Translation und das ‘Dritte Reich’ / Translation and the Third Reich, 5-6...
Couple of weeks ago our project participated in the conference on Translation and the Third Reich in Berlin. Here is a report from this very interesting event written – this time in German – by our PhD...
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Projektimme järjestää yhdessä Itä-Suomen yliopiston filosofisen tiedekunnan kieliaineiden tohtoriohjelman kanssa työpajan, jossa etsitään kielen- ja kääntämisen tutkimuksen sekä historiantutkimuksen...
View ArticleA few reflections on the workshop (written by Kathy Saranpa)
“The translator’s task has been misunderstood, ridiculed, belittled and ignored, but never is it as crucial or dangerous – at times, both – as in times of war and conflict. In Search of Military...
View ArticleBusy project, poor PR :-)
For the last three months, our project has been busy doing everything else than writing blog entries about this “everything else”. We apologize for this silence. Even our workshop in December – indeed...
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The program of our workshop is now out! The workshop is free, but please do not forget to register!
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The list of contributions in our workshop in December 2012 is now out under “Workshop_Dec2012″. It is going to be an exciting workshop! Registration starts today.
View ArticleConference activities
In April, our project made a “full-front attack” to the City of Vaasa and presented three papers at the 10th Symposium on Translation and Interpreting organized by the Finnish Association of...
View ArticleChanges in the team
Our project blog has been asleep for several months, apologies for that! Let’s start the updates with information on changes in our team: Sinikka K. resigned from our team in February 2012. Her post...
View ArticleInterrogation in War and Conflict
Sinikka and Pekka visited the city of Reading, UK and participated in the workshop “Interrogation in War and Conflict: Between Liberty, Security and Justice” - a workshop organised by Hillary Ann...
View ArticleKäTu2011, Joensuu, 15.-16.4.2011
The IX Symposium on Translating and Interpreting (KäTu2011) starts today. Our project presents two papers in Finnish: Pekka gives a plenary speech on questions of war, translation culture and agency...
View ArticleLanguages at War, 7-9 April 2011
Tomorrow starts the international conference Languages at War: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict in London. Our project gives a section paper on “Military Translation Cultures in...
View ArticlePages under construction
These pages are going to be the official black board of the research project dealing with military translation cultures in Finland in World War II. Please be patient, they are still under construction,...
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