Oppression is not a point of view
by Asef Bayat Mar 03 2011 Serious concerns are expressed currently in Tunisia and Egypt about the sabotage of the defeated elites. Many in the revolutionary and pro-democracy circles speak of a creeping counter-revolution. This is not surprising. If revolutions are about intense struggle for a profound change, then any revolution should expect a counterrevolution of subtle or blatant forms. The
» Read morePOST 1 Lecturer in Translation Studies University of Bristol – School of Modern Languages Location: Bristol Salary: £35,256 to £54,841 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 23rd March 2015 Closes: 19th April 2015 Job Ref: ACAD101334 ★ View Employer Profile Salary: 35,256-39,685 (J) £40,847-45,954 (K) £48,743-54,841 (L) Applications will be considered from researchers with expertise in any field of Translation
» Read moreCihan Tuğal Berkeley Journal of Sociology 7 October 2014 When revolutionaries do not produce ideology, demands, and leaders, does this mean that the revolt will have no ideology, demands, and leaders? Cihan Tuğal discusses the limits and traps of Egypt’s “leaderless revolution” in light of the nation’s current military rule. In June 2013, millions of Egyptians mobilized against a clumsy
» Read moreJonathan M. Smucker October 7, 2014, Berkeley Journal of Sociology Occupy Wall Street participant Jonathan Smucker takes a critical look at the movement’s “prefigurative politics” through the theoretical lenses of Gramsci and Habermas. What is politics? In this essay, I examine so-called “prefigurative politics” as it played out in Occupy Wall Street (OWS)—through Gramscian and Habermasian theoretical lenses. My analysis
» Read moreTHE FOURTH ASIA-PACIFIC FORUM ON TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES CALL FOR PAPERS ORGANIZERS Center for Intercultural Mediation, Durham University, UK Center for Translation & Interdisciplinary Studies, Tsinghua University, China Date: October 23-25, 2015 Venue: Durham Castle, Durham University, UK Language: English KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sandra Halverson (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) Maria Tymoczko (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Rainier Lanselle
» Read moreThe ARTIS (Advancing Research in Translation and Interpreting Studies) initiative offers training designed to help researchers in the field to improve their research skills and methods, to set up and manage research projects effectively, and to negotiate and apply theoretical models. Building on the long and successful history of the Translation Research Summer School (run by the University of Manchester, University College
» Read moreFriday 3 July 2015, University of Manchester An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference hosted by doctoral students at the Centre for New Writing and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester Conference scope This one day event to be held at the University of Manchester will explore the complex relations between time, freedom and narrative. Themes to be addressed at the conference include,
» Read moreDate: 9-10 July 2016 Venue: Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan Deadline for abstract submission: 15 July 2015 Keynote Speakers: Prof Mona Baker (The University of Manchester, UK) http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Mona.baker/ Prof Keijiro Suga (Meiji University, Japan) http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/undergraduate/science/faculty.html This Conference on East Asian Translation Studies (EATS) aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context (China,
» Read moreCounterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 13-15, 2015 by HAMZA HAMOUCHENE Frantz Fanon died a few months before Algeria’s independence in July 1962. He did not live to see his adoptive country becoming free from French colonial domination, something he believed had become inevitable. This radical intellectual and revolutionary devoted himself, body and soul to the Algerian National liberation and was a
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ISIT, Damascus University, Syria, Part 1 February 2011 محاضرة للدكتورة منى بيكر، أستاذة دراسات الترجمة ومديرة مركز الترجمة والدراسات الدولية في جامعة مانشستر بإنجلترا، قدمت بناء على دعوة في المعهد العالي للترجمة والترجمة الفورية في جامعة دمشق. في بداية المحاضرة، تعرف الدكتورة ريما الحكيم، عميد المعهد العالي العالي للترجمة والترجمة الفورية في جامعة دمشق، بالمحاضرة وتقدم نبذة قصيرة عنها وعن
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