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EST. Europe as a Space of Translation. A Long-lasting Program and a Festival
No full textThe Project “EST”. Europe as a Space of Translation. A Long-lasting Programme and a Festival (from now on: “EST”) is a project thanks to which several cultural and professional institutions (such as theatres, galleries, cultural centres, museums), social agents (cafés, bookshops, book-fairs), educational and research institutions (primary and secondary schools, art and music academies, science academies, universities), professional associations (of writers, translators, authors), international cultural institutions (cultural Institutes of different European Nations) interact both with their own territory and with a wider European area.
In different cultural forms and expressions, EST means to give visibility to the role, tasks, responsibility, and work of translators as crucial cultural figures, both within their own countries and abroad, and as decisive agents in the process of change in many fields.
EST has achieved relevant results in the following fields of activity:
1. Giving resonance and visibility in the media and, more generally, in the cultural life of European countries, as well as in the public sphere, to the work and public role of translators in Europe.
2. Building and promoting new networks within the different European professional communities of translators, publishers, writers and tightening the already existing ones.
3. Building, promoting and strengthening the above mentioned networks even at the level of intercontinental relationships.
4. Widening the social and public perception of the different kinds of translation, i.e. not only the literary and/or inter-lingual translation, but also the audiovisual and performative aspects and applications of this activity.
5. Establishing a productive cultural environment by promoting an attitude of mutual recognition and attention between, on the one hand, political, technical, practical operators in the field of translation and, on the other hand, universities and cultural/educational institutions on an international scale.
6. Elaborating and promoting an innovative approach to the question of the impact of translation and, more generally, of cultural work. This has been achieved especially by seeking the involvement of non-academic subjects in cultural events that had great resonance (which allowed for a fruitful and mutual enrichment of the perception of translation as a cultural event) and the dissemination of university research and achievements outside the academic world (which promoted and substantiated the idea of intellectual work as deeply interconnected with social realities, rather than as isolated from the actual lives of average citizens).
7. Initiating long lasting activities due to be continued in different cultural settings in Europe. Among them, a Summer School, which fully integrates the University of Naples "L'Orientale" in an international circuit of Summer Schools of recognized excellence; plans for future publications in several languages and based in several European countries; multilingual websites promoting translation and the role of translators as cultural agents and publishing original translations of literary works
Tradurre (in) Europa. Translating (in) Europe Napoli. Festival della Traduzione a Napoli 22-29 novembre 2010
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61 events, more than 100 guests and speakers; poets, translators, writers and critics, actors, musicians, subtitlers, scholars, film-makers, professional operators, social operators, articulated in 10 thematic routes in 8 days from 9.00 to 24.00., 24 locations, national and international partners. 42 spoken, performed and commented languages, and futher: minor languages, dialects and local idioms, ancient and medieval languages coming to life in modern performances.
Naples’ location within Europe’s cultural geography has always been a stimulating topic of discussion. Naples is a territory where subtle borders cross each other, in a tragic or charming way.
The Translation Festival «Translating (in) Europe» took place from 22 to 29 November 2010 in the city’s most emblematic venues: the universities and schools, buildings, castles, squares, streets and alleys, bookshops, theatres, ships and docks of a revamped city. This event was the opportunity to reflect on the identity of Naples as a crossroads, an in-between place where the Orient, Europe and the Mediterranean can come together. The Festival allowed to see how Naples’ cultural landscape can be the starting point of a new way of conceiving Europe as a space where languages and cultures meet and are revitalized. After Paris and Vienna, this itinerant international Festival concluded the biennial project E.S.T. aimed at developping a new and broader concept of translation as a way of approaching Naples’ complex, stratified identity both in its local and global dimension. The Festival had both an academic and a general strand and was focussed not only on poetry and narrative but also on dialect, music, comics, cinema and theatre. The Festival involved the people of Naples who are committed to the cultural renaissance of their city, together with the Italian and international institutions supporting this process of renewal.
Three kinds of translational activities were planned and actually implemented within the Festival: translating from European into non-European languages and reciprocally, translating within the realm of European languages, and translating dialects and minority languages, which will be directed towards a wide public with workshops for creative translation/rewriting and intersemiotic or intermedial translation (poems into music, novels into films, subtitles and other sorts of audiovisual translation, language into performative arts and events) as well as readings with poets, writers and their translators and projections of films about translation and translators as a subject of inquiry and docu-fiction, theatre shows exclusively produced for the festival. To be successful in this ambitious and multi-tasked Project we gathered a wider support, that combined with the European grant brought to a really huge event. The European logo, motivated institutions and media, otherwise reluctant to join common ventures in interdisciplinary fields. The idea of doing a common Project in the name of Europe actually brought together under the same score different tunes of the cultural and economic actions around translation. Translation and Translators emerged fully as the bearers of a constructive Image of Europe’s Traditions but also of Europe’s Tasks, i.e. of Europe as a space of ageold cultural exchanges and intermediations.
The Translation Festival in Naples was able to achieve what we planned, and even in such a difficult season for the city: a multicultural, multi medial event, really able to reach people in their own homes and imagination with a strict connection with the mass- media and social life (radio programmes, workshops etc.)
Very successful was the series of encounters among translators and authors, some of them were filmed and screened on the web.
The ten thematic itineraries of the Festival:
The theatre of Translation; Translation, Music, Cinema; Translation towards the XXI century: performative arts, photography, comics, and the Internet; Philosophies of Translation; Practices and politics of translation; Classics rewritten today; Re-translating the classics of modernity; The Italy exported by translators; The Europe of languages and dialects; The world in Italy through the voices of translators
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
Get PDFInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Get PDFBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
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