Translationstudiesforfree: online modules in translation and interpreting studies

ARTIS (Advancing Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies) developed out of the TRSS (Translation Research Summer School), based in the UK and latterly also in Hong Kong, co-organised by Edinburgh, Manchester, UCL and Hong Kong Baptist University.

The TRSS produced an online course in translation and interpreting studies which is now available on the ARTIS website. There are two modules: one on Theories of Translation and Interpreting and one on Research Methods in Translation and Intercultural Studies.

The module Theories of Translation and Interpreting has four units: an overview by Professor Theo Hermans; a unit on descriptive approaches by Siobhan Brownlie; a unit on interventionist approaches to translation by Sebnem Susam-Saraeva; and a unit by Sameh Hanna on translation as social practice.

The module Research Methods in Translation and Intercultural Studies has three units: a unit on translating point of view, by Charlotte Bosseaux; a unit on translation as interpretation by Theo Hermans; and a unit on translation as renarration by Catherine Mansfield.

The course has no formal teaching, no charge, no sign-up dates. The materials are presented as is, for self-study.

Free webconference: Corpora and Tools in Translator Training, 14 April 2015

This just came round via the IATIS Training Committee and looks very useful. The event will run both onsite and online. There is no charge for participation.

IATIS Training Event: 

Corpora and Tools in Translator Training

IATIS Online/Onsite Training Event, 14 April 2015

Cologne University of Applied Sciences, 

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

The use of corpora has now found its way into both the theoretical/descriptive and applied branches of translation studies. This online event is aimed at stimulating debate on current and future trends in corpus-based translator training and critically appraising current practices.

The training event will focus on strategies, usability and technology in the use of corpora and discuss the following aspects:

1) Corpus types which are particularly relevant to translator training.

2) Corpus use for learning to translate vs. learning corpus use for translating.

3) Corpus compilation and selection criteria.

4) Contextualisation of corpus texts and of the theoretical/methodological set-up underlying corpus- based research.

5) Corpus types, e.g. Do-it-yourself corpora, high-quality translation corpora, such as the Cologne Specialized Translation Corpus (CSTC).

6) The web as a source of corpus texts; the web as a macro-corpus.

7) Situating the use of corpora in translation competence models, e.g. PACTE or EMT.

8) Corpus tools, such as corpus analysis software and Web concordancers.

The event leaders (Prof Dr Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Dr Ralph Krüger, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Prof Dr Silvia Hansen-Schirra, University of Mainz) will present position papers (ca. 25 min each) covering a number of the issues suggested above and then invite discussion from participants.

More details including schedule, abstracts and login instructions at:

http://www.fh-koeln.de/hochschule/itmk--konferenzen-und-tagungen--iatis-training-event_17408.php

New year, new #translationstudiesforfree

A new year is upon us and one of my resolutions is to continue with the #translationstudiesforfree series for this blog (see also on Twitter). This tag aims to make free translation studies content more visible and more easily available.

One of the features of free access to paywalled journal content is that it can be a bit unpredictable; you have to snaffle it while it's available. I thought that it might be useful to make a list of Translation Studies content that is currently on free access. So here's a list of freely available articles (not including book reviews) at time of writing, in alphabetical order.

Blumczyński, Piotr (2013) Turning the tide: A critique of Natural Semantic Metalanguage from a translation studies perspective, Translation Studies, 6:3, 261-276, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2013.781484

Chandran, Mini (2011) The translator as ideal reader: Variant readings of Anandamath, Translation Studies, 4:3, 297-309, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589653

Cronin, Michael & Sherry Simon (2014) Introduction: The city as translation zone, Translation Studies, 7:2, 119-132, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2014.897641

Daldeniz, Elif (2010) Introduction: Translation, modernity and its dissidents: Turkey as a “republic of translation”, Translation Studies, 3:2, 129-131, DOI: 10.1080/14781701003647327

Fu, Liangyu (2013) Indigenizing visualized knowledge: translating Western science illustrations in China, 1870–1910, Translation Studies, 6:1, 78-102, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2012.724784

Guo, Ting (2015) Interpreting for the enemy: Chinese interpreters in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931–1945), Translation Studies, 8:1, 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2014.881302

Kershaw, Angela & Gabriela Saldanha (2013) Introduction: Global landscapes of translation, Translation Studies, 6:2, 135-149, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2013.777257

