#translationstudies — Public Fediverse posts

Did Zhukovsky's Odyssey have metrical "errors" or a hidden poetic design?

This study combines traditional philology + ML clustering to show anomalies cluster in "sea" cantos vs "land" cantos—but no local textual factor predicts them. Intent or oversight remains unresolved.

Read: https://nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/Zhukovsky.pdf

#DigitalHumanities #RussianLit #Homer #Odyssey #TranslationStudies #Poetics #ComputationalLinguistics

New guest post at Patterns of Translation! Lisa Teichmann's The most translated female author of German fiction. Women writers in the German National Library. Lisa Teichmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Group Visualization and Data Analysis at the University of Vienna. She wrote her doctoral dissertation "Mapping German fiction in translation in the German National Library catalogue (1980-2020)" at McGill in 2023. https://open.substack.com/pub/translationpatterns/p/the-most-translated-female-author?r=1tjylv&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
#bibliodata #translationstudies #dh

Philosophy's Shifting Borders: Text, Translation, and the Global Stage

Brown University's Philosophy Department discusses how philosophical ideas travel globally through translation and diverse narratives, changing how we see world literature.

#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies

https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/

Brown University is exploring a new idea: Philosophy as World Literature. This means looking at how ideas travel across countries, like stories do, changing as they are translated.

#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies
https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/

Attila Bátorfy's: Visualizing the history of literature
About chronological charts of literary history from Germany, Russia and Hungary -- or charting literary history before Moretti. A guest post on the Patterns of Translation blog.
https://translationpatterns.substack.com/p/visualizing-the-history-of-literature
#dataviz #literaryhistory #history #translation #translationstudies #digitalhumanities

Does anyone in the #localisation and/or #freelancing bubble here have got any tips for how I would efficiently break out of the "single client" death loop into sustainable client acquisition?

I have been doing this job for several years now and it's been amazing. I'm just afraid of betting everything on one horse. If the agency that hires me most goes under for any reason I lose my livelihood.

My current ideas are in the replies:

#translationStudies #translation #localization #selfEmployment

🎉 Success at the Conference on Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method! 🎉

Part 4 of 4

The Journal of Translation Studies (est. 1997, re-launched in 2017) is now free to access online via the Open Journals Hub website. Dive into it here: https://jts.ojhhk.com/EN/home.

A huge thank you to all the participants and colleagues who made this event unforgettable. Together, we’re shaping the future of translation studies! 🙌✨

#TranslationStudies #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess #AcademicConference #Innovation #CUHK

🎉 Success at the Conference on Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method! 🎉

Part 3 of 4

💬 The conference offered a vibrant platform for exchanging groundbreaking ideas at the intersection of translation studies and digital humanities. It also marked a major milestone: the launch of the Diamond Open Access Open Journals Hub! 🚀

#TranslationStudies #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess #AcademicConference #Innovation #CUHK

🎉 Success at the Conference on Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method! 🎉

Part 2 of 4

🔑 Keynote Highlights:
• Prof. Jan RYBICKI (Jagiellonian University): "Of(f) course: Let’s talk about literary translation and large language models" 🤖📚
• Prof. Diana ROIG-SANZ (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya): "Principles and frameworks to apply digital humanities to translation and cultural diversity" 🌐💡

#TranslationStudies #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess #AcademicConference #Innovation #CUHK

🎉 Success at the Conference on Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II: On Method! 🎉

Part 1 of 4

From 15-17 December 2025, The Chinese University of Hong Kong buzzed with energy as we hosted 150 participants from across the globe—representing places like Ireland, Italy, the US, the UK, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, and Israel. 🌍✨

#TranslationStudies #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess #AcademicConference #Innovation #CUHK

There's a fashion for people using automated metrics to evaluate the quality of #interpreting. In this research article, Joss Moorkens and I explain why that doesn't work and what to do instead.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05864

#tech
#research
#interpretingStudies
#translationStudies

Bridging the gap between languages & cultures: Douglas Robinson's new book explores lessons in experimental #translation gained from translating & #closereading #FinnegansWake by #JamesJoyce

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1893865002

#Linguistics #LiteraryStudies #TranslationStudies

L’ERC TranslAtWar at Nantes Université is offering "Deux postes de postdoctorants pour analyser les pratiques de traduction en temps de guerre" starting September 1, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for applications: May 18, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/job/deux-postes-de-postdoctorants-pour-analyser-les-pratiques-de-traduction-en-temps-de-guerre-erc-tran/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #LiteratureTranslation #TranslationStudies

