From June 30 to July 3, 2025, the 11th EST Congress will take place in Leeds. Paper proposals can be submitted on the conference website until 26 July 2024.
Luc van Doorslaer and Anneleen Spiessens host a panel on City Museums & City Translation at the conference, for which they welcome contributions. More information in the Call for Papers.
On November 29 2024, the annual symposium of the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Algemene en Vergelijkende Literatuurwetenschap will be held at KU Leuven (Faculty of Arts). The Call for Papers invites contributions on both open topics and the symposium theme, Literature and Materiality. The VAL also welcomes submissions from translation scholars. Deadline: 23 September 2024.
Organisation: Linde De Potter, Lieke van Deinsen en Pieter Verstraeten (KU Leuven)
On Friday, 20 September 2024 (from 9.45 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.), research groups CLIV and TRACE host a symposium on Translation and Resistance. This multilingual symposium will be held in honour of the retirement of our colleague Désirée Schyns, and will take place at De Krook, Ghent. Its aim is to explore the importance, impact and ethical-political dimensions of resistance in translations.
The retirement celebration will follow at 4 p.m.
More information (registration link, programme, abstracts) can be found here: www.vertalingenverzet.ugent.be (English version).
Organisation: Anneleen Spiessens, Guy Rooryck, Arvi Sepp, Ilse Logie, Eline Denolf