These are the latest news from the area of media accessibility around the world.

News CfP: HispaTAV 3

The third edition of the conference HispaTAV is now open to submissions! This event is set to take place in Collado Villalba, Spain, from 6th to 8th of November 2024. The deadline for submitting proposals is the 31st of March 2024.

The conference will welcome proposals in Spanish on the following themes:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Fri, 08/03/2024 - 13:06

News CfP: Conference Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility in Education

The conference on Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility in Education will take place in Rome on the 5th and 6th of December 2024.

The conference, organized by the SL@VT Research Team, will welcome proposals on the following themes:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Mon, 04/03/2024 - 11:07

News CfP: Special Issue ITT journal on media accessibility education

The Interpreter and Translator Trainer journal has opened a call for papers for a special issue on “Recent advances in media accessibility education”. Themes that may be addressed in the proposals include (but are not restricted to) the following:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Mon, 04/03/2024 - 10:39

News CfP: ARSAD 2025

ARSAD 2025 will take place in Barcelona on the 20th and 21st of March 2025.

For this edition, ARSAD has also teamed up with the WEL project (From written to oral texts in Easy Language: easy audios in cultural visits and video games), led by TransMedia Catalonia, to study innovative access services inspired by audio description which may cater for new audiences, including neurodiverse users.

Important dates:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Mon, 04/03/2024 - 10:21

News CfP: European Conference of Speech-to-Text Interpreters

The call for papers for the European Conference of Speech-to-Text Interpreters (ECOS) is open! This year, ECOS will take place in July 26th-28th 2024 in Athens.

The conference welcomes conceptual, methodological, empirical, and practical contributions from various backgrounds relating to the conference, preferably with focus on the following topics:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Wed, 21/02/2024 - 08:48

News CfP: Transletters. International Journal on Translation and Interpreting

Transletters. International Journal on Translation and Interpreting is now receiving contributions related to Translation and Interpreting, such as translation studies, translation fields of expertise, specialised languages, documentation, corpus linguistics, localisation, and teaching methods.

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Wed, 14/02/2024 - 11:59

News CfP: 1st OPEN Research Network Symposium

The 1st OPEN Research Network Symposium will be held on June 7th, 2024 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The Symposium is aimed at MA students, PhD students and postdocs specialising in Media Accessibility. The theme of this first edition is Methodological Approaches to Media Accessibility, either quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods, and their application to media accessibility services such as, but not limited to:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Wed, 14/02/2024 - 11:26

News CfP: Media for All 11

The upcoming 11th Media for All conference has been announced! It will take place in Hong Kong, in May 28-30, 2025.

This edition of the conference aims to explore the collective wisdom that helps break the linguistic and cultural barriers in platform society and welcomes proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, and roundtable discussions that address the following areas:

1. Collaboration and Participation in Platform Economies

2. AVT and Distribution

3. Media Literacy and Media Accessibility (MA)

4. Technologies and Media Localisation

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Wed, 14/02/2024 - 11:15

News CfP: New Trends in Translation and Technology 2024

The second edition of the conference New Trends in Translation and Technology will take place from July 3 to 6, 2024, in Varna, Bulgaria. The call for papers is now open and will accept proposals on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting.

For more information: https://nettt-conference.com/

Important dates:

  • Submission deadline: 31 March 2024
  • Notification: 5 June 2024
  • Final version due: 20 June 2024 

 

 
Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Mon, 08/01/2024 - 14:12

News CfP: Just. Journal of Language Rights & Minorities

The Just Journal is looking for submissions for its new special issue: "The Crossroads between Language Rights and Technology".

The articles submitted can be written in Catalan, English or Spanish.

Important dates:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Wed, 29/11/2023 - 09:49

News CfP: KäTu 2024 Symposium

The call for papers for the XXI Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies (KäTu2024) is open.

The symposium will take place on April 19-20, 2024, at Tampere University.

Important dates:

  • Deadline for workshop proposals: November 20, 2024
  • Deadline for presentations and posters proposals: January 15, 2024
  • Acceptance notifications: February 19, 2024

The languages of the symposium will be Finnish, Swedish and English.

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Fri, 24/11/2023 - 17:17

News CfP: MonTI journal

The call for papers for the new issue of MonTI is now open. This issue fill focus on "Theatre translation. Performability and reception from intercultural perspectives".

The submission can be written in any of the official languages of the journal (English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German or Italian)

Important information:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Fri, 24/11/2023 - 11:21

News CfP: Sendebar journal

The call for papers for the next issue of Sendebar (35) will remain open from October 23 until January 15, 2024.

This journal published works in the fields of translation and interpreting in all their aspects (theory, practice, methodology, didactics, history and so on).

For more information, visit the web page: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/sendebar/index

 
Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Fri, 24/11/2023 - 11:13

News CfP: 11th EST Congress - Call for Panels

The 11th EST Congress: The Changing Faces of Translation and Interpreting Studies will take place in June-July 2025.

The call for panels is now open. Contributions can focus on any facet of translation and interpreting studies, broadly defined, including, but not limited to, technical and literary translation, machine translation, post-editing, conference, business and public service interpreting, web, software and game localisation, subtitling, dubbing, voiceover, respeaking, editing, rewriting, and project management.

The panel proposals should include:

Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Fri, 24/11/2023 - 10:55

News CfP: L10N Journal

L10N Journal is open to submissions for its second issue "New Insights into Game Localisation and Game Accessibility".

The articles must be sent to the editors of this issue: Carme Mangiron (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona) and Mária Koscelníková (Constantine the Philosopher University) at editorial@l10njournal.net with the subject: “L10N Journal Game Insights 2024”.

  • Submission deadline: 31 December 2023
  • Issue publication: June 2024

For more information, visit: https://l10njournal.net/index.php/home/announcement/view/2

 
Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Fri, 24/11/2023 - 10:15

News CfP: 8th Meeting of Greek-speaking Translation Studies Scholars

The 8th Meeting of Greek-speaking Translation Studies Scholars will be held on 30, 31 May 2024 and 1 June 2024 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The submission deadline for abstracts for paper presentations, panels or labs is January 20, 2024.

https://8th-trad-congress.frl.auth.gr/index.php/el/perilipseis

 
Submitted by Marina Pujadas on Thu, 23/11/2023 - 19:58