Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Price | Counterpunch | 13 January 2006 The FBI has a long, ignoble tradition of monitoring and harassing America’s top intellectuals. While people ranging from Albert Einstein, William Carlos Williams to Martin Luther King have been subjected to FBI surveillance, there remains an under-accounting of the ways in which this monitoring at times
» Read moreDavid Palumbo-Liu(bio)1. Stanford University1 Symploke, Volume 23, Numbers 1-2, 2015, pp. 425-457 (Review) Download pdf: Palumbo-liu The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm (2015), aspires to be “a resource to bring reason, history, and sound information to campuses confronting [the] BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] agenda” (19). The editors clearly feel their book
» Read moreBy Jack Shenker A book exploring Egypt’s revolution and counter-revolution from below, published by Allen Lane / Penguin – Available now to pre-order – Egypt: 2011-16 “Egypt’s revolutionary turmoil has been misunderstood, and a great deal of that misunderstanding has been deliberate.” Five years on from the start of Egypt’s revolution, and counter-revolution, ‘The Egyptians: A Radical Story’ interrogates the
» Read moreCall for Papers International Conference Translation Education in a New Age Organized by School of Humanities and Social Science The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 15-16 April 2016 Aim of the Conference The School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, is pleased to announce the holding of an international conference on translation education
» Read moreSinosphere By OWEN GUO, JAN. 3, 2016, The New York Times BEIJING — From his graduate student dormitory in the southern city of Guangzhou, Yin Hao works late into the night with an online network of about half a dozen other volunteer translators. Their task: to post the American presidential debates, with Chinese subtitles. “Watching the U.S. presidential debates is like watching a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Desmond Tutu | Counterpunch | October 16, 2002 The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure– in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 15 November 2002 St. Jerome Publishing, a British company, has refused to sell one of its books to an Israeli university, as part of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. St. Jerome, an academic press specializing in translation studies, is owned by Mona Baker, a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker | The Translator | November 2002 Editorial Statement (The Translator, Volume 8, No. 2, 2002) Since April of this year, a number of petitions endorsing variant forms of an academic boycott against Israel have been signed by hundreds of academics across the world. On 16 April, the executive of the largest union
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris West | Student Direct | 30 September 2002 “The actions of the Israeli Government justifies the boycott,” says Chris West from Friends of Palestine. Professor Mona Baker has come under fire for dismissing two Israeli academics from unpaid positions on the board of her small translation journal. UMIST have strongly criticised this move
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker | Personal Record of Email Correspondence | 11 June 2002 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:58:09 +0100 From: Mona Baker <mona.baker@umist.ac.uk> To: Robin xxxxx Subject: Re: The Translator Dear Robin (and Andrew, and everyone else on the list), Thank you Robin and Andrew for this balanced and rational response. I very much
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