Oppression is not a point of view
22-23 September 2014 Conference held at the CBRL British Institute in Amman. 1 The Political Subject in the ‘Arab Spring’ | Keynote | Philip Marfleet | 22 Sept 2014 2 Gender and Revolution: Historical Patterns and Challenges … | Ahmed Kadry 3 As if in Manama: Real-time Exile, New Diaspora Politics, and Living Bahrain Abroad | Omar Sirri 4 Developing
» Read moreCentre for Translation, Hong Kong Baptist University 7-8 April 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS Collaborative translation, in a broad sense, refers to translation as a collective work. The concept draws attention to the interaction among agents involved in the process of translation – how translators work in teams under specific circumstances and within certain institutional structures, and how they work with
» Read moreCall for Articles—Alif 38, 2018 Guest-edited by Mona Baker Abstract deadline: October 1, 2016 Article submission deadline: May 1, 2017 The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is ‘produced’ rather than ‘discovered’,
» Read moreMichel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations. He spent some time during the last years of his life at UC Berkeley, delivering several lectures in English. And happily they were recorded for posterity: Four Lectures on Truth and Subjectivity (1980)
» Read moreCounterpunch. WEEKEND EDITION MAY 8-10, 2015 Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance by PAUL de ROOIJ Amnesty International has issued four reports on the Massacre in Gaza in 2014 [1]. Given the scale of the destruction and the number of fatalities, any attempt to document the crimes committed should be welcomed. But these reports are problematic, and raise questions about this organization [2],
» Read moreSpecial Issue for Journal of Cultural Research Volume 19, Issue 2, 2015 Foreword Anastasia Valassopoulos pages 115-116 Acknowledgements page 117 Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture Dalia Said Mostafa pages 118-129 Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution Ziad Elmarsafy pages 130-138 Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde Caroline Rooney pages 139-149 Inserting women’s rights in
» Read moreSpecial Issue of Comparative Literature Studies Volume 51, Number 2, 2014 Guest Editor: William J. Spurlin Introduction The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: New Approaches pp. 201-214 William J. Spurlin Articles A Queer and Embodied Translation: Ethics of Difference and Erotics of Distance pp. 215-230 Aarón Lacayo “Homme” peut-il vouloir dire “Femme”?: Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral
» Read moreBritish Centre for Literary Translation, UEA, Norwich 26 July – 1 August 2015 The 2015 BCLT summer school will take place at the University of East Anglia and at Dragon Hall, flagship building for Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. Run by the British Centre for Literary Translation in partnership with Writers’ Centre Norwich, the summer school brings together writers and
» Read moreDate: 5-6 November 2015 Venue: University of Macau The Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) is pleased to announce the Call for Paper for the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation and Interpreting, to be held on 5-6 November 2015 at University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. This conference provides an international forum for the
» Read moreCristina 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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