Postdoctoral Fellow: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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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Translational Perspectives on Corpus-based Conceptual Analysis

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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Important Announcement about the SISU Baker Centre

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

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The Indians of Palestine: An interview between Gilles Deleuze and Elias Sanbar

  By Jordan Skinner / 08 August 2014     In 1982, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze interviewed the Palestinian author Elias Sanbar, founder of the Journal of Palestine Studies (La Revue d’Études Palestiniennes). They examine the importance of the journal and the existence of the people and land of Palestine. Disgracefully, over 30 years later, these discussions are still despairingly

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‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’

UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement Alex Kane on February 16, 2012   If there’s one thing the Palestine solidarity movement and Israel lobbyists can agree on, it’s this: American college campuses remain a potent battleground when it comes to the politics of Israel/Palestine. One group, the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott

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