Past Events
Past event notices are listed here in chronological order. Detailed summaries or reports of most past events have been published in the SWET Newsletter between February 1981 until April 2012; for these older events, check the Newsletter Archive.
Moderated by Richard Medhurst
Date: December 9, 2020 (Wed.)
Time: 8:30 p.m. JST (40 minutes)
Eight people have already registered for this event; registration is closed.
SWET will hold a 40-minute Zoom session to discuss Japanese-to-English translation of a text. While staying close to the...
Publishing Books on Japan: 45 Years and Still Trying to Get It Right
Peter Goodman, Stone Bridge Press
Interviewer: Beth Cary
Date: December 5, 2020 (Saturday)/US time December 4, 2020 (Friday)
Time: 11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. JST (main talk starts at JST 12:00 noon; US...
Founding Members Recall and Reflect
Guests: Peter Goodman, John and Ruth McCreery, Susan Murata, Pamela Pasti, Nina Raj, Lynne Riggs, Susie Schmidt, Mark Schreiber, Ruth Stevens, Meg Taylor, Fred Uleman, and Jillian Yorke
Time: Nov. 15 (Sun.) 9:30 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (main talk...
Three Teachers of Translation
Guests: Judy Wakabayashi, Susan Jones, and Lynne Riggs
Time: 9:30 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (main talk starts at 10:00; October 24 9:00 p.m. EDT)
Note: The meeting will not be available in video recording, but a detailed write-up with visuals...
Moderated by Richard Medhurst
Date: October 14, 2020 (Wed.)
Time: 8:30 p.m. JST (40 minutes)
Eight people have already registered for this event.
As an experiment with a shorter video chat format, SWET will hold a 40-minute Zoom session to...
Three Translators of Kansai
Guests: Stuart Ayre, Catherine Nakamichi, and Eleanor Yamaguchi
Moderator: Larry Walker
Time: 9:30 a.m.–12:00 noon JST
Our September SWET Talk Shop Online was organized by SWET members based in Kyoto. Twenty-minute interviews with each guest speaker, moderated by Larry Walker, were followed...
Three Manga Letterers and Translation
Time: 9:30 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (main talk starts at 10:00)
Manga do not go far in English without the profession and passions of the letterers who add the translated text to the art, but how many people in...
Three Translators of Pop Culture
Time: 9:30 a.m.–12:00 noon JST
What's it like working in the otaku zone? Managing translator at J-Novel Club and founder of Japanese Translators of NYC Kristi Fernandez is our guest moderator speaking with three translators who work on...
Wordsmiths of Yokohama
Guests: Ruth and John McCreery, Richard Medhurst, and Louise Heal Kawai
Moderator: Frank Walter
Time: 9:30 a.m.–12:00 noon JST
We are pleased to welcome four wordsmiths residing in Yokohama for our July SWET Talk Shop Online. We will meet again on a...
