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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Journalism in Writing, Audio, and Drawings with Hannah Kirshner
Moderator: Zackary Kaplan
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2022
Discussion, followed by Q&A
A wonderful conversation with Hannah Kirshner, the author of Water, Wood, and Wild Things, was held to discuss her book—a captivating written and...
A Conversation with Rebekah Harmon and Lynne E. Riggs
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2022
Translator and editor, formerly for institutions under MEXT and METI and now freelance, Rebekah Harmon joins veteran translator and editor Lynne E. Riggs to...
Open SWET! Launching 2022
Date: January 22, 2022 (Sat.)
Time: 10:00 a.m. JST (meeting opens at 9:30 a.m.)
Self-introductions from 10:00; series of break-out sessions from 10:30 to 11:30 [?].
Advance registration is required; see the link below.
Let’s get together in the New Year...
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Speakers: Emily Balistrieri, Winnie Bird, Susan Jones, Avery Udagawa, and Lisa Wilcut
Saturday, November 27, 2021, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST
Friday, November 26, 8:00–10:00 p.m. EST
In the first hour, five members of the SWET Steering Committee—whose work straddles writing, editing, translating,...
Moderator: Lisa Wilcut
Date: Saturday, October 23, 2021 (JST); Friday, October 22, in North America
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST; 6:00–8:00 p.m. PDT
The meeting opens at 9:30 a.m. JST for networking; discussion from 10:00, followed by Q&A.
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Diane...
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Moderator: Suzanne Kamata
Since arriving in Japan in 1975, Karen Hill Anton has raised four children, taught modern dance, written popular long-running columns for the Japan Times and Chunichi Shimbun, achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy, and...
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SWET Talk Shop in conversation with Emily Balistrieri, Susan Jones, and SWET members
Held on July 30, 2021
Bristol-based writer and translator Polly Barton discusses her debut book Fifty Sounds, a personal dictionary of the Japanese language, which was published in the UK...
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Janine Beichman, in conversation with Spencer Thurlow
Date: Sunday, July 11, 2021; Saturday, July 10 in North America
Poet and translator Spencer Thurlow reached around the globe from the U.S. East Coast to discuss translating Japanese poetry with Janine Beichman,...
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SWET Talk Shop via Zoom
With Winifred Bird
Moderator: Jeanette Fukao
Date: May 23 (Sun.), 2021
Writer, editor, and translator Winnie Bird, currently based in Illinois, talks about her book, Eating Wild Japan, published by Stone Bridge Press. Including...
