Call for Papers

Call for Papers: The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) 2024

New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Engaging with the new is one of the defining characteristics of translation and interpreting studies as a discipline. The growth and prosperity of the discipline is owed to its absorption of new theories, integration of new methodologies, inclusion of new objects of research, and concern with new social and political phenomena in the wider society. In recent years, new trends have emerged with respect to many aspects of translation and interpreting, ranging from the adoption of cutting-edge technologies such as generative AI to the renovation of traditional research domains such as literary translation. IPCITI 2024 aims to provide a forum where postgraduate researchers can share with each other how they embrace various new trends in translation and interpreting studies.

The International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, or IPCITI, is a student-led conference that rotates between five universities with a focus on translation and interpreting: Dublin City University, Heriot-Watt University, the University of Edinburgh， the University of Manchester and the University of Warwick. IPCITI aims to provide an inviting, collaborative and stimulating space for PhD and early-career researchers in translation and interpreting studies to present their research.  

The conference will be held at the University of Manchester this year on 5-6 December 2024. By holding the conference in person, we aim to build in time for informal discussions, meeting new colleagues and opportunities to discuss your own research while also learning about others’ work. 

Abstracts are invited from postgraduate and early-career researchers on topics including but not limited to: 

• indirect literary translation

• translation studies and digital humanities

• translation in the era of AI

• game localisation

• post-editing and machine translation

• translation and sustainability

• translation and museum

• food translation

• corpus-based translation studies

• generic criticism in translation process research

• translation studies and medical humanities

• archives and translation history research

• philosophies and translation ethics

• translation and interpreting in humanitarian aid

• interpreting in specific settings (e.g. court, community, police, health care)

• sign language interpreting

• interpreting history

We are interested in submissions related to any and all signed or spoken languages.