Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Genug | NYC Indeymedia | May 22, 2005 A group of Jewish community human rights activists descended in protest on a highly-touted rally today featuring Israeli PM Ariel Sharon. Crying “Stop the mishegos [craziness], end the occupation!” the activists asked the crowd of executives of major Jewish organizations: “which of you will represent the
» Read moreCALL FOR PAPERS Texts and Contexts: The Phenomenon of Boundaries April 27-28, 2017 Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities Muitinės Str. 8, Kaunas, Latvia The importance of boundaries in texts and contexts is now generally recognized, and the Conference offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning fuzziness of boundaries in different types of human communication, and
» Read moreCall for Papers 8th Asian Translation Traditions Conference. SOAS, University of London 5-7 July 2017. Conference theme: Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Mediation – Hearing, Interpreting, Translating Global Voices Keynote speakers: Paul Bandia (Concordia University, Canada) Sameh Hanna (Leeds University, UK) Natsuki Ikezawa (Novelist, poet and translator, Japan). Full CFP available on conference website: http://www.translationstudies.net/joomla3/index.php Nana Sato-Rossberg (SOAS conference organizer)
» Read more(Re)constructing, (re)framing, and (re)negotiating Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting Studies for Greater China (PCTIGC) 3-4 Dec 2016 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS On 1 January 2015, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shandong University and University of Macau launched a collaborative research initiative called Postgraduate Conference in translation and interpreting studies for Greater China (PCTIGC), an annual postgraduate conference
» Read moreThe Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is now hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, initially tenurable for 12 months, with the possibility of further extension for an additional 12 months. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a variety of fields, including but not limited
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Seminar by Mona Baker Hong Kong Baptist University, 18 Feb. 2016 This seminar will report on a large, interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Manchester in the UK and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project involves compiling large electronic corpora of ancient Greek, medieval Arabic, early Latin and Modern English to examine how central concepts
» Read moreTranslation, Performance, Politics Edited by Sirkku Aaltonen and Areeg Ibrahim 2016 – Routledge, 288 pages Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-13-894644-6, £85 This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the
» Read moreCFP: 11th International Conference on Translation and Interpreting 10-12 May 2017 Department of Translation and Communication Studies, University Jaume I, Castelló,Spain The creation of supranational bodies (European Union, African Union, Caribbean Community, Organization of Ibero-American States), the public debate on (con)federalist and plurinational States (Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Bolivia, Canada, India), or the cyclical discussion about national identities (Catalonia, France,
» Read moreA Guide to Interpreting in Public Services and the Community By Rebecca Tipton, Olgierda Furmanek © 2016 – Routledge, 312 pages Paperback: 9781138784628, £25.99 Hardback: 9781138784604, £90.00 “This is a landmark textbook. Being thoroughly grounded in empirical research on interpreter-mediated interaction and institutional discourse, it deserves a wide readership, not only among students of interpreting and early-career interpreters, but also among those who are dependent on interpreter-services as public-sector
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John Johnston This chapter explores the potential of street art as a means of gaining voice and political capital, and the connections between Egyptian and other traditions of street art. Constructing an argument for artists to see their role as that of public educator, it highlights a major concern for street art in contested spaces, namely, the danger of falling
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