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.

Speaker: Lynne Kutsukake Moderator: M. Cody Poulton Date: Wednesday, November 20/Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Time: 9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. JST; 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. EDT Registration in advance required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlfu6ppjMsGNy_dRil-bWRUFo10eEoWrTL 

The Art of Vanishing by Lynne Kutsukake is an intimate, explosive novel about creativity and female...

These are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m....

Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024 Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m. Place: Kita Kamakura, less than a minute from the station. Address to be provided. Host: Bruce Smith (see member profile here) Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis) For details and directions please sign up by sending an email...

Behind the Scenes of an Indie Print Publication Date: October 19, 2024 JST Time: 10:00–12:00 a.m. (Zoom open from 9:40 for visiting) Advance registration required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlf-qprTsuH90jqymcmZctWVy1LzVry3XG In 2020, a group of like-minded professionals started Sankaku, a print publication celebrating people and craft. Each book...

These are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m....

Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024 Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m. Place: Kita Kamakura, less than a minute from the station. Address to be provided. Host: Bruce Smith (see member profile here) Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis) For details and directions please sign up by sending an email...

Date: Friday evening, Sept. 20 (North American time zones); Saturday morning, Sept. 21 (Japan) Time: 8:00–10:00 p.m. EDT; 9:00–11:00 a.m. JST

Calling all editors! Where are you and what sorts of work are you doing? • Is the creeping influence of AI starting...

Translator Tuesdays are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation mainly between Japanese and English: experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of...

Translator Tuesdays are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation: experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. Here is what...

Date: Friday evening, July 26 (North America time zones); Saturday morning, July 27 (Japan) Time: 8:00–10:00 p.m. EDT; 9:00–11:00 a.m. JST What will bring us together of a summer’s evening/day? A pile of books to give away? A new project to introduce?...