PhDs@TCLCT

A group of PhD candidates and postdoctoral/early career researchers associated with the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation @TCLCTdublin. 🎓

[PhDs@TCLCT @TCLCTPhDs]

The Centre's Newsletter, showcasing the range of activities we got up to during the 2024-2025 academic year, has just been released.

Take a look at what we've done, and take a peek at what we have planned for the next year, here:

https://t.co/SAuOW6PfjP

[Trinity Centre for Literary & Cultural Translation @TCLCTdublin]

We are delighted to announce this prestigious fellowship, generously supported by @FranceinIreland Applications are welcome from translators who are translating a piece of Irish or British literature into French. Closing date: 12 December 2025. https://t.co/PRFrfxNB92

[Nayara Güércio @guercio_nayara]

My PhD commencement was everything I hoped for. While the weather was gloomy, my heart was full of joy and gratitude.

Dochtúir oifigiúil anois! Officially a doctor! 🎓 #PhDLife #doutorado #TranslationStudies #AcademicChatter #PhDone @TCLCTPhDs @TCLCTdublin

[Motoko Akashi @MotokoAkashi]

What can translators reveal about culture beyond borders? Prof. Jeffrey Angles shows how translators’ lives and translations themselves reshape literary history and cross-cultural exchange. Programme: https://t.co/GEI3ZcRErb Registration: https://t.co/JNV1yyC5R1 @jeffreyangles

[EST @estrans]

New book: Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction: Affect, Behavior and Cognition
Edited by: Claire Y. Shih, Caiwen Wang

https://t.co/0hylVDyNe4

[EST @estrans]

📢 New Special Issue

Translation in Society (Vol. 4:1, 2025) presents:

“In Search of Round Trips: Travelling Concepts in Translation Studies and Beyond”

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/prETLFyMoW

📖 Two papers in this issue are available in open access.

[Motoko Akashi @MotokoAkashi]

🎨 How do artists “translate” Okinawa’s postwar experience? Dr. Eriko Tomizawa-Kay explores memory, gender, & identity in Okinawan art at Human Translators in Focus(22–24 Oct).
📄Programme https://t.co/GEI3ZcR6BD 🎟️ Registration https://t.co/JNV1yyBy1t @SISJAC_UK @CJS_Uea

[PhDs@TCLCT @TCLCTPhDs]

Congratulations to all of us!
@TCLCTdublin

[CUP Linguistics @CambUP_LangLing]

The Language of Memes by Barbara Dancygier and Lieven Vandelanotte
The first book-length analysis of memes from a linguistic perspective, proposing a new approach to the study of multimodal genres.
📚 https://t.co/s4mCm1HY9d

[PhDs@TCLCT @TCLCTPhDs]

Thrilled to welcome our new cohort of MPhil students! Wishing you all an inspiring and rewarding academic journey ahead! 👏🏼
@TCLCTdublin
@tcddublin
@JamesLHadley

[Jia @Jia_Zhang_Chia]

🎉 New OA article published!
Our paper with Stephen Doherty is now online in @ITT_journal The Interpreter and Translator Trainer!

Thanks to editors, Feng Cui, @defeng12, Chiyuan Zhuang, and @jaltranslation and reviewers.
🔗 https://t.co/IVVgvFpEjj

[Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @WarwickPrizeWiT]

If you're in London and looking for a way to celebrate #womenintranslation this August #WITmonth, @sinoistbooks are running two events to celebrate the launch of 'My Sisters Red Shirt' by Tie Ning, translated by Annelise Finnegan. Free tickets available: https://t.co/86HW03AhPD

[IATIS @IATISorg]

Martha Cheung Award 2025 is now open for submission. Deadline: 31 October 2025 https://t.co/VwM7afQC39

[Andrea Bergantino @AndBerga]

Great to see transfiction represented in the longlist for the 2025 Booker Prize. 'Misinterpretation', by Ledia Xhoga, features an Albanian interpreter in what sounds like a gripping story. Looking forward to reading it!
https://t.co/Bk2dXb1FzH

[WILDNESS. a literary journal @wildnessjournal]

WILDNESS.

Open for submissions! 📝

poetry · fiction · non-fiction

→ https://t.co/aUQiXyUOnK

[Motoko Akashi @MotokoAkashi]

I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to the brilliant speakers on our panel, “Changing Face of Literary Translator Studies: A Dialogue between Academia and Profession,” at the 11th @estrans Congress. Your insights truly sparked rich discussions and new ideas🎓
@AndBerga

[Andrea Bergantino @AndBerga]

Honoured to have presented my new research and convened a panel on Literary Translator Studies and the Profession at #est2025 @UniversityLeeds with @MotokoAkashi.
Huge thanks to @estrans and @TCDTrust for all their support, and to everyone who contributed to the conversation!

[PhDs@TCLCT @TCLCTPhDs]

@CambUP_LangLing @guercio_nayara

[CUP Linguistics @CambUP_LangLing]

New Cambridge Element Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching by Benjamin Luke Moorhouse and Kevin M. Wong is now free to read for 2 weeks!
https://t.co/Ea5DaDK0jO
#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

[The ADAPT Centre @AdaptCentre]

New research by Dr. Abeba Birhane at the AI Accountability Lab (#AIAL) in ADAPT at @tcddublinscss shows how computer vision research has fuelled pervasive surveillance over decades.

The study, conducted by Dr Abeba Birhane & collaborators from Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Washington and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), has just been published in leading international journal @Nature.

Learn more: https://t.co/tfUaGDGAaU

Dr Birhane has also recently been awarded around €200,000 from the @EuropeanAIFund to support research at the AIAL: https://t.co/CJimeiXAQR

#AIAccountability #Surveillance #ComputerVision #EthicalAI