Call for Abstracts & Papers (in English, Spanish, French and German) Guest editors Julie Boéri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar) Ting Guo, University of
Prince Harry: early leaks came from a Spanish translation, causing confusion about what was really said
By Caroline Summers, University of Leeds The Conversation, 26 January 2023 Eight days before Prince Harry’s memoir Spare hit shelves elsewhere, copies went on
International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture
26 June – 9 July 2023 The 3nd International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture, organized by the Baker Centre for Translation and
The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and Argentina
This project, funded by UiO:Democracy, explores how medical knowledge is mobilized in debates about abortion through corpus-based analysis At the heart
Call for Papers: Special issue on “Translating and Narrating Solidarity”
The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research In recent years, there has been a surge in publications addressing the political impact of translation
There’s no official French version of the 1867 Constitution Act. So is taking the oath to the King in French valid?
Published: December 1, 2022 9.39pm GMT Since the election of the first Parti Québécois legislators in 1970, controversy over Québec MNAs swearing an oath
This is what you call a successful event? Respect to #Exeter uni students who stood up to this whitewashing agent of Israeli settler colonialism #freePalestine https://twitter.com/yosephhaddad/status/1623199581889593344
Also at the University of Exeter, anti-Israeli students tried to sabotage my lecture... but again they did not succeed and the event took place and was very successful.
Yalla on my way to the next destination 💪🏽
Wonderful news that our book *The Languages of Covid-19* has gone fully #OpenAccess thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding. Read it here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003267843/languages-covid-19-piotr-blumczynski-steven-wilson @PiotrBlum @QUBResearchAHSS @CDRGModLangsQUB @TranslateQUB
U.K. Medical Workers Stage Largest Strike in History of NHS https://www.democracynow.org/2023/2/6/headlines/uk_medical_workers_stage_largest_strike_in_history_of_national_health_service
Thank you so much for your support and participation! @MAJimenezCresp Looking forward to discussing various topics and issues in relation to collaborative translation with you, Robert Neather (@TIIS_HKBU) and Dingkun Wang @wdingkun later in the month! @translationand3 https://twitter.com/majimenezcresp/status/1623302167414071296
For those interested in collaborative translation, Clara Yu will present her book "Online Collaborative Translation in China and Beyond: Community, Practice and Identity" on Feb 27th, 7 30pm Hong Kong time, followed by a discussion panel @yu_clara @goughjoanna #translation
I was born and raised in West Jerusalem. My grandfather was one of the founders of Israel. My father was a general. My sister was good friends with Benjamin Netanyahu. As one of the privileged people in Israel's apartheid state - I know it's apartheid https://twitter.com/GoldsteinYaron/status/1622966500838756355
@mikopeled @PollySamson @rogerwaters Clearly, you have no idea what apartheid is. I suggest you come to Israel and see for yourself what democracy really look like. How Jews, Christians, Muslims and others coexist. Dont be a keyboard hero
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
» Read moreTranslation for Social Justice: Concepts, Policies and Practices across Modalities and Contexts
Call for Abstracts & Papers (in English, Spanish, French and German) Guest editors Julie Boéri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar) Ting Guo, University of Liverpool (UK) LANS-TTS Issue 23, publication year 2024 Linguistica Antverpiensa LANS-TTS is an international, open access journal in translation studies publishing yearly special issues. The transnational nature of contemporary movements, media and networks in our globalized
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By Caroline Summers, University of Leeds The Conversation, 26 January 2023 Eight days before Prince Harry’s memoir Spare hit shelves elsewhere, copies went on sale prematurely in Spain. Over the next few days the UK media, scrambled to acquire Spanish copies of the book, having been unable to get English versions for themselves. Their reporting on the story was
» Read moreInternational Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture
26 June – 9 July 2023 The 3nd International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture, organized by the Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, will take place from 26 June to 9 July 2023. The School aims to foster an open and wide-ranging take on media translation and digital culture, and to
» Read moreThe Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and Argentina
This project, funded by UiO:Democracy, explores how medical knowledge is mobilized in debates about abortion through corpus-based analysis At the heart of the controversy over abortion rights are disagreements about key democratic concepts such as rights, autonomy, privacy and freedom, making the right to abortion one of the most contested in the world. MEDRA explores the
» Read moreCall for Papers: Special issue on “Translating and Narrating Solidarity”
The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research In recent years, there has been a surge in publications addressing the political impact of translation and interpreting across a variety of locations and settings (Baker, 2016a and 2016b; Doerr, 2018; Evans and Fernández, 2018; Fernández, 2020a; Valdeón and Calafat, 2020; Tesseur, 2022, to name a few). In this context, this
» Read moreThere’s no official French version of the 1867 Constitution Act. So is taking the oath to the King in French valid?
Published: December 1, 2022 9.39pm GMT Since the election of the first Parti Québécois legislators in 1970, controversy over Québec MNAs swearing an oath to the sovereign before taking their seats in the National Assembly has stirred emotion and sparked heated debate. PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon recently fuelled the controversy by stating loudly and clearly that he will
» Read moreThe Chinese University of Hong Kong: Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor
Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor – (220002JO) Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: December 31, 2022 Applicants should (i) possess a relevant PhD degree in translation or other related fields; (ii) specialize in one or more of the following areas:a) digital humanities (including corpus-based studies, psycholinguistics studies, and translation technology), b) interpreting studies, c) translation theory; and preferably (iii) have relevant teaching
» Read moreTranslation and History: A Textbook
By Theo Hermans Copyright Year 2023 ISBN 9781138036987 Published July 7, 2022 by Routledge This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential concepts in researching and writing the history of translation and translation as history. Theo Hermans presents and explains fundamental issues and
» Read moreTranslating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation
Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation. Personal Essays, Pen Transmission, 7 October 2020 Last year, I participated in a two-day conference, organised by ‘postcolonial intellectuals’, called ‘Intellectuals without Borders’. I presented on the ‘Whiteness of Postcolonial and Multicultural Literary Criticism’, intending to disrupt the very idea of the ‘borderless intellectual’. I sensed
» Read moreFoundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae
June 23, 2022 By Helen Mackreath, Los Angeles Review of Books IN THE WAKE of the intensifying resistance to the occupation of Palestine, the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States (and beyond), and such movements as #StandWithStandingRock, appeals for solidarity with the plight of migrants, occupied populations, racialized minorities, and Indigenous peoples have become culturally pervasive. This
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