Oppression is not a point of view
Plenary 2 الصحافــــة باعتبارهــــا ترجمــــة مدي مصر This panel was organized and moderated by Mada Masr and featured the following panelists: Lina Attalah, Chief Editor of Mada Masr Ahmad Ragab, Managing Editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm‘s Website Mostafa Mohie, Journalist at Mada Masr and MA Candidate in Anthropology Yasmin El-Rifae, Freelance Writer, Palestine Festival of Literature
» Read more‘The Only Thing Worth Globalizing Is Dissent’ Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance A three-day conference held in Cairo, 6-8 March 2015 Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK Organized by Mona Baker, Yasmin El Rifae, and Mada Masr https://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/globalizingdissent Material uploaded under Resources/Globalizing Dissent relates to the above conference, and is intended to allow those who attended the conference
» Read moreBy 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
» Read moreUniversity 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
» Read moreGuest 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
» Read moreVoices 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
» Read morePublished 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
» Read morePublished 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.
» Read more9 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
» Read moreBY 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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