Oppression is not a point of view
Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker LSE Impact Blog, 25 May 2022 Rigorous empirical evidence is often presumed to be the most persuasive, notably in fields such as healthcare and medicine, where there are established frameworks for assessing the quality of evidence. In this post, Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker argue for the importance of narrative rationality, especially in areas
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Editorial By The Crimson Editorial Board April 29, 2022 When oppression strikes anywhere in the world, resistance movements reverberate globally. The desire for rightful justice spreads, like wildfire, moving us to act, to speak, to write, and right our past wrongs. Over the past year, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee has strived to do just that. Amid escalating tensions
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Edited by Mona Baker Copyright Year 2022 ISBN 9780367681968 268 Pages 18 Illustrations Will be available open access in June 2022 This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas,
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There are competing notions of fairness — and sometimes they’re totally incompatible with each other. By Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 April 2022 Let’s play a little game. Imagine that you’re a computer scientist. Your company wants you to design a search engine that will show users a bunch of pictures corresponding to their keywords — something akin to Google Images.
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Read about our new book on evidence and COVID-19 In our forthcoming book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2022), we offer a theoretical framework that identifies and distinguishes different types of rationality – specifically scientific and narrative rationality – and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence in
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TRANSLATION AND SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP SERIES Translating Academia Friday, 3rd June 2022 Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i de Sociologia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona This international workshop is organised as part of the research project ‘Political Translation’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and is the first event of the ‘Translation and
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Note: This piece by Sarah Carr was published during the early days of the Egyptian Revolution and posted on her blog. It is no longer available there, but the copy below can still be found on the Niqnaq blog. This is just the start and it never fucking ends Sarah Carr, Inanities, Mar 2 2011 After
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The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 179 fields of study, approx. 10.000 members of staff, about 90.000 students) seeks to fill the position from 01.04.2022 of a University Assistant (prae doc) Centre for Translation Studies Reference number: 12722 The Centre for Translation Studies is seeking a University assistant (prae doc) in the field of Transcultural Communication (Prof. Dr.
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CALL for PAPERS CULTUS 15: Narrativity in Translation Abstracts should be sent to: submission@cultusjournal.com by February 28th 2022 Notification of Acceptance: March 6th 2022 Deadline for full papers: June 1st 2022 Publication: December 2022 Since Baker’s pioneering publication, Translation and Conflict: Narrative Account (2006), there has been a growing interest in the use of social narrative
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Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Post: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor Closing date: January 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: comparative linguistics, interpreting studies, digital humanities (including corpus-based studies), translation theory and practical translation (including translation project supervision); and preferably (iii)
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