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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Speaker: Diane Hawley Nagatomo
Moderator: Louise George Kittaka
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (Zoom opens at 9:30 a.m. for pre-meeting visiting)
Drawing on a career that spans more than 30 years in Japan, Diane Hawley Nagatomo shared her experiences...
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Speaker: David Joiner
Moderator: Lisa Wilcut
Date: Saturday, November 18, 2023
David Joiner is the author of Lotusland (Guernica Editions, 2015), set in Vietnam, and Kanazawa (Stone Bridge Press, 2022) and The Heron Catchers (forthcoming from SBP, November 2023), both set in Japan....
Friday, September 15, 2023 (Japan); Thursday, September 14 (North America)
Hosts: Ruth Stevens and Lynne E. Riggs
Time: 9:00 a.m.–11:00 JST; 8:00 p.m. EDT; 5:00 p.m. PDT
Advance registration (required): https://bit.ly/3LbPkvH
How did a young person in 1970s...
Speaker: Dr. Peter Yanase, project researcher, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Nabunken)
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (Zoom opens at 9:30 for pre-meeting visiting)
Advance registration (required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIoduihqj0uEtbJIPsPuiEeUGae0C8egZtm
A Japanologist with particular interest in philosophy of...
Date: Saturday, June 17, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST
Speakers: Any participants who care to share
Advance registration (required): https://bit.ly/SWET-Jun-17-2023
How has COVID impacted you personally and professionally? Haven’t been on a train in three years? Moved to the countryside? Missing casual...
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with Claire Maree and Tanomi
Moderator: Emily Balistrieri (he/him)
Date: Saturday, May 13, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST
Audio link: On SWET's YouTube Channel
Linguistic practices are evolving quickly as transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people around the world fight for rights and...
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Moderator: Richard Sadowsky
Date: Sunday, April 23, 2023
Recent technological advances, such as AI-driven ChatGPT, are much in the news, and as professional wordsmiths, we need to get a handle on these tools or risk getting left behind....
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Neither rain, nor late-March chill, nor long distances willl dampen this online SWET hanami! Tune into this Talk Shop from under a blooming tree near you, from your desk or smartphone with a Zoom...
