Oppression is not a point of view
Talking to the World 2 (TTTW-II) International Conference for Translation and Interpreting Studies 10-11 September 2015 Newcastle University, United Kingdom Following the success of the first Talking to the World Conference in 2013, we are pleased to announce this call for papers for the second Talking to the World conference on The Relevance of Translation and Interpreting – Past, Present and Future,
» Read moreLinguistica Antverpiensia, No 13 (2014) Multilingualism at the cinema and on stage: A translation perspective Adriana Şerban & Reine Meylaerts Table of Contents Introduction Introduction PDF Reine Meylaerts, Adriana Şerban Articles La parole aux images, ou Multilinguisme et traduction dans les films de John McTiernan PDF Sylvain Agiboust Narratives of Translation and Belonging in Multilingual Performance: The Case Study of
» Read moreCALL FOR PAPERS Rethinking Hegemony and Domination in Translation Special Issue of Target – International Journal of Translation Studies Guest edited by Stefan Baumgarten and Yan Ying (Bangor University, Wales, UK), and Jordi Cornellà-Detrell (Glasgow University) Rationale While there is no doubt that the ‘ideological’ and ‘power turn’ have reshaped the discipline of Translation Studies, much work still needs to
» Read moreLooking Backwards, Looking Forward: Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000 © David Silver, Media Studies, University of San Francisco Originally published in Web.studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age, edited by David Gauntlett (Oxford University Press, 2000): 19-30. While still an emerging field of scholarship, the study of cyberculture flourished throughout the last half of the 1990s, as witnessed in the countless monographs and anthologies
» Read moreOCTOBER 28, 2014 Sharif Abdel Kouddous عربي In a bid to stamp out any last vestiges of revolutionary fervor and hold at bay the threat of collective empowerment, the Sisi regime has taken concrete steps to quash dissent, silence opposition voices, and consolidate control over the body politic. Under the guise of a war on terror and restoring
» Read moreCourageous Egyptian writer, academic and translator known for her Granada trilogy Marina Warner Monday 8 December 2014 Radwa Ashour was a powerful voice among Egyptian writers of the postwar generation and a writer of exceptional integrity and courage. Her work consistently engages with her country’s history and reflects passionately upon it. “I am an Arab woman and a citizen of
» Read moreBy Geoff Watts Dec 1 2014 One morning this summer I paid a visit to the sole United Nations agency in London. The headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sit on the southern bank of the Thames, a short distance upstream from the Houses of Parliament. As I approached, I saw that a ship’s prow, sculpted in metal, was
» Read moreBy Maha Abdelrahman Routledge – 2015 – 170 pages Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government The millions of Egyptians who returned to the heart of Cairo and Egypt’s other major cities for 18 days until the eventual toppling of the Mubarak regime were orderly without an organisation, inspired without a leader, and single-minded without one guiding political ideology. This
» Read moreby Gabriella Coleman “Easily the best book on Anonymous.” —Julian Assange Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that operates under the non-name Anonymous, by the writer the Huffington Post says “knows all of Anonymous’ deepest, darkest secrets.” Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of
» Read moreVideo recording of presentation by Marianne Maeckelbergh at the Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism Workshop, 4 December 2014, University of Manchester.
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