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Jiaming Zheng

@jiamingzheng.bsky.social
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Manchu | Translator Durham University alumni Interested in Translation Dialects Linguistics Sociolinguistics Ethnography History

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Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Job posting for a digital archivist (fixed term) at University of Galway (deadline 8 Oct 2026): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW995/d...
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Digital Archivist at University of Galway
Discover Digital Archivist jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New article on authenticity as a category of trust in translation -- perhaps the next big thing -- free online: doi.org/10.1080/2330... Our approach fits literary translation and diasporic Cantonese restaurants within the same analytical framework.
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On authenticity in translation
Although authenticity has become a major research topic in tourism studies, food studies, and cultural studies in general, it remains virtually unexplored in translation studies. Authenticity is ne...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Retranslation and thermodynamics, from Goethe to Berman (but not back) Occasional talk by Anthony Pym, questioning the great but strange suppositions of completion and arguing that retranslation creates heterogeneous time. youtu.be/cZxckLJF3zA?...
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Retranslation and thermodynamics, from Goethe to Berman
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Method in Translator History. A Plea for Reflexive Empiricism E-book now available online: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Method in Translator History | A Plea for Reflexive Empiricism | Antho
Method in Translator History is a complete reworking of the much-cited classic text Method in Translation History. It explains the basics of reflexive
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Free online, for anyone interested in translation policy analysis: How should we study interactions between translation policies, practices, and beliefs? Reine Meylaerts, Rachel Macreadie, Kadija Bouyzourn, &Anthony Pym doi.org/10.1080/0907...
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How should we study interactions between translation policies, practices, and beliefs? Comparing case studies from a time of crisis
This article is a methodological reflection based on a particular research experience around the following question: if effective translation policy must align with translation practices and belief...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New article, free online: Qiu, J., & Pym, A. (2026). Audience empowerment in multilingual media: the interplay between audiences, platforms, and the state. Translation Studies, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/1478... On how Chinese fans intervene in English-language subtitles and who controls it all.
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Audience empowerment in multilingual media: the interplay between audiences, platforms, and the state
Current video-streaming platforms encourage audiences to engage in the meaning-making and circulation of audiovisual content through liking, sharing, and commenting. These forms of participation ca...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Method in Translator History. A Plea for Reflexive Empiricism (2026) Anthony Pym A 30-page preview is now available online here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Method in Translator History | A Plea for Reflexive Empiricism | Antho
Method in Translator History is a complete reworking of the much-cited classic text Method in Translation  History. It explains the basics of reflexive
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CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.
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Translation Spaces @transpaces.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Recently published open access article: Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach Behrouz Karoubi addresses the broadening concept of censorship and its constitutive modes. Article at doi.org/10.1075/ts.2... #onlinefirst #translationstudies #openaccess
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Matt Valler, PhD @mattvaller.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Super-pleased to have a chapter in this new book on Bible Translation. There is a WILD chasm between Translation Studies and Bible Translation, despite the Bible being the world’s most translated text! Lots of historic reasons, but time to bridge the gap! wipfandstock.com/978166677128...
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Expanding Approaches to Bible Translation- Wipf and Stock Publishers
The assertion in this book, included within the BPC series, is that translation is as fundamental to biblical material as performance--both in its history as...
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IPCITI 2025 @ipciti2025.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Call for Papers — IPCITI 2025 — University of Warwick
Call for Papers for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting. IPCITI 2025 at the University of Warwick, 13-14 November 2025.
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IPCITI 2025 @ipciti2025.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We are delighted to share the #CfP for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting 🤩 The deadline to submit abstracts is 25 July. Visit our website or scan the QR code to read the call for papers! Get in touch if you have any questions.
Call for papers poster for IPCITI 2025. Top left corner: IPCITI 2025. Main text: MODALITY MUTABILITY MOBILITY Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting 13-14 November  University of Warwick Deadline: 25 July IPCITI@warwick.ac.uk Keynote speaker TBC Workshop facilitators TBC. On the right is a QR code. The text is against a solid orange background. The right side of the poster is a photograph of an abstract textile art installation displayed on a window of the Faculty of Arts Building at the University of Warwick. On the bottom of the poster: logos of IPCITI and University of Warwick.
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Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you happen to be in Oxford on 19 May, please join me for the book launch of Translation Multiples @oxfordcct.bsky.social! It will be a relaxed event & we'll discuss a few texts from my book (hot off the press @princetonupress.bsky.social). Bonus: sandwich lunch! occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/on-mul...
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Félix do Carmo @felixdocarmo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Interested in #Translation and #AI? Join our free #webinar on 2 May @ 3pm CET. The session is a #free introduction to our upcoming #CPD course in collaboration with @fiteurope.bsky.social Register here: shorturl.at/JwMmL
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Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
4th Int'l Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture (MTDC25), #HongKong 23-28 June Under MTDC's theoretical module, @neilsadler.bsky.social will explore the role of translation within the practice of #disinformation #MTDC25 Find out more here: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/research-sch...
