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Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

July 2, 2022 Mona Baker Books and Journals, Translation

Edited By: Katja Krause, Maria Auxent, Dror Weil 2022, Routledge DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003258704 OPEN ACCESS This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object

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Persistent Questions: Translation and Holocaust Testimony

June 30, 2022 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

July 9, 2018| Peter Davies Proofed, Boydell & Brewer Blog Without translation there would be no Holocaust. That’s the conclusion I came to about two-thirds of the way through the research and writing for my book, Witness between Languages. It’s an idea that hit me quite hard when it occurred to me, and I resisted it for a

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Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

April 30, 2022 Mona Baker Books and Journals, Translation

Edited by Mona Baker Copyright Year 2022 ISBN 9780367681968 268 Pages 18 Illustrations Will be available open access in June 2022 This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas,

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Why it’s so damn hard to make AI fair and unbiased

April 25, 2022 Mona Baker Articles

There are competing notions of fairness — and sometimes they’re totally incompatible with each other. By Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 April 2022 Let’s play a little game. Imagine that you’re a computer scientist. Your company wants you to design a search engine that will show users a bunch of pictures corresponding to their keywords — something akin to Google Images.

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Translating Academia

March 18, 2022 Mona Baker Events, Translation

TRANSLATION AND SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP SERIES Translating Academia Friday, 3rd June 2022 Sala de Juntes, Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i de Sociologia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona This international workshop is organised as part of the research project ‘Political Translation’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and is the first event of the ‘Translation and

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University Assistant (prae doc) at the Centre for Translation Studies, University of Vienna

January 27, 2022 Mona Baker Job Announcements

The University of Vienna (20 faculties and centres, 179 fields of study, approx. 10.000 members of staff, about 90.000 students) seeks to fill the position from 01.04.2022 of a University Assistant (prae doc) Centre for Translation Studies Reference number: 12722 The Centre for Translation Studies is seeking a University assistant (prae doc) in the field of Transcultural Communication (Prof. Dr.

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CULTUS 15: Narrativity in Translation

January 20, 2022 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

CALL for PAPERS CULTUS 15: Narrativity in Translation Abstracts should be sent to: submission@cultusjournal.com by February 28th 2022 Notification of Acceptance: March 6th 2022 Deadline for full papers: June 1st 2022 Publication: December 2022 Since Baker’s pioneering publication, Translation and Conflict: Narrative Account (2006), there has been a growing interest in the use of social narrative

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Associate /Assistant Professor of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong

December 22, 2021 Mona Baker Job Announcements, Translation

Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Post: Associate Professor / Assistant Professor Closing date: January 31, 2022 Applicants should (i) possess a relevant PhD degree in translation or other related fields; (ii) specialize in one or more of the following areas: comparative linguistics, interpreting studies, digital humanities (including corpus-based studies), translation theory and practical translation (including translation project supervision); and preferably (iii)

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This translation of a historical novel asks whether the writer and the translator are joint authors

November 5, 2021 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s translation from the Urdu of Khan Mahboob Tarzi’s ‘The Break of Dawn’ is as much the translator’s mission as the writer’s story. Prerna Vij Sep 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm The Break of Dawn, by Khan Mahboob Tarzi, which has been translated from the Urdu by Ali Khan Mahmudabad, welcomes readers with a preface that takes them

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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

September 17, 2021 Mona Baker Articles, Translation, Videos

By Valeria Luiselli Publisher: Coffee House Press Year: 2017 ISBN: 9781566894968 American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation ( The New York Times Book Review ). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria

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