17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine The Markaz Review We have spent our lives and our entire histories
What Is Scholasticide?
A recent resolution to condemn scholasticide has brought renewed attention to the term. But what does it mean? And where did it come from? Inside
Volunteer and Staff Openings at Respond Crisis Translation
Dear Respond Community and Supporters, January 2025 We’re excited to share that we have a few volunteer and staff openings on
International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications
International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications Dates: 23-28 June 2025 Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University Mode: Face-to-face
Postdoctoral Fellow: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow – (2400034K) Description The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a
Translational Perspectives on Corpus-based Conceptual Analysis
A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s SHE Corpus team Date: 26 March 20 Time: 12:00-15:40
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A Palestinian recounts what is now an everyday horror story in northern Gaza: of his futile efforts to dig out his neighbours, a mother and her two young children, trapped under rubble while Israeli snipers fire on him; watching their slow, painful deaths; and then fighting off a…
Has anyone else noticed that the standard of journalism has gone up as more people actually read South Africa’s #ICJ document? The quality of the work in distilling information and sources is impeccable, and devastatingly powerful. If you haven’t read it yourself, please do:…
RT @cprazevedo: Every day, I force myself to watch some videos with evidence of the horrors the Palestinians in Gaza are going through. One…
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Mainstream journalists are ignoring reports by Declassified & others on the build-up of military equipment at RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus, and an increase in flights from there to Israel
Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution
To order a copy, go to https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138929876 Published 2016, by Routledge Discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the complexities, challenges and limitations
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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine The Markaz Review We have spent our lives and our entire histories unpacking ourselves culturally and politically for the benefit of an uninterested, arrogant, self-centered other who is often at the same time the oppressor and aggressor who is responsible for our miseries, benefits from them, and
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A recent resolution to condemn scholasticide has brought renewed attention to the term. But what does it mean? And where did it come from? Inside Higher Ed explains. By Josh Moody Last week members of the American Historical Association voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The resolution
» Read moreVolunteer and Staff Openings at Respond Crisis Translation
Dear Respond Community and Supporters, January 2025 We’re excited to share that we have a few volunteer and staff openings on our team, and we’d greatly appreciate your help in finding the right candidates for these positions. These roles offer meaningful opportunities for individuals who are committed to providing language access to migrants, refugees, and others
» Read moreInternational Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications
International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications Dates: 23-28 June 2025 Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University Mode: Face-to-face The Centre for Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University is delighted to announce that it will host the 4th International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) in June 2025. Launched in
» Read morePostdoctoral Fellow: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow – (2400034K) Description The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our 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 also home to the
» Read moreTranslational Perspectives on Corpus-based Conceptual Analysis
A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s SHE Corpus team Date: 26 March 20 Time: 12:00-15:40 (UTC) Venue: Online Speakers: Dr Michael Livesey (Sheffield), Dr Kyunghye Kim (Dongguk), Dr Gabriela Saldanha (Oslo), Prof. Qing Cao (Durham) Event website: https://genealogiesofknowledge.net/research-network-events/translational-perspectives/ Registration link: https://nettskjema.no/a/477242 [nettskjema.no] About the event There is now a vast
» Read moreStudy Grants for Students from Gaza
The university of Bologna is offering grants to students from Gaza to study in Bologna. The only requirement is that they were enrolled in a university in Gaza in either the 2022−23 or 2023-24 academic years; and that they have the necessary language skills to attend courses in Bologna (held either in English or Italian). Further details as follows:
» Read moreImportant Announcement about the SISU Baker Centre
Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately
» Read moreA new era dawns
America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, 10 November 2024 In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.
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Ahdaf Souief London Review of Books, 1 November 2024 On Monday, 28 October, six small book collectives, including the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), published an open letter signed by a thousand writers (I am one of them) pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions that are ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’ and have ‘never publicly recognised the inalienable rights of
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