Director of @cetrakuleuven | Asso. prof @KU_Leuven working on int’l circulation of science & literature | NL-EN translator | 🇺🇸🇧🇪
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Proud to share a new #OpenAccess edited volume, Literary Translation Lifecycles (Routledge), on the “vital networks” behind the circulation and reception of translated literature. More here: cetra.blog/2026/02/20/litera…
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The groundbreaking new book series 'A Cultural History of Translation', under the editorship of emeritus CETRA faculty member Lieven D’hulst, is now available! cetra.blog/2025/04/29/lieven…
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The call for participants for CETRA 2025 is now OPEN! arts.kuleuven.be/cetra/2025-…
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2024 CETRA Fall Lecture by Tristan Leperlier: "The Plurilingual Local at Large" (28 November 2024 - ONLINE) cetra.blog/2024/11/17/2024-c…
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Call: The journal ’Translation in Society’ has recently opened a new section for ’Academic translations’. It invites scholars to submit English translations of academic texts from any source language that align with the aims and scope of the journal. jbe-platform.com/content/jou…
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Jack McMartin retweeted
25 Sep 2024
In case you could not participate in the 2024 CETRA Research Summer School in Translation Studies, you can now find my 5 lectures on the #CETRA YouTube Channel. Thanks again to the CETRA board and staff for this opportunity! #TranslationStudies #TranslationTechnologies
CETRA Chair Professor 2024 Lecture Series by Lynne Bowker (@bowkerl) – Now available on YouTube! cetra.blog/2024/09/25/cetra-…
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Jack McMartin retweeted
9 Sep 2024
New article with my great colleague @jacksaidthat on consecration initiatives for migrant literature as soft power strategies. Email us if you would like a copy. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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9 Sep 2024
New publication, co-authored with the brilliant @Nuria__Codina: 'Soft power, ‘international literature’, and prizing the other: Restless Books and the Prize for New Immigrant Writing'. Snag a free copy here: tandfonline.com/eprint/IZKHV…
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The City of Antwerp welcomed us at the Town Hall, or “‘t Schoon Verdiep,” with a tour and a wonderful reception. Grateful for the warm hospitality! #CETRA2024
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9 Jul 2024
Congratulations to @AmyColman1984 for successfully defending her dissertation on ‘Translation product evaluation in translator training’! An interesting finding: in her study looking at L1 Dutch and L2 English BA students (n=32), L2 translation quality was slightly better than L1
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Jack McMartin retweeted
Job opportunity: Full-time PhD researcher studying paratextual representations of translators within francophone literatures (Ghent University, deadline 30 June 2024) cetra.blog/2024/06/17/job-op…
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Jack McMartin retweeted
30 May 2024
Happy to have @jacksaidthat chairing our round table on “Practicing Collaboration in Translation & the Arts” with Tijana Petrovic, Orsolya Rethelyi and Pieter Boulogne. Lovely way to fill the first afternoon of the symposium
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Jack McMartin retweeted
31 Jan 2024
Thrilled to announce the ii Lisbon spring school for translation studies! 3-8 June 2024. Deadline for abstract submission : February 29. #translationstudies #lisbonschool
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Jack McMartin retweeted
17 Apr 2024
Julie Boéri and @MonaBaker11 announce the launch of a new OA transdisciplinary journal 'Encounters in Translation' -- open to all languages, with synopses and translations -- brilliant news!
@congre_trad2024
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Jack McMartin retweeted
22 Mar 2024
End your week right with the new OA article from @Wenqian_Zhang3, @MotokoAkashi and myself: "Locating the digital in literary translatorship" (which is the intro for our forthcoming special issue!)
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Jack McMartin retweeted
21 Mar 2024
@COLLAB_Leuven has an official account. Follow us to keep up with our events and activities. Tonight you will find us in Gent, with wonderful artwork by Marialena Avgerinou, @ASofiaChurchill and @JoanaRoqu1
21 Mar 2024
Starting today, the COLLAB team will participate in a masterclass, "How will we read in the future?" with Emer O’Sullivan & Rebecca Walkowitz at @ugent & will present art related to their research at a linked exhibition next week entitled "Born translated. Reading comparatively."
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Jack McMartin retweeted
18 Mar 2024
"Teaching translation in the age of AI" - live thread starts here and starts with an acknowledgment of the difficult position modern languages are currently in within UK HE and notes that prospective students are already asking about AI at open days, so staying current is crucial
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Jack McMartin retweeted
14 Mar 2024
The Dept. of Translation Studies @UniGraz is looking for a university assistant without doctorate. Work with Pekka Kujamäki in the field of Translation, History, and Politics. 4y, 30h/w, gross salary ~37k. Deadline: 17th April. Details: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/80d…
#jobs #tis #graz
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9 Mar 2024
All set to receive our future first-years @LetterenKULAnt! More info about the BA in Applied Linguistics here: kuleuven.be/opleidingen/bach…
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6 Mar 2024
Super excited (and honoured by the invite from @ozumarzik) to take part in the ‘Translation, Cross-cultural Communication & the Media’ guest lecture series @UMassAmherst
5 Mar 2024
Such a great line up of translation scholars for my Spring class @UMassAmherst Thank you all! #academia #translation #imterpretingresearch
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