PhD Fellowship in Politics, Public Policies and Globalization

PhD program in Politics, Public Policies and Globalization at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Perugia, Italy. Candidates can apply within the terms established by the fellowship competition announcement available at http://www.unipg.it/files/pagine/720/dottorato_XXXI/Bando-XXXI-ciclo-inglese.pdf (deadline for application: 7 September 2015). One scholarship grant is reserved for international students. Candidates will have to submit a research proposal. This, as well as

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Senior Lecturer /Lecturer/ Assistant Lecturer in Translation/Interpreting – The Chinese University of Hong Hong (Shenzhen)

The Chinese University of Hong Hong (Shenzhen) Senior Lecturer /Lecturer/ Assistant Lecturer – Translation/Interpreting – The School of Humanities and Social Science,  (Ref.1415/068/01) The creation of the School of Humanities and Social Science (SHSS) has its aim to provide foundations in humanities and social science through its teaching for undergraduate students to gain insights into the past, while enabling them

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Mosireen Subtitling Workshop

Mosireen Subtitling Workshop, 30 April 2014, held at ADEF (Arab Digital Expression Foundation), Cairo This workshop was held for activist subtitlers, particularly those associated with Mosireen, and coordinated by Katharine Halls, Salma El-Tarzi and Danya Nada. It was delivered by Dr Luis Perez-Gonzalez and introduced by Professor Mona Baker, both from the University of Manchester, UK. Download the Powerpoint 

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Alisa Lebow: Filming Revolution – A New Media Experiment in Translating Complex Experience

Workshop   تصوير الثورة: تجربة وسائل إعلام جديدة في ترجمة تجربة معقدة اليسا ليبو             Abstract Filming Revolution (Lebow, forthcoming 2015) is an interactive meta-documentary that surveys the field of independent/documentary filmmaking in Egypt since the revolution. Comprised of over 30 interviews with filmmakers, activists, archivists and artists, and linked extracts from their work, this

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Amro Ali: Alexandria and Activism – Translating Memory, Mythology and Utopianism

Plenary 7   الإسكندرية والنشاط السياسي: ترجمة الذاكرة والاسطورة والمثالية الطوباوية عمرو علي                 Abstract One of the long-standing fears of Alexandrian activism has been the eclipsing of its people’s local struggles by a Cairo-centric narrative – an issue that is further aggravated by limited bilingualism among the coastal city’s middle class revolutionaries,

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Cristina Flesher Fominaya: The Translation of Protests and Movements across Time, Space and Culture

Plenary 6   ترجمة النصوص الخاصة بالاحتجاجات والحركات عبر الزمان، والمكان، والثقافة كريستينا فليشر فومينايا                 Abstract Protests and movements in one place can inspire and influence people far beyond the point of origin, with unexpected and impossible to predict consequences. In this talk I will draw on examples from the recent wave

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Brandon Jourdan: Translating Rebellion – From Local Protests to Global Uprisings

Plenary 5   ترجمة التمرد: من الاحتجاجات المحلية إلى الانتفاضات العالمية براندون چوردان         Abstract Since 2011, streets and squares across the world have become the site of massive demonstrations, strikes, occupations, riots, rebellions, and revolutions. From the Arab uprisings to the movement of the squares in Southern Europe, and from there to the global Occupy movement

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Khalid Abdallah: Changing Frames and Fault-lines

Plenary 4   تغييــــــر الأطـــــــر وخطـــــوط الصـــــدع خالد عبد الله       Abstract The story of the Egyptian revolution carries a heavy burden. Its many tales travel across contexts and experience, within Egypt and beyond it, influencing movements and revolutions while building dreams and threatening them. Solidarity fundamentally entails sharing an interpretation of a story. How that story is

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