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January 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Kevin Lossner

@kslossner.bsky.social

Two past webinars on #terminology in #memoQ. These have the raw recordings (with Q&A about 1h50m in each case) and session slides as PDF:

memoquickies.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

memoquickies.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

#xl8 #translation
#l10n #localization
#TranslationStudies

February 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Stefano Villani

@stefanovil.bsky.social

Happy to discuss my book 'Making Italy Anglican' with Paolo Cozzo on March 27, 2025, at 17:30 CET on Zoom
#BCP #ChurchOfEngland #Anglican #TranslationStudies
go.umd.edu/1x8s

March 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Anna Merikallio

@amerikallio.bsky.social

Sometimes, when your research idea is a bit on the unconventional side, you have no alternative but to lean into it in your presentation slides.

#KäTu2025 #translationstudies #vibes

April 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM Everybody can reply

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

@johnbenjamins.bsky.social

🎉 We are pleased to announce that as of 2026 John Benjamins will take over the publication of the renowned journal 🔹InContext: Studies in Translation and Interculturalism🔹, edited by Ho-Jeong Cheong (HUFS, South Korea).

👉 www.benjamins.com/catalog/ic

👓 STAY TUNED! 👓 #translationstudies

June 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM Everybody can reply

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Ideology, power, and a virgin: Translations of Isaiah 7:14 in Norwegian Bible translations as a case study

Carol O'Sullivan

@carolosullivan.bsky.social

That feeling when your PhD student bounds out of her viva with minor corrections and a big smile 👏
Warm congratulations to Beixi Li! #literarytranslation #translationstudies #translationsociology

April 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Mainz University

@mainzuniversity.bsky.social

WATCH NOW: Silvia Hansen-Schirra – Bridging #Brains and #Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtb29j6a_X8&list=PL2512133BE1195FCB #translationstudies #psycholinguistics #research

December 12, 2024 at 7:50 PM Everybody can reply

Morten Beckmann

@mortenbeckmann.bsky.social

Who has the power to decide how a significant passage is translated in a Bible
translation? Just published an article in @targetjournal.bsky.social on the translation controversy surrounding Isaiah 7:14. DM me for the article: benjamins.com/catalog/targ...
#translationstudies #bibletranslation

Isaiah 7:14 has consistently sparked controversies in Bible translations due to its potential translation of the Hebrew ‘almah as ‘young woman’ or ‘virgin’. This distinction is significant to the doct...

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April 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Kevin Lossner

@kslossner.bsky.social

Here's the raw recording of yesterday's online terminology workshop for #memoQ users, along with slides. As indicated in the notes, the video will be replaced by an edited, indexed version when I have time for that.

open.substack.com/pub/memoquic...

#xl8 #translation #TranslationStudies

Coming to Terms with memoQ, Part 1

Webinar recording and slides from February 20, 2025

February 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM Everybody can reply

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

@johnbenjamins.bsky.social

📣 Make sure to follow our journal Translation, Cognition & Behavior on Bluesky now! 👇👇👇

💡 More info on the journal: benjamins.com/catalog/tcb

#translation #interpreting #translationstudies #cognition #psychology #johnbenjamins

jbtacuba.bsky.social @jbtacuba.bsky.social · Jul 15

📢 📢 Exciting news! Translation, Cognition & Behavior by @johnbenjamins.bsky.social is now on Bluesky 🎉 Get ready for the latest advances in #cognitive #xl8 and #1nt studies. 🧠 Follow us for updates, insights and calls for papers. 🧐

#translation #interpreting #cognition #psychology #johnbenjamins

August 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Lecture | "Daylight at the Exit": Women Translating Kafka

Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social

What does it mean for #FranzKafka’s work that the first translations were by women? Join author Michelle Woods as she examines this question in a lecture at the Morgan Library in NYC

🕕Fri., March 14th 6pm
📆 Register for free:
www.themorgan.org/programs/lec...

#literarystudies #translationstudies

What does it mean for Kafka’s work that the first translations were by women? Join Michelle Woods as she examines this question in a lecture on Milena Jesenská and Willa Muir, and their roles in estab...

www.themorgan.org

March 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Judith Brenner

@judithbrenner.bsky.social

I am adding #TranslationStudies as this might help give this post reach

Rachel Herring @reherring.bsky.social · Dec 22

Any translation teacher colleagues know of a tool/template aimed at helping translation students assess their tech skills and identify gaps?

@bowkerl.bsky.social @susanavaldez.bsky.social @libripotens.bsky.social and others-- any ideas? (or perhaps interest in collaborating to creating one?)

December 22, 2024 at 8:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Alexandra Lopes

@alexandraalopes.bsky.social

Call for Papers
III Lisbon Spring School in Translation Studies

#translation #translationstudies

February 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM Everybody can reply

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Remembering the Great Manuel Puig, Cosmopolitan Chronicler of the Everyday

Amy Martin

@amymartin13.bsky.social

Suzanne Jill Levine on Knowing and Translating One of Latin America’s Finest 20th-Century Writers

An excerpt from her new book, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir

lithub.com/remembering-...

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing
#TranslationStudies
#TranslatorStudies

Puig is a common surname in Spanish, with a Catalan etymology that means “hill” and was pronounced as “pweeg” not as “puch” because, as South Americans, his family used Castilian rather than Catala…

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July 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Aliform Publishing

@aliformpublishing.bsky.social

If you like literature in translation, see our titles aliformpublishing.com.

#literatureintranslation @translation #translation @aliformpublishing.bsky.social #poetryintranslation #translationstudies @books #books #latinamericanliteratureintranslation #latinamericanliterature #eduardogarciaaguilar

February 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Kevin Lossner in memoQuickies Substack

Kevin Lossner

@kslossner.bsky.social

A question regarding comment features, where feedback from anyone would be helpful to prepare an article and possibly a webinar sometime this Spring.

open.substack.com/chat/posts/0...

#xl8 #translation #l10 #localization #TranslationStudies

I'm working on a tutorial regarding COMMENT features in memoQ and comment interoperability and exchange with other platforms, such as Wordfast Pro and SDL Trados. Do you have any questions or remarks ...

Invisible gremlins in translation!

March 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM Everybody can reply

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Kevin Lossner

@kslossner.bsky.social

Invisible characters can cause many problems when writing, editing and translating texts. This article explains the signs and symptoms, as well as some possible measures to correct the problems.

#xl8 #translation #l10n #localization #TranslationStudies

open.substack.com/pub/translat...

Zero-width characters can induce madness in some text processing and translation environments.

January 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Anthem Press

@anthempress.bsky.social

Review alert! ✍️ ‘Translation Theory for Literary Translators' by B.J. Woodstein has been reviewed in the journal ‘The Translator’. Read here tinyurl.com/9h9v6x7u @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #AnthemPress #indiepublisher #readnow #TranslationStudies #TranslationPractice

July 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM Everybody can reply

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