2nd EATPA Symposium (June 2027)

The East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance (EATPA) network has as its ambitious aim the enhancement of pedagogy in the field of East Asian language translation and the collaborative sharing of expertise, research and resources.

Building on the successful offerings of webinars, collaborative online international learning (COIL) activities, Translation Jams and, in 2025, the inaugural Symposium on East Asian translation pedagogy held at the University of Leeds, EATPA is excited to launch this Call for Papers for the 2nd EATPA Symposium on East Asian Translation Pedagogy to be held at The University of Toronto – Scarborough from 18 to 19 June 2027.

*We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers, Prof. Bruce Fulton of the University of British Columbia and Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.

Keynote title: Every Translation Matters: Teaching Literary Translation in the University Classroom
Speaker bio: Bruce Fulton occupies the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia, where he serves as a Professor in the Department of Asian Studies. He is the co-translator, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of numerous works of modern Korean fiction, most recently Togani by Gong Ji-young and Chinatown, four stories by Oh Jung-hee (the first Penguin Modern Classic devoted to a Korean author); co-recipient, with Ju-Chan Fulton, of the first U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for a Korean literary work and the first residency at the Banff International Literature Translation Centre awarded for a translation from any Asian language; and editor of The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories, the first volume of modern Korean literature among the 3500-plus Penguin World Classics.

Keynote title: Teaching Fiction in Translation: Lessons from Hong Kong's Vernacular Voices
Speaker bio: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is a Hong Kong-born poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, and scholar whose work moves between literary creation, translation, and cultural criticism. She is founding editor-in-chief of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, founding co-editor of Hong Kong Studies, English editor of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, and, before its folding, Translation Editor of The Shanghai Literary Review. Formerly a tenured Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, she is an Honorary Researcher at the Richard Charles Lee Hong Kong-Canada Library, University of Toronto, and a Cheney Creative Fellow at the University of Leeds. She has published three poetry collections, the latest being If I Do Not Reply (Shearsman Books, 2024), and the monograph Neo-Victorian Cannibalism (Palgrave, 2019). Her literary translations have appeared in World Literature Today, Chinese Literature Today, and Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, and she is currently translating contemporary Hong Kong fiction rich in Cantonese expression.

EATPA Symposium Two_CfP (FINAL v2.0)

Hybrid in form, the Symposium will be a place to present on new advances in classroom teaching, new SoTL research in the field and, in line with our pedagogical focus, an undergraduate and postgraduate colloquia for new and emerging educators and scholars in the field.

Since our inaugural symposium in 2025, the teaching and learning of translation has continued to face fierce headwinds. Ranging from changes in demographics, funding structures and institutional demands for measurable attainments in teaching excellence, to AI and its attendant technological advancements, the need for translation instructors to reflect on past practices and develop innovative means to respond to the challenges faced is imperative.

Focussing on the translation of East Asian languages, we invite educators, scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit proposals on the following or related themes:
• AI technology and translation pedagogy (navigating across the human-tech divide)
• Fiction and non-fiction texts in translator training (satisfying industry needs?)
• Inter-institutional collaboration in translation pedagogy (e.g.: COIL)
• Language proficiencies for translation classrooms (e.g. are minimum levels required?)
• Translation feedback & evaluation criteria (e.g. how do we and how should we grade?)
• Multilingual translation classrooms (a boon for collaborative translation practice?)
• Multimodal texts and translating beyond words (e.g.: art-spaces and heritage sites)
• Political ideology and translation pedagogy (e.g. polarisation in cross-linguistic settings)
• Theory and practice in translator training (e.g. how to effectively connect the two)

Proposals can be either pedagogic research-based (SoTL) or pedagogic practice-based but must be explicitly relevant to the translation pedagogy of East Asian languages.

The timeline is as follows:
• 30 September 2026- educator abstract submission deadline (300-word abstract plus up to 5 keywords, 150-word bio including name, title and affiliation)
• 31 October 2026- outcome of peer review of abstracts (either accepted or ‘referred’; referred abstracts will be provided with peer-feedback and guidance on required revisions)
• 30 November 2026- deadline for revised abstracts
• 18 December 2026-outcome of revised abstract submissions
• 31 January 2027- Undergraduate and postgraduate colloquium abstract deadline
• 30 April 2027- deadline for presenters to register for Symposium
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Please submit your proposal by email to Dr Christopher Payne: [email protected] by 30 September 2026
Your proposal must be submitted as follows:
• A single Word document
• Title of presentation
• 250–300-word abstract
• Up to 5 keywords
• List of references
• 150-word bio including name, title and affiliation
• Specify in document whether submitting for 1. Undergraduate colloquium 2. Postgraduate colloquium 3. Educator colloquium
Please direct any questions to Dr Christopher Payne
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Convenors:
Dr Christopher Payne, (Co-Chair of Organising Committee), University of Toronto - Scarborough
Prof. Martin Ward (Co-Chair of Organising Committee), University of Leeds
Dr Yu Kit Cheung, The University of Manchester
Dr Tamaki Mihic, University of Sydney