We in the MLA Office of Scholarly Communication plan to launch a translation site that will serve as a resource to our members. We plan to cover practical and professional advice, discussion of theories of translation, reviews of books in and about translation, pedagogical ideas, personal experience— and anything else you would like to see…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This announcement from Anne Neveu should be of interest:

ANNOUNCEMENT

2015 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors

What Is Gained in Translation? Learning How to Read Translated Literature

Applications are now being accepted for a three-week summer institute for college and university instructors on the topic “What Is G…[Read more]

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Dear All,

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<div>I am pleased to send you the Call for Papers for the next issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies (http://ejournals.library.<wbr />ualberta.ca/index.php/TC/<wbr />announcement)
The deadline is March 15, 2015.</div>
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I look forward to receiving your…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

Can anybody suggest me some good book/s  or articles on the History of Translation ?

Best,

Prithviraj

Hello everyone,

I would like to ask those of you who are current MLA members to take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.

You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab American to endorse the new…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please remember to cast your vote concerning Resolution 2014-1. Regardless of how you intend to cast your vote, please vote.

You can read the  MLA Executive Director’s letter, Rosemary G. Feal, here: http://t.e2ma.net/message/mx8ig/yum5sh

Please click on http://t.e2ma.net/click/mx8ig/yum5sh/6c2vcc (you need to log into your…[Read more]

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]