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<div>Dear Colleague,<br>
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<div>The Institute for the Study of Language and Society, Aston
University and The Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural
Studies, University of Warwick are organising a debate on Global
Terror, which will take place on the 8th April 2005 at Aston
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom. The aim of this debate is to
explore current media representations of terror and the role of
translation in shaping news production in global news
organisations.</div>
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<div> Invited speakers include Dr. Ali Chokry (BBC Monitoring
Service, Western European coverage), Dr. Ali Shahabi (BBC Monitoring
Service, Arabic Coverage), and Mr. Hugh Miles (author of the recent
book Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World).</div>
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<div> Please, find attached a programme of the event. For more
information, write to Christina Schäffner (<a
href="mailto:c.schaeffner@aston.ac.uk">c.schaeffner@aston.ac.uk), or
Alberto Orengo (</a><a
href="mailto:a.orengo@warwick.ac.uk">a.orengo@warwick.ac.uk), or visit
our webpage, where you can download a registration form (registration
fee is £10 and includes lunch and coffee):</a><br>
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> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ctccs/research/tgn/events/g<span
></span>t/</div>
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<div> In addition, please find attached a call for papers for an
international one-day conference on ‘Translating Terror:
Globalisation and the New Planetary Wars’, which will take place on
11 November 2005 at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United
Kingdom. This conference is organised by the Centre for Translation
and Comparative Cultural Studies and The Centre for the Study of
Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick.</div>
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<div> These events are organised in the context of the AHRB
funded project Translation in Global News, which investigates the role
of translation in global media and promotes interdisciplinary research
in this area. For more information on the project, please visit our
website:</div>
<div>http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ctccs/research/tgn/</div>
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<div>Dr Christina Schaeffner<br>
Reader in Translation Studies (German)<br>
Director of Postgraduate Programmes / Director of Translation
Studies<br>
School of Languages and Social Sciences<br>
Aston University<br>
Aston Triangle<br>
BIRMINGHAM B4 7ET<br>
UK<br>
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tel + 44 (0)121 204 3790 (direct
dial)<br>
Fax: + 44 (0) 121 359 6153<br>
email: C.Schaeffner@aston.ac.uk<br>
http://www.les.aston.ac.uk/staff/cs.html</div>
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