Category: Translation

8th Asian Translation Traditions Conference, SOAS

Events, Translation

Call for Papers 8th Asian Translation Traditions Conference. SOAS, University of London 5-7 July 2017. Conference theme:  Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Mediation – Hearing, Interpreting, Translating Global Voices Keynote speakers: Paul Bandia (Concordia University, Canada) Sameh Hanna (Leeds University, UK) Natsuki Ikezawa (Novelist, poet and translator, Japan). Full CFP available on conference website: http://www.translationstudies.net/joomla3/index.php Nana Sato-Rossberg (SOAS conference organizer)

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Translation and Ideology

Events, Translation

(Re)constructing, (re)framing, and (re)negotiating Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting Studies  for Greater China (PCTIGC) 3-4 Dec 2016 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS On 1 January 2015, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shandong University and University of Macau launched a collaborative research initiative called Postgraduate Conference in translation and interpreting studies for Greater China (PCTIGC), an annual postgraduate conference

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Recruitment of Postdoctoral Fellow

Translation

The Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is now hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, initially tenurable for 12 months, with the possibility of further extension for an additional 12 months. 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

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The Translation and Contestation of Political and Scientific Concepts across Time and Space: A Corpus-Based Study

Baker Talks and Interviews, Translation

Seminar by Mona Baker Hong Kong Baptist University, 18 Feb. 2016 This seminar will report on a large, interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Manchester in the UK and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project involves compiling large electronic corpora of ancient Greek, medieval Arabic, early Latin and Modern English to examine how central concepts

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Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre

Culture, Egypt, Publications, Translation

Translation, Performance, Politics Edited by Sirkku Aaltonen and Areeg Ibrahim 2016 – Routledge, 288 pages Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-13-894644-6, £85 This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the

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Justice and Minorized Languages under a Postmonolingual Order

Events, Translation

CFP: 11th International Conference on Translation and Interpreting 10-12 May 2017 Department of Translation and Communication Studies, University Jaume I, Castelló,Spain The creation of supranational bodies (European Union, African Union, Caribbean Community, Organization of Ibero-American States), the public debate on (con)federalist and plurinational States (Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Bolivia, Canada, India), or the cyclical discussion about national identities (Catalonia, France,

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Dialogue Interpreting

Publications, Translation

A Guide to Interpreting in Public Services and the Community By Rebecca Tipton, Olgierda Furmanek © 2016 – Routledge, 312 pages Paperback: 9781138784628, £25.99 Hardback: 9781138784604, £90.00 “This is a landmark textbook. Being thoroughly grounded in empirical research on interpreter-mediated interaction and institutional discourse, it deserves a wide readership, not only among students of interpreting and early-career interpreters, but also among those who are dependent on interpreter-services as public-sector

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Aspects of Translation Theory and Translating Theory

Translation

By George Ho   Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbruecken, Germany   Published 2016 ISBN: 978-3-6598-2262-9; € 67,90 The detachment of theory from practice has been criticized by translating practitioners; yet little improvement has been made. This book addresses the problem by reinvestigating the system of translation. Based on Daoist dialectics, the author introduces a dual system: translation theory and translating theory. The

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Italians, Helped by an App, Translate the Talmud

Articles, Translation

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, The New York Times, APRIL 5, 2016 ROME — Spanning six centuries of religious and legal teachings touching on astronomy, medicine, ethics, philosophy and more, the Babylonian Talmud is so complex, it has rarely been translated. But on Tuesday, after five years of labor by dozens of scholars, linguists, philologists and editors — as well as a crew of computer

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Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World (Extended Deadline)

Events, Translation

3rd International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation November 3-5 2016 Oman Department of English Language and Literature Sultan Qaboos University Extended Call Deadline: 25 April 2016 Meeting Description Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World 2016 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in the four main disciplines of language, linguistics, literature and translation. As the

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