Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kristin McNeil | The Nation | 11 November 2002 The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation’s thought police. First there was Senator Joseph Lieberman and Lynne Cheney’s American Council of Trustees and Alumni report unveiled last November–“Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Pipes | New York Post | 15 November 2002 AMERICANS broadly agree on two facts about the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq: its brutality and the danger it poses to themselves, especially the danger of nuclear attack. Disagreement arises primarily over what to do: Take out the regime now? Give Baghdad another chance?
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Francis Elliott and Catherine Milner | The Sunday Telegraph | 17 November 2002 Tony Blair has told Britain’s Chief Rabbi that he will “do anything necessary” to stop the academic boycott of Israeli scholars at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist). The Prime Minister told Jonathan Sacks during a private
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 November 2002 The university should stop hounding Mona Baker and defend scholarly freedom, say Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson. Translation studies is a discipline that does not normally attract attention, but Mona Baker, a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Jacobus and Eric Silver | The Jewish Chronicle | 1 November 2002 The Board of Deputies said this week it was considering calling for a boycott by British academics of a Manchester-based publisher which is refusing to supply its specialist publications to Israeli universities. St Jerome Publishing, run by Ken Baker, has refused
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Relly Sa’ar | Haaretz Daily | 25 October 2002 The British academic publisher St. Jerome Publishing has informed Bar-Ilan University that it will no longer sell books and periodicials to the school due to Israel’s activities in the territories. This is the second time that St. Jerome, a highly regarded Manchester-based publisher that specializes
» Read moreDOI: 10.1080/13556509.2015.1069042 Richard Jacquemond Published online: 14 Aug 2015 Abstract Through the example of the Arabic translations of Pierre Bourdieu, this article analyses the conditions of the introduction and reception of a sociological thought of French origin in the contemporary Arab intellectual field and, more generally, those of the international circulation of ideas in a postcolonial context. The diachronic analysis
» Read moreNote: Only IATIS members can vote in these elections. Information posted here and on the IATIS website to ensure full transparency of the process. During 2015, nominations were requested for the IATIS Executive Council to take over from January 1 2016. The nominations for the fifteen ordinary positions on the Council are listed below, along with biographical information for
» Read moreRoutledge is proud to announce the publication of Scientific and Technical Translation By Maeve Olohan Paperback: 978-0-415-83786-6 I September 2015 Hardback: 978-0-415-83784-2 | September 2015 Look Inside the book | Request an e-Inspection Copy Scientific and Technical Translation focuses on texts that are typically translated in scientific and technical domains, such as technical instructions, data sheets and brochures, patents,
» Read moreRecruitment for PhD Scholarships at the University of Birmingham is now open. This year, up to 89 fully-funded Scholarships will be awarded across the six Universities involved in the Midlands3Cities consortium, giving prospective postgraduates of Modern Languages at Birmingham a very strong chance of success. The Midlands3Cities consortium is a Doctoral Training Programme that offers students from the UK and
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