Koskinen, Kaisa (2014) Tampere as a translation space, Translation Studies, 7:2, 186-202, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2013.873876

Littau, Karin (2011) First steps towards a media history of translation, Translation Studies, 4:3, 261-281, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589651

McDonough Dolmaya, Julie (2015) Revision history: Translation trends in Wikipedia, Translation Studies, 8:1, 16-34, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2014.943279

Marinetti, Cristina & Margaret Rose (2013) Process, practice and landscapes of reception: An ethnographic study of theatre translation, Translation Studies, 6:2, 166-182, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2013.777258

Markey, Anne (2011) Valparaiso: Translation and Irish poetry, Translation Studies, 4:3, 325-341, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589655

Olohan, Maeve (2011) Translators and translation technology: The dance of agency, Translation Studies, 4:3, 342-357, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589656

Owen, Ruth J. (2011) Freedoms of expression: Poetry translations in the East Berlin Poesiealbum, Translation Studies, 4:2, 133-148, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.560015

Pas, Justine M. (2013) Language and belonging in the Polish translation of Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation, Translation Studies, 6:1, 64-77, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2012.725568

Sánchez, Marta E. (2011) Pocho en español: The anti-pocho pocho, Translation Studies, 4:3, 310-324, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589654

Takatori, Yuki (2011) The myth of the “A-bomb statement”, Translation Studies, 4:3, 282-296, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589652

Translation Studies Forum: Translation and censorship, (2011) Translation Studies, 4:3, 358-373, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.589657

Venuti, Lawrence (2011) Introduction: Poetry and Translation, Translation Studies, 4:2, 127-132, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2011.560014

Wakabayashi, Judy (2012) Japanese translation historiography: Origins, strengths, weaknesses and lessons, Translation Studies, 5:2, 172-188, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2012.663600

Wang, Pu (2013) The Promethean translator and cannibalistic pains: Lu Xun's “hard translation” as a political allegory, Translation Studies, 6:3, 324-338, DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2013.811836

UPDATE 21 January 2015: For a range of articles from other Routledge translation journals as well click here.

UPDATE 26 January 2015: For several more articles from Translation Studies, including Anne Malena on the city of New Orleans, Sharon Deane-Cox on Antelme, and Siobhan Brownlie on translating great historical documents, click here. Available until June 2015.

UPDATE 2, 26 January 2015: Yet more articles from Translation Studies, including Martha Cheung on the (un)importance of flagging Chineseness, Judith Kaufmann on translation & interpreting in Welsh language planning, plus other translation-related goodies here. 

Poems about translation 18: Willis Barnstone, 'ABC of Translating Poetry'

Today's Poem About Translation is Willis Barnstone's ABC of Translating Poetry. It's a poem(ish) about the translation of poems, and it lives in the very pleasing online literary magazine Cipher (not to be confused with the also excellent Irish poetry magazine Cyphers).

Barnstone's poem covers a lot of ground, paying calls to different methods of translation, attempting to debunk some of the more persistent commonplaces about translation. It offers new angles on familiar perspectives on translation, not only of poetry, but mostly of poetry.

It belongs to a rich tradition of epigrammatic reflections on translation by American poet-translators - see also Eliot Weinberger's Notes on Translation from 1988, readable here with Notes on the Notes by Kent Johnson, or Forrest Gander's Homages to Translation ('When I read a poem, I hear it in my thorax') from his 2005 book A Faithful Existence. The Homages can be read online here.

Come to think of it, this is less a Poem About Translation than a Blog Post About Epigrammatic Writing About Translation, all the more so because the status of Barnstone's poem as a poem is not certain. It seems to have started life in prose in Barnstone's 1993 book The Poetics of Translation. That version, with brief introductory remarks by Barnstone, can also be read in a single-page format here.

I think I prefer it as a poem: the layout somehow seems to help the epigrammaticity of it:
 
A translation is an XRAY,
not a Xerox.

A translator spends a life asking Y?
       Yet the I
[...]
       knows it's for U.

Screen translation history for free

.I'm greatly looking forward to my trip to Edinburgh tomorrow to talk about early screen translation history to the Heriot-Watt/Edinburgh joint translation studies research seminar. Spoiler alert:

In honour of the event, I'd like to share a few links to useful resources in screen translation history in the #translationstudiesforfree series.

