Oppression is not a point of view
by Tadhg Mac Eoghain In order to survive as a freelance translator in today’s hostile climate, I’ve had to take a Jekyll and Hyde approach to my work. On the one hand, I very happily collaborate with a team of other like-minded, caring and politically driven translators as part of Guerrilla Media Collective (GMC), a feminist, commons-oriented, worker-owned translation and
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Marion Turner London Review of Books, Vol. 46, No. 9 9 May 2024 Fixers: Agency, Translation and the Early Global History of Literature by Zrinka Stahuljak. Chicago, 345 pp., £85, February, 978 0 226 83039 1 The earliest astrolabe in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford was made in Syria in the ninth century and is inscribed with text in
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Special Issue of Feminist Translation Studies Abstract deadline 15 May 2024 Manuscript deadline 15 October 2024 Special Issue Editor(s) Şebnem Susam-Saraeva, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK S.Susam-Saraeva@ed.ac.uk Carolyn Shread, Mount Holyoke College, US cshread@mtholyoke.edu Intersections between gender, feminism and environmental issues have been explored in Western scholarship for more than fifty years now, catalyzed by Rachel Carson’s Silent
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A symposium co-sponsored by the SISU Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies and the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA) Organized by: Professor Brian Baer, Kent University State, USA Date: Friday 23 February 2024 Venue: This event will take place virtually, via zoom, and is open to colleagues from anywhere in the world, free of charge.
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Short Title: T-RADEX Date: 31 October 2024 – 02 November 2024 Location: University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Contact Person: Maria Constantinou Conference Email: mconst04@ucy.ac.cy Call Deadline: 29 February 2024 Conference Website: https://www.ucy.ac.cy/tradex/ The international conference T-RADEX aims to bring together scholars working on any form of radical, extreme or extremist narratives from a translational, cross-cultural and intercultural perspective. T-RADEX is
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: January 5, 2024 Established in 1972, the Department of Translation of CUHK was the first of its kind in Asia. After years of development, it now offers a full range of BA, MA, MPhil and PhD programmes. Our faculty members are committed to excellence in teaching
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Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindication of a thesis that linguists, critics, and anthropologists spent much of the twentieth century advancing — the thesis that language is not an
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International Conference University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, 24-25 October 2023 Call for Papers This Conference aims to elicit debate on the relationship between gender, translation and conflict that reverberates across today’s war in Ukraine, as well as in other countries like Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, just to mention a few, in the way that violence affects men and women in
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Lina Mounzer on the Urgency of Telling the Stories of Conflict October 6, 2016, Literary Hub In the last few months, I’ve moved houses no less than 35 times. I have been threatened, beaten, strip-searched, thrown in prison, tortured and made to watch as my mother knelt weeping at the dirty feet of tribal leaders to beg for
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Call for Abstracts & Papers (in English, Spanish, French and German) Guest editors Julie Boéri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar) Ting Guo, University of Liverpool (UK) LANS-TTS Issue 23, publication year 2024 Linguistica Antverpiensa LANS-TTS is an international, open access journal in translation studies publishing yearly special issues. The transnational nature of contemporary movements, media and networks in our globalized
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