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Categories: Arts, Lectures & Seminars, Workshops & Training
For too long, analyses of how far-right ideas spread across borders have sidelined the importance of languages and language agents, such as interpreters, translators, publishers, coders, website and platform designers and content managers. This event contributes to redressing the issue at the same time as it centers the role of translation and translators for countering racism, antisemitism, and other forms of white supremacy.
Part I: The far right and translation 10:00-11:30am EST
9:00-10:30am CT/7:00-9:30am PST
3:00-4:30pm ET (UK)/4:00-5:30pm CET
Part II: Countering the far right and translation 12:30-2pm EST
Wandering Eye: Frankenstein and Banksy walk into a bar Editorial Staff
WORDS AND IMAGES
Mary Shelley was doubtful of the quality of her novel
Frankenstein when it was published in 1818, and filled the margins of her copy of the book with handwritten notes. Today, these emendations meant to increase suspense and improve word choice e.g., substituting the refined “anguished” for the more workaday “wretched” give us insight into the author’s thought process. (
Morgan Library and Museum)
Whatever her process was, we’re fairly certain her goal wasn’t to create “a work of autofictional erotica starring Mary Shelley in a corset” though that’s the idea you might get from the cover art that one publisher choose for the book after its release into the public domain. You can see that cover here, among fifty literary classics that have met a similarly unfortunate fate. (
China s authoritarian language is taking over Hong Kong Quartz 12/16/2020
When authoritarians speak, pay close attention.
Words, beyond their basic function of communication, signal intent and outline ways of thinking. But in an age of “alternative facts,” we know too well that words can obscure as much as they clarify. Words can also be weapons. As the sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale puts it, “Authoritarian governments weaponize language to amplify resentments, target scapegoats, and to legitimize injustice.”
In Hong Kong, as large-scale protests erupted in 2019, followed by this year’s severe crackdown spearheaded by a national security law imposed by Beijing, the government increasingly adopted the authoritarian language of the Chinese Communist Party. Previously staid pronouncements peppered with anachronisms products of its technocratic governance with roots in 150 years of British colonial rule became much more brash in tone, loudly assertive in projecting po
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