The first is to the lovely journal Cinema & Cie, published by Carocci. The first six issues are freely downloadable online and include two important special issues on multiple-language versions.

The second resource is the brilliant Media History Project, a treasure trove of 800,000+ pages of film magazines and journals from the teens to the 1970s, many of them covering the early years of sound and the arrival of dubbing and subtitling. It is funded by donations, so please consider giving. 

The third resource is the Pacific Film Archive's Cinefiles database, including a large body of free scanned archival documents on major directors and films including lots of films released in subtitled or dubbed versions, and fascinating distributors' and exhibitors' materials.

And as a bonus, not directly related to screen translation but incredibly interesting for silent film (which has, as far as I can see, been completely ignored to date by audiovisual translation scholars), the nutty-but-fabulous intertitle-o-rama: full transcripts of the titles of dozens and dozens of silent films.

(Btw if I'm wrong about researchers ignoring the translation of silent films, please feel free to pelt me with peanuts and point me in the direction of interesting stuff to read...)

UPDATE Wednesday evening, 12 Feb: Despite croaking like a frog, I really enjoyed the paper this evening and warm Edinburgh welcome, including thought-provoking questions.

A couple more rich resources on this topic (links are behaving oddly but copying and pasting should work):

Das Sprechen der Filme. Über verbale Sprache im Spielfilm. PhD thesis by Chris Wahl, 2003, downloadable at

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Reproducing Languages, Translating Bodies: Approaches to Speech, Translation and Cultural Identity in Early European Sound Film, PhD thesis by Anna Sofia Rossholm, published by Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, 2006, downloadable at su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:189903/FULLTEXT01

Translationstudiesforfree: Ten historical texts about translation

More free goodies for translation studies researchers. This time, it's interesting texts from the history of translation theory. Some of these are downloadable as pdf files, others readable online. (I haven't quite worked out the Google Library setup yet, but it should work OK.)

1. Etienne Dolet's La manière de bien traduire d'une langue en aultre (1540)
2. Earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse (1684) 
3. Charles Batteux's Principles of Translation (1760)
4. Alexander Fraser Tytler's Essay on the Principles of Translation (1797)
5. Francis Newman, Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice (1861)
6. Matthew Arnold's On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford (1860). The links are to Google Library; versions of Arnold's and Newman's texts can also be downloaded here. 
7. Thomas Norton's preface to his translation of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.
8. A 1905 edition of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, one of the best known translations in English literature
9. Castelvetro's Lettera di Lodovico Castelvetro scritta a m. Guasparro Calori a Roma del traslatare at the Galileo digital library (not the most intuitive layout ever)
10. Jean le Rond d’Alembert's Observations sur l'art de traduire (1763). This is part of Julie Candler Hayes' impressive text bank entitled 'French Translators: 1600-1800: An Online Anthology of Prefaces and Criticism' which includes works by Guillaume de Colletet, Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Anne Dacier, the Abbé Desfontaines and many others. 

Flora Ross Amos's 1920 book Early Theories of Translation is available to download from archive.org.

Readers working on translation history may also be interested in the Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue (a searchable, analytical and annotated list of all translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641; also includes all translations out of all languages into English printed abroad before 1641.)  

Translators on translation

I'd love to see more pieces by translators about getting into the nitty-gritty of texts. Sometimes we ask our students to analyse translations against the translators' own discourse (from prefaces, interviews, notes etc.). It can be tricky to find these at short notice, except perhaps in the case of older translation prefaces which can sometimes be tracked down via repositories like Project Gutenberg.

So here are some suggestions for finding translators talking about their work.

The Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas has collected interviews with a number of eminent translators, many from Spanish.

Words Without Borders has a series of posts 'From the Translator'. 

There is a growing collection of pieces by translators on the authors they have translated at http://authors-translators.blogspot.co.uk/p/translators.html. 

The Necessary Fiction blog has collected a number of Translators' Notes.

Peter Bush's 2003 essay on translating Juan Goytisolo remains a great point of reference and shows how enlightening it can be to look at successive drafts of the same passage.

Lydia Davis has been widely interviewed about her translations of Proust and of Flaubert. For instance, peeping out from behind the Paris Review paywall are the intriguing opening paragraphs of this essay.

