Oppression is not a point of view
Far-right leaders often call for one nation united under one language. At the same time, they have always been good at using translation to spread their politics. YULIYA KOMSKA Boston Review, 4 November 2019 A widespread misconception, exacerbated by the English-only bigotry of Make America Great Again and Brexit, is that xenophobic, racist, or oppressive ideologies are always doggedly monolingual—and,
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Lecturer(s) – (20000007) Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing Date: March 15, 2020 Applicants should (i) possess a higher degree (at least at Master Level) in translation or other related fields; (ii) specialize in one or more of the following areas: practical translation (including translation project supervision), interpreting, translation studies, literary translation and computer translation; and preferably (iii) have relevant teaching/teaching-related experience
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Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Beijing Foreign Studies University 23-25 October 2020 The turn of the century has witnessed a step change in the volume, diversity and sophistication of research on various modes of mediated communication, from interlingual translation and interpreting to film adaptation, from the language of emojiis to the code switching typical of social media exchanges,
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The Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, first established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017, will be moving to Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) on 1 January 2020. It will continue to be managed by the same team that initially founded it at Jiao Tong, including Professor Hu Kaibao as Executive Director and Professor Mona Baker as Director,
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26 November 2019 | By Xu Xiaohan, Yang Tiantian, Zhou Jinru, Ren Yihan, Zhou Jiawen | Copyedited by Li Lei Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) established China’s first corpus research institute, whose opening ceremony and academic seminar on corpus and interdisciplinary research was held at SISU on Nov. 16. The opening ceremony and seminar attracted more than 130 experts
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The 6th edition of the UCCTS conference (Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies) series will be organized by the Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna (Italy) at the Bertinoro University Residential Centre, on 7-9 September 2020. UCCTS is a biennial international conference which was launched by Richard Xiao in 2008 to provide an international forum for the exploration
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PERcursos Linguísticos – Vitória (ES) -v. 9 -n. 21 – 2019 – Dossiê: Tradução & Transformação Social – ISSN: 2236-2592, pp. 24-35. Download pdf copy Interview TRANSLATION_AND_SOCIAL_CHANGE_AN_INTERVI (1). Junia Zaidan: Translation and interpreting studies in Latin America have evolved noticeably over the last decade or so. Still, we have a long way to go to consolidate academic and
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by Yijing Zhang Radical Philosophy 2.04 (Spring 2019) Translated by Sophie Eager During Jacques Derrida’s visit to China in 2001, he held a meeting with the Chinese philosopher Wang Yuanhua. 1 Derrida opened their dialogue with a sentence that had the effect, no doubt involuntary, of aggravating his interlocutor and all of those Chinese listeners present: ‘China doesn’t have philosophy, but/only thought
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Summary The Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor position. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in Translation Studies or a related field, as well as an international-level publication record in one or more fields of study that would enrich the Department’s research and teaching profile. Boğaziçi, an English-medium institution, is
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Guest editors Raffaela Merlini (University of Macerata, Italy) Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom) Call for abstracts: 16 December, 2019 Notification of acceptance: 23 December 2019 Call for papers: 16 March, 2020 Contributions must be sent to: submission2020@cultusjournal.com Our contemporary world is characterised by mobility and migration. People are on the move for
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