Author: Mona Baker

A feminist praxis for academic freedom in the context of genocide in Gaza

Palestine

Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza – the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge.   BY PALESTINIAN FEMINIST COLLECTIVE APRIL 11, 2024 As members of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and scholars at North American universities, we are steadfast in our commitment to the intellectual pursuit of knowledge, truth, and

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Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation

Call for Papers, Translation

Special Issue of Feminist Translation Studies Abstract deadline 15 May 2024 Manuscript deadline 15 October 2024     Special Issue Editor(s) Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK S.Susam-Saraeva@ed.ac.uk Carolyn Shread, Mount Holyoke College, US cshread@mtholyoke.edu Intersections between gender, feminism and environmental issues have been explored in Western scholarship for more than fifty years now, catalyzed by Rachel Carson’s Silent

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Translating Translation Studies

Events, Translation

  A symposium co-sponsored by the SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies and the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA) Organized by: Professor Brian Baer, Kent University State, USA Date: Friday 23 February 2024   Venue: This event will take place virtually, via zoom, and is open to colleagues from anywhere in the world, free of charge.

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Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication: Radical and Extremist Narratives

Call for Papers, Translation

Short Title: T-RADEX Date: 31 October 2024 – 02 November 2024 Location: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Contact Person: Maria Constantinou Conference Email: mconst04@ucy.ac.cy Call Deadline: 29 February 2024 Conference Website: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/tradex/ The international conference T-RADEX aims to bring together scholars working on any form of radical, extreme or extremist narratives from a translational, cross-cultural and intercultural perspective. T-RADEX is

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Associate Professor(s)/ Assistant Professor(s) – (2300032J)

Job Announcements, Translation

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: January 5, 2024   Established in 1972, the Department of Translation of CUHK was the first of its kind in Asia. After years of development, it now offers a full range of BA, MA, MPhil and PhD programmes. Our faculty members are committed to excellence in teaching

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The Empirical Triumph of Theory

Articles

Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindication of a thesis that linguists, critics, and anthropologists spent much of the twentieth century advancing — the thesis that language is not an

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The NGO-ization of resistance

Citizen Media

Pambazuka News Arundhati Roy, Sep 23, 2014   NGOs give the impression that they are filling the vacuum created by a retreating state. And they are, but their real contribution is that they defuse political anger and dole out as aid or benevolence what people ought to have by right. They alter the public psyche. A hazard facing mass movements

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Interpreting, Translation, and Gender in Conflict-affected Situations

Call for Papers, Call for Papers, Citizen Media, Translation

International Conference University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, 24-25 October 2023 Call for Papers This Conference aims to elicit debate on the relationship between gender, translation and conflict that reverberates across today’s war in Ukraine, as well as in other countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, just to mention a few, in the way that violence affects men and women in

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