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: Friday, December 9, 2022
Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Second-floor Parlor (Osetsu-ma), Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jimbocho. Website: http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese)
See website for maps. Come out from the Jimbocho subway at exit A1, turn right, and walk about 15 meters...
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With Wendy Uchimura and Alison Watts
Moderator: Marian Kinoshita
Date: September 18, 2022 (Sunday)
Books about contemporary handicrafts and hobbies—sashiko, embroidery, dressmaking, painting, etc.—as distinct from traditional crafts and artistic craftsmanship, are being translated and sold successfully in Anglophone markets. What are the...
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Louise Cort with Alice and Halsey North
Moderator: Zackary Kaplan
Date: Saturday, July 30, 2022 (JST)
Time: 8:00–10:00 a.m. JST; July 29, 2022; 7:00 p.m. EDT
Speaking from the U.S. East Coast, SWET member Louise Cort introduced her friends and colleagues...
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Time: 10:00–12:00 a.m. JST (virtual doors open at 9:30)
Join us for a good, old-fashioned (but online) kōryūkai for editors. We’ll mimic a live event with a virtual meishi exchange board and several rounds of small-group conversations. Goals:...
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Time: 10:00–11:00 a.m. JST
Calling all professional editors and would-be editors and who want to share, learn, commiserate, or otherwise come together and help each other work through a wide range of editing issues. Let’s...
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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...
