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Citizen Media and Public Spaces

June 10, 2016 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Protest Movements, Publications

Diverse Expressions of Citizenship and Dissent Edited by Mona Baker & Bolette B. Blaagaard 2016, Routledge Paperback: 9781138847651 Hardback: 9781138847644 Table of contents Reviews Purchasing/ordering options Abstracts Free PDF download available, courtesy of Routledge: Chapter 1: ‘Reconceptualizing Citizen Media: A Preliminary Charting of a Complex Domain‘ by Mona Baker and Bolette B. Blaagaard Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media

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REDEFINING TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION IN CULTURAL EVOLUTION

June 10, 2016 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

Call for Chapters: Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution Editors Dr. Olaf Immanuel Seel, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: July 30, 2016 Full Chapters Due: November 30, 2016 Submission Date: March 30, 2017 Introduction Since the mid 80’s, when the cultural turn took place in translation studies,

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FOUNDING THE ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES IN AFRICA (ATSA)

June 4, 2016 Mona Baker Other News, Translation

During the Third Summer School for Translation Studies in Africa in Lusaka in 2014, participants suggested the founding of an association for translation studies with an African agenda. After much deliberation, we are now at the point where we want to announce our intent to found such an association. We intend to have a founding meeting during the Fourth Summer

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Lecturer in Interpreting with Spanish (and/or French)

June 1, 2016 Mona Baker Job Announcements, Translation

Lecturer in Interpreting with Spanish (and/or French) University of Leicester – Modern Languages Location: Leicester Salary: £37,768 to £46,414 per annum Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Contract / Temporary Placed on: 18th May 2016 Closes: 16th June 2016 Job Ref: SAH01112-1 Open ended contract, starting in September 2016 The University of Leicester is a world-leading institution, marked by a belief

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Critical Link 8 in Edinburgh

June 1, 2016 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Critical Link 8 will be hosted by The Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS), Heriot-Watt University, at the Edinburgh Conference Centre. From around the world, the conference will bring together all community/public service interpreting and translation stakeholders: community and public sector representatives, employers, developers of tools and technologies, policy makers, practitioners, professional bodies, researchers, service users, trainers

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The AALITRA Review no. 11

May 25, 2016 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

We are pleased to announce that issue no. 11 of The AALITRA Review: A Journal of Literary Translation just been published. It contains eleven peer-reviewed contributions – articles, reviews, translations – by translators and academics working with a range of languages and literatures. The table of contents appears below. Articles can be accessed at https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/ojs/index.php/AALITRA/index The AALITRA Review: A Journal

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A Theory of Nonviolent Action

May 19, 2016 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Publications

HOW CIVIL RESISTANCE WORKS STELLAN VINTHAGEN Distributed for Zed Books 224 pages Paper $29.95, ISBN: 9781780325156 Published November 2015 Cloth $95.00, ISBN: 9781780320540 Published November 2015 In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the first major systematic attempt to develop a theory of nonviolent action since Gene Sharp’s seminal The Politics of Nonviolent Action in 1973. Employing a rich collection of

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Recruitment of Postdoctoral Fellow

May 19, 2016 Mona Baker Job Announcements, Translation

Closing deadline extended to 10 June 2016 The Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is now hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, initially tenurable for 12 months, with the possibility of further extension for an additional 12 months. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a

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What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?

May 18, 2016 Mona Baker Other News, Translation

The London School of Economics and Political Science Impact Blog Drawing on citation data that spans disciplines and time periods, Elliott Green has identified the most cited publications in the social sciences. Here he shares his findings on the 25 most cited books as well as the top ten journal articles. The sheer number of citations for these top cited publications is

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Bahia Shehab's Mahmoud Darwish Project

May 17, 2016 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Bahia Shehab, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art, Translating Dissent

In 2016 Bahia Shehab started an international street campaign celebrating the work of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The first intervention was in Vancouver-Canada. In February she sprayed the stanza “Stand at the corner of a dream and fight” in downtown Vancouver. Street expression is no longer tolerated in Cairo. Shehab finds that the work of Darwish is more relevant

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