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Jiaming Zheng
@jiamingzheng.bsky.social
Manchu | Translator Durham University alumni

Interested in Translation Dialects Linguistics Sociolinguistics Ethnography History
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Here is a starter pack for academics and researchers in Translation Studies.

Please let me know if you want to be added to this list.

@neilsadler.bsky.social

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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.
September 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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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...
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...
wipfandstock.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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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.
May 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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...
April 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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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
April 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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...
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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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...
April 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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.
April 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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@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...
April 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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#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!
April 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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...
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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).
March 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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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…
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/associ…
March 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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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...
bit.ly
March 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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! 😉
March 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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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...
March 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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: "https://emel.frl.auth.gr/index.php/en/spring-seminar-series-4/program-2025
March 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Summer School in Translation Studies: "Authenticity, Adaptability, and AI: Balancing Trust in Translation and Intercultural Communication”. Venice/Treviso, Italy, 9-13 June 2025
March 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Risk management in translation - new promo for free book youtu.be/ZLrHW1QVIEY?... via @YouTube
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Risk management in translation - free book
YouTube video by Anthony Pym
youtu.be
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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/...
(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...
www.researchgate.net
February 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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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...
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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!
Risk Management in Translation
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Risk Management in Translation
www.cambridge.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM