Amnesty International: Whitewashing Another Massacre

Counterpunch. WEEKEND EDITION MAY 8-10, 2015 Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance by PAUL de ROOIJ Amnesty International has issued four reports on the Massacre in Gaza in 2014 [1]. Given the scale of the destruction and the number of fatalities, any attempt to document the crimes committed should be welcomed. But these reports are problematic, and raise questions about this organization [2],

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Special Issue: Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Special Issue for Journal of Cultural Research Volume 19, Issue 2, 2015   Foreword Anastasia Valassopoulos pages 115-116 Acknowledgements page 117 Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture Dalia Said Mostafa pages 118-129 Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution Ziad Elmarsafy pages 130-138 Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde Caroline Rooney pages 139-149 Inserting women’s rights in

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Special Issue: The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: Literary, Historical, and Cultural Approaches

Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies Volume 51, Number 2, 2014 Guest Editor: William J. Spurlin Introduction The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: New Approaches pp. 201-214 William J. Spurlin Articles A Queer and Embodied Translation: Ethics of Difference and Erotics of Distance pp. 215-230 Aarón Lacayo “Homme” peut-il vouloir dire “Femme”?: Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral

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International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School

British Centre for Literary Translation, UEA, Norwich 26 July – 1 August 2015 The 2015 BCLT summer school will take place at the University of East Anglia and at Dragon Hall, flagship building for Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. Run by the British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich, the summer school brings together writers and

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2nd International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation and Interpreting

Date:   5-6 November 2015 Venue: University of Macau The Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) is pleased to announce the Call for Paper for the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation and Interpreting, to be held on 5-6 November 2015 at University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. This conference provides an international forum for the

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