Submission of Abstracts for Presentations Abstracts of 300 words should be sent by 15 September 2014 to: Professor Mona Baker ([email protected]) and Yasmin El-Rifae (yasmin.elrifae@gmail). Notification of acceptance will be given by 30 November 2014. Themes to be addressed include but are not limited to the following: Themes to be addressed in conference: -Forms of mutual solidarity that are enabled and enhanced by various acts of translation; -Video activism and the role of subtitling in negotiating the shift from representation to narration; -Critical appraisals of the internet savvy middle class in Egypt as translators and interpreters of the Revolution; -The role of translation in situating the Egyptian Revolution within broader struggles, especially in the global south (Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, etc.); -Case studies of the contribution of translation to specific activist projects connected with the Egyptian Revolution or with similar movements elsewhere (Turkey, Greece, Argentina, etc.); -The political import of creative strategies of translation, in its narrow and broad senses, in the context of protest movements; -The extent to which new technologies and software support or restrict the subversive potential of translation; -The interaction between textual and visual media, and between different languages, in sites of protest such as graffiti and street performance.
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