April 2015, Mona Baker

A View of North Africa from South America: a conversation with Raúl Zibechi

April 29, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Protest Movements

Cristina Cielo (Sawyer Seminar Series, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) Popular uprisings in the Middle East over the last months have transformed the political landscapes and possibilities of the region’s diverse nations. The hope engendered by the successful mobilizations against the Tunisian and Egyptian governments has darkened as reports emerge of the repression and violence that meet continuing protests in

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Cristina Cielo, Raúl Zibechi

Hear Michel Foucault Deliver His Lecture on “Truth and Subjectivity” at UC Berkeley, In English (1980)

April 25, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Translation, Videos

December 20th, 2013 Open Culture Michel Foucault first arrived at the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. By this time, he was already a celebrity in France. He had just published his enormously influential history and critique of the penal system, Discipline and Punish, and he occupied a position at the prestigious Collège de France as chair in the “history of systems of

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Michel Foucault

On translating Arwa Saleh, ‘Looking for a Trace of the Present in a Trace of the Past’

April 24, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 20, 2015 Samah Selim spoke at Cairo University last Thursday, at a talk moderated by Nada Abdel Sobhi, on “Why We Transate: Some Notes on Love, Loss, and Longing.” Mona Elnamoury was there: By Mona Elnamoury In her talk at Cairo University last Thursday, Samah Selim charmed the audience with her hearty genuine talk about translation and love. Selim

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Arabic, Arabic Literature, Arwa Saleh, Mona Elnamoury, Samah Selim

PRISMATIC TRANSLATION

April 22, 2015 Mona Baker Events, Translation

The Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) annual conference in collaboration with the European Humanities Research Centre (EHRC) St Anne’s College Oxford, 1-3 October 2015 Call for papers: Translation is prismatic when it produces multiple variants. This can happen in the process of a single translational act, or when a text is translated into different languages, or when it is

Hijacking Translation

April 19, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

BY BOUNDARY2 on FEBRUARY 19, 2015 an abstract by Lawrence Venuti Despite the increased attention that translation has received in conjunction with the newly revived topic of “world literature,” translation research and practice remain marginal in Comparative Literature as the field has developed in the United States. The evidence takes various forms, institutional and intellectual, including reports on the state of the field, the

Ethics of Renarration

April 17, 2015 Mona Baker Baker Talks and Interviews, Interviews, Mona Baker, Translating Dissent, Translation

Mona Baker is interviewed by Andrew Chesterman 2008. Cultus 1(1): 10-33. Click on the link below to download a copy of the interview. Baker Ethics of Renarration 2008 Chesterman: Your recent book Translation and Conflict. A Narrative Account (2006a) raises some interesting and important issues concerning the practice and ethics of translation and interpreting. You argue that translation is especially significant

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Andrew Chesterman, Cultus, ethics, Mona Baker, narrative theory

Narratives in and of Translation

April 17, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Baker Talks and Interviews, Mona Baker, Translating Dissent, Translation

Mona Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures University of Manchester, UK Published in the SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation, ISSN 1336-7811 Volume 1, Number 1, 2005 Abstract. This article questions one of the narratives that dominate our disciplinary and professional discourses on translation, namely the narrative of translation as a means of promoting

Sketching landscapes in translation studies: A bibliographic study

April 17, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2015.1010551 Federico Zanettina*, Gabriela Saldanhab & Sue-Ann Hardingc Received: 1 Jul 2014 Accepted: 14 Jan 2015 Published online: 10 Apr 2015 This paper investigates how subfields within translation studies have been defined and how research interests and foci have shifted over the years, using data from the Translation Studies Abstracts (TSA) online database. We draw on the notions of

Narrative Theory in Translation Studies: A Research Symposium

April 17, 2015 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 25-27 March 2016 Hosted By: The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University **CALL FOR PAPERS** • Draft Programme • Abstracts • Venue • Registration • Organisers Keynote speakers and workshop leaders: Prof. Jens Brockmeier (The American University of Paris, France) Prof. Mona Baker (University of Manchester, UK) Dr. Sue-Ann Harding (Hamad bin Khalifa

Overview of L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, avec Claire Parnet

April 15, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Publications, Publications, Translation

Gilles Deleuze’s ABC Primer, with Claire Parnet, Directed by Pierre-André Boutang (1996) Full reference to published set of DVDs: Deleuze, Giles (1996/2011) Gilles Deleuze from A-Z, with Claire Parnet, directed by Pierre-André Boutang, translated by Charles J. Stivale, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Overview prepared by Charles J. Stivale, Romance Languages & Literatures, Wayne

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