Invisible Angels
A decade after the Truth and Reconciliation Committee hearings, the interpreters speak their truth. Yvette Hardie interviews three interpreters, April 2006. Download pdf file of interviews: Invisible Angels.
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Call for Papers: Ideological Manipulation in Audiovisual Translation
Special Issue of Altre Modernità – Rivista di studi letterarie e culturali Some of the most crucial developments in translation studies, in the last three decades, have taken place in the field of audiovisual translation (AVT) making it rapidly gravitate from the margins to the centre of academic endeavour in translation. The initial studies on AVT tended to focus
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Esperança Bielsa Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Published in Cultural Sociology, online before print September 2, 2014, doi:10.1177/1749975514546235 Abstract Whereas globalization theory was predominantly silent about the role of translation in making possible the flow of information worldwide, assuming instant communicability and transparency, translation has gained central importance in recent accounts of cosmopolitanism that emphasize global interdependence and the negotiation
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First Forlì International Workshop Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna Forlì, Italy, 7-8 May 2015 More than 15 years have passed since the late Miriam Shlesinger called upon the Interpreting Studies community to embrace corpus-based methodologies (Shlesinger 1998). Corpus-based methodologies enable researchers to collect empirical data in quantities large enough to make reliable generalizations about interpreter
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2nd ULICES Conference on Translation Studies – JET2 Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon Date: 3-4 December 2014 Keynote Speakers Abram De Swaan, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stefania Taviano, University of Messina, Italy Call For Papers The rise of English as an international world language has had a dramatic effect on the practice of translation in all
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Innovation Paths in Translation and Intercultural Studies Call for Presentations (papers, roundtables, workshops, “rapid fire” PhD presentations, and posters) Deadline: 10th of September 2014 Following successful conferences in Seoul (2004), Cape Town (2006), Melbourne (2009) and Belfast (2012), IATIS is delighted to announce its call for panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, “rapid fire” PhD presentations and poster proposals for its fifth
» Read moreThe Only Thing Worth Globalizing Is Dissent: Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance
A three-day conference to be held in Cairo, 6-8 March 2015 Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK Organized by Mona Baker, Yasmin El Rifae, and Mada Masr http://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Activists from various regions and countries connect with and influence one another through practices involving various types of translation, including video subtitling, written translation, and oral interpretation. The Egyptian Revolution and the activists and
» Read moreborders, nations, translations
06 2008, translate.eipcp.net editorial Rada Iveković Translating Borders Hito Steyerl Politics of the archive Jon Solomon Rethinking the Meaning of Regions Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak More Thoughts on Cultural Translation Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez “Lost in Translation” – Transcultural Translation and Decolonialization of Knowledge Boris Buden A Tangent that Betrayed the Circle Sandro Mezzadra / Brett Neilson Border as Method, or, the
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11 2007, translate.eipcp.net Editorial Translating Violence/Traduire le silence de la plèbe Jon Solomon Translation, Violence, and the Heterolingual Intimacy Sandro Mezzadra Living in Transition: Toward a Hetrolingual Theory of the Multitude Rita Kothari Diffusing Polarizations: Language and Translation at the Time of the Gujarat Riots Min Dongchao Translation as Crossing Borders: A Case Study of the Translations of the
» Read more“A Bitter Disappointment,” Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, De Beauvoir and Foucault
AUGUST 26, 2014 EUGENE WOLTERS In 1979, Edward Said was invited by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to France for a conference on Middle East peace. It was in the wake of the Camp David Accords that ended the war between Egypt and Israel, that the author of “Orientalism” and ardent supporter of the Palestinian people, was invited to contribute with other
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