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.
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Material Culture and Its Value to Tourism Promotion and Visitor Education in Japan
Speaker: Morgan Pitelka
Moderator: Frank Walter
Date: Sunday, June 23, 2024 (Saturday, June 22, EDT)
Video link: https://youtu.be/tTc3MdSxYLg
Centers of heritage tourism in Japan are overrun with tourists,...
Date: Saturday, June 22, 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 to
Speaker: Burritt Sabin
Date: June 15, 2024
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Yamanouchi Community Hall, 1364 Yamanouchi, Kita-Kamakura (山ノ内公会堂, 2 minutes’ walk south of Kita Kamakura Station (next to Tokei-ji)
Fee: Free of charge (no reservations required)
From the second decade of the last century through...
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: Saturday, May 18, 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...
Date: Friday, May 17 (US); Saturday May 18 (Japan), 2024
Time: 7:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 8:00 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...
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024, with subsequent sessions planned for the first Tuesday of the month: June 4, July 2, August 6, September 3…
Time: 8:00–9:30 p.m. JST
Moderator: Daniel Morales
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up to talk about translation: experiences, questions,...
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2014
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...
Date: Friday, April 19 (US); April 20 (Japan), 2024
Time: 7:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 8:00 a.m. JST
Moderator: Mac Gill
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up organized around the EDT time zone for networking among wordsmiths in North America in particular. We'll begin with...
Leader: Ruth P. Stevens
Date: March 29 (Fri)
Time: 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Place: Gulliver Room, Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jimbocho. See the cafe website at http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese) for maps. Come out from the Jimbocho subway at exit A1, turn right, and walk...
