Professor of Translation Studies, Cardiff University

Job Category Academic – Teaching & Research Career Pathway Teaching & Research School / Directorate MLANG – School of Modern Languages Advert As a member of the Russell Group, Cardiff University is recognised as one of the 24 leading research-intensive UK universities. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), Modern Languages and Linguistics at Cardiff University was ranked 7th of 57

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Pedagogies of Revolt: Translating Egypt in Flux

26 March 2015 Salle des thèses Bernard Maris, Espace Deleuze Université Paris 8 – Vincennes-Saint-Denis One of the most remarkable accomplishments of the revolutionary spirit in Egypt since January 2011 has manifested itself in an unprecedented production and proliferation of cultural materials, whether written, oral, visual, or performative, all of which have decidedly remapped and redefined not just the contours

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Globalizing dissent, Egyptian civil society, and the limits of translation

By Ahmed Refaat Mada Masr, 15 March 2015 I first heard Mona Baker two months ago in a workshop organized by the Imaginary School Program at Beirut, the art space not the city. It was called: “Prefigurative politics and creative subtitling.” During the three-hour event, Baker briefly summed up what she discusses more elaborately in her research project, “Translating the Egyptian

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Translation and Interpreting as a Means of Guaranteeing Equality under Law

University of Tampere, Finland, 2-3 May 2016   FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS The  School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies at the University of Tampere is organising an international conference on legal language, translation and interpreting on 2-3 May 2016. We invite papers on e.g. the following topics     Legal translation     Administrative translation     EU translation    

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Call for Papers: Transgender Studies Quarterly, The Translation Issue

Guest Editors: David Gramling and Aniruddha Dutta Special Issue on Translating Transgender Submissions of 4000-9000 words (in any language). Due March 1, 2015 for publication in Spring 2016 Few primary and secondary texts about transgender lives and ideas have been translated from language to language in any formal way over the centuries. Meanwhile, transgender, gender variant, and gender non-confirming people have often

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FERGUSON: TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

Voices Across Borders The Blog of the Race and Resistance Research Network at TORCH Posted by: Josh Aiken and Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara Date: 26 February 2015 Ferguson: Transnational Activism and The Academy The following is a transcript of presentations at the Race and Resistance seminar on 30th January 2015, at which Master’s students Josh Aiken and Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara reflected on the relationship between

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Global Art Forum_7: TRANSLUCINATION (Omar Berrada)

Published on May 16, 2013 What is translation after translation? Is translation a kind of hallucination, of seeing and hearing what is there and isn’t there? Curator, translator, and Dar Al-Ma’mun co-director Omar Berrada.     17-18.3.2013 MATHAF: ARAB MUSEUM OF MODERN ART DOHA 20-23.3.2013 ART DUBAI, MADINAT JUMEIRAH DUBAI Featuring commissioned projects and research, as well as six days

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Leil-Zahra Mortada: OpAntiSH, the hashtag that became a movement (NPA 034.2)

Published on Mar 4, 2015 Leil-Zahra Mortada talks about the problems with sexual harassment during the Egyptian Revolution, especially on Tahrir Square, and explains why they felt the need to do something about it. He confronts the problems they faced with the OpAntiSH movement.    

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The 2nd East Asian Translation Studies Conference (EATS 2)

9 and 10 July 2016 Tokyo, Japan             Keynote Speakers: Prof Mona Baker (The University of Manchester, UK) http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Mona.baker/ Prof Keijiro Suga (Meiji University, Japan) http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/undergraduate/science/faculty.html   Call for Papers Conference Theme: “Constructing/Deconstructing East Asia” This Conference on East Asian Translation Studies (EATS) aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East

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What Does Arab Comics Culture Look Like?

BY MLYNXQUALEY on FEBRUARY 27, 2015 Yesterday at Brown University, scholars and artists met for an afternoon symposium about “Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture”: In Nadim Damluji’s presentation — “The Violence of Localizing Western Comics for Arab Children” — he began with a slide boiling down recognizably (North) American, European, and Japanese comics. There might well have been a fourth slot

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