We have previously mentioned William Weaver's wonderful piece on translating Gadda.

And Daniel Hahn is nearing the end of a diary about his translation of a novel by Saavedra (it might be worth saving these pages as you go, because I don't know how long they will be available; a previous blog on translating Agualusa was later collected and published and is no longer on the web).

UPDATE 14 November 2014: There's a new blog on the block called brouillon, which collects translators' reflections on specific knotty words and phrases. There are just a few posts at time of writing but it looks very promising! 

Translationstudiesforfree part 7, including fictions of translation

Continuing with the Translationstudiesforfree theme, here are a few bits and pieces which have crossed my path recently.

The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de littérature comparée is available online on open access up until 2008. It has plenty of translation-related content, including a special issue on translation in the Renaissance (volume 8, no. 2, spring 1981). This weekend I've read and found interesting George Lang's 1992 article 'La Belle Alterité: Towards a Dialogical Paradigm in Translation Theory?'

In our last MA Cultural Encounters class of the term we talked about narrative and fictions of translation, which reminded me to post a link to Borges' brilliant story 'Pierre Menard, Autor del Quijote'. There appear to be three translations at least into English. Here is a html version of the translation by James E. Irby. A copy of the translation by Anthony Bonner can be found on Columbia University's website here. A copy of the translation by Andrew Hurley can be downloaded via the CUNY website here (I think, though my browsers are being tedious about doing downloads of pdf files).

But really it's Borges, and it's ChristmasWinterval, so you should get someone to go to a proper, bricks-and-mortar bookshop and buy a paperback copy of Fictions for you.

For those of you looking for other stories about fictional translators, again, I direct you to your nearest b.&.m. bookshop where you will find lots of them (for some ideas, see here or here). Neither of these lists mentions my very favourite story featuring a translator, which is 'The Kleptomaniac Translator' by Dezső Kosztolányi, from the novel/story collection Kornél Esti. You can download a French translation of this story by Péter Adám and Maurice Regnault from the publisher's website. You'll find an English translation of the story in Bernard Adams's Kornél Esti published by New Directions (alas not online, but think, what a great way to start your new year's resolution about reading more fiction in translation).

Translationstudiesforfree part 6: Journal special issues on translation

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In a previous post in the translationstudiesforfree occasional series I linked to free content from a number of translation journals. Of course there are lots of non-translation-studies journals which do special issues on translation too. A few are even open access. For instance:

reconstruction: studies in contemporary culture has a 2011 issue on 'Multilingual realities in Translation'.

Volume 5, issue 1 of the Journal of Writing Research has a special section on writing and translation process research.

The French sociolinguistics journal Glottopol has an interest in translation; see e.g. this 2010 issue on orality and writing in translation (and there's a call out for a 2015 special issue on self-translation which looks interesting (useful bibliography provided, too); deadline April 2014).

Helsinki English Studies has two special issues on translation, issue 1, edited by Ritva Leppihalme,  and issue 4, 'The Road to Translation', a Festschrift in Leppihalme's honour edited by Outi Paloposki (Finnish and English content) (which includes by-the-by an interesting article on dissertation supervision from the student's point of view by Mika Loponen). 

New Comparison, the old journal of the British Comparative Literature Association, ran several special issues on translation which are available for download here.

There's a special issue of the Portuguese journal Anglo-Saxonica (Series III, No.3) on 'New Directions in Translation Studies' edited by Anthony Pym and Alexandra Assis Rosa on translation here (click on the cover image to download the whole issue). 

The Revue française de linguistique appliquée has a couple of special issues on translation, one from 2003 on 'La traduction aujourd'hui: théories et pratiques' which includes an interesting-looking article on the translation of philosophy, and one on 'linguistique et traduction' from 2009 which includes a useful article by Kirsten Malmkjaer revisiting definitions of translation competence. There's a 1994 Langages special issue on 'Le traducteur et l'ordinateur'.

UPDATE 5 March 2014: Gisèle Sapiro has edited a special issue of the journal Bibliodiversity on translation and globalisation. The issue is dedicated to the publisher and champion of translated literature André Schiffrin. Articles in French, English, Spanish. Downloadable or readable online.

