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: 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...
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...
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?
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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...
