Oppression is not a point of view
Dear Respond Community and Supporters, January 2025 We’re excited to share that we have a few volunteer and staff openings on our team, and we’d greatly appreciate your help in finding the right candidates for these positions. These roles offer meaningful opportunities for individuals who are committed to providing language access to migrants, refugees, and others
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International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) 2025: Call for applications Dates: 23-28 June 2025 Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University Mode: Face-to-face The Centre for Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University is delighted to announce that it will host the 4th International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture (MTDC) in June 2025. Launched in
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Postdoctoral Fellow – (2400034K) Description The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. 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 to translation history, translation and technology, digital humanities, translation theory, and practical translation (especially literary). The Department is also home to the
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A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s SHE Corpus team Date: 26 March 20 Time: 12:00-15:40 (UTC) Venue: Online Speakers: Dr Michael Livesey (Sheffield), Dr Kyunghye Kim (Dongguk), Dr Gabriela Saldanha (Oslo), Prof. Qing Cao (Durham) Event website: https://genealogiesofknowledge.net/research-network-events/translational-perspectives/ Registration link: https://nettskjema.no/a/477242 [nettskjema.no] About the event There is now a vast
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Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Suliman | iopal.net | 6.5.10 A blackout as it is, you resort to a candle to light it up. In Gaza, you light the candle up. In Gaza, you read under a faint candlelight. In Gaza, you read; in the dark, you read. Gaza … Fourteen years in Gaza have taught me to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) George Bisharat | Los Angeles Times | June 3, 2008 This essay was featured as the final segment of an on-line debate between George Bisharat and Judea Pearl that ran for five days as the ‘Dust-Up’ website feature of the Los Angeles Times and its sister publications Newsday, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. I
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fida Qishta | IMEU | 8 March 2008 Rafah, the Gaza Strip, March 3 – Israeli officials said today that they finished their military operation in the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli attacks continue, and we fear that Israel is still planning a major invasion. On February 29th, Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mustafa Barghouti | Al-Ahram Weekly, Issue 771 | 1-7 December 2005 The on-the-ground reality of Israel’s moral bankruptcy in its genocidal policies towards the Palestinians remains as clear as ever, writes Mustafa Barghouti* What is the current situation on the ground in Palestine? The Israeli narrative that continues to dominate the international media presents
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Palestine Monitor | August 2005 Editors’ Note: This is a rare eyewitness account (with photographs) of one of the hundreds of illegal “targeted murders” by Israel of young Palestinian men, members of the legal Resistance. As such, its importance cannot be overstated. It is the only eyewitness account of this particular
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