IndirecTrans

Dedicated to bringing together research on indirect translation

Hanna Pięta's article "Theoretical, methodological and terminological issues in researching indirect translation: A critical annotated bibliography" published in Translation Studies journal.

Alexandra Assis Rosa, Hanna Pięta and Rita Bueno Maia's article "Theoretical, methodological and terminological issues regarding indirect translation: An overview" published in Translation Studies journal.

James Hadley's article "Indirect translation and discursive identity: Proposing the concatenation effect hypothesis" published in Translation Studies journal.

Iris Fernández Muñiz's chapter "Tracking Sources in Indirect Translation Archaeology: A Case Study on a 1917 Spanish Translation of Ibsen's Et Dukkehjem (1879)" published in New Horizons in Translation Research and Education 4.

Special issue of Translation Studies (10:2) titled "Indirect Translation: Theoretical, Methodological and Terminological Issues" is out.

Wikipedia entry on indirect translation is now available in Greek translation (produced during the EST 2017 editathon).

Portuguese version of the Handbook of Translation Studies entry on relay translation to be coordinated by Rita Bueno Maia and produced by BA students in Translation of English-Language Literary Texts (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

Ida Hove Solberg's chapter "Finding the X Factor: Support Translation and the Case of Le deuxième sexe in Scandinavia" published in New Horizons in Translation Research and Education 4.

Wenjie Li's article "The Complexity of Indirect Translation" published in Orbis Litterarum

journal.

Guanyu Cheng's talk on “Study on the Role that the Intermediate Translator Plays in an Indirect Translation” to be delivered at 7th Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture “Global Translations”, Gare Marítima da Rocha do Conde de Óbidos, Lisbon, Portugal, June 26, 2017.

Rita Bueno Maia's paper “Against all odds: indirect translation of Spanish literature into Portuguese (1780-1850)” to be presented at “Moving texts: mediations and transculturations” Conference, University of Aveiro, Portugal, July 13, 2017.

Marta Pacheco Pinto's article "Japanese literature in the Portuguese translation system: publications in book form from the 1850s to the 1950s" published in mTm journal.

Rita Bueno Maia's interview with Michael Cronin, conducted during the 7th Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, is now available online (question on indirect translation: 00:16:54 onwards).

Vedrana Čemerin's chapter "Lost in Translation or not? The Use of Relay among Croatian Subtitlers" published in  Proceedings of the 2nd International TRANSLATA Conference.

Conference "Decentring Translation Studies in Portugal-Translating East Asia: Practices and Dialogues of Indirect Translation" to be held at the University of Lisbon on November 10, 2017.

Martin Ringmar's paper “Die doppelte Brücke – Indirekte Übersetzungen aus mitteleuropäischer Sicht” to be presented at “An Homage To Jiří Levý / Ad Translationem” Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, October 27, 2017.

Laura Ivaska and Outi Poloposki's article "Attitudes towards indirect translation in Finland and translator's strategies: Compilative and collaborative translation" published in Translation Studies journal.

Laura Ivaska's and Martin Ringmar's papers on indirect translation to be presented at "Translation Research-Translator Training" Conference, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary, 24-26 May 2018.

Rita Bueno Maia’s paper “Integrating indirect translation into translation curricula: Towards a more equal and sustainable translation market. A research project” to be presented at “Language, Translation and Migration” Conference, University of Warwick, UK, 24-27 May 2018.

Laura Ivaska's and Rita Bueno Maia, Hanna Pięta and Alexandra Assis Rosa's posters on indirect translation to be presented at "Publishing in Translation Studies" Conference, KULeuven, Antwerp, Belgium, 7-8 September 2018. For abstracts see here and here.

Laura Ivaska's poster "Three Methods to Uncover the de facto source language(s) of translations"  presented at the “Culture and Technology” – The European Summer University in Digital Humanities, Leipzig, Germany, 17–27 July 2018.

Rita Bueno Maia, Hanna Pięta and Esther Torres-Simón's paper "Bringing indirect translation into translator training" to be presented at "Translation and cultural sustainability" Conference, Salamanca, 28-30 November 2018.

Michael Ustaszewski's paper "Tracing the effect of pivot languages in indirect translation" published in CECL papers.

Hanna Pięta's article "Friend and foe: On the role of indirect literary translation in the construction of the conflicting images of communist Poland in para-fascist Portugal" published in Target journal.

Panel "Indirect translation in the world we live in" to be held at the EST Congress in 2019 (9-13 September, Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Anja Alwood's poster and Laura Ivaska's paper on indirect translation to be presented at KäTu2019, Univeristy of Tampare, 12-13 April 2019.

Preliminary results of our survey on indirect translation in translator and interpreter training to be presented at the EST2019 panel on indirect translation in Stellenbosch (Many thanks to our 256 respondents worldwide!)

Conference on indirect translation to be held in Rome, May 20-21, 2020. Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 November 2019.

Call for papers for a special issue of Target (2022) on the theme “What can indirect translation research do for Translation Studies?” is out! Deadline: 30 November 2019.

Preliminary results of our survey on indirect translation in translator and interpreter training available here. Most trainers have a positive attitude towards translating indirectly but not as many are using it in class. Warm thanks to our 256 respondents worldwide! (Full results coming soon)

Two research teams are currently looking for expressions of interest from postdoctoral researchers working on indirect translation and planning to apply for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (application deadline for this funding scheme: 9 September 2020). More information here and here.

Video recording of Hanna Pięta's online guest talk about indirect translation at the University of Leiden (June 2020) available here.

University of Lisbon in looking for a PhD candidate in Translation Studies. Prioritised topics include indirect translation. Deadline: 14 October. More information here.

James' Hadley article on the indirect translation of the Arabian Nights into Gaelic and Japanese is out in Perspectives.

Laura Ivaska's PhD viva to take place on 7 December, at the Univeristy of Turku and online.

Disseration title: "A Mixed-Methods Approach to Indirect Translation: A Case Study of the Finnish Translations of Modern Greek Prose 1952–2004"

Call for papers for a special issue of Translation Spaces (2023) on the theme “Indirect translation and Sustainable development” is out! Deadline: 15 October 2021.

Call for abstracts for EST2022 panel (OSLO - Panel 38) on the theme “Advancing Indirect Translation Research” is out! Deadline: 15 October 2021.

Call for abstracts for a special issue of Babel on the theme “Text and context reconsidered within the multimodal framework” is out! Deadline: 30 November 2021.

Call for abstracts for a special issue of Perspectives on the theme "Pivot audiovisual translation: A burning issue for research and training" is out! Deadline: 22 December 2021.

Online material for the book Indirect Translation Explained is now availble online.