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Luis Pérez-González @luisperezgonzalez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
4th Int'l Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture (#MTDC25 ) #HongKong 23-28 June Also under #MTDC25 's theoretical module, #HenryJones will examine how materiality impacts media translation in digital culture Learn more here: ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/research-sch...
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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This year, the #APTIS conference will be online and hosted by @centras-ucl.bsky.social. #APTIS25 “Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future #language professionals?”) will take place on 3–4 November The Call for Contributions is open until 16 June.
APTIS25 conference (“Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future language professionals?”) will take place on 3–4 November 2025 via Zoom Webinar.
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Clara Chuan Yu @clarachuanyu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@jossmo.bsky.social will talk about what it might mean to utilize and evaluate technologies while giving equal weight to people, the planet, and performance @CtnHkbu in two weeks. Registration at ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/event/a-trip...
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IPCITI 2025 @ipciti2025.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#IPCITI is coming to Warwick in 2025 🤩 Save the date 🗓️ The 18th International Postgraduate Conference in #Translation and #Interpreting will take place on 13-14 November @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @warwick-smlc.bsky.social CFP coming soon!
Portrait poster for IPCiTI 2025. The background shows the stairs at the Faculty of Arts Building (University of Warwick) from the bottom up, looking towards the large roof window that shows the bright blue sky outside. In the centre of the poster, there is a text box that reads: "IPCITI 2025 Save the date! 13-14 November 2025". On the bottom are the logos of IPCITI and the University of Warwick.
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
CFP conference in Tarragona, Spain. New Literacies in Translation. Keynotes by Sánchez-Gijón and Moorkens. October 9-10, 2025. www.intercultural.urv.cat/en/conferenc...
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Drew Maust @drewmaust.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Now here's a fascinating article: “Capital-T-truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies” by Debra Scoggins Ballentine. In Bible translation studies, we've known for a while that capitalization has its limits (i.e., lost in audio).
Ballentine, Debra Scoggins. 2025. “Capital-T-Truth: Stative Capitalization, Translation, and Comparing Theologies in Religious Studies.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 37 (2): 123–45. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10144.
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Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff @drgustavogongora.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We are hiring! @uoylangling.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in Chinese Interpreting and Translation (PT, fixed term). Apply by 03/04/2025. More info 👇 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/associ…
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EST Congress Leeds 2025 @estleeds25.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The EST 2025 draft programme is now live - bit.ly/3FBYRMs. Don't forget that reduced rate ‘Early Bird’ registration is also still open until 31 March ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ev...
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Callum Walker @callumwalker.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A promotional post for our new Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation Studies account ( @ctilsleeds.bsky.social) following our recent rebrand. And also, our dedicated EST 2025 account (@estleeds25.bsky.social). Go on! Give us a follow! 😉
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tourism translation research, free online: Destination Italy in English translation and language (1919-1959). Ten texts from a major research project. riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AM...
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miguelajimenez.bsky.social @miguelajimenez.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Spring 2025 Seminar series, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, March 21st, Friday. Join us for my talk "Localization, automation and AI: a human-centered AI (HCAI) approach" Registration: "emel.frl.auth.gr/index.php/en/sprin…
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Summer School in Translation Studies: "Authenticity, Adaptability, and AI: Balancing Trust in Translation and Intercultural Communication”. Venice/Treviso, Italy, 9-13 June 2025
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Risk management in translation - new promo for free book youtu.be/ZLrHW1QVIEY?... via @YouTube www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Risk management in translation - free book
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New polemical paper: Risk management in translation. A reply to critics, by Anthony Pym. This adds to and defends the recent book of the same name, contributing to current debates in translation theory without getting too angry. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Risk management in translation: A reply to critics
PDF | Risk management has been proposed as an approach that can help explain why translators make certain decisions in certain situations. A review of... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New issue of Cultus free online: Back to culture. Includes Pym & Katan on cultural translation, authenticity, and fellow travellers www.cultusjournal.com/index.php/cu...
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miguelajimenez.bsky.social @miguelajimenez.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Sign Language Machine Translation
Collects important current topics in the area of sign language translation to improve the ways and means deaf users can engage with machine translation
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It seems my book is now free to download until 27 February: Risk Management in Translation, by Anthony Pym, being a short explanation of the basic concepts, especially as applied to machine translation and genAI: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Get it while it's hot!
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Risk Management in Translation
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Risk Management in Translation
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Call for participants. 7-18 July 2025. MC2 Lab’s 3rd International Summer School on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Deadline for applications: 21 February 2025 rebrand.ly/e7konnx
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MC2 Lab's 3rd International Summer School on Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland | from 7 to 18 July 2025 – MC2 Lab's 3rd International Summer Sch...
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Yě TIÁN田野 @transla-tian-ology.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our paper is out in JoSTrans! Co-authored with Guanpeng, a xiangsheng performer in North America, it explores how xiangsheng grows as translation against political correctness in various political environments while still connected to its roots. Grateful to Lisa, David, Sarah, and all interviewees!