UPDATE 6 March 2014: The journal Book History has an issue free to access (no.16) at time of writing which includes a number of interesting articles relating to translation and publishing.

A keyword search for translation in the 'journal' field in the Directory of Open Access Journals turns up some 45 journals, and a keyword search under articles brings up nearly 7,000 hits, in many languages. There turn out to be many open access journals which have an interest in translation, without being translation-focused (e.g. journals not on the European Society for Translation Studies list of translation journals). Next time you're looking for secondary literature, a direct search on the DOAJ might be worthwhile.

Another great site is revues.org. It lists 13 special issues on translation, including:

A 2011 issue of Trivium on medieval translation and information exchange in the Mediterranean region; 
A 2002 issue of ILCEA on cultural factors in translating pragmatic texts (in Delisle's sense) and a special issue of the same journal from 2011 on the ergonomics of translation (a nice, catchy way of talking about translators and their tools).
A 2002 special issue of IDEO on translation and reception of the literatures of Asia in French
There's a special issue of Études irlandaises on translation in an Irish context, including a very good interview with Michael Cronin or, as he is sometimes known in Ireland, Micheál Ó Cróinín. His observations on Ireland's 'sociolinguistic deficit' have a wider application too.
There's a very interesting-looking 2011 special issue on the translation of Flaubert, including Sharon Deane on the retranslation of Flaubert into English, here.

France seems very well provided with open access journal repositories, what with www.cairn.info and www.persee.fr (where a keyword search on translation is also worth doing). The latter has a nice 1999 special issue on literary translation in the nineteenth century from Romantisme. This portal also has a very substantial 2002 special issue of Actes de recherche en sciences sociales on translation and international literary exchanges edited by Johan Heilbron and Gisèle Sapiro.

I note with interest the charges obtaining on www.cairn.info: between 3 and 5 euro per article, e.g. the 2011 special issue of the Revue de la BNF on translation or the 2011 special issue of Études de linguistique appliquée on 'Traduire des français: des mots et des mondes'. This is refreshing, in an era when articles on the big publishing platforms can be priced at £30 or more for individual download. Could this be a trend? Is anyone else exploring the potential of mini- or micropayments for academic publishing?

Speaking of matters financial, it's worth noting that there is a potential ethical issue around open repositories like the DOAJ, which may include journals which impose publication charges on authors. There's a search on the DOAJ to filter this, if you feel that open access content should be free for both authors and readers.

On the same theme, for readers who know Italian I recommend an excellent, thought-provoking article, 'Autori nella rete', by the dubbing scriptwriters Eleonora di Fortunato and Mario Paolinelli, authors of Tradurre per il doppiaggio (Hoepli 2005), on the impact of the move to open access and free content on writers who are not also salaried academics.

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Translationstudiesforfree part 5: Conference proceedings online

Today is the thirteenth annual Portsmouth translation conference, and I wish I could be there. It is the first conference I haven't been at in ten years. 

But here's hoping they are having a great day, and I thought I'd give them a shoutout, in the form of a link to some online translation conference proceedings as part of our ongoing occasional series on Translation Studies for free.

The Portsmouth conference has put several years' worth of proceedings online: click here for 2007, here for 2008, here for 2009. Some of the contributions to the 2011 conference on multimodality and translation were published as part of issue 20 of the Journal of Specialised Translation, which will also publish a special issue in 2014 based on this year's topic of translation and crime.

There are a few other conferences which put their proceedings online. There tends to be a mixture of full texts, powerpoints, handouts etc. Click here for the proceedings to a 2013 conference held in Liège entitled "Impliciter, expliciter: le traducteur comme équilibriste interculturel".

SEPTET, a translation research group based at the University of Strasbourg, has put online the proceedings of a conference on "Les relations internationales à travers les traductions françaises au siècle de Louis XIV" which look very interesting. Both mostly/all in French.

Lastly, we can't forget the proceedings of three Marie Curie-funded conferences on Multidimensional Translation (the MuTra conferences) held in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and containing useful papers on lots of topics including my favourite, subtitling.

I don't know quite where one draws the line between online conference proceedings and online downloadable books based on conferences. A good example of the latter is the 2010 book Translators' Agency, edited by Tuija Kinnunen and Kaisa Koskinen, based on a symposium held in Tampere in 2008 [the link is to a direct download of the book]. I'd love to see more books circulating via this route.

