Oppression is not a point of view
Kontax Release Date | 2016-01-12 Professor Mona Baker et al have been elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution”. Professor Mona Baker et al have been elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from
» Read moreCall for Papers International Conference Translation Education in a New Age Organized by School of Humanities and Social Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 15-16 April 2016 Aim of the Conference The School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, is pleased to announce the holding of an international conference on translation education
» Read moreSinosphere By OWEN GUO, JAN. 3, 2016, The New York Times BEIJING — From his graduate student dormitory in the southern city of Guangzhou, Yin Hao works late into the night with an online network of about half a dozen other volunteer translators. Their task: to post the American presidential debates, with Chinese subtitles. “Watching the U.S. presidential debates is like watching a
» Read moreat the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/ctis/ @ctismanchester Deadline for applications to School: 22 January 2016 A fully-funded 3-year PhD studentship in the area of Corpus-based Translation Studies and History of Knowledge Transfer in the 19th/20th Century is available from September 2016, under the umbrella of the AHRC-funded project Genealogies of Knowledge: The Evolution and Contestation
» Read moreA Dialogue between Process-oriented and Sociological Approaches THE FOURTH DURHAM POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM ON TRANSLATION STUDIES CALL FOR PAPERS ORGANIZER Center for Intercultural Mediation, Durham University, UK ORGANISING COMMITTEE Di Xiao, Hao Zhou and Yazid Haroun (PhD Researchers in Translation Studies, Durham University) Date: April 30 – May 1, 2016 Venue: Durham Castle, Durham University, UK Language: English KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
» Read moreThe evolution and contestation of concepts across time and space Professor Mona Baker, University of Manchester The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) at the University of Manchester has recently been awarded a large Research Grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. From 31 March 2016, CTIS members Professor Mona Baker (Principal Investigator) and Dr Luis Pérez-González (Co-investigator)
» Read moreShanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 25-27 March 2016 Hosted By: The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University **CALL FOR PAPERS** • Draft Programme • Abstracts • Venue • Registration • Organisers Keynote speakers and workshop leaders: Prof. Jens Brockmeier (The American University of Paris, France) Prof. Mona Baker (University of Manchester, UK) Dr. Sue-Ann
» Read moreActivist use of translation to connect with global publics and protest movements Professor Mona Baker, University of Manchester This study examines one aspect of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution which has received no attention in public or academic circles so far, namely, the language-based practices that allow Egyptian protestors to contest dominant narratives of the Revolution and, importantly, to connect with,
» Read more11-12 December 2015, University of Graz This international research symposium aims to connect different strands of research dealing with translation in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The focus will be on different methodological approaches chosen by individual researchers and implications of these approaches for understandings of translating science, the circulation of academic thought and social knowledge-making. The symposium sets out
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Chapter 8 of the second edition of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, by Mona Baker, is available as free access material, courtesy of Routledge. Download Ethics and Morality, Chapter 8 In Other Words 2011. To access online resources accompanying the book, go to http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/baker/.
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