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Nobel prize and translation
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…
EST Open Access Prize 2025 – Call for submissions!
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…
EST Open Letter about publishers selling access to academic content
The Board of the European Society of Translation Studies (EST) expresses its concern about the lack of transparency on the part of some academic publishers that have sold access rights to books and journal articles to companies engaged in developing…
Two Summer School Scholarships awarded for 2024!
Two highly deserving candidates – Martina Bruno and Tian Yang – have been awarded the EST Summer School Scholarships this year from a pool of strong applicants. We wish all of the applicants and the scholarship recipients rewarding experiences at…
CfP for EST Congress 2025 extended – new deadline 30 August 2024
The booklet of panel proposals for the 11th EST Congress 2025 in Leeds can be accessed here. The organisers are looking forward to receiving your abstracts for specific panels or for the general stream. The Call for Papers can be…