As always, feel free to link to any other online translation conference proceedings in the comments.

Translationstudiesforfree part 4: Repositories of researchers' publications

This is the next instalment in the translationstudiesforfree series, which tries to highlight good open access resources for translation researchers.

I mentioned in a previous post that some translation scholars have their own websites where selections of their work can be downloaded. Theo Hermans was the scholar in question, but of course there are many others. Anthony Pym's website has a huge quantity of resources. Many of Andrew Chesterman's publications can be found on the open web. His homepage has a number of links. His short article from 1996: 'Psst! Theory can be useful!' cheers me up with its practical good sense. He offers a useful overview of Skopos theory here. On conference interpreting, see the rich resources gathered by Daniel Gile. On public service interpreting, see Holly Mikkelson's page.

Several scholars have extensive publications lists on academia.edu, including Mona Baker (lots of her work here on translation and narration). Another senior scholar represented is Douglas Robinson, who has several articles on the site including his '22 theses about translation' which remain as rich as ever.

In fact, academia.edu has unending riches for translation scholars, from Catherine Baker on military interpreting in the Balkans to Chris Rundle on translation and censorship in Fascist Italy; from Rachele Antonini on child language brokering to Federico Zanettin on comics translation; from Chris Larkosh on sexualities and translation in Latin America to Kyle Conway on news translation.

Of course this is a tiny and reductive selection of topics; there's much more to be found with a bit of patient rummaging. Note that on academia.edu it would be usual to find preprint versions of articles, but one may also find extended or alternate versions of work (e.g. Nicholas Watson's 'Director's Cut' of his entry on theories of translation in the medieval volume of the Oxford History of Literary Translation into English - nice!) It's also a place where people upload drafts of conference papers. So in textual terms, one needs, in the words of Alastor Moody, 'constant vigilance!'

PhD theses can increasingly be found on the open web, either on their authors' webpages, in institutional repositories or via services such as the British Library's Ethos in the UK (try looking up 'subtitling' or 'literary translation' to see the range of theses available). Abstracts of PhD theses are published regularly in New Voices in Translation Studies.

More suggestions for academics' pages with good resources are welcome in the comments.

Translation Studies for Free, part 3

The translationstudiesforfree material seems to have been of interest to readers, so I thought I would add some more resources.

One fast-growing type of resource is recorded lectures, both audio and video. Anthony Pym has some 91 recorded lectures and interviews with eminent researchers at his Youtube channel. The Fondazione San Pellegrino also has a youtube channel with a number of lectures and interviews linked with the annual Misano Adriatico translation school including very interesting lectures by Lawrence Venuti and Anne Coldiron. Recordings of the annual Sebald Lecture on literature in translation are available on the website of the British Centre for Literary Translation. There is a lecture about translation by Umberto Eco (in Italian) here.

A number of translation scholars have repositories of publications on sites such as academia.edu, or on their own university websites (see e.g. Theo Hermans' website which has a number of fascinating papers on open access (though I found the UCL eprints site a bit clunky). Hermans is one of the contributors to a wonderful-looking 2013 lecture series, also at UCL, entitled 'Translation in History'. The lectures are downloadable as pdfs.

Other useful resources include the Translation Studies Portal. It has a Chinese site, and one for the Arab world, broadly speaking. The latter site includes a number of recorded lectures which can be accessed here. The TSP is not to be confused with the Routledge Translation Studies Portal, which has lots of resources relating to the Routledge catalogue of translation studies books and journals.

There are lots of talks and interviews featuring translators also on the web. Lydia Davis is interviewed on her translation of Proust here. Anthea Bell, one of the UK's best-known translators, can be seen discussing her practice with one of her source authors here.

An increasingly popular event format is the 'Translation Slam' where two translators get together to discuss their approach to a text. Examples can be found here (Adam Talib and Randa Aboubakr on translating an extract from Yusuf Abu Rayya's novel Ashiq al-hayy) and here (Frank Wynne and Ros Schwartz on translating an extract from L'enquête by Philippe Claudel).

