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2001 Translation Projects schedule
CEU Translation Project; East
East Translation Project; Other Translation Projects
All previous announcements of translation competitions, as well as
lists of supported and recommended titles are listed in this
page.
Books in the humanities and social sciences play a vital role in an open
society: they underpin higher education, sustain and enrich public discussions
of social, political and cultural issues, and provide the knowledge needed
for building and reforming institutions.
In a number of countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, however, many basic books in political science, economics, law, or sociology are unavailable in the local languages. Moreover, reforms undertaken in these countries often suffer from a lack of texts presenting current debates of issues related policy making in a modern state. Despite the great need for them, such translations can rarely be published without a grant. The Translation Project is an ambitious initiative designed to meet this need.
The project has been launched in twenty-four countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In each country, the local Soros Foundations conduct annual open competitions for publishers and award grants to support translation and publication of books.
The CEU Translation Project and the "East Translates East" Project are both components of the Translation Project. While the former focuses on titles originated in the “West”, the latter aims at stimulating translations among the languages of the post-Communist countries. CPD runs also smaller translation competitions dedicated to the promotion of issues usually neglected by mainstream publishing.
Since it was launched in 1995, the CEU Translation Project aimed to ensure the availability in local languages of at least the minimum of basic texts in the social sciences needed to renew higher education and to sustain informed public discussion of social and political issues. Now that the Project has supported the publication of more than 1500 translations, and in many post-Communist countries the need for basic texts in the social sciences and humanities is gradually being met, the focus of translation support is changing.
The Project's basic tool - the CEU Translation Project list of recommended books - is gradually being reorganized to meet the need for this change. The old list of classic titles structured according to traditional academic disciplines is being supplemented by a set of open transdiscplinary modules, each of which focuses on a particular emerging issue or problem of special relevance to open society. The new modules will cover areas such as globalization, information society, the creation of social capital, theories of social complexity and risk, the relation between historical memory and political culture, the transformation of the social sciences, and so on. Each one is maintained by individual editors and is open to constant revision.
The old CEU Translation Project list is still available by clicking here.
The new Translation Project Modules are listed below. Please note that they are revised frequently - the version number after the module name indicates the most recent edition of the module. Users are invited to send suggestions directly to the editors of particular modules.
- Social Capital and Trust 0.1
- Information Society 0.1
- Globalisation
- Women's Issues (CPD will continue to run its annual competition)
- Lesbian and Gay Issues (CPD will continue to run its annual competition)
- Roma Issues (Information Program will continue to run its annual competition)
- Multiculturalism
- Human Rights Issues
- Nationalism
- Public Policy and Administration
- Balkan History
- Books in Islam and Politics
- Unveiling Corruption. A Reader on Corruption
Both CEU Translation project and East Translates East Project are being run by the national Soros/Open Society Foundations in the countries of the region. For details please contact the publishing staff at the local Soros foundation.
This component of the Translation Project was launched in 1998. By the end of the year over 150 translations in 13 countries were started with support it provided.
List of titles
recommended for translation
List of supported titles
Other sources of support
Both CEU Translation project and East Translates East Project are being run by the national Soros/Open Society Foundations in the countries of the region. For details please contact the publishing staff at the local Soros foundation.
Other
Translations
All the previous announcements
of translation competitions, as well as lists of supported and recommended
titles are listed in this page.
The Center cooperates with other programs of the Soros Foundations Network on separate translation projects. In years 1995-98, working jointly with the Popper Project, it disbursed 35 grants for translation of works of Sir Karl Popper. From 1998 the CPD and the Network Women’s Program have been co-organizing translation competitions: Gender/Women’s Studies in 1998, ‘Women at Risk’ in 1999 and Women’s Issues in 2000, allocating grants to publish nearly 50 titles. CPD also organized a Roma Translations competition (22 grants) as well as one on Lesbian & Gay Issues (16 grants). The aim of the Books on Publishing Translation Competition organized in 1999 was to support the publishing of useful titles in publishing education (11 grants).
Lists of supported titles
of all the above projects.
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Development, 2000-2001
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