Oppression is not a point of view
Counterpunch. WEEKEND EDITION MAY 8-10, 2015 Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance by PAUL de ROOIJ Amnesty International has issued four reports on the Massacre in Gaza in 2014 [1]. Given the scale of the destruction and the number of fatalities, any attempt to document the crimes committed should be welcomed. But these reports are problematic, and raise questions about this organization [2],
» Read moreSpecial Issue for Journal of Cultural Research Volume 19, Issue 2, 2015 Foreword Anastasia Valassopoulos pages 115-116 Acknowledgements page 117 Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture Dalia Said Mostafa pages 118-129 Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution Ziad Elmarsafy pages 130-138 Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde Caroline Rooney pages 139-149 Inserting women’s rights in
» Read moreSpecial Issue of Comparative Literature Studies Volume 51, Number 2, 2014 Guest Editor: William J. Spurlin Introduction The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: New Approaches pp. 201-214 William J. Spurlin Articles A Queer and Embodied Translation: Ethics of Difference and Erotics of Distance pp. 215-230 Aarón Lacayo “Homme” peut-il vouloir dire “Femme”?: Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral
» Read moreBritish Centre for Literary Translation, UEA, Norwich 26 July – 1 August 2015 The 2015 BCLT summer school will take place at the University of East Anglia and at Dragon Hall, flagship building for Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. Run by the British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich, the summer school brings together writers and
» Read moreDate: 5-6 November 2015 Venue: University of Macau The Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) is pleased to announce the Call for Paper for the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation and Interpreting, to be held on 5-6 November 2015 at University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. This conference provides an international forum for the
» Read moreCristina Cielo (Sawyer Seminar Series, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) Popular uprisings in the Middle East over the last months have transformed the political landscapes and possibilities of the region’s diverse nations. The hope engendered by the successful mobilizations against the Tunisian and Egyptian governments has darkened as reports emerge of the repression and violence that meet continuing protests in
» Read moreDecember 20th, 2013 Open Culture Michel Foucault first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. By this time, he was already a celebrity in France. He had just published his enormously influential history and critique of the penal system, Discipline and Punish, and he occupied a position at the prestigious Collège de France as chair in the “history of systems of
» Read moreBY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 20, 2015 Samah Selim spoke at Cairo University last Thursday, at a talk moderated by Nada Abdel Sobhi, on “Why We Transate: Some Notes on Love, Loss, and Longing.” Mona Elnamoury was there: By Mona Elnamoury In her talk at Cairo University last Thursday, Samah Selim charmed the audience with her hearty genuine talk about translation and love. Selim
» Read moreThe Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) annual conference in collaboration with the European Humanities Research Centre (EHRC) St Anne’s College Oxford, 1-3 October 2015 Call for papers: Translation is prismatic when it produces multiple variants. This can happen in the process of a single translational act, or when a text is translated into different languages, or when it is
» Read moreBY BOUNDARY2 on FEBRUARY 19, 2015 an abstract by Lawrence Venuti Despite the increased attention that translation has received in conjunction with the newly revived topic of “world literature,” translation research and practice remain marginal in Comparative Literature as the field has developed in the United States. The evidence takes various forms, institutional and intellectual, including reports on the state of the field, the
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