Author: Mona Baker

Translation as Political Act/ La traduction comme acte politique/ La traduzione come atto politico

Events, Translation

    Perugia, 9-10 May/ mai/ maggio 2019    http://home.translationaspoliticalact.net/ International Conference at the University of Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche in collaboration with the Genealogies of Knowledge project (University of Manchester) Colloque international organisé par l’Università di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche en collaboration avec Genealogies of Knowledge Project (University of Manchester) Convegno internazionale organizzato dall’Università di Perugia, Dipartimento

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Can You Hear Us? Interpreters and Detainee Welfare in Immigration Removal Centres

Articles, Translation

By Aisha Maniar, One Small Window 23 September 2018 The United Kingdom has one of the largest immigration detention estates in Europe. While detention is punitive in nature, the measure itself is administrative and not criminal, for the non-offence of not holding a British passport. In 2017, 27,331 foreign nationals entered the detention estate (immigration removal centres and prisons). Over 5300 European Union

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What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

Articles, Translation

ARUNDHATI ROY ON THE COMPLEX, SHIFTING POLITICS OF LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION IN INDIA By  Arundhati Roy The following is Arundhati Roy’s W. G. Sebald Lecture on Literary Translation, commissioned by the British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing. It was delivered at the British Library on June 5, 2018. At a book reading in Kolkata, about a week

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IATIS 2018 Conference Videos

Events, Translation, Videos

Conference Videos & Photos   With the consent of the five keynote speakers, the Local Organizing Committee of the 6th IATIS Conference is pleased to make available the videos of the five keynote speeches of the 6th IATIS Conference online at HKBUtube, which is managed by the Library of Hong Kong Baptist University.       Inaugurating Translations Speaker: Lydia

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Statement of Dr Swee Ang on Israeli Flotilla Attack, 29 July to 1 August 2018

Palestine

Statement (below) re events relating to a ship, Al Awda, of the Freedom Flotilla, attempting to break the siege of Gaza, carrying medical supplies etc. The ship was violently intercepted in international waters by Israeli warships. Hooded men took over the ship, beat up and tasered (to unconsciousness) the captain and second mate, assaulted other passengers, stole their phones and

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Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance

Publications, Translation

By James St. André May 2018, 336 pages US$68 cloth   This provocative new book applies the perspective of cross-identity performance to the translation of a wide variety of Chinese texts into English and French from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing on scholarship in cultural studies, queer studies, and anthropology, James St. André argues that many cross-identity performance techniques, including

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A Host of Tongues…: Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Translation in the Early Modern Period

Events, Translation

An international conference FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, 13th to 15th December 2018 Call for Papers In the 15th and 16th centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it, but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would

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