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The Cultural Politics of Translation

November 11, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Call for Papers The Cultural Politics of Translation A 3-day international conference to be held in Cairo, Egypt 27-29 October 2015 Organised by Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt & Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester, UK Supported by The British Academy https://culturalpoliticstranslation2015.wordpress.com/ Translation plays an important role as a powerful medium of representation, especially in a world of intensified

Egypt’s Long History of Activist Artists

November 2, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

By: Sultan Al Qassemi 31 October 2014 Egyptian artists were deeply involved in spearheading, capturing, and influencing the January 2011 uprising. In fact, the artistic community lost one of its own when 32-year-old Ahmed Bassiouny died in the early days of the uprising while taking part in the protests. For four days, the contemporary digital artist and experimental musician documented the protests in

Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation

November 2, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnographic Theory Volume 4, Issue 2, 2014 Guest Editors: William P. Hanks and Carlo Severi Table of Contents Special Issue – Introduction Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation William F. Hanks, Carlo Severi PDF 1–16 Special Issue – Articles The space of translation William F. Hanks PDF 17–39

New Voices in Translation Studies 11 (2014)

October 31, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Edited by Geraldine Brodie, Elena Davitti, Sue-Ann Harding, Dorothea Martens, David Charlston, M. Zain Sulaiman, Alice Casarini, Gloria Kwok Kan Lee TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Geraldine Brodie, Elena Davitti, Sue-Ann Harding, Dorothea Martens, David Charlston, M. Zain Sulaiman, Alice Casarini and Gloria Kwok Kan Lee [Editorial] i-v ARTICLES Chaucer Abducted: Examining the Conception of Translation

The appropriation of the concept of intertextuality for translation-theoretic purposes

October 27, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2014.943677 Panagiotis Sakellariou Published online: 27 Aug 2014, in Translation Studies, Taylor & Francis The present article offers a critical account of key applications of the concept of intertextuality for translation-theoretic purposes. It is argued that these applications form part of a reorientation in Western translation studies that involves a significant reconceptualization of both the practice of translation and the

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equivalence, ethics, identity, intertextuality, Panagiotis Sakellariou

Writing and Translating Francophone Discourse: Africa, The Caribbean, Diaspora

October 25, 2014 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Edited by Paul F. Bandia Amsterdam/New York, NY 2014. VII, 235 pp. (Textxet 78) ISBN: 978-90-420-3894-3 Paper €52,-/US$73,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1176-5 E-Book €47,-/US$66,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=TEXTXET+78 This book is a much needed contribution to interdisciplinary research on the intersection of French and Francophone Studies and Translation Studies. It highlights the symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines whereby theories and concepts developed

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Paul Bandia

Translation and Politics

October 25, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

University of Liege, 7-9 May 2015 The words ‘translation’ and ‘politics’ are so frequently used in a metaphorical sense that it can be safely claimed both that everything depends on translation and that everything is involved in politics. It is clear, however, that from the beginning the two fields, as indeed language and power, are closely related. Translation is about

Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism

October 25, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Events

A CTIS/CIDRAL Workshop: 4 December 2014 Keynote Speaker: Marianne Maeckelbergh (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, Netherlands; Co-founder of Global Uprisings) Click here for programme and abstracts Prefiguration, or ‘prefigurative politics’, involves experimenting with ways of enacting the principles being advocated by an activist group in the here and now, rather than at some future point when the conditions for

A wounded Egypt

October 25, 2014 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt

Sally Toma Monday, October 13, 2014 A nurse and her staff have tamed the men in a mental health ward into becoming compliant patients. They spend their days and nights in a medicine-induced state of fogginess that prevents them from rebelling against the petty rules and regulations that govern the ward. A smug guy believing he is free arrived

Misstated Excerpt of Times Article Offers Fresh Take on President Sisi of Egypt

October 19, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Other News, Translation

By THE NEW YORK TIMES OCT. 15, 2014 There is no such thing as bad press for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, at least not if it is translated by Al Ahram, Egypt’s flagship state newspaper. A recent report in The New York Times described the muted reaction to Mr. Sisi’s speech last month before the United Nations General Assembly compared with

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