Oppression is not a point of view
Faber | 13 April 2016 Faber signs a remarkable debut The City Always Wins amidst major rights excitement at the London Book Fair Faber is delighted to announce an extraordinary and important first novel by Omar Robert Hamilton. David Godwin sold Lee Brackstone World Rights excluding US. The novel is scheduled for publication in Spring 2017. The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological
» Read morePostgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting Studies for Greater China (PCTIGC) 3-4 Dec 2016 Translation and Ideology: (re)constructing, (re)framing, and (re)negotiating CALL FOR ABSTRACTS PCTIGC is pleased to announce the Second Call for Papers for its first conference to be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 3 to 4 December 2016. We have been greatly encouraged by the positive response to our first
» Read moreIn Search of Methodologies Call for Papers, 1-2 JUNE 2017, KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM Strands of complexity thinking has been challenging the reductionist, linear paradigm of Western scholarship since its (rudimentary) origins in the late 1800s. Following chaos theory in the 1980s, current complexity thinking (complexity theory) is growing in influence in the natural sciences as well as in social sciences and
» Read moreFrom Knowledge Production to Collective Intelligence on the Web Hosted by: Ajou University, South Korea 12-14 January 2017 About the Event Call for Papers Submission and Timeline Registration Contact 1. About the event Knowledge production and dissemination have long been of interest to scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds. Within the field of translation studies, the role of translation in
» Read moreBy Hanan Hammed This article examines the intellectual legacy of the Egyptian Marxist Arwa Salih (1953-97) in order to trace an intimate history of the Egyptian left. Gender relations among comrades have underpinned the movement that has enveloped women’s rights in the folds of national and class struggles. In her short life, Salih was a veteran underground activist and, from
» Read moreDOI: 10.1080/13621029808420679 Ross Abbinnett Citizenship Studies, Volume 2, Number 2, 1998, pages 197-222 Abstract Abstract Walter Benjamin once remarked of the enterprise of translation ‘that it is nowhere’: that the labour of transcribing the sense, inflection and difference of any particular language and text must always situate the translator in a space which is neither ‘of the original, nor ‘of the language into
» Read moreTranscUlturAl, A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies Volume 8, Number 1 (2016) Table of Contents ARTICLES Introduction: Mnemosyne in Translation Anne Malena PDF 1-4 Alexander’s Gate and the Unclean Nations: Translation, Textual Appropriation, and the Construction of Barriers Benjamin Garstad PDF PDF 5-16 Making Your Memory Mine: Marie de France and the Adventures of the Bretons Jeffrey S. Longard PDF PDF
» Read moreHip Hop and 100 Thousand Poets for Change DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2016.1190944 Stefania Taviano, Translation Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 282-297 Published online: 07 Jun 2016 ABSTRACT This article examines the role of translational and polylingual practices in global forms of art activism. It is through translation, both narrowly and broadly speaking, that local issues with a universal resonance overcome cultural and
» Read moreReminder for the 8th Asian Translation Traditions Conference that will be held at SOAS, University of London on 5-7 July 2017. Venue: SOAS Russel Square campus in London Conference theme: Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Mediation – Hearing, Interpreting, Translating Global Voices The deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2016 For CFP and further details: https://www.facebook.com/SOASCTS/ http://www.translationstudies.net/joomla3/index.php
» Read moreNEW ONLINE COURSES from September 2016 Announcing the launch of two new courses on research methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies, developed at FTI-Geneva on the basis of an innovative doctoral school program: http://www.unige.ch/formcont/researchmethods-distance1 http://www.unige.ch/formcont/researchmethods-distance2 These courses offer a unique opportunity for doctoral or pre-doctoral students from partner institutions, as well as other researchers in the field, to hone their
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