Fury as academics are sacked for being Israeli

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 07/07/2002 | Charlotte Edwardes

[crazykatz]

BTTT

[dennisw]

"Dwells alone"

[Shermy]

Mona Baker

Director of Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies UMIST

PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD

e-mail: mona.baker@umist.ac.uk

Mona Baker Page

[07055]

The dismissals raised no public opposition from within British universities.

I doubt the same actions would raise opposition from within American universities either.

[bvw]

Dr Shlesinger enjoyed a friendship with Prof Baker and was a guest at [Baker's] house ... Dr Shlesinger is a former chairman of Amnesty International in Israel and has criticised her country’s policies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

There's a lesson here.

[meyer]

I doubt the same actions would raise opposition from within American universities either.

Sadly, you're probably right. Though, it would raise plenty of ire outside of the university system and its subjects.

[DonQ]

This is the same country that sponsored Zola Budd for the Olympics when her native Republic of South Africa was on the outs.

[knighthawk]

Middle East list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[dennisw]

 

 

Say hey ...Mona.....Mona....Mona...

 

[Antoninus]

Wow, these Commie-Nazis are showing their true colors early. They really are stupid.

[dennisw]

Tell ya Mona what I'm gonna do....

Gonna send a Jihadist back home with you.....

Say hey hey hey Mona.....Mona ...Mona...

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[cake_crumb]

Racial profiling, race discrimination and venom seething prejudice in the UK??? But the UK is politically correct...they would never do that there....that's why they feel so secure in their constant bashing of the cowboys in the US!! We're so far BENEATH THEM here, as far as awareness!!</sarcasm>

Why doesn't the university simply fix this by sacking HER and hiring THEM back?

[section9]

There's a lesson here.

Yeah, there is....

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[dighton]

The silence of the dons

[dennisw]

 

http://harpur.binghamton.edu/715hotline/

 

Mona Baker

Professor Mona Baker, from the University of Manchester visited Harpur College on May 5, 2001. A native of Egypt, Baker has lived in England for 20 years. She is the founding editor of The Translator: Studies in International Communication, and the general editor of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (1998), for which she collaborated with Gaddis Rose, one of the seven consulting editors. Baker’s book In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation (1992) has been reprinted six times and is a standard textbook worldwide.

Baker said she was delighted to speak at Binghamton University, calling the school "one of the shining lights in the field of translation" because it was among the first to have translation as an academic program. She spoke about developing materials for translation research communities, such as Harpur College’s own CRIT.

Baker and her researchers have developed "Corpus Linguistics," a software that can analyze text to find out if individual translators have their own styles. Her translation English corpus consists of 7 million works of contemporary English translations, broken down into four types of text: fiction, biography, news, and in-flight magazines. Corpus Linguistics has "headers" which explain the translator, title, sponsor, date, translation process, and original author. The software displays text patterns, which may be unique to each translator. Baker’s corpus has works by the same translator of different authors and different languages. The software indicates whether translators use the same expressions repeatedly.

Baker and her researchers chose texts translated by native English speakers (to avoid a language barrier) after 1985, all full texts, and an equal representation of male and female translators, and an equal representation among source languages.

Baker and her researchers discovered that two translations of the same text are never the same. Just as researchers have different perspectives and explanations on the same material, translators are no different.

[Antoninus]

Nice picture. What do you want to bet she's an A-rab and "Baker" is her husband's name...

I loved this part: She alleged that since the sackings she had been the victim of a hate campaign. “My husband and I receive hate mail every day, up to 50 [letters] a day, some of it extremely obscene,” she said. “I can’t read it out it is so obscene and very threatening. It is also sent to my university, to my vice-chancellor and to some of my colleagues, and they threaten people who want to stay on the board. The Americans are the worst offenders.

Spoken like a true totalitarian. Do something foolish and wicked, then play the victim when others exercise their right to criticize you. Whaaaaaah!

[Antoninus]

A native of Egypt, Baker has lived in England for 20 years.

BINGO!