The I-LanD Seminar Series – 4th Edition (2nd semester)
𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞
🕟Thursday, 23 April 2026, from 16:30 to 18:30 (CET) on Microsoft Teams.

🔜Join the meeting here: tinyurl.com/38zjxvep

CfP:
(Re)Conceptualising User Agency in Audiovisual Translation Education (2028)
The Interpreter and Translator Trainer
♨️Abstract: 1 July 2026
Special Issues Editors:
Jorge Díaz-Cintas
Lisi Liang Guangdong
Serenella Massidda
Huiwang Wang Xi'an Jiaotong
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

🔥 Hot off the press 🔥
Wu, Y., Guerberof Arenas, A., & Lowie, W. (2026). Subtitles and Accessibility: Insights From China’s Deaf Community. Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 9(1), 1–24. doi.org/10.47476/jat...

A new call for chapters for an edited volume with Routledge:
➡️ New Trends in Didactic Audiovisual Translation, edited by Paula Buil (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), Paula Igareda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) and Francesca Nicora University of Galway, Ireland

🔥 Hot off the press🔥
Vercauteren, Reviers, Jankowska, Vandenbroucke, van de Veerdonk, Talboom Wermuth. (2026) Creating Born Accessible Information Videos for Inclusive Crisis Communication: Lessons Learned from the ICC Project.
Journal of Audiovisual Translation, 9(1), 1–17.
doi.org/10.47476/jat...

The OPEN Research Network is a peer-led network for PhD candidates and researchers working on media accessibility openresearchnet.org
We are organizing a Research Network Forum on 5 May. Participation is free, but registration is required.
Contact cesarandres.gonzalezfernandez@uantwerpen.be

CfP - Translation and neurodiversity
International conference for translation researchers and practitioners (online, 18-19 March 2027). Abstracts 250-300 should be seen to translationneurodiversity@gmail.com by 31 May 2026.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Translation Matters: Fostering Equal Access to Information
Athens Conservatoire, 27-28 March 2026. British Council Athens & CenTraS UCL will host a two-day workshop featuring leading experts in audiovisual translation, subtitling and revoicing.
www.britishcouncil.gr/en/events/tr...

ESIST members will benefit from a 10% discount on the early bird rate and 15% off the standard rate for the 16th International Conference “Moving Images That Move Audiences: Localising with Intent”, Languages & The Media 4–6 November 2026, London. Stay tuned!
www.languages-media.com/conference/t...

CfP: Translation and Interpretation in Museum Settings
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026 ⏳
journals.akademicka.pl/moap/announc...

SURVEY:
➡️Help our member Tinka Stoessel (University of Geneva) and join her study about sustainability in the interlingual subtitling of Netflix projects targeting German as the target language🙏
(Survey to be filled out in ENG/DE)

You can now register to attend the online #SubComm symposium happening Friday February 27th✨ In partnership with Subtle - The Subtitlers' Association ✅

CfP - Academia-Industry Synergies in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Showcasing Impactful Collaboration

lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LA...

CfP - TRADIT26: 2nd International Conference on Didactic Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility held at UNED, Madrid, Spain, 15-16 October 2026 (in person/virtually).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2026
blogs.uned.es/tradit26/

CfA - Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface Léa Huotari (University of Turku), Mairi McLaughlin (Berkeley) and Franz Meier (TU Dresden) are pleased to announce a call for articles for a special issue in AI Linguistica. The aim is to show what r...

CfP Special issue of AI Linguistica: Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface.
The aim is to show what scholarship at the boundary of Translation Studies has to offer to our understanding of generative AI. Deadline 30 Jan 2026.
Info: tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/roma...

We have teamed up again with Languages & The Media to offer ESIST members a discounted registration fee for the 16th International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media taking place in London, Senate House 4-6 2026.

www.languages-media.com

Watch this space! 😉

Translator Work-Related Quality of Life report published New research led by Akiko Sakamoto MITI shares insights into members' job satisfaction, career motivation and working conditions

A new report published by @iti-uk.bsky.social summarises recent surveys on translators' work-related quality of life, led by Akiko Sakamoto Kansai.

www.iti.org.uk/resource/twr...

www.aptis-translation-interpreting.com/aptis-2026

APTIS Conference
“Living with AI: From disruption to direction in translation and interpreting” 15–17 April 2026

Cardiff University and Swansea University.

Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 January 2026

Tradition and Innovation in Translation Studies XIV: Mapping Voices, Texts, and Contexts - Katedra translatologie The 14th edition of the international conference Tradition and Innovation...

📣 CfP: PhD Conference
➡️Tradition and Innovation in Translation Studies XIV: Mapping Voices, Texts, and Contexts⬅️
🎤Keynotes: Anna Jankowska and Joss Moorkens
📍 10-11 February 2026
🌍CPU in Nitra, Slovakia - online (ZOOM)
📝 Abstract submission: 9 January 2026
More at: ktr.ff.ukf.sk/en/research/...

Merry Christmas to all #ESISTmembers 🎄

Languages & The Media Save the date! Languages & The Media returns for its 16th edition from 4 to 6 November 2026 at Senate House, London. This leading international conference brings together professionals in audiovisual ...

Don’t forget: CfP for the Languages & The Media conference is now open ⏳
www.languages-media.com?fbclid=IwZnR...

We paired up with another appealing conference 🔝
📅 23-24 April 2026, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
📅 (EXTENDED) Deadline for abstract submission: 7 January 2026
#ESISTmembers attending as speakers will benefit from a reduced registration fee ✅
More info at: www.unipa.it/Artificial-I...

🎉 Announcing the New ESIST Board! 🎉
We are delighted to introduce the newly elected Board of ESIST – the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation✨
esist.org/about-us/exe...

Survey:
➡️ Educational challenges and curriculum development in audio description
➡️ Principal researchers:
Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and María Isabel Rivas Ginel (School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University)
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

@jossmo.bsky.social

Fresh out of the press📘

Penet, J., (Newcastle University), Moorkens, J. (Dublin City University), Yamada, M. (Rikkyo University). 2025. Teaching translation in the age of generative AI. Language Science Press
Open access, tap the link: langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

Fresh out of the press! 📕
Alexander Künzli, Subtitle quality in the streaming era—The subtitling professional’s perspective, Applied Linguistics, Volume 46, Issue 5, October 2025, Pages 744–757.
doi.org/10.1093/appl...
academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

CfP: Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation:
Challenges and New Horizons
Università degli Studi di Palermo, 23–24 April 2026

Deadline for abstract submission: 22 December 2025
Notification of acceptance: 01 February 2026

www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

SubSign - Subtitling Sign Languages Course (December 2025) YouTube video by IstitutoSordiTorino

🎬 SubSign – Subtitling Sign Languages Course
📆 10–16 December 2025 | 📍 Istituto dei Sordi di Torino (Turin, Italy)
🎥 Teaser: youtube.com/watch?v=W3Fn...
📅 Deadline to apply: Monday 17 November
👉 How to apply
Fill in the Google Form
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
gabriele.uzzo@sudtitles.com