Call for calls - special issue 49 (January 2028)

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.