Oppression is not a point of view
The right to equal opportunities for women Wednesday, May 27, 2015 By Mai Shams El-Din After the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, a group of feminist activists stood at the heart of Tahrir Square and made several demands concerning women’s rights and freedoms. They were met by insults and curses from passers-by and criticism from others, who maintained this was
» Read moreSecond International Translation Conference 14-15 OCTOBER, 2015 JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY in KIELCE, POLAND ‘It’s time to write about women and translation again” Luise von Flotow in Translating Women “I decided it was time to confirm for myself what I had
» Read moreYou can access videos of individual plenaries delivered at this conference by selecting them from the drop down menu under Resources, Globalizing Dissent, on this website, as well as on conference website. All videos are produced by One More Cup Media Production.
» Read moreEditors: Sameh F. Hanna, Hanem El-Farahaty and Abdel Wahab Khalifa Deadline Extended to 30 September 2015 Call for Chapter Proposals Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale. The launch of a number of national translation projects, policies and awards in a number Arab countries, together with the increasing
» Read moreBy Mike Watson / 03 February 2015 Alain Badiou analyses the events of the Charlie Hebdo attack in their global and national contexts, making the case for the incompatibility of the red flag of communism with the Tricolore of French national identity. 1. Background: the world situation Today the figure of global capitalism has taken over the entire world. The world is subject to the ruling international oligarchy and
» Read moreThis is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the links between the struggles of women, homosexuals, prisoners etc to class struggle, and also the relationship between theory, practice and power This transcript first appeared in English in the book ‘Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: selected essays and interviews by Michel Foucault’
» Read moreBULAN LAHIRI February 5, 2011, The Hindu Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, considered by many to be the one of the world’s leading ‘Marxist-feminist-deconstructionists’, talks about notions of identity, her evolution as an intellectual and her present-day concerns. Excerpts from an exclusive interview… As I wait for Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her brand new office at New York’s ivy-league Columbia University where
» Read moreHow To Cite Social Media In Research by TeachThought Staff Back in 2012, we shared how to cite a tweet. We followed that up with how to cite an app. So when we saw the very useful teachbytes graphic above making some noise on pinterest on several different popular #edtech websites, it reminded us of the constant demands changing technologies place on existing ways we
» Read moreThe New York Times By Chris Buckley May 20, 2015 The works of the New York writer Paul Auster often hinge on ominous disappearances, and his novel “Sunset Park” has passages about the secretive detention of the Chinese dissident-writer Liu Xiaobo in 2008 and the efforts of the PEN American Center, a writers’ advocacy group, to secure his release. Lately, Mr.
» Read moreMichel 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 thought,” a position he created for
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