Oppression is not a point of view
The University of Mosul, Iraq was severely damaged by ISIS during its occupation of the city, and he Central Library was burned to the ground. Colleagues have mounted a campaign to re-establish the library by sending requests to some of the world’s leading universities and research institutes to donate books in specific fields. They are appealing to us in the fields of translation
» Read moreHong Kong Baptist University FACULTY OF ARTS Department of English Language and Literature Professor in the Translation Programme (PR327/16-17) Full-time, Non-tenure Track The Translation Programme was established in 1990 with the aim of training sophisticated cross-cultural communicators to serve the local community and the Chinese Mainland, and has since become one of the leading such programmes in the region, in
» Read moreDr. Ian Alan Paul (Al-Quds Bard College, Abu Dis, Palestine) 9 June 2017 Martin Harris Building – JOHN CASKEN THEATRE The University of Manchester 14:00-16:00 Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental documentary, critical fiction, and media art, aiming to produce novel conditions for the exploration of contemporary politics and aesthetics in
» Read moreMona Baker, Distinguished Public Talks Series Venue: Translation & Interpreting Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar Date: 21 October 2014
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Arwa Salih. The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student Movement Generation in Egypt. Trans. Samah Selim. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, Forthcoming 2017. Translator’s Introduction[1] Arwa Salih was an Egyptian communist who came of political age in the early 1970s; in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the end of the Nasser era, and the
» Read moreFirst Circular CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International LARIM Conference Power and Ideology in Interpreter-Mediated Contexts UNINT, 23-24 November 2017 LARIM (Laboratory of Interpreter-Mediated Interactions), a research group on interpreter-mediated interactions set up in October 2012 within the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation (FIT) of UNINT (University of International Studies of Rome), is organizing its 2nd International Conference on 23-24 November
» Read morePlenary 1 النص والسياق: الترجمة في ظل حالة الطوارئ سماح سليم Abstract This presentation will explore the problems associated with activist translating in revolutionary historical moments like the one that began in Egypt in 2011. Using my experience working as a subtitler with the radical video collective Mosireen in 2012/13, I want
» Read more29-30 July 2017 Jointly organised by Chalermprakiat Center of Translation and Interpretation, Chulalongkorn University, and the MA program in English-Thai translation,Thammasat University Call for papers Important dates Provisional programme Accommodation Registration fees 1. Call for papers As a platform for “empowering translators” (Tymoczko 2007), translation studies has developed into a discipline that encourages inclusionary approaches, culturally sensitive
» Read moreSpecial Issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) Call for Papers Guest Editor María Constanza Guzmán, Glendon College, York University Periodicals, including magazines, newspapers, and journals, are important sites of translation. As vectors of intellectual exchanges, they are privileged spaces for the circulation of ideas. They are thus key cultural artifacts of the historical archive. Periodical publications have traditionally been considered
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