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: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, with subsequent sessions planned for the first Tuesday of the month: April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, August 6… Time: 8:00-9:00 p.m. JST Moderator: Daniel Morales

Join us for a casual virtual meet-up to...

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)

Advance registration (required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuioqDgjG9LsuQPXSM6XZu7h1s5oqUz2

Drawing on a career that spans more than 30 years in Japan, Diane Hawley...

Date: Saturday, December 16, 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (Zoom opens at 9:30 a.m. for pre-meeting visiting)

Advance registration (required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdeyqpzgjGtf1ciZoPg0yM0XQaVx_auZL

Has your workflow changed with the advent of new online tools? How did you carry on during the hottest summer in...

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...

Date: Saturday, August 19, 2023 Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST (Zoom opens at 9:30 for pre-meeting visiting) Speakers: Any participants who care to share Advance registration (required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0scO2tqzstH9Lpnvs-CwVn_8m2kSXC4-tN

As we leave the pandemic, tourism surges ahead and projects gain momentum. Clients with little...

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...

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...

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....