Lastly, one source of free books about translation is the EU bookshop. EU publications can be downloaded without charge in pdf format. They include the useful guide How to Write Clearly, available in all the languages of the member states, and the recent report by Pym, Grin, Sfreddo and Chan The Status of the Translation Profession in the European Union (ignore the actual description of this volume on the website which seems to have been pasted from a completely different book). A keyword search for 'translation' brings up lots of other interesting-looking things.

Free translation studies journal content online

Continuing the theme of Translation Studies For Free:

Of the many journals in translation studies, some are entirely open access, some are paywalled, and some are partly paywalled. As regular readers will know, I'm a fan of open access publishing (e.g. this post and this post). A number of well-known journals, including Meta and TTR on the erudit.org platform, have rolling paywalls which means that all but the most recent few years of content is on open access. (At the moment, and without any privileged knowledge of how these journals work, this seems to me a good compromise: it is likely to maximise citations at the same time as democratising access, and presumably high citation rates make the journals attractive to subscribers who want the most recent content. Slightly makes you wonder why more journals don't choose this route.)  

But even journals which function entirely on a subscription model often offer some free content for marketing purposes. If any of this blog's readers are looking for bedtime reading at no charge, they might be interested in a quick browse.

For instance, free sample issues. At time of writing, Translation and Literature offers volume 15:1 from 2006. Translation Watch Quarterly's 2005 inaugural issue on translation quality is available here. Translation Spaces, recently launched by Benjamins, offers part of its first issue for free here. Across Languages and Cultures offers part or all of several issues for free, including volume 8:1 (2007); volume 10:2, a special issue on translation process research; and bits of volumes 12:1 and 13:1. Machine Translation offers a small selection of free articles here (scroll down to the end of the page). Translation Studies (Taylor & Francis) offers volume 4:3 (2011) here. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology (also Taylor & Francis) offers volume 19:4 (2011) here. UPDATE 8 FEB 2014: Translation and Interpreting Studies offers free access to issue 7.1 (2012) here.

Translation Review, unlike the other Taylor and Francis journals, doesn't offer a free sample issue, but I see that issues 62-78, from 2001 to 2009, are available as free downloads from its old website at http://www.utdallas.edu/alta/publications/translation-review/tr-past-issues.

The three Taylor & Francis translation journals, Translation Studies, Translation Review and Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, also all offer a selection of articles free to read under the heading of 'most read' on the journal homepage. Seasonally speaking, these journals have bundled some articles as free content to celebrate St. Jerome's day on 30 September: the link is in the banner below.

Translation Studies For Free

There's a great blog called FilmStudiesForFree which collects open access materials for film studies researchers. It's always seemed like a brilliant idea to me, and I thought it could work for Translation Studies as well. So I am trying it out on a very small scale by inaugurating a 'translationstudiesforfree' tag on this blog.

I am partly inspired by the fact that a journal I really like, the euphoniously-named Linguistica Antverpiensia, has just opted for open access. You can now find all journal content from 2002 to 2008 in pdf form at the journal's website. This includes Dirk Delabastita's and Rainer Grutman's lovely themed issue on fictions of translation, interpreting and multilingualism from 2005, and the special issue on audiovisual translation from 2007, edited by Aline Remael and Josélia Neves (this is a topic very close to my heart, and this issue all the more so as I was lucky enough to have an article in it). As I understand it, the journal will have a rolling firewallpaywall, so watch the site for more recent issues in due course.

Linguistica Antverpiensia isn't the only translation journal which offers open access content. There are many more, some of which are listed here, on the website of the European Society for Translation Studies. A new one which just started this year is L'Écran Traduit, published by the French audiovisual translators' association, the ATAA.

Other free translation resources I'm very attached to include

• the bibliographical translation research database BITRA, hosted by the University of Alicante
• the SubtitlingWorldwide Youtube channel, with nice examples of good and bad subtitling of the same clip
• The Bottom Line, the wise words of Fire Ant and Worker Bee, a long-running agony column for translators published in the Translation Journal. Here's an example.   
• Translation in Practice, which is an excellent short introduction to literary translation as a professional practice. It can be bought in hard copy here, but it is also available as a free download. (The link seems to have vanished, but can be retrieved via the wonderful Wayback Machine if you type in http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/resources/download.cfm?GCOI=15647100138250&thefile=Translation_in_Practice_book.pdf.)

I hope readers of this blog find some of these resources useful. All further suggestions for good free resources for translation studies are most welcome.