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Coming: Launch of Translation-series Collection ‘In the Shoes of the Other’

May 9, 2020 Mona Baker Egypt, Events, Events, Translation

ArabLit Quarterly NOVEMBER 12, 2019 In Cairo next month, a group of translators and translator-scholars — including Humphrey Davies, Ferial Ghazoul, and Mona Baker — will launch the collection In the Shoes of the Other: Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo, ed. Samia Mehrez:In Cairo next month, a group of translators and translator-scholars — including Humphrey Davies, Ferial Ghazoul, and

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خبراء الترجمة: سمعة الأدب العربي تحسنت بفضل الجوائز

May 9, 2020 Mona Baker Events, Translation

العين الإخبارية – سيد محمود الخميس 2019/12/12 04:38 م بتوقيت أبوظبي أكد خبراء في دراسات الترجمة تحسن وضع الأدب العربي في الخارج بفضل الجوائز الأدبية العربية التي أسهمت في إبراز وترويج الكتب الفائزة، ولكنهم أشاروا إلى الحاجة لمزيد من الجهود التي تسهم في التواصل مع الثقافة العالمية، واستعرضوا التهديدات التي تواجه مهنة الترجمة بسبب التقنيات والتطبيقات الجديدة. ترجمة “وثيقة الأخوة الإنسانية”

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Palestinian refugees are not at your service

May 9, 2020 Mona Baker Articles, Palestine, Translation

Moe Ali Nayel The Electronic Intifada Beirut 17 May 2013 “Are you enjoying filming our misery? Film: it’s fine, you are like the others. You show up in the camp, film, leave, and we are still here.” I used to reply: but we want to tell the world about your story. Always, with the same sarcasm, is the reply: “how much are

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The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence

May 7, 2020 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies Call for Abstracts Organizers: Kobus Marais, University of the Free State Reine Meylaerts, KU Leuven Maud Gonne, UNamur/ UCLouvain Since the emergence of complexity thinking, scholars from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities are renewing efforts to construct a unified framework that would unite all scholarly activity. The work of

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Routledge Critical Studies in Religion and Translation

May 7, 2020 Mona Baker Other News, Translation

BOOK SERIES About the Series Routledge Critical Studies in Religion and Translation　is a new book series intended to advance original interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the study of religion and translation studies. Books in this series formulate translation as a key interpretative mode that shapes and transforms the contents, purpose and function of a text, practice or phenomenon

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Literary lockdown: how translating a Dan Brown novel made for a thriller plot

May 3, 2020 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

When The Da Vinci Code author’s next novel needed simultaneous translations in 2013, what happened next was extraordinary enough to inspire a film of its own Julia Webster Ayuso The Guardian, Thursday 30 April 2020 In March 2013, Carole Delporte, a 37 year-old French translator, flew to Milan on a job for which she had been carefully

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Activism

April 22, 2020 Mona Baker Articles, Mona Baker, Translation

Mona Baker Entry for the AHRC Translating Cultures Glossary (forthcoming) Activism is generally understood to designate a broad range of direct and indirect interventions aimed at provoking political or social change. It is often assumed to be the preserve of left-wing politics, but many right-wing groups also see themselves as activists engaged in changing society for the better: Baker

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Audiovisual Translation and Activism (Pre-publication Version)

April 22, 2020 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Mona Baker (2018) ‘Audiovisual Translation and Activism’, in Luis Pérez-González (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation, London & New York: Routledge, 453-467. Introduction Activism and activist are emotive and ill-defined terms. They are claimed by any party that wishes to project itself as a courageous, independent voice that speaks out against what it narrates as injustices, and in so doing

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Methods and Visualization Tools for the Analysis of Medical, Political and Scientific Concepts in Genealogies of Knowledge

March 24, 2020 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Saturnino Luz & Shane Sheehan Palgrave Communications volume 6, Article number: 49 (2020) Cite this article Available Open Access, at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0423-6 Published Online March 2020, in Special Issue: Genealogies of Knowledge Abstract An approach to establishing requirements and developing visualization tools for scholarly work is presented which involves, iteratively: reviewing published methodology, in situ observation of scholars at work, software prototyping, analysis of scholarly output produced with

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CULTUS 14: Translation Plus: The added value of the translator

March 21, 2020 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

CULTUS 14: Translation plus The added value of the translator Call for abstracts: May 30th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: June 20th, 2020 Call for papers: October 30th, 2020 Translators, when not getting any press tend to get bad press, and the translation profession itself appears to be suffering an existential crisis (low play, status and uncertain future). However, this is

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