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Raluca Tanasescu
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Researcher in global media and computational humanities | University of Galway, Ireland. @uniofgalway @ADHO MLMC Chair. (Roaming Scandinavian forests with her daughter, husband, imaginary Labrador and irretrievable iPhone. Chionophile.)
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Happy publication day! 🌟 "Translation and Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications", co-authored by Anne O'Connor and myself in Translation Studies, is now available in #OpenAccess. #translation #infrastructuralthinking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Translation and infrastructure: concepts and applications
Engagement with infrastructural thinking, prominent in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, has received little attention in translation studies. This article argues that tr...
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Happy publication day! 🌟 "Translation and Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications", co-authored by Anne O'Connor and myself in Translation Studies, is now available in #OpenAccess. #translation #infrastructuralthinking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Translation and infrastructure: concepts and applications
Engagement with infrastructural thinking, prominent in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology, has received little attention in translation studies. This article argues that tr...
www.tandfonline.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Very happy to guest edit a special issue on "Media Ecologies of Translation" in Translation Matters 9.1 (Spring 2027)! The call is available at drive.google.com/file/d/14yBk.... Submission deadline for full articles: July 15, 2026.

Thank you for sharing widely!
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🌐 A fantastic opportunity for #translationstudies scholars to contribute to #digitalhumanities!
📚 CfP: Digital Humanities 2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
📌 July 27-31, 2026
🖇️ Theme: "Engagement"
📅 Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
👩‍💻 Hybrid conf. w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org
DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
dh2026.adho.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...
Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE
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September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Exciting news! 👐 The Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society is now available for pre-order! I am honoured to have authored lucky Chapter 13, “Translation Studies and DigitalHumanities”.

Abstract: shorturl.at/dhiDr
Pre-order: shorturl.at/YKiiW
Translation studies and digital humanities | 17 | The Routledge Handbo
This chapter explores the histories, the intersections, and the futures of Translation Studies (TS) and Digital Humanities (DH). Over the past two decades, DH
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September 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations are looking for people to join our executive team: adho.org/jobs/
1️⃣ ADHO Awards Committee Incoming Deputy Chair
2️⃣ ADHO Communications Officer / Deputy Communications Officer
3️⃣ ADHO Communications Fellowship
Deadline: apply before September 30.
Jobs – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
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September 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Thrilled to share a new chapter--"Multimodal, multilingual, and constructive communication in Vatican News"--co-authored with Anne O'Connor & Anna Furtado in Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures (Routledge, 2025), ed by A. Riggs & Lucile Davier. Pre-orders: 👉 shorturl.at/xlXYE
Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures
Constructive news is an alternative to the negativity of if-it-bleeds-it-leads journalism but still unfamiliar to some audiences and still relatively under-researched, particularly by news translation...
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September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm especially excited to share one of my latest contributions, co-authored once again with the brilliant A. Sangiacomo.

"The Debate on Electricity in the Eighteenth Century: A Multilayered Digital Perspective." Perspectives on Science (MIT Press, 2025). shorturl.at/A0vZr
The Debate on Electricity in the Eighteenth Century: A Multilayered Digital Perspective
Abstract. Late-eighteenth century science tends to dismiss the search for the true causes of natural phenomena and tries instead to offer a quantifiable and eventually mathematical account of them. By...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Really happy to share my latest article, co-authored with Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen), "Computational Rifts: Parsing the Context of Early Modern Natural Philosophy," just out in Science in Context (Cambridge University Press). Available open access at shorturl.at/WvuVZ
June 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Yay, I have a new article out! I write about Norwegian cabin toilets, holidays, and the idea of nature in Arr: Idéhistorisk tidsskrift 1, 2025. It’ll be online, open access, before too long. #envhist
June 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Check our new article where we examined how online discussion on #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity changed during the European energy crisis! Relevant for #sustainability #research & #policy

A fantastic collaboration with @annahau.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social and @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social!
✨ NEW ARTICLE OUT 🗞️

We studied how #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss were represented and discussed amid the European #EnergyCrisis on X (between 2021-2023) with a great team: @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social See full article here: lnkd.in/gaYvw3N5
April 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Delighted to have made 94 delegates happy on St. Patrick's Day! "Material Turns in Translation" will be an absolute knock-out conference--really looking forward to meeting everyone in Galway! Stay tuned! #trextuality2 translation.universityofgalway.ie/trextuality2/
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...
translation.universityofgalway.ie
March 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Post-doc Fellow position of 3 years (1FTE) in text mining at U of Edinburgh to work on the Leverhulme project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social Media." Deadline: March 25. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
An academic position as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Are you the new Assistant Professor in Digital History on my #ERCCoG project WEB CHILD 'Changing Childhoods in the Early Era of the WWW'?

Please have a look and consider applying. And do contact me if you have any questions.

international.au.dk/about/profil...
Assistant Professorship in Digital History, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
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February 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A new doctoral position in Translation Studies at Graz University, with a research focus on “Translation, Ethics, and Digital Transformation”. For full details, please visit: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/cf0b...
Universität Graz
jobs.uni-graz.at
February 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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An interesting complement to ELTeC: www.distant-reading.net/eltec/
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Beyond delighted to have just won the hosting bid for the Digital Humanities 2027 conference! Looking forward to bringing the global DH community to @uniofgalway.bsky.social! Many thanks to my colleagues and to our twp PC Co-Chairs @omurphy.bsky.social and @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy.
We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon.

Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027!
#DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Deadline extended to Feb. 23, hybrid format and new keynote speaker Reine Meylaerts to join Karen Bennett and Piotr Blumczynski for the 2nd Trextuality conference @uniofgalway.bsky.social: "Material Turns in Translation. Intermediality and circulation." shorturl.at/mYXns [Final call]
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...
translation.universityofgalway.ie
February 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Now available in open access: The Future of Cultural Analysis, edited by Murat Aydemir, Noa Roei, and Aylin Kuryel, published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social. @uvahumanities.bsky.social
The Future of Cultural Analysis
Across the humanities and the social sciences, “cultural analysis” is a vibrant research practice. Since its introduction in the 1990s, its main principles have remained largely the same: interdiscipl...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
📢The Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice @uniofgalway in collaboration with Literature Ireland is delighted to announce our Literary Translator Residency for 2025. Submission deadline: January 30. For more details: shorturl.at/gGLeH.
2025 Literary Translator-in-Residence - Call for Applications - Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice
University of Galway and Literature Ireland are delighted to announce the 2025 Translator Fellowship with the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice at the University of Galway, I...
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January 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Oslo greetings for a very Merry Christmas! 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Because it's almost 2025 and new media matters, my new article on a medium-centered and sonic approach to literary translation is out in The Translator - special issue on Relational Thinking in TS ed. by N. Ashrafi, R. Meylaerts, D. Roig Sanz 🖥️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Literary translation on digital platforms. Intermedial and sonic perspectives
This article examines literary translation in relation to digital media. Using a medium-focused communication model, the author explores the spatial and sonic dimensions of literary translation in ...
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December 18, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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Call for papers: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual event, Glasgow, 17-18 June 2025 (CFP deadline 15 Jan 2025) easychair.org/cfp/ukie2025. The theme is ‘Collaboration beyond boundaries’ #DigitalHumanities
November 18, 2024 at 5:02 PM