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.
Date: February 22 (Sat.), 2025
Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Host: Bruce Smith (see our online directory for profile)
Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis)
The Writers’ Salon will be gathering as usual in Kita Kamakura. If the conversation lags, which it rarely does, it would be...
Date: Feb. 21 (US); Saturday Feb. 22 (Japan), 2025
Time: 7:00–8:30 p.m. EST; 9:00–10:30 a.m. JST (Zoom opens 8:45 a.m. JST)
Moderator: Mac Gill
As our first online meeting in 2025, we’ll begin with self-introductions and discussion of current topics of interest, then...
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....
The Writers’ Salon met five times this year past, gathering food writers, travel writers, translators, poets, journalists, novelists and others together to talk and enjoy each other’s company. With the New Year here, we are looking forward to meeting again,...
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: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Second-floor Parlor (Osetsuma), Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jinbocho. Website: http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese)Directions: See website for maps. Come out from the Jinbocho subway station at exit A1, turn right, and walk...
Date: Friday, Dec. 6 (US); Saturday Dec. 7 (Japan), 2024
Time: 7:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 9:00 a.m.–10:30 JST
Moderator: Mac Gill
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up (organized with the EDT time zone in mind) for networking among wordsmiths in North America in...
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....
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Speaker: Lynne Kutsukake
Moderator: M. Cody Poulton
Date: Wednesday, November 20/Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The Art of Vanishing by Lynne Kutsukake is an intimate, explosive novel about creativity and female friendship set in 1970s Tokyo. It follows a fraught relationship between two young...
