[Commlist] Facing The Future – Translation and Technology - cfp

*Facing The Future – Translation and Technology*
Glendon College, York University (Toronto) – March 14, 2020

French version: https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/transconf/cfp-fr/
Spanish version: https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/transconf/convocatoria/
Official Website: https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/transconf/

Into the second decade of the 21st century, technology continues to play 
an increasing role in translation processes and translator environments. 
What is translatable or not translatable through the mediation of 
machines is a central question as we head into the era of neural 
translation and AI. At the same time other questions emerge: are the 
existing models of collaborative translation, crowdsourcing, machine 
translated corpora, and cloud-based CAT tools leading us towards a new 
era of multi-modal plurality or to a fragmented dystopia where quality 
becomes a casualty? Is the interaction of human and machine in present 
and future translation ecologies a harbinger of an enlightened 
posthumanism or a problematic process that favours disembodied networks, 
algorithmic decision-making, and unsustainable growth in a time of 
runaway climate change and environmental degradation? This year’s 
graduate student conference will address what Minako O’Hagan (2019) 
describes as a kind of quantum entanglement, the link between human and 
machine, a crucial issue for our century.

We invite proposals for papers from a variety of fields and perspectives 
that engage with issues including, but not limited to:

• Translation, technology and colonialism;
• Gender issues in technologically mediated translation;
• Technology and untranslatability;
• Translation ecologies and eco-translation in a technologized era;
• Translator (in)visibility, status, and role in the context of advances 
in machine translation, AI, collaborative platforms, copyright issues, 
and non-professional translation;
• Technology and politically engaged translation, including crisis 
translation and disaster management;
• Technology and translation process, including neural machine 
translation, automated content enrichment, recent CAT tools, and the 
expansion of post-editing machine translation;
• Technology and specialized/technical translation, terminology, and 
localization;
• Technology and translation ethics;
• Technology and issues in audiovisual translation and interpreting.

Our one-day multilingual conference will address these and related 
topics. We welcome proposals for papers (20-minute presentations) and 
posters. Those interested are invited to submit an abstract of 250-300 
words by December 23, 2019 to (transconf /at/ glendon.yorku.ca) 
<mailto:(transconf /at/ glendon.yorku.ca)>. Submissions must include the title 
of the paper and the author’s name, affiliation, and contact 
information. Media and communication scholars are welcomed to apply.

Keynote speaker – Sharon O’Brien is Professor of Translation Studies at 
the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City 
University. She obtained a PhD in 2006 on the topic of controlled 
language and post-editing effort (Irish Research Council Scholarship). 
She holds an MA in research on language for special purposes, text 
linguistics and machine translation (1993 – EU-funded) and a BA (hons) 
in applied languages (Translation, French and German). She has published 
numerous book chapters on the topic of translation and technology.

References – O’Hagan, Minako “Introduction” in /The Routledge Handbook 
of Translation and Technology/, edited by Minako O’Hagan, Routledge, 
2019, p.18.





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