for nominated works to be received by members of the prize committees has been EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 28, 2021.
The AAUS Book Prize is awarded for the best scholarly monograph-length work in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English, preferably by a single author, but by no more than two. Textbooks, collections, bibliographies, reference works, and self-published books are ineligible. English translations of scholarly monographs published initially in another language will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but will generally not receive highest priority unless their content represents a major contribution to Ukrainian studies.
The AAUS Article Prize is awarded for the best article-length work in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture published in English. Journal articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and chapters in scholarly collections are eligible.
The AAUS Translation Prize is awarded for the best translation into English of a book-length literary work originally published in Ukrainian.
Please submit nominations via the AAUS website by clicking on the relevant link to nominate a book, article or translation for the AAUS Prize. Copies or e-copies of nominated books (monographs and translations) must be sent to all members of the current AAUS Book Prize and AAUS Translation Prize committees, respectively. Mailing addresses of committee members are listed on the website. Works nominated for the Article Prize need to be submitted and uploaded via the website. Please direct any questions to the respective committees at book_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, article_prize@ukrainianstudies.org, translation_prize@ukrainianstudies.org. Prize winners will be announced by early May during the ASN Convention at Columbia University, New York (6-8 May, 2021).
Scholars with relevant expertise are invited to submit essays for a new edited volume on the global translation and reception of Russian literary fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context" (2023) is intended to constitute the first geographically coherent, culturally inclusive, and theoretically consistent model of the distribution and influence of translated Russian literature on global cultures from 1900 to the present day. The editors seek articles of up to 8,000 words on aspects of the history and influence of Russian literature in translation in different cultures for an Open Access publication funded by the European Research Council in association with the University of Exeter RusTrans project (Grant Agreement no. 802437). Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding bibliography, to the editors (Dr Muireann Maguire and Dr Cathy McAteer) at rustrans@exeter.ac.uk, by March 31st, 2021.
For more information on this call, please visit our website:
http://rustrans.exeter.ac.uk/
