Recent forays onto the
European Society for Translation Studies Facebook page (a good place to lurk, as witness the 7,287 likes at time of writing) suggest that, once again, it is the season for thinking about summer schools.
Three summer schools have announced their lineup for next year (note that all information is taken from the respective websites and no guarantee is made of its accuracy).
The long-running
CETRA Summer School is now in its twenty-seventh year and will be held at the Antwerp campus of the University of Leuven from 24 August to 4 September 2015. This year's visiting professor is Judy Wakabayashi. Two partial scholarships are available. Applications close 2 April 2015.
The fourth annual
EMUNI Agricola Translation Studies Doctoral and Teacher Training Summer School will take place from 1 to 12 June 2015 in Turku, Finland. The guest professors will be Yves Gambier and Andrew Chesterman. The summer school is named for the sixteenth-century Finnish translator Mikael Agricola. Applications close 28 February 2015.
The ninth
Nida School of Translation Studies, an initiative of the Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship, takes place from 18 to 29 May 2015. The guest professors are Susan Bassnett and Sandra Bermann. It takes place in Misano Adriatico (Rimini), Italy. The website says a limited number of partial bursaries are available on the basis of need and merit. Applications close 31 January 2015.
Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School has not yet announced dates but looks as though it is expected to run again in 2015.
The
European Society for Translation Studies has an annual
Summer School Scholarship with a deadline on
1 May 2015 which contributes 1,000 euro towards the cost of any recognised translation or interpreting summer school. You have to be an EST member at the time of application.
Some readers will have noticed an omission from this list. The
Translation Studies Summer School which used to run between Edinburgh, Manchester, UCL and latterly Hong Kong has been discontinued. Many of the staff involved have set up a new initiative,
ARTIS (Advancing Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies) which provides academic support for translation and interpreting research training events. These events can be held anywhere in the world; see
the website for upcoming events or follow
@ARTISinitiative on Twitter for information about the next call for events.
Readers looking for more practically-oriented events, rather than research training, may wish to keep an eye on
Translate in the City, the
BCLT Summer School,
Traduttori in Movimento, the
Assises de la Traduction Littéraire or the
Giornate della Traduzione Letteraria.
UPDATE 17 December: The long-running translation programme at the University of Ottawa offers two summer schools in 2015: a summer school in Chinese-English translation and interpreting, and a summer school in translation pedagogy for translator trainers. More information
here. Application deadline 15 January.
Summer is coming...
Image by Tai on Flickr with warm thanks.
