CALL FOR CALLS: A SPECIAL ISSUE (Issue 49, January 2028)
We invite proposals for a special guest-edited issue of JoSTrans to be published in January 2028.
JoSTrans, The Journal of Specialised Translation, is an electronic, open- access peer-reviewed journal bringing non-literary translation issues to the fore. Published bi-annually since 2004, it includes articles, reviews and streamed interviews by translation scholars and professionals. The journal is indexed with the main humanities bibliographies, including Scopus and Web of Science/JCR. We publish two issues per year: a non-thematic issue and a special guest-edited issue.
We invite proposals for a call which deals with any novel area or aspect of specialised translation which have not been covered yet by the journal (for previous special issues see http://jostrans.org/archive.php). In particular, we are interested in calls which address:
- AI and translation/interpreting (with human factors);
- financial/business translation;
- medical translation;
- localisation;
- translation and politics / politics of translation; translation and Global North & Global South;
- interpreting and specialised domains;
- translation and diversity;
- translation and creativity;
- public understanding of translation;
- methodologies of researching specialised
The proposal should include:
- a topic
- a brief presentation of the topic
- names of guest editors and their editing expertise
- if you propose a closed call, please provide names of contributors and titles of
Please send your call to the editor-in-chief Łucja Biel at ed@jostrans.org with the subject line JoSTrans Call for calls Issue 49 by 1 November 2025. The decision will be communicated by the end of November 2025.