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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · 5d

CfP 🔊International Translation Conference:
Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Translation: Challenges and New Horizons, University of Palermo @unipa.it, 23–24 April 2026.

Deadline for abstract submission: 22/12/2025

Full CfP here: www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

www.unipa.it/dipartimenti...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · 9d

Convergence Conference, 17 - 19 June 2026, University of Surrey Guildford, UK. The Centre for Translation Studies is proud to announce Convergence 2026: Human-AI Integration for Multilingual and Accessible Communication.
More ifo: www.surrey.ac.uk/centre-trans...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · 21d

ESIST Member of the week is María López.
"My research interests focus on AVT and Accessibility, particularly audio description. I joined ESIST and the Communication Team because I value the exchange of knowledge and collaboration."
If you want to be featured, please reach out: [email protected]

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · 28d

It's ESIST Member of the Week Campaign back again!
Our MotW is Lucie Couset, PhD candidate researching how AI preserves humour in subtitle translation. "I was thrilled to join ESIST, a community that shares my passion for AVT."
To be featured too, please reach out: [email protected]

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Sep 2

APTIS25 Online Conference at UCL, 3–4 Nov 2025 “Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future language professionals?”
CenTraS is looking forward to hosting the APTIS25 online conference via Zoom Webinar. Info: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aptis25ucl

UCL APTIS25 Online Conference (UCL CenTraS)

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Sep 1

Meet Fuqiang (Daniel) Zhao, one of the newest members of our Communication Team and this week’s #ESISTMemberOfTheWeek ✨
Daniel is pursuing a PhD in Translation at the University of Bristol (UK), where he is researching the English translations and reception of Jin Yong’s wuxia novels 🍀

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Aug 20

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Fuqiang (Daniel) Zhao, María López Rubio and Lucie Couset as the new members of the ESIST Communication Team. Stay tuned to learn more about the new members of our crew 🥰
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social @milijanperez.bsky.social

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Aug 15

Summer readings 📖
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social: Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI
➡️Published on Translation Spaces, Special Issue "Creative Audiovisual Translation" edited by Irene Ranzato and Frederic CHAUME Varela
benjamins.com/catalog/ts.2...

Exploring creative audiovisual translation in the age of AI

The past decade has seen the Web 2.0 expand dramatically: content creators nowadays dominate the scene and dictate trends in a plethora of social dimensions within a mediascape no longer dominated by ...

benjamins.com

esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Aug 5

How do you subtitle a language that is visual and spatial?
➡️ Take a look at the first State of the Art report from the Erasmus+ project SubSign – Subtitling Sign Languages and explore how current subtitling practices meet (or fail to meet) the unique features of sign languages ✅
sub-sign.eu/results/

Results

SUBSIGN _State of the art_A1.3 and A1.4Download How do you subtitle a language that is visual and spatial instead of spoken? As part of the SUBSIGN – Subtitling Sign Languages Erasmus+ pr…

sub-sign.eu

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jul 30

Summer Readings 📕
Vol. 17 No. 2 (2025): Translation & Interpreting - Special issue on audiovisual translation and media accessibility in the age of streaming platforms

Guest editors: Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán & Serenella Zanotti

www.trans-int.org/index.php/tr...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jul 18

Second edition of the Summer School in Language and Translation Technologies. Università di Napoli L'Orientale, 16-20 September 2025.
sites.google.com/view/ssltt20...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jul 14

International Conference on Translation and Interpreting Process Studies: Multimodality, Cognition and Application

University of Mons, Belgium
6-8 May 2026

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2025

More information: www.tripsconference2026.com

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jul 3

CfP conference 13-14 Nov 2025.
International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI 2025) — Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interpreting. University of Warwick.

Deadline for abstracts: 25 July 2025
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/mod...

Call for Papers — IPCITI 2025 — University of Warwick

Call for Papers for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting. IPCITI 2025 titled 'Modality, Mutability, and Mobility: Currents of Change in Translation and Interp...

warwick.ac.uk

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 29

New publication out✨
Raising the Bar in Audiovisual Translation: Developing a Subtitling Competence Framework by Jorge Díaz-Cintas and Serenella Massidda (2025)
siba-ese.unile.it/index.php/li...
@serenellamassidda.bsky.social @jorgediazcintas.bsky.social

esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 26

Out soon ✨
Check out the new volume of Multilingual Matters on Ideologies of Communication in Japan: Speakers, Interaction and the Creation of Difference featuring two interesting studies on #AVT and #GameLocalisation:
www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank You to Gabriele Uzzo For His Service to ESIST Newsletter 🙏🙏🙏
We deeply appreciate the time and effort he devoted to this role and thank him warmly for his meaningful contribution to the ESIST community 💕

esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 18

Interesting reading ✅
➡️Adapted Literature and Theatre in Audiovisual Translation
➡️Edited by Irene Ranzato & Luca Valleriani (2024)
token.ujk.edu.pl/volumes/volu...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do not miss a new En sincronía podcast on accessibility in higher education ✅
www.ensincroniapodcast.com/1112315/epis...

Episode 57: Introducing accessibility in higher education programmes, with Roberta Lulli and Marta Brescia-Zapata - En sincronía

In this episode, we welcome Roberta Lulli and Marta Brescia to talk about new avenues to introduce accessibility as a transversal skill in higher education programmes. This has been the aim of the ATH...

www.ensincroniapodcast.com

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 11

Delighted to announce that the 2025 ESIST Prize for the Most Outstanding PhD Thesis in the field of AVT and Media Accessibility was awarded to Sixin Liao, for her thesis The Impact of Visual and Auditory Information on Subtitle Processing: An Eye Tracking Study at Media for All 11, Hong Kong 2025 🏆

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 7

Event invitation: e-Expert Seminar in Translation and Language Teaching (8th edition)
➡️ organised by University College London (UK) and the University of Cordoba (Spain)
➡️ free hybrid event
🔜Monday, 16th June 2025 (9.00 - 18.00)
eventos.uco.es/131809/detai...

esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · Jun 6

New article out ✨
Simonetta Falchi and Serenella Massidda: Subtitling The Handmaid’s Tale for an Italian Audience (2025)
More at:
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www.intralinea.org/archive/arti...

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · May 28

Are you attending Media for All 11 in Hong Kong? If you’re an hashtag#ESIST member and you don’t yet have a badge, don’t be shy to ask our President Sharon, who has a stash with her and will be happy to give you one! hashtag#M4All11

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · May 28

Live event!
Audiovisual Translation: at the Junction of Language and Technology, June 13 @ 17:30 PM - 21:30 PM (UTC+3).

womeninlocalization.com/events/?slug...

EVENT: WLGR: Οπτικοακουστική μετάφραση: εκεί όπου η γλώσσα συναντά την τεχνολογία - Audiovisual Translation: at the Junction of Language and Technology

Σας καλούμε στην επόμενη διά ζώσης εκδήλωσή μας! Παρασκευή 13 Ιουνίου, στο Μητροπολιτικό Κο

womeninlocalization.com

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esist.bsky.social @esist.bsky.social · May 24

Call for Papers ⏰ International Conference I-LanD Research Centre 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 3–5 December 2025, Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio" Chieti -Pescara, Italy.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 July 2025
rb.gy/4pbsfg