Oppression is not a point of view
by Haidee Kotze Medium, 18 March 2021 What follows is an English translation of Janice Deul’s opinion piece (in Dutch) published by De Volkskrant (25 February 2021), carried out with her permission. The article prompted widespread debate; the interpretations of many of the subsequent contributors to this debate raise questions about their engagement with the article itself. This translation
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By Haidee Kotze Medium, 15 March 2021 What the debate about Amanda Gorman’s translators is really about Translation is the territory of paradox. One of the central paradoxes, and one which runs through popular views of translation as much as it has occupied translation theorists, is the notion that a good translation is one where the reader cannot tell
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The Translator Volume 26, No. 3, 2020 Pages 297-309 | Published online: 11 Jan 2021 OPEN ACCESS This conversation, which took place in the summer of 2020, traces 25 years of publishing The Translator, from its inception and early days, to its establishment as a leading international publication in the field of Translation Studies, to the move from St
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Edited by Cornelia Zwischenberger (University of Vienna, Austria) and Alexa Alfer (University of Westminster, UK), contracted with Frank & Timme, Berlin Translaboration, as an essentially ‘blended concept” (Fauconnier & Turner 2002), responds to the confluence of ‘translation’ and ‘collaboration’ that is increasingly widespread not only in Translation Studies but also in a range of neighbouring disciplines. Translaboration’s central aim is
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Job Announcement: Sultan Qaboos University, the leading public university in the Sultanate of Oman, announces a vacancy in Translation Studies with the following specifications: Date of appointment: September, 2021 Rank: Associate Professor Conditions: Specialization focus on translation technologies and/or audio-visual translation Minimum of 6 years of teaching experience in the broader area of Translation
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Politics and Culture in Spain after the 15M by Fruela Fernández Copyright Year 2021 Translating the Crisis discusses the multiple translation practices that shaped the 15M movement, also known as the indignados (‘outraged’), a series of mass demonstrations and occupations of squares that took place across Spain in 2011 and which played a central role in the recent global wave of popular protest.
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Translation and Interpreting as Social Practice Speakers: Mona Baker, Ebru Diriker, Farzaneh Farahzad, Carol O’Sullivan, Christopher Rundle Location: University of Jordan Sponsor: British Council, Jordan Attendance is free. Note: attendance at Public Event at the end of the (closed) British Academy Workshop, 4 September 2013, is also free. This event is open to the public. To register, or if you have
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With the support of the British Academy, in conjunction with the British Institute in Amman, the first of a series of workshops designed to build capacity among the younger generation of university academics in the region was held on 5-7 September 2011, and featured a surprise visit by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal. The initiative, launched by the Middle East
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A series of workshops designed to build capacity among the younger generation of university academics in the Arab World, Iran and Turkey was launched in 2011 by the Middle East and North Africa Panel (MENAP) of the British Academy. The initiative recognised that scholars in the region tend to have difficulty accessing information on the latest developments in the field.
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Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) May 21, 2020 Notes from the Field As a crisis that inevitably mixes politics with science, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of scientists. Political leaders the world over are keen to stress that their responses to the pandemic are “driven by science.” It was warnings from the government’s panel of scientific experts, argued
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