Category: Translation

Translating Asia: Convention and Invention

Events, Translation

Second International Conference on Translation Studies ICTS 21-22 June 2016, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand Research in translation studies in Asia has long been fruitful in partnership with the discipline of linguistics and its sub-disciplines such as applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, corpus linguistics, etc.  Moreover, the interdisciplinary research has currently been enriched even more

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3rd International Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation

Events, Translation

NPIT3 Call for Papers Probably the most widespread form of cultural and linguistic mediation, non-professional interpreting and translation has slowly begun to receive the recognition it deserves within interpreting and translation studies. Pushing the boundaries of many definitions of translation and interpreting, it encompasses a dynamic, under-researched field that is not necessarily subject to the norms and expectations that guide

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Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law

Publications, Translation

The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed ‘Illegal’ By Robert F. Barsky © 2016 – Routledge 220 pages The first 25 pages; https://www.book2look.com/embed/9781317534334 About the Book This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back

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Special Issue Call for Papers: International English and Translation

Call for Papers, Translation

Special Issue of The Translator, November 2017 Guest Editors: Rita Queiroz de Barros University of Lisbon and University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies Karen Bennett New University of Lisbon and University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies Deadlines: 30 November 2015 (abstract) 30 September 2016 (article) The rise of English as an international world language has had a dramatic effect on

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Dubbing, Film and Performance: Uncanny Encounters

Publications, Translation

By Charlotte Bosseaux Series: New Trends in Translation Studies – Volume 16 Year of Publication: 2015   Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2015. VIII, 242 pp., 3 tables ISBN 978-3-0343-0235-7 pb. (Softcover)     Book synopsis Research on dubbing in audiovisual productions has been prolific in the past few decades, which has helped

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Fiction and Colonial Identities: Arsène Lupin in Arabic

Articles, Culture, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

Middle Eastern Literatures Volume 13, Issue 2, 2010, pages 191-210 Special Issue:   Arabic Literature in Egypt at the Beginning of the 20th Century in Search of New Aesthetics: Al-Muwaylihi and Contemporaries DOI:  10.1080/1475262X.2010.487317 Samah Selim Along with Ponson du Terrail’s Rocambole and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin is one of the most famous popular fiction figures in the

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11 Rules and 3 Award-winning Translations from Samah Selim

Articles, Culture, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on MARCH 8, 2012 • ( 2 ) The “10 rules” series resumes with award-winning translator Dr. Samah Selim. Eleven Rules 1. Think about register. Every essay, novel or story projects a particular and unique language register. A really important part of translating fiction is capturing and rendering that register in English. It’s easy to fall into the trap of overly stiff or archaic prose on

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Who do stories belong to?

Articles, Culture, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

Samah Selim re-maps the journey of the early Arab novel Friday, March 6, 2015 By Laura Gribbon, Jadaliyya Do stories need authors? Are texts fixed? Is adaptation a form of translation? These are some of the questions Professor Samah Selim has been considering in her study of Egyptian periodical Musamarat al-Shaab (The People’s Entertainment), and she raised them during a talk at the

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ARTIS event @ HKBU 2016 Call for Papers

Events, Translation

Researching Collaborative Translation: An International Symposium Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University 7-8 April 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS   **Deadline for submission of abstracts extended to 15 September 2015** For details, please refer to http://artisinitiative.org/events/artishongkong2016/.   MORE UPDATES: Title and abstract of the keynote speech by Dr Julie McDonough Dolmaya (York University, Canada) as well as the title of the

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