Transcultural Writing, Practice & Research Network
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Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network based @lancasteruniversity & @Lancaster_words & @globalaffairslu
Lancaster University
Joined May 2024
Join us for this fantastic event on the 2 of July! Online and free 📢✨ To register, follow the link on the website or use the QR code: https://t.co/0oAIKM9HKm
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For those few remaining people not yet sick of listening me to talk about my book, I’ve sent in the final revised manuscript!! 📖Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity📖 FORTHCOMING with Edinburgh University Press 2026!
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Now that my @PrincetonUPress book is with the printer, things are getting real! If you have an interest in creative translation, the link between translation & politics, multilingual writing, poetry & world literature, check out Translation Multiples: https://t.co/vFQeAP3Uo6
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Congratulations to then EBRD Literature Prize finalists. It was a tough, tough choice, but we’ve narrowed it down to three amazing novels from Ukraine, Poland and Croatia.
And then there were three! We’re delighted to announce the finalists for the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025: 📗Forgottenness @bullaunpress @LiverightPub 📗Sons, Daughters @7storiespressuk 📗The Empusium @FitzcarraldoEds @tokarczuk_olga
https://t.co/6OKUH4u0uq
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Book now for the #Lancaster Environment Lecture 2025 on 15 May at 7pm, via @Litfest with Bella Lack and Matt Sowerby to discuss how to get involved in tackling the environmental crisis. https://t.co/rvm2b0dGoc
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ON THIS WEEK: Lancaster Literature Festvial The 46th annual @Litfest runs until 17th March 2025 This year's theme is 'The World Into Words' Check out the programme and book tickets for a variety of in person and online events. https://t.co/hbp5380nL5
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Delighted to share the publication of my chapter: ‘Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig's “In die Natur”&Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass as Planetary Eco-translation Practices’ in this 👌 vol. ed. by Ricarda Vidal&Madeleine Campbell. https://t.co/KxjDRdRRGo
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Welcome to Litfest 2025! Today, we’re delighted to launch the full programme for our 46th Lancaster Literature Festival —‘The World Into Words’. https://t.co/uqJ9TvsqyR This year there are over 50 ways to get involved inc. activities, co-creation opportunities and workshops!
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Tonight @Litfest International Fiction Online Book Club will discuss Hang Kang's The Vegetarian, tr. from Korean by Deborah Smith (@videshi_beti), who not only brought us a major writer, but started @TiltedAxisPress to champion marginalised literature, esp. from S. Asia. Respect!
At 6.30pm on Monday 20 January 📚@Litfest International Fiction Online Book Club will discuss 2024 Nobel Laureate 🇰🇷Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian' (tr. Deborah Smith, @GrantaBooks). Info at: https://t.co/kY8o9Cq4iq To join 📩 bill@litfest.org Photos © Lee Chunhee and Janie Airey
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We love this! Hope everyone had a restful break and a good start to 2025!
Languages and translation lovers, I give you my favourite Dutch museum find of 2025: The Tower of Bauble. Belated Happy New Year! 🎉 @globalaffairslu @boijmans
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6.30pm, 16 /12 @Litfest Int. Fic. Online Book Club discuss Milan Kundera's 1984 classic 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (tr. Michael Henry Heim, @FaberBooks). 'I return to the book again and again. Teacher, touchstone, style guide' @taiyeselasi. To join📩 bill@litfest.org
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For 5 years we've been recording the sounds of the US-Mexico borderlands. We are thrilled to share material from our on-going project. Staring Dec 11 visit the DIA Chelsea and listen to quadraphonic & binaural recordings of the land that divides and unites our two countries.
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a.k.a. "What I think about when I think about Han Kang". These days, most of all, I think about her readers, esp those who write academic papers and blogs and tweets about what it personally, messily, subjectively means to them. https://t.co/Ox4UoVug3z
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The launch of the 3rd issue of Errant is just round the corner!! 🥳🎊 On the 23rd of November we will be at the iconic Lancaster Castle for a very special afternoon of post-critical erring. Register for free here: https://t.co/4uPywWh4gX
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"They both (...) wish to reclaim existing theoretical categorisations by messing around with them." "This is a vital critique of #translation theory, and the opening of a new chapter in translation studies (...) What an exciting moment for the discipline." @globalaffairslu
It was a genuine pleasure to read & review these 2 books on literary translation for @Babel_FIT by 2 authors working in tandem: @delphine_grass (Translation as Creative-Critical Practice) & @lilyrobertfoley (Experimental Translation). In open access here: https://t.co/ieUpNEzIkY
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New Perspectives on Languages is an open access & peer-reviewed journal focusing on underrepresented languages, minoritized & endangered languages, less widely taught languages, other smaller languages as well as alternative approaches & pedagogies. https://t.co/JM5BIYGP0k
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More new publications from SGA researchers: lecturer in German @nicola__thomas' latest essay, on extra-terrestrial space in German poetry, has just appeared in this edited book. Congratulations, Nicola! https://t.co/mtjuQhPOqH
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Our cultural exchange with Japan begins next week, with 2 days of events from artist, dancer and choreographer @Takuya_Takemoto and dance curator @Eurekaeru! 🌏 @LICAatLancaster | @UKRI_News | @NWC_DTP | @SaisonFound | @ArtsCouncilTYO | @JPFLondon
https://t.co/6IMTuq6TsB
lancaster.ac.uk
A ‘walking performance’ and a ‘silent walk’ are just two of the activities lined up for a cultural exchange between Japan and Britain at an event in Lancaster.
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Trextuality 2. Material Turns in Translation: Intermediality and CirculationSeptember 4-6, 2025 Submission deadline: February 15, 2025 https://t.co/pHeNWk0P3d
https://t.co/d2NBUGQGBR
@TranslateQUB @IATISorg @estrans @AndersonCentre
translation.universityofgalway.ie
The Trextuality 2 conference aims to deepen the discussion on how today’s media hybridity influences both the products and processes of translation, examining the ways in which the convergence of...
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Last weekend, a workshop took place as part of our collaboration with Holocaust Centre North, organised with @nicola__thomas and @Transculturlanc. Dr Rey Conquer invited us to think with letters written by people interned on the Isle of Man during WW2.
lancaster.ac.uk
On October 26th, we were pleased to welcome Dr Rey Conquer, Translator-in-Residence at the Holocaust Centre North, to host a workshop based on letters sent by German-Jewish refugees interned on the...
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