For the Being Human Festival 2016 the Paris Centre for Migrant Writing and Expression coordinated a series of translation workshops with asylum seekers in Paris unable to complete their intended journey to the UK. This work then travelled to London to become an exhibition built in a one-day workshop...

Fatima Writes

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allophonia (3 nov. 2015)

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She writes a lot of things that I can't understand but she writes them in a way that leaves me no doubt that writing is a staple, a thing you do when you want to settle, to get away from the conflicting demands and noise of the world, when you need to be in the medium-term and not up against it, eve...

Trois mots - three words

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allophonia (15 janv. 2015)

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At the close of this day, the three words that have echoed around the planet in the shock wave of outrage and sadness after the attacks of last week, have come full circle. There they are, held up by a bonhomme who might be a prophet, signing the resilience of Charlie Hebdo, printed once more severa...

Les écrivains d'outre-France : French literature, world literature and the translingual text

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allophonia (14 janv. 2015)

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Professor Charles Forsdick will be presenting a research paper entitled Les écrivains d'outre-France’ : French literature, world literature and the translingual text' at the University of London Institute in Paris on Thursday 22 January at 5pm. The presentation explores (and historicizes) the recent...

The Uprising

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allophonia (17 oct. 2014)

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The scene shows a street, unadorned post-war concrete buildings, the image is unstable. There’s a man in one corner: is he carrying a machine gun? The voice calls out: use your brains before you shoot, says the subtitle, why don’t you use your brain? It’s from the film The Uprising, or from a video...

Beckett Letters vol 3

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allophonia (15 oct. 2014)

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By invitation of the Center for Writers & Translators and the Department of Comparative Literature & English, George Craig and Dan Gunn will present this new volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters, on the evening of its worldwide publication by Cambridge University Press. A reading and discussion on Thu...

Phantom Home/Foyer fantôme

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allophonia (3 juil. 2013)

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Les photographies d’Ahlam Shibli au Jeu de Paume C’est difficile de parler de cette exposition sans faire référence à la polémique qu'elle a engendrée tant celle-ci est grave, inquiétante. Le débat s'est focalisé, inévitablement sans doute, sur certains mots – « martyr », « assassiner » - et leur « ...

AUP et Kolone s'affichent ensemble sur les murs de Paris

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allophonia (4 juin 2013)

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Pendant plusieurs semaines, un groupe d'étudiants américains inscrits dans un programme de Masters in Cultural Translation ont rejoint un groupe de jeunes réunis par le besoin de trouver une orientation dans la ville et en français afin de s'affronter aux difficultés d'obtenir le statut de réfugié p...

Le milieu de nulle part

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allophonia (8 mai 2013)

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Difficult to translate the title of this restrained but insistent book, Le Milieu de nulle part, which combines photos by Philippe Bazin with text by Christiane Vollaire and was published by Creaphis in 2012. The problem hangs on ‘le milieu’, which fills out the ‘nulle part’ to make it a space of in...

Hoda Barakat in conversation

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allophonia (15 avr. 2013)

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“Whosoever has not killed remains prey to fancies, prey to suffering, captive to an enervating search for wondrous salvation.” Hoda Barakat’s second novel, The Disciples of Passion (2005) – in French Les Illumines (1999) and in Arabic Ahl al'Hawa (1993) – set our recent discussion in ULIP’s new seri...

Centro di permanenza temporanea – Adrian Paci – Jeu de Paume (26/02-12/05)

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allophonia (15 avr. 2013)

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The film opens on a shot of stairs sitting waiting in the haze of early morning sunshine on a runway, waiting to do their job of making the crucial connection between there and here, between the air and the ground, between leaving and taking off. A queue of people start ascending up towards the door...

"selon la vérité du désir"

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allophonia (15 avr. 2013)

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"Il est bon," prononce Barthes dans La Leçon, "que les hommes, à l'intérieur d'un même idiome [...] aient plusieurs langues." Il faut qu'on soit libre de "puiser selon la vérité du désir" dans une réserve de multiples langues. "Cette liberté est un luxe que toute société devrait procurer à ses citoy...

Expériences et vécus de la crise sanitaire chez les Tamouls de France : quels outils pour mieux accompagner ?

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Mélanie Vijayaratnam (2021)

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Les personnes en situation multiculturelle, qui vivent entre plusieurs mondes d’appartenances, sont souvent victimes d’incompréhensions, d’angoisses et de ruptures avec la société. Durant la pandémie, l’absence d’étayage entraîné par la fermeture des structures qui accueillent les familles, à laquel...

Dutch prosody and French surtitres

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ggilbert (10 mai 2013)

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At the Maison des Arts in Creteil last month, saw the Toneelgroep Theatre Company production of Après la répétition/Pérsona, a play based on the two Bergman films, directed by Ivo Van Hove. The space of the stage, constrained to a boxy room in Après la répétition and the first act of Persona, bursts...