Five colleagues teaching in the MA in Translation Studies and English Chinese Interpreting at the University of Birmingham request your support by signing a petition against compulsory redundancies.  The petition is available here: https://www.change.org/p/stop-redundancies-at-the-university-of-birmingham This is a longer statement about the situation here: https://birminghamucu.org/2026/09/09/a-national-catastrophe-at-home-open-letter-on-the-modern-languages-redundancies/

Fuqiang ZHAO, a member of EST since January 2025, is grateful to have been awarded the EST Summer School Scholarship to support his participation in the 37th CETRA Research Summer School in Translation Studies, organised by the Centre for Translation Studies at KU Leuven, in Antwerp, Belgium, from 24 August to 4 September 2026. He

The Institute of Translation Studies at Charles University has a long history but is now at risk of closure. The EST Board supports the efforts to save Translation Studies as a separate discipline at Charles University and encourages everyone of a similar position to support the petition available here. More information is available on the

The Editors of the EST Newsletter would like to invite PhD students and recent PhD graduates who are EST members in good standing to contribute to the Emerging Voices column of the Newsletter. The goal of this column is to showcase the work of upcoming researchers in Translation and Interpreting Studies. You can report on

The 12th EST Congress will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, between 27th and 30th June 2028, jointly hosted by the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of Polish Studies. The Congress theme is Diversity and Unity in Translation and Interpreting Studies – signalling the range and multidirectionality of present-day translation and

The deadline for applications for this year’s iteration of the EST Summer/Winter School Scholarship is 5 June 2026.  More information about the grant can be found here. NB: This grant is only open to EST members. If you are not already a member, consider joining our society. More information about joining EST can be found