A Conference in Cairo

Yasmin El-Rifae June 12th, 2015, Muftah I walked through downtown Cairo on a quiet Friday morning in March 2015, late to a conference I had helped organize and a little bit anxious. The conference was about the political importance of translation – of language and concepts – in connecting protest movements to one another and allowing them to be narrated

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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ARABIC TRANSLATION: CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Editors: Sameh F. Hanna, Hanem El-Farahaty and Abdel Wahab Khalifa  Deadline Extended to 30 September 2015 Call for Chapter Proposals  Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale. The launch of a number of national translation projects, policies and awards in a number Arab countries, together with the increasing

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Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze

This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the links between the struggles of women, homosexuals, prisoners etc to class struggle, and also the relationship between theory, practice and power  This transcript first appeared in English in the book ‘Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: selected essays and interviews by Michel Foucault’

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In Conversation: Speaking to Spivak

BULAN LAHIRI February 5, 2011, The Hindu Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, considered by many to be the one of the world’s leading ‘Marxist-feminist-deconstructionists’, talks about notions of identity, her evolution as an intellectual and her present-day concerns. Excerpts from an exclusive interview… As I wait for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her brand new office at New York’s ivy-league Columbia University where

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Liu Xiaobo Is Locked Up in China, and Locked Out of the Translation of a Paul Auster Novel

  The New York Times By Chris Buckley May 20, 2015 The works of the New York writer Paul Auster often hinge on ominous disappearances, and his novel “Sunset Park” has passages about the secretive detention of the Chinese dissident-writer Liu Xiaobo in 2008 and the efforts of the PEN American Center, a writers’ advocacy group, to secure his release. Lately, Mr.

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Hear Michel Foucault Deliver His Lecture on “Truth and Subjectivity” at UC Berkeley, In English (1980)

Michel Foucault first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. By this time, he was already a celebrity in France. He had just published his enormously influential history and critique of the penal system, Discipline and Punish, and he occupied a position at the prestigious Collège de France as chair in the “history of systems of thought,” a position he created for

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Researching Collaborative Translation: An International Symposium

Centre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University 7-8 April 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Collaborative translation, in a broad sense, refers to translation as a collective work. The concept draws attention to the interaction among agents involved in the process of translation – how translators work in teams under specific circumstances and within certain institutional structures, and how they work with

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Translation and the Production of Knowledge(s)

Call for Articles—Alif 38, 2018 Guest-edited by Mona Baker                   Abstract deadline: October 1, 2016                                        Article submission deadline: May 1, 2017   The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is ‘produced’ rather than ‘discovered’,

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