Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza – the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge.
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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Palestinian Feminist Collective condemns sophicide and scholasticide in Gaza – the deliberate annihilation of Indigenous knowledge traditions and the physical destruction of centers of knowledge. BY PALESTINIAN FEMINIST COLLECTIVE APRIL 11, 2024 As members of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and scholars at North American universities, we are steadfast in our commitment to the intellectual pursuit of knowledge, truth, and
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Special Issue of Feminist Translation Studies Abstract deadline 15 May 2024 Manuscript deadline 15 October 2024 Special Issue Editor(s) Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK S.Susam-Saraeva@ed.ac.uk Carolyn Shread, Mount Holyoke College, US cshread@mtholyoke.edu Intersections between gender, feminism and environmental issues have been explored in Western scholarship for more than fifty years now, catalyzed by Rachel Carson’s Silent
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Please join us on February 7th, 2024, from 12:30 pm to 2 pm for a Teach-In on Gaza: ‘Against Silence and Indifference’ – Academics United for Gaza. Organised by Dr Lina Fadel and Dr Muhammed Alshurafa as part of the Stop the War day of workplace action, this event is a rallying call for academics to break the silence
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A symposium co-sponsored by the SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies and the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA) Organized by: Professor Brian Baer, Kent University State, USA Date: Friday 23 February 2024 Venue: This event will take place virtually, via zoom, and is open to colleagues from anywhere in the world, free of charge.
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Short Title: T-RADEX Date: 31 October 2024 – 02 November 2024 Location: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Contact Person: Maria Constantinou Conference Email: mconst04@ucy.ac.cy Call Deadline: 29 February 2024 Conference Website: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/tradex/ The international conference T-RADEX aims to bring together scholars working on any form of radical, extreme or extremist narratives from a translational, cross-cultural and intercultural perspective. T-RADEX is
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: January 5, 2024 Established in 1972, the Department of Translation of CUHK was the first of its kind in Asia. After years of development, it now offers a full range of BA, MA, MPhil and PhD programmes. Our faculty members are committed to excellence in teaching
» Read moreThe Empirical Triumph of Theory
Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindication of a thesis that linguists, critics, and anthropologists spent much of the twentieth century advancing — the thesis that language is not an
» Read moreThe NGO-ization of resistance
Pambazuka News Arundhati Roy, Sep 23, 2014 NGOs give the impression that they are filling the vacuum created by a retreating state. And they are, but their real contribution is that they defuse political anger and dole out as aid or benevolence what people ought to have by right. They alter the public psyche. A hazard facing mass movements
» Read moreInterpreting, Translation, and Gender in Conflict-affected Situations
International Conference University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, 24-25 October 2023 Call for Papers This Conference aims to elicit debate on the relationship between gender, translation and conflict that reverberates across today’s war in Ukraine, as well as in other countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, just to mention a few, in the way that violence affects men and women in
» Read moreWar in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria
Lina Mounzer on the Urgency of Telling the Stories of Conflict October 6, 2016, Literary Hub In the last few months, I’ve moved houses no less than 35 times. I have been threatened, beaten, strip-searched, thrown in prison, tortured and made to watch as my mother knelt weeping at the dirty feet of tribal leaders to beg for
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