Patterns of Translation by Péter Király and András Kiséry, slides of our today's presentation from the Metadata-based Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences workshop in Prague
https://bit.ly/patterns-of-translation-2025
#BibliographicData #translationstudies #dariah #datascience

Terminology skills workshops for #memoQ users in February 2025.

https://open.substack.com/pub/memoquickies/p/memoq-on-your-own-terms/

#xl8 #translation
#TranslationStudies
#l10n #localization

Invisible characters can cause many problems when writing, editing and translating texts. This article explains the signs and symptoms, as well as some possible measures to correct the problems.

https://open.substack.com/pub/translationtribulations/p/invisible-gremlins-in-translation

#xl8 #xl8problems #l10n
#translation #localization
#TranslationStudies

Very happy to have been appointed supervisor for four translation studies students this semester! Two already emailed to set up a first meeting, that's a good start.
#PostDocLife
#supervision
#TranslationStudies
@academicchatter

Slides from today's webinar for the Israeli Translator's Association and an invitation to free #memoQ #terminology workshops in February.

https://open.substack.com/pub/memoquickies/p/coming-to-better-terms-with-memoq

#TranslationStudies #xl8
#l10n #localization

We wrote a thing about the surprisingly many recent Slovene translations of the Qur’an. It's out in a new book by Boulogne et al. from Leuven U., Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an.

Blog post:
https://christianmoe.com/en/blog/2024/Retranslating-Quran.html
The whole book for free (OA):
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95716
Print edition:
https://lup.be/book/retranslating-the-bible-and-the-quran/

It's my first international publication co-authored with my wife and in her field, Translation Studies. 🎉

#translation #Quran #Islam #Slovenia #religiology #TranslationStudies

Most of my #writing for education is intended for those already familiar to some extent with professional tools and tasks, particularly for commercial #translation work. But in this free webinar, I'm going back to basics, and examining what independent tools installed locally on our personal equipment offer, and why they still matter in the Online Age.

I'll talk mostly about two such software workspaces, one long familiar to me (memoQ) and another (Scrivener) quite new, and how I use them in my writing projects and translation work. And why these are the best options I've explored.

This talk is intended for experienced wordworkers who may ask why the "old" ways are still relevant, and for aspirants to the multilingual world of words who want a good start, apart from the too-frequent grind of linguistic sausage.

Feel free to share this post and help raise awareness of ways we can move toward better practice at the wordface.

https://translationtribulations.substack.com/p/support-for-writing-and-translation?r=3vfy5m

#xl8 #TranslationStudies

Here's the edited recording from this month's webinar on quality-checking features of #memoQ

https://memoquickies.substack.com/p/quality-checks-in-memoq?r=3vfy5m

#xl8 #translation
#l10n #localization
#translationstudies

Since June 2024 the new platform for the best information on all things #memoQ! Articles, videos, configured resources, live webinars and office hours for assistance.

https://memoquickies.substack.com/

#TranslationStudies #xl8

Is it wrong to help people in a "hopeless" profession?

https://translationtribulations.substack.com/p/in-the-currents-of-intelligence?r=3vfy5m

#TranslationStudies #xl8 #translation #l10n #localization #MoralDecay

What value is there in #TranslationStudies today?

https://open.substack.com/pub/translationtribulations/p/translation-studies-a-waste-of-time

#xl8 #translation
#l10n #localization

Determining costs and compensation in #translation #xl8

https://open.substack.com/pub/translationtribulations/p/the-cost-of-translation

#TranslationStudies

My thoughts on why you should not waste your valuable time learning the syntax of regular expressions for #translation work and QA.

https://translationtribulations.substack.com/p/wtf-regex-education-in-translation

#l10n #localization #TranslationStudies

In response to the difficulties that so many people have to find specific solutions from more than two decades of my social media, YouTube and blog contributions, I've launched a new "consolidation project" to tie all the loose threads together and offer current summaries of best practice in the applications of technology for languages and #translation service.

https://translationtribulations.substack.com/p/one-site-to-find-them?r=3vfy5m

#xl8 #TranslationStudies #l10n #localization

Fascinating new #OpenAccess book, out now from @Kriterium_se!🎉 📖🔓Read it now in #OA: https://buff.ly/3wqhJtj #frenchliterature #latinliterature #translationstudies #virgil