General news

The EST Board has expressed its grave concern about the plans recently announced by Cardiff University about the School of Modern Languages and in particular at the prospect of the whole translation section being discontinued. Closing the MA in Translation Studies as well as the underlying undergraduate programmes in modern languages and translation, and also […]

Register before the end of March to benefit from the early-bird fee! EST members and students are eligible for additional fee reductions. More information is available on the EST Congress website here.

The next EST Young Scholar Prize will be presented at the EST Congress in 2025. The prize is awarded for an excellent contribution to Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) in the form of a first doctoral thesis by an early-stage researcher. The work must have been completed and approved by the relevant doctoral committee between

For the 2025 Congress year, the Board has increased the maximum number of grants to support EST members with limited or no means of financial support to attend Translation Studies conferences or training events. More details can be found here.

The Nobel prize committee failed to mention the importance of translation when announcing this year’s winner Han Kang, who writes in Korean, but at least The Korea Times acknowledges it. For a thoughtful reflection on the the role of translators in disseminating Korean literature, see this self-translated article by Sun Kyoung Yoon, a Translation Studies

The EST Open Access Prizes supports open access publication of outstanding journal articles. Based on the very positive feedback from our members, the committee has decided to continue offering this prize with the support of two publishing houses. One free-access article is for a Routledge periodical and the other for a Benjamins journal. The prizes