The Black Translators' Network @BLKTRNET
Building A Global Community of #BlackTranslators More active on Instagram, LinkedIn and our website. blktrnet.com Joined January 2021-
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@BLKTRNET is live! Excited to build this community 🖤
Calling all Black Translators and friends! As Black History Month wraps up in the UK, we’re excited to announce that BLKTRNET: The Black Translators’ Network is now live!✨ Our vision? To unite and support Black translators globally. Join us in building this community! #BLKTRNET
Find out more about our work and how to join at blktrnet.com. Follow us here, on Instagram, and LinkedIn for updates and community news. #BLKTRNET #BlackTranslators
Calling all Black Translators and friends! As Black History Month wraps up in the UK, we’re excited to announce that BLKTRNET: The Black Translators’ Network is now live!✨ Our vision? To unite and support Black translators globally. Join us in building this community! #BLKTRNET
Manchester in Translation, a FREE, three day online conference with @commapress and @MCRCityofLit. For anyone interested in current debates and topics surrounding literary translation. Some great speakers lined up with more to come! #MIT2023 #MCRIMLD23
📢📢#CallForPapers: we invite all postgraduate researchers who investigate the #Caribbean to submit abstracts to participate in our #PGConference2023. Get all the details on our website. #Caribbeanstudies #research #SCSConference2023
Thank you to everyone who has shared and signed up to take part. I am still looking for participants. The deadline to register interest has been extended to Monday 19th December. Love & light 🙏🏿
Calling all Black Literary Translators, Teachers, Students and readers who work with French and English, I am recruiting participants for my PhD study: A Radical Intervention: Translating Blackness in Black Caribbean Literature. Please share with your communities. Love & light 🙏🏿
We're organising a one-day conference on May 11 next year in Toulouse for PhD candidates/early-career academics to share their work on translating minority voices. CFP and details here: fabula.org/actualites/110…
Late Winter Poetry Translation Workshops 2023 As the world seems to quake with crisis and division we look to poetry and transition to open up windows of understanding and connection. New poetry translation workshops coming in Feb & March: poetrytranslation.org/events/series/…
Announcement: There are two fully funded studentships at King's for African (heritage) PhD students in arts and social sciences. It's a great opportunity so please share with those who may be interested. kcl.ac.uk/dr-harold-mood…
Applications open for @uiowa Translator in Residence programme. translation.uiowa.edu/residency-prog…
SCBWI Japan Translation Days on Nov. 12 and 19 will feature translators Takami Nieda and Jocelyne Allen, editors Kathleen Merz and Marilyn Brigham, and Aya Tamura of @Japanfoundation! Short workshop text due Nov. 5 for feedback from @TNieda. Reserve today! japan.scbwi.org/events/scbwi-j…
Calling all Black Literary Translators, Teachers, Students and readers who work with French and English, I am recruiting participants for my PhD study: A Radical Intervention: Translating Blackness in Black Caribbean Literature. Please share with your communities. Love & light 🙏🏿
Less than a week to go - JaDIF hosts a celebration of #Jamaican #creole, #poetry, #poets, #performance, honouring icon Miss Lou and language, incl. sign language. “A FI WI LANGWIJ”. Oct. 28. Please join us. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI……… #Caribbean #arts #culture #diaspora
Been working hard on my second pickney @BLKTRNET looking forward to sharing with the community in 2023 😊
We have not been active on our socials in a while but rest assured we are working behind the scenes to build a space for and by Black translators. Thank you for your patience and continued support, for updates follow us, love and light. @BLKTRNET
We have not been active on our socials in a while but rest assured we are working behind the scenes to build a space for and by Black translators. Thank you for your patience and continued support, for updates follow us, love and light. @BLKTRNET
I'm editing TRANSNATIONAL BLACK STUDIES, a volume in the Transnational Modern Languages series (LUP). Please submit & circulate the call (due September 1st): forms.gle/cmRkYrwYhappD8… non-Anglo lit scholars, contingent teachers, African thinkers, Black queer writers to the front!
Less than one month to apply for a PEN/Heim Translation Grant ! Send us your craziest projects by June 1. If you're an emerging translator, a translator of color, or a non-native English speaker, I especially encourage you to apply ! pen.org/pen-heim-grant…
NO MAN'S LAND is open for submissions. Translators of German-language literature are invited to submit their work from now until September 12, 2022. Prose and poetry written since 1990. Guidelines our SUBMIT page at no-mans-land.org/submit/.
The call for proposals for ALTA45 programming is LIVE! See the call and find out more about how to propose a panel or roundtable by June 20 here: literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/alt…
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