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Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism

October 25, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Events

A CTIS/CIDRAL Workshop: 4 December 2014 Keynote Speaker: Marianne Maeckelbergh (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, Netherlands; Co-founder of Global Uprisings) Click here for programme and abstracts Prefiguration, or ‘prefigurative politics’, involves experimenting with ways of enacting the principles being advocated by an activist group in the here and now, rather than at some future point when the conditions for

Misstated Excerpt of Times Article Offers Fresh Take on President Sisi of Egypt

October 19, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Other News, Translation

By THE NEW YORK TIMES OCT. 15, 2014 There is no such thing as bad press for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, at least not if it is translated by Al Ahram, Egypt’s flagship state newspaper. A recent report in The New York Times described the muted reaction to Mr. Sisi’s speech last month before the United Nations General Assembly compared with

Found in Translation

October 1, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Other News, Translation

Netizens cry foul when a new Chinese media outlet selectively translates an Economist cover article. By BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 On July 22, a glossy new Chinese media venture known as the Paper announced its launch to much fanfare. A subset of Shanghai’s state-run Oriental Morning Post with outside investment estimated at $32 million, the Paper seems to be a venture into state-funded public service journalism. The timing is

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China, citizen media, netizens, The Economist, translation

Call for papers: Interpreting in Conflict Situations and in Conflict Zones throughout History

September 30, 2014 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

Guest editors: Lucía Ruiz Rosendo (University Pablo de Olavide) & Clementina Persaud (University Pablo de Olavide) The figure of the interpreter as an intercultural and linguistic mediator in zones devastated by conflict has always existed due to the fact that conflicts have been intrinsic to the development of history. The distinctive trait of these interpreters is that, unlike other interpreters who

Translation and Meaning 2015

September 28, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquium Organisation The overall organisation of the International Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquiums is in the hands of the Maastricht School of Translation and Interpreting of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) and the Department of Translation Studies of the Institute of English Studies of the University of Łódź (Poland). The founders of the Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquiums are Dr.

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Łódź, Maastricht

Beyond Fault Lines: Translating "the Gulf" – March 23rd – 24th 2015

September 28, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Location: Qatar National Convention Center, Doha, Qatar Deadline for proposals: October 30th, 2014 Conference dates: March 23rd – 24th, 2015 Conference is organized by: Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) “Beyond Fault Lines: Translating ‘the Gulf’” is the sixth in a series of annual international conferences that aim to create a Gulf-based platform for discussing issues related to translation. It will be held from March 23 to

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Arabic, Qatar, The Gulf, Translation and Interpreting Institute

Juggling a cacophony of tongues, UN interpreters avert linguistic disaster

September 26, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Feature: UN News Centre 22 September 2014 Out of potential linguistic chaos, a corps of over 100 United Nations interpreters brings order and comprehension as speaker after speaker from around the world takes the podium of the General Assembly to give their annual speeches at the General Debate, discusses war and peace in the Security Council, or delves into

Using video and online subtitling to communicate across languages from West Papua

September 23, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Alexandra Crosby and Tanya Notley Article first published online: 1 JUN 2014 DOI: 10.1111/taja.12085 The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol 25 Issue 2 In this paper we examine mediated practices and experiences of online translation and subtitling. Our paper is based on a collaboration with EngageMedia − a not-for-profit organisation based in Australia and Indonesia − and is specifically focused on its

PoeTransFi conference 2015

September 20, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

POETRY/TRANSLATION/FILM – POÉSIE/TRADUCTION/FILM PoeTransFi 18-19 June 2015 EMMA, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, France Please click HERE to download the CFP in PDF format. Scroll down for French version. The aim of this conference, which could also be entitled “The film as poem, the poem as film: A spectrum of translations”, is to revisit the inter-relations between poetry and film, envisaged under

The PEN Ten with Lawrence Venuti

September 20, 2014 Mona Baker Interviews, Translation

Published on June 17, 2014 The PEN Ten is PEN America’s biweekly interview series curated by Lauren Cerand. This week Lauren talks to Lawrence Venuti, who translates from Italian, French, and Catalan. His translations include I.U.Tarchetti’s Gothic romance, Fosca, Antonia Pozzi’s Breath: Poems and Letters, Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel, The Goodbye Kiss, and Ernest Farrés’s Edward Hopper: Poems, which

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Lawrence Venuti, Literary Translation, PEN

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