Oppression is not a point of view
Mona Baker Keynote at 11th Asia-Pacific Translation and Interpreting Forum 2025 Abstract Much has been written about activist and volunteer groups of translators and interpreters who have played an important role in promoting a variety of political agendas, at least since the rise of the global justice movement at the beginning of this century. But we are now witnessing
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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine The Markaz Review We have spent our lives and our entire histories unpacking ourselves culturally and politically for the benefit of an uninterested, arrogant, self-centered other who is often at the same time the oppressor and aggressor who is responsible for our miseries, benefits from them, and
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Dear Respond Community and Supporters, January 2025 We’re excited to share that we have a few volunteer and staff openings on our team, and we’d greatly appreciate your help in finding the right candidates for these positions. These roles offer meaningful opportunities for individuals who are committed to providing language access to migrants, refugees, and others
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International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications Dates: 23-28 June 2025 Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University Mode: Face-to-face The Centre for Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University is delighted to announce that it will host the 4th International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) in June 2025. Launched in
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Postdoctoral Fellow – (2400034K) Description The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a variety of fields, including but not limited to translation history, translation and technology, digital humanities, translation theory, and practical translation (especially literary). The Department is also home to the
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A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s SHE Corpus team Date: 26 March 20 Time: 12:00-15:40 (UTC) Venue: Online Speakers: Dr Michael Livesey (Sheffield), Dr Kyunghye Kim (Dongguk), Dr Gabriela Saldanha (Oslo), Prof. Qing Cao (Durham) Event website: https://genealogiesofknowledge.net/research-network-events/translational-perspectives/ Registration link: https://nettskjema.no/a/477242 [nettskjema.no] About the event There is now a vast
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Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, 10 November 2024 In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media is now available in paperback format. Edited By Mona Baker, Bolette B. Blaagaard, Henry Jones, Luis Pérez-González Copyright 2021 ISBN 9780367544164 640 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations Published May 27, 2024 by Routledge This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and
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Please join us on February 7th, 2024, from 12:30 pm to 2 pm for a Teach-In on Gaza: ‘Against Silence and Indifference’ – Academics United for Gaza. Organised by Dr Lina Fadel and Dr Muhammed Alshurafa as part of the Stop the War day of workplace action, this event is a rallying call for academics to break the silence
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