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Translation as growth: Xiangsheng’s growing trajectory in China and abroad | The Journal of Specialised Translation
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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The situation of #ModernLanguage programmes in the UK continues to worsen. Cardiff University has recently announced plans to cut 400 members of staff and programmes, including modern languages, nursing and music. Save MLANG at Cardiff University! chng.it/rgZnmfWdsT
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miguelajimenez.bsky.social @miguelajimenez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
CfP CIUTI Conference 2025: Language Mediation in Flux: Assessing the Impact of Generative AI, 20-21 May, 2025, Madrid, Spain. Extended Deadline: 14 March 2025. Honored to be invited as a keynote speaker. eventos.comillas.edu/123396/secti...
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CIUTI Conference 2025 – Language Mediation in Flux: Assessing the Impact of Generative AI
CIUTI Conference 2025 Language Mediation in Flux: Assessing the Impact of Generative AI 20-21 de Mayo de 2025 Campus CIHS- Cantoblanco Comillas Pontifical University is excited to host the 2025 CIUTI ...
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Sharon Black @sharonblack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Have you shared your views on #subtitles yet by filling out the The UK #Subtitling #Audiences Survey? If not, now’s your chance! uksubtitlingaudiences.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/l... Please also share widely with friends, family - anyone you think may be interested. Your views are valued!
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miguelajimenez.bsky.social @miguelajimenez.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Join our panel on IATIS 12 Dec. 10-12, 2025: "Advancing sustainability in Translation Studies in a Social and Human-Centered AI era". Submissions via EasyChair: shorturl.at/hRCly Submission guidelines: iatis.org/index.php/it... www.iatis.org/index.php/8t...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
CfP conference: 4-6 September 2025. Trextuality 2 on Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and Circulation. University of Galway. Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025 rebrand.ly/3padman
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Trextuality 2 - Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice
The Trextuality 2 conference aims to deepen the discussion on how today’s media hybridity influences both the products and processes of translation, examining the ways in which the convergence of diff...
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Neil Sadler @neilsadler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A fully funded PhD studentship to work with the wonderful @sabinamihelj.bsky.social on perceptions of disinformation and trust in the context of Russian foreign influence operations in the Baltics, Afghanistan or Libya www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN069/p...
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PhD Studentship: Second-Order Effects of Disinformation: Perceptions of Disinformation and Trust in the Context of Russian Foreign Influence Operations at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Pa...
Find a PhD Studentship: Second-Order Effects of Disinformation: Perceptions of Disinformation and Trust in the Context of Russian Foreign Influence Operations on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in highe...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My (pretty critical) review of Doug Robinson's Questions for Translation Studies has been published in Translation Studies. 50 free downloads are available here. Recommended for anyone who likes arguing: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VR7MX...
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Questions for translation studies
Published in Translation Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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miguelajimenez.bsky.social @miguelajimenez.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
CfP: Conference "Translation, Society and Gen AI", Ferdowski University of Mashhad, aitranslation.um.ac.ir. Thanks Prof. Khoshsaligheh for the invitation to deliver a keynote!
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Translation and Generative AI
Research Chair in Social Information Retrieval
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Fabio Regattin @fabioregattin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Upcoming conference: "Self-translation in children’s and young adult books", University of Padua (jointly organized by the Universities of Padua, Bologna, and Udine), February 13-14 & online. Register here: unipd.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there! #translation #traduction
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Ibrar Bhatt @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Our SRHE Multilingual University Network event was well attended today. An interesting hybrid event on AI and multilingualism in higher education, with an interdisciplinary panel of speakers and discussants. Well done Jennie Li for leading this and thanks to the University of Hong Kong for hosting.
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Ibrar Bhatt @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New for our SI on 'Getting critical about critique' is the paper 'The art of Naqd: communicating critique in Arabic thought' by Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... More interesting articles are coming through in coming days and weeks. Please keep a look out for them.
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Call for papers: Conference on Teaching Translation and Interpreting 7 (TTI7) University of Lodz, Poland 23-24 May 2025 www.tti.uni.lodz.pl
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TEACHING TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Call for papers: Conference theme: Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing University of Granada, Spain 24-25 June 2025 (Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2025) sites.google.com/view/humans-...
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Humans, Machines, Language - 2025 conference
Plenary speakers
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Call for abstracts & papers: Human-Centered, Augmented Machine Translation - LANS-TTS issue 25, publication year 2026 Guest Editors: Vicent Briva-Iglesias (Dublin City University) Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University) lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...
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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Job opening: Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (but the job seems to be in Suzhou) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ230/s...
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Vicent Briva-Iglesias @brivaiglesias.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🚨 Call for Papers: TSNI 2025! 📅 May 8-9, 2025 📍 Dublin City University Theme: Challenges in Translation & Interpreting 🌍 Explore ethics, AI, accessibility, gender sensitivity & more. 📝 Submit by: Jan 31, 2025 📖 Details: ctts.ie/tsni-5/ And you know what? Registration is free!
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