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Philosophy's Shifting Borders: Text, Translation, and the Global Stage

Brown University's Philosophy Department discusses how philosophical ideas travel globally through translation and diverse narratives, changing how we see world literature.

#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies

https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/

Brown University is exploring a new idea: Philosophy as World Literature. This means looking at how ideas travel across countries, like stories do, changing as they are translated.

#Philosophy, #WorldLiterature, #BrownUniversity, #GlobalIdeas, #TranslationStudies
https://newsletter.tf/brown-university-philosophy-world-literature/

Does anyone in the #localisation and/or #freelancing bubble here have got any tips for how I would efficiently break out of the "single client" death loop into sustainable client acquisition?

I have been doing this job for several years now and it's been amazing. I'm just afraid of betting everything on one horse. If the agency that hires me most goes under for any reason I lose my livelihood.

My current ideas are in the replies:

#translationStudies #translation #localization #selfEmployment

Does anyone in the #localisation and/or #freelancing bubble here have got any tips for how I would efficiently break out of the "single client" death loop into sustainable client acquisition?

I have been doing this job for several years now and it's been amazing. I'm just afraid of betting everything on one horse. If the agency that hires me most goes under for any reason I lose my livelihood.

My current ideas are in the replies:

#translationStudies #translation #localization #selfEmployment

Does anyone in the #localisation and/or #freelancing bubble here have got any tips for how I would efficiently break out of the "single client" death loop into sustainable client acquisition?

I have been doing this job for several years now and it's been amazing. I'm just afraid of betting everything on one horse. If the agency that hires me most goes under for any reason I lose my livelihood.

My current ideas are in the replies:

#translationStudies #translation #localization #selfEmployment

Does anyone in the #localisation and/or #freelancing bubble here have got any tips for how I would efficiently break out of the "single client" death loop into sustainable client acquisition?

I have been doing this job for several years now and it's been amazing. I'm just afraid of betting everything on one horse. If the agency that hires me most goes under for any reason I lose my livelihood.

My current ideas are in the replies:

#translationStudies #translation #localization #selfEmployment

At the seventh edition of MBIFL, scholars Harish Trivedi and Vanamala Viswanatha examine translation as deep reading, cultural mediation, and a transformative literary act. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/mbifl-2026/mbifl-2026-wordy-pendulum-translation-session-kdsvrqf6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MBIFL2026 #TranslationStudies #LiteraryTranslation #IndianLiterature

There's a fashion for people using automated metrics to evaluate the quality of #interpreting. In this research article, Joss Moorkens and I explain why that doesn't work and what to do instead.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05864

#tech
#research
#interpretingStudies
#translationStudies

Patterns of Translation by Péter Király and András Kiséry, slides of our today's presentation from the Metadata-based Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences workshop in Prague
https://bit.ly/patterns-of-translation-2025
#BibliographicData #translationstudies #dariah #datascience

Come and join our team in Cologne! We are recruiting a Professor in French Interpreting with Computer Assisted Interpreting. Deadline 08.10.2023. The job ad (in German) can be found at https://karriere.th-koeln.de/job/view/1028/professur-fuer-theorie-und-praxis-des-dolmetschens-franzoesisch?page_lang=de…. Happy to field enquiries. Please boost #cai #1nt #translationstudies

#CFP

Gender Dialogues:
Interdisciplinary Forum for Young Scholars

"[...] It is aimed at PhD students from different disciplines who apply #feminist, #gender and queer-specific approaches in their dissertation project, especially from the fields of #LiteraryStudies, #TheatreStudies, #Philosophy, #Aesthetics, #ArtHistory, #Musicology, #Linguistics, #TranslationStudies, #History, #Anthropology and #MediaStudies."

The first meeting – 23.02.2023 at 4 p.m. via Zoom.

https://www.uni-bamberg.de/slavart/news/artikel/cfp-gender-dialogues/