Author: Mona Baker

Shifting characterizations of the ‘Common People’ in modern English retranslations of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War: A corpus-based analysis

Articles, Translation

Henry Jones   Palgrave Communications, Volume 5, Article number: 135 (2019) – in special issue on Genealogies of Knowledge Project   Abstract Little research has yet explored the impact of (re)translation on narrative characterization, that is, on the process through which the various actors depicted in a narrative are attributed particular traits and qualities. Moreover, the few studies that have

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The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar

Competitions and Awards, Translation

Applications Invited Award Conferred April 2020 The Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studiesis pleased to invite applications for the next Martha Cheung Award, to be conferred in April 2020. The Martha Cheung Award aims to recognize research excellence in the output of early career researchers, and to allow them, like Professor Cheung herself, to make their voices

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Job Announcements, Translation

The Department of Translation of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, the programme has a long history of excellence in a variety of fields, including but not limited to translation history, translation and technology, digital humanities, translation theory, and practical translation (especially literary). The Department is

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Normativity and Resilience in Translation and Culture

Events, Translation

27 – 29 May 2019 Warsaw Norms can be broadly defined as some kind of protection from change, a prescribed standard whose violation involves distortion and deformation, a transformation into something which the normal thing is not. Though derived from carpentry, the art of construction of rigid objects (normais the Latin word for carpenter’s square), normativity has become a measure

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Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, Translation Programme

Job Announcements, Translation

Hong Kong Baptist University FACULTY OF ARTS Department of English Language and Literature Translation Programme Applications are invited for the following position in the Translation Programme. The Programme was established in 1990 with the aim of training sophisticated cross-cultural communicators to serve the local community and the mainland, and has since become one of the leading such programmes in the

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EST Panel: Living translation as translaboration

Events, Translation

  Living Translation EST Congress 2019 9-13 September Stellenbosch University in South Africa   Panel Convened by Alexa Alfer, University of Westminster Cornelia Zwischenberger, University of Graz   The concept of translation resides not only in Translation Studies but also leads an ever more active life outside of the discipline in, for example, Cultural Studies and the Social Sciences, and

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Research Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Job Announcements, Translation

Hong Kong Baptist University FACULTY OF ARTS Department of English Language and Literature Translation Programme   The Translation Programme invites applications for the post of Research Assistant Professor. The appointee is expected to conduct an independent programme of research and pursue initiatives to secure research funding. He/She will also teach two courses per year in the Translation Programme. The position

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Interpreting Dissent

Translation, Videos

Narratives about American Sign Language-English Interpreting for the Deaf President Now Protest Doctoral Defense, Mark Halley Galludet University 12 November 2018   In 1988, a one-week protest unfolded on the campus of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC as thousands of deaf students and community activists gathered, determined to derail the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees’ decision to appoint a hearing

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Assistant /Associate Professor, Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Job Announcements, Translation

Assistant/Associate Professor Department of Translation, CUHK   Applicants should (i) possess a relevant PhD degree in translation or other related fields (ii) specialize in one or more of the following areas: practical translation (including translation project supervision), interpreting, translation studies, literary translation and computer translation; and preferably (iii) have relevant teaching experience and professional qualification(s).  Priority consideration will be given

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Cfp: Translation and LGBT+/Queer activism

Call for Papers, Translation

Guest Editors: Michela Baldo (University of Hull) Jonathan Evans (University of Portsmouth) Ting Guo (University of Exeter) Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association   This special issue will focus on the role that translation plays in global LGBT+/Queer activism. It will analyze the practices of translation as part of

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