Month: March 2015

The 2nd East Asian Translation Studies Conference: “Constructing/Deconstructing East Asia”

Events, Translation

Date: 9-10 July 2016 Venue: Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan Deadline for abstract submission: 15 July 2015       Keynote Speakers: Prof Mona Baker (The University of Manchester, UK)  http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Mona.baker/ Prof Keijiro Suga (Meiji University, Japan) http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/undergraduate/science/faculty.html This Conference on East Asian Translation Studies (EATS) aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context (China,

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A New Fanonian Moment? The Legacy of Frantz Fanon

Articles, Citizen Media, Protest Movements, Translation

Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 13-15, 2015 by HAMZA HAMOUCHENE Frantz Fanon died a few months before Algeria’s independence in July 1962. He did not live to see his adoptive country becoming free from French colonial domination, something he believed had become inevitable. This radical intellectual and revolutionary devoted himself, body and soul to the Algerian National liberation and was a

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Translation/Interpreting as Renaration

Baker Talks and Interviews, Mona Baker, Translating Dissent, Translation

ISIT, Damascus University, Syria, Part 1 February 2011 محاضرة للدكتورة منى بيكر، أستاذة دراسات الترجمة ومديرة مركز الترجمة والدراسات الدولية في جامعة مانشستر بإنجلترا، قدمت بناء على دعوة في المعهد العالي للترجمة والترجمة الفورية في جامعة دمشق. في بداية المحاضرة، تعرف الدكتورة ريما الحكيم، عميد المعهد العالي العالي للترجمة والترجمة الفورية في جامعة دمشق، بالمحاضرة وتقدم نبذة قصيرة عنها وعن

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Professor of Translation Studies, Cardiff University

Job Announcements, Translation

Job Category Academic – Teaching & Research Career Pathway Teaching & Research School / Directorate MLANG – School of Modern Languages Advert As a member of the Russell Group, Cardiff University is recognised as one of the 24 leading research-intensive UK universities. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), Modern Languages and Linguistics at Cardiff University was ranked 7th of 57

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Pedagogies of Revolt: Translating Egypt in Flux

Egypt, Events, Events, Translation

26 March 2015 Salle des thèses Bernard Maris, Espace Deleuze Université Paris 8 – Vincennes-Saint-Denis One of the most remarkable accomplishments of the revolutionary spirit in Egypt since January 2011 has manifested itself in an unprecedented production and proliferation of cultural materials, whether written, oral, visual, or performative, all of which have decidedly remapped and redefined not just the contours

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Alisa Lebow: Filming Revolution – A New Media Experiment in Translating Complex Experience

Globalizing Dissent, Videos

Workshop   تصوير الثورة: تجربة وسائل إعلام جديدة في ترجمة تجربة معقدة اليسا ليبو             Abstract Filming Revolution (Lebow, forthcoming 2015) is an interactive meta-documentary that surveys the field of independent/documentary filmmaking in Egypt since the revolution. Comprised of over 30 interviews with filmmakers, activists, archivists and artists, and linked extracts from their work, this

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Amro Ali: Alexandria and Activism – Translating Memory, Mythology and Utopianism

Globalizing Dissent, Videos

Plenary 7   الإسكندرية والنشاط السياسي: ترجمة الذاكرة والاسطورة والمثالية الطوباوية عمرو علي                 Abstract One of the long-standing fears of Alexandrian activism has been the eclipsing of its people’s local struggles by a Cairo-centric narrative – an issue that is further aggravated by limited bilingualism among the coastal city’s middle class revolutionaries,

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Cristina Flesher Fominaya: The Translation of Protests and Movements across Time, Space and Culture

Globalizing Dissent, Videos

Plenary 6   ترجمة النصوص الخاصة بالاحتجاجات والحركات عبر الزمان، والمكان، والثقافة كريستينا فليشر فومينايا                 Abstract Protests and movements in one place can inspire and influence people far beyond the point of origin, with unexpected and impossible to predict consequences. In this talk I will draw on examples from the recent wave

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