37.3450, Calls: The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe - "Special Issue: Kurdish and European Minority Language Translation in Dialogue" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 37.3450, Calls: The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe - "Special Issue: Kurdish and European Minority Language Translation in Dialogue" (Jrnl)

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Date: 20-Oct-2026
From: Milad Miraki [milad.miraki at fgn.ui.ac.ir]
Subject: The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe - "Special Issue: Kurdish and European Minority Language Translation in Dialogue" (Jrnl)

Journal: The Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
(JEMIE)
Issue: Kurdish and European Minority Language Translation in Dialogue
Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2026

Translation into and out of minority languages in Europe and the
Middle East operates under conditions of asymmetric institutional
recognition, fragmented standardization, and uneven access to
publication and broadcast infrastructures. For Kurdish communities
across Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, as well as in European
diasporas, translation constitutes a site where language policy, state
power, and minority identity converge. Kurdish is spoken across
several states and has no single institutional center; its speakers
navigate translation in a context shaped by diverse language policies,
script variation (Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic), cross-border dialect
divisions (Kurmanji, Sorani, and Zazaki/Gorani), and uneven access to
formal recognition. At the same time, translation functions as a tool
of revitalization: literary translation, subtitling, dubbing, digital
activism, and community interpreting all create new spaces for Kurdish
language visibility and cultural survival.
This special issue examines translation as a political and cultural
practice that shapes minority identity and visibility in Europe and
the Middle East. We invite contributions that move beyond descriptive
accounts of translation to interrogate how translation practices both
reproduce and resist asymmetries of power between majority and
minority languages. A European dimension is central to this special
issue. We therefore particularly welcome contributions that:
 - Address Kurdish and other minority language translation within
European states (especially Turkey, but also European diasporic
contexts);
 - Situate Kurdish translation practices in comparative dialogue with
European minority language contexts (e.g., Amazigh, Catalan, Galician,
Basque, Albanian, Welsh, Roma, and other minoritized languages);
 - Engage European legal, policy, and institutional frameworks for
minority language rights, including the European Charter for Regional
or Minority Languages, the Framework Convention for the Protection of
National Minorities, EU enlargement and neighbourhood policies, and
Council of Europe instruments;
 - Examine translation flows between Europe and the Middle East,
including diasporic translation networks, publishing circuits, and
digital activism;
 - Reflect on what European minority language translation histories
and theories can learn from Kurdish and Middle Eastern cases, and vice
versa.
 - Contributions that are not Europe-focused are welcome, provided
they adopt a comparative perspective with European case studies,
frameworks, or debates.
Guest Editors: Dr. Milad Miraki (Adjunct Lecturer, University of
Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran) and Dr. Zakarya Bezdoode (Associate
Professor of English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj,
Iran)
Submission Details:
Abstracts (300-400 words) should be sent as a Word document to
milad.miraki at fgn.ui.ac.ir and zakarya.bezdoode at uok.ac.ir with the
subject line “JEMIE Special Issue - Abstract Submission.” Please
include the author’s name, affiliation, email address, and a short
biographical note (50-80 words).

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Translation

Subject Language(s): Central Kurdish (ckb, cent1972)
                     Kurdish (kur)
                     Northern Kurdish (kmr, nort2641)
                     Southern Kurdish (sdh, sout2640)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European (indo1319)

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