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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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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It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell By Stephen Buranyi The Guardian, 27 June 2017 In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein Research in London, made a bet that the dominant firm in one of the most
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The inaugural conference of the History and Translation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 25-28 May 2022 University of Tallinn KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Hilary Footitt (University of Reading) Hephzibah Israel (University of Edinburgh) Ronnie Hsia (Pennsylvania State University) IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary panel proposal: 31 August 2021 Acceptance
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13 May 2020 Dear colleagues, We hope this finds you safe and well in these strange times. After four years of intense interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange, the Genealogies of Knowledge project has now formally come to the end of its funded period. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in following the development of
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BOOK SERIES About the Series Routledge Critical Studies in Religion and Translation is a new book series intended to advance original interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the study of religion and translation studies. Books in this series formulate translation as a key interpretative mode that shapes and transforms the contents, purpose and function of a text, practice or phenomenon
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The Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, first established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017, will be moving to Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) on 1 January 2020. It will continue to be managed by the same team that initially founded it at Jiao Tong, including Professor Hu Kaibao as Executive Director and Professor Mona Baker as Director,
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26 November 2019 | By Xu Xiaohan, Yang Tiantian, Zhou Jinru, Ren Yihan, Zhou Jiawen | Copyedited by Li Lei Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) established China’s first corpus research institute, whose opening ceremony and academic seminar on corpus and interdisciplinary research was held at SISU on Nov. 16. The opening ceremony and seminar attracted more than 130 experts
» Read moreArab Lit, 18 September 2018 The scholar of Egyptian and comparative theatre Hazem Azmy is being celebrated this evening by friends and colleagues — both over Skype and in person — as part of the Center for Translation Studies lecture series. Azmy passed away unexpectedly in July in Belgrade, at the International Federation for Theatre Research conference: Based in Cairo,
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Genealogies of Knowledge is a multidisciplinary research project, based at the University of Manchester, which aims to explore the evolution and contestation of key political and scientific concepts as they have travelled across centuries, languages and cultures. The research team is pleased to announce the release of the GoK corpus browser interface for researchers wishing to work with the range
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