Translation in the Digital Age: From Translation Tools to Shifting Paradigms

Events, Translation

9th Annual International Translation Conference Translation & Interpreting Institute, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar March 27th – 28th  2018 Call for papers The time is past when digital technology in translation was no more than a supporting tool. The digital revolution is transforming the landscape of translation theory and practice. From translation memory tools to online corpora and databases, to

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Tenure-Track Position in Translation Studies: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Job Announcements, Translation

The Program in Comparative Literature in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Translation Studies and Comparative Literature (2/2 load), including periodic large lecture courses. The effective starting date is September 1, 2018. Under exceptional

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Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution

About, Translating Dissent

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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The Challenge and Promise of Interdisciplinarity: Jiao Tong Baker Centre

Events, Translation

    Launch of Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 13-15 October 2017 Invited Speakers and Workshop Leaders Keynotes and Workshops Abstracts Registration (now open) Conference Programme Friday 13 October 2017 08.00-08.40 Registration 08.40-09.15 Welcome Address and Launch of Centre 09.15-10.15 Plenary I Kaisa Koskinen, University of Tampere, FinlandA Conversation across Disciplines

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Bahia Shehab's Mahmoud Darwish Project II

Bahia Shehab, Citizen Media, Street Art, Translating Dissent

More Walls Painted In 2016 Bahia Shehab started an international street campaign celebrating the work of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The first intervention was in Vancouver-Canada. In February she sprayed the stanza “Stand at the corner of a dream and fight” in downtown Vancouver. Street expression is no longer tolerated in Cairo. Shehab finds that the work of Darwish is

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Six Moments from a Revolution: A Mosireen Video Timeline

Activist Initiatives, Citizen Media, Egypt, Omar Robert Hamilton, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent

Omar Robert Hamilton Ibraaz, 4 July 2017 Archives are important. Control the past, and you shape the present. Throughout history archives have been a target and a tool of oppressive governments, invading armies and colonial administrators. The national archives in Egypt are kept as hidden from the public as possible, part of a wider project to divorce people from their

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The cinematic love letter to Cairo that none of its residents will see

Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Film, Khalid Abdalla, Translating Dissent

Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City documents life in the Egyptian capital over 10 years, but authorities have refused him a permit to show it Ruth Michaelson, Wednesday 12 July 2017 Ask a Cairo resident to describe the most frustrating thing about living in the Egyptian capital, and they will likely tell you about the noise, the

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Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration

Call for Papers, Translation

Special Issue of Target Edited by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger In recent years, ‘translation’ has become an increasingly widely used metaphor within and across disciplines to describe, broadly, the processes by which knowledge is generated, shared and applied. At the same time, ‘collaboration’ has emerged as a buzzword in translation circles. Discussions of the latter frequently centre on recent

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Interview with Mona Baker (Recorded by Tomás Costal (UNED))

Baker Talks and Interviews, Translation

Published on 13 Jun 2017 Interview with Mona Baker, Professor Emerita of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester Recorded by Tomás Costal (UNED) Subtitles available in English 0:12 – Translation Studies: how did it emerge and how has it evolved in the last decades? 4:22 – You have been a professional translator, you have worked in academia, you have,

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