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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 9h

🌐 A fantastic opportunity for #translationstudies scholars to contribute to #digitalhumanities!
📚 CfP: Digital Humanities 2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea
📌 July 27-31, 2026
🖇️ Theme: "Engagement"
📅 Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
👩‍💻 Hybrid conf. w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org

DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

dh2026.adho.org

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 8d

yep, finally! :D

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 8d

Honoured to be a keynote speaker for the Translation and Life Writing conference organised by the brilliant Lucile Davier & Elisa Ruckstuhl @ the University of Geneva. Taking place June 18-19 2026 & financial support for ECR available! Abstract submission by 16 Nov 2025
www.unige.ch/lifewritingt...

Home - lifewritingtranslation - UNIGE

www.unige.ch

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Morten Beckmann @mortenbeckmann.bsky.social · 21d

Job opportunity: Two PhD Positions at Stockholm University, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Sweden. Deadline for application: October 15. Link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Doktorand i översättningsvetenskap

Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet är en av de större institutionerna inom Humanistiska fakulteten med ca 140 anställda och ca 5 000 studenter per läsår. Tolk- och översättarinstitu

su.varbi.com

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 19d

Exciting news! 👐 The Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society is now available for pre-order! I am honoured to have authored lucky Chapter 13, “Translation Studies and DigitalHumanities”.

Abstract: shorturl.at/dhiDr
Pre-order: shorturl.at/YKiiW

Translation studies and digital humanities | 17 | The Routledge Handbo

This chapter explores the histories, the intersections, and the futures of Translation Studies (TS) and Digital Humanities (DH). Over the past two decades, DH

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 19d

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations are looking for people to join our executive team: adho.org/jobs/
1️⃣ ADHO Awards Committee Incoming Deputy Chair
2️⃣ ADHO Communications Officer / Deputy Communications Officer
3️⃣ ADHO Communications Fellowship
Deadline: apply before September 30.

Jobs – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 22d

:D :D :D

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled to share a new chapter--"Multimodal, multilingual, and constructive communication in Vatican News"--co-authored with Anne O'Connor & Anna Furtado in Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures (Routledge, 2025), ed by A. Riggs & Lucile Davier. Pre-orders: 👉 shorturl.at/xlXYE

Constructive News Across Languages and Cultures

Constructive news is an alternative to the negativity of if-it-bleeds-it-leads journalism but still unfamiliar to some audiences and still relatively under-researched, particularly by news translation...

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Sep 7

It was such a pleasure to have you in Galway, Morten! I’m really looking forward to our collaboration and all the work ahead. Thank you as well for the thoughtful gift—it was much appreciated!

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 30

Andrea led the philosophical framing, while I designed and implemented the methodological approach.

Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 30

I'm especially excited to share one of my latest contributions, co-authored once again with the brilliant A. Sangiacomo.

"The Debate on Electricity in the Eighteenth Century: A Multilayered Digital Perspective." Perspectives on Science (MIT Press, 2025). shorturl.at/A0vZr

The Debate on Electricity in the Eighteenth Century: A Multilayered Digital Perspective

Abstract. Late-eighteenth century science tends to dismiss the search for the true causes of natural phenomena and tries instead to offer a quantifiable and eventually mathematical account of them. By...

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 27

It is part of a broader conversation on how digital methods and digital media shape what we see — and what we might miss.

Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 27

The piece explores how computational analysis can help uncover new dimensions in early modern scientific texts, while also reflecting on the challenges of computational approaches in the history of science.

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 27

Really happy to share my latest article, co-authored with Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen), "Computational Rifts: Parsing the Context of Early Modern Natural Philosophy," just out in Science in Context (Cambridge University Press). Available open access at shorturl.at/WvuVZ

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Jun 5

Yay, I have a new article out! I write about Norwegian cabin toilets, holidays, and the idea of nature in Arr: Idéhistorisk tidsskrift 1, 2025. It’ll be online, open access, before too long. #envhist

Open magazine, with article titled «Hyttedassen» (the cabin toilet)

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 19

Happy belated birthday! 🎉

Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Jun 19

Congratulations!!! 🎉

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social · Apr 1

Check our new article where we examined how online discussion on #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity changed during the European energy crisis! Relevant for #sustainability #research & #policy

A fantastic collaboration with @annahau.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social and @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social!

Anna Hausmann @annahau.bsky.social · Apr 1

✨ NEW ARTICLE OUT 🗞️

We studied how #ClimateChange and #Biodiversity loss were represented and discussed amid the European #EnergyCrisis on X (between 2021-2023) with a great team: @waeiski.bsky.social @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social @cortescapano.bsky.social See full article here: lnkd.in/gaYvw3N5

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Mar 17

Delighted to have made 94 delegates happy on St. Patrick's Day! "Material Turns in Translation" will be an absolute knock-out conference--really looking forward to meeting everyone in Galway! Stay tuned! #trextuality2 translation.universityofgalway.ie/trextuality2/

Trextuality 2 - Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice

The Trextuality 2 conference aims to deepen the discussion on how today’s media hybridity influences both the products and processes of translation, examining the ways in which the convergence of diff...

translation.universityofgalway.ie

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Mar 6

Post-doc Fellow position of 3 years (1FTE) in text mining at U of Edinburgh to work on the Leverhulme project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social Media." Deadline: March 25. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

An academic position as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · Feb 24

Are you the new Assistant Professor in Digital History on my #ERCCoG project WEB CHILD 'Changing Childhoods in the Early Era of the WWW'?

Please have a look and consider applying. And do contact me if you have any questions.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Assistant Professorship in Digital History, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Feb 27

A new doctoral position in Translation Studies at Graz University, with a research focus on “Translation, Ethics, and Digital Transformation”. For full details, please visit: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/cf0b...

Universität Graz

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Justin Tonra @jtonra.bsky.social · Jan 31

An interesting complement to ELTeC: www.distant-reading.net/eltec/

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Feb 13

Beyond delighted to have just won the hosting bid for the Digital Humanities 2027 conference! Looking forward to bringing the global DH community to @uniofgalway.bsky.social! Many thanks to my colleagues and to our twp PC Co-Chairs @omurphy.bsky.social and @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy.

adho-org.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social · Feb 13

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon.

Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027!
#DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

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Raluca Tanasescu @ecoarts.bsky.social · Feb 11

Deadline extended to Feb. 23, hybrid format and new keynote speaker Reine Meylaerts to join Karen Bennett and Piotr Blumczynski for the 2nd Trextuality conference @uniofgalway.bsky.social: "Material Turns in Translation. Intermediality and circulation." shorturl.at/mYXns [Final call]

Trextuality 2 - Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice

The Trextuality 2 conference aims to deepen the discussion on how today’s media hybridity influences both the products and processes of translation, examining the ways in which the convergence of diff...

translation.universityofgalway.ie

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