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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Wonderful event yesterday at the University of Birmingham, with Peter Auger, Kavita Bhanot, Rosalind Harvey, Elena Theodorakopoulos and @gabrielasaldanhav.bsky.social - a roundtable to reflect on the activities of the Feminist Translation Network over the past two years

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Join us for the final event (for now at least!) of the Feminist Translation Network project: "Feminist Literary Translation in English: Insights from an AHRC Network" 📅Tuesday 12 May 2026 ⏲️14.00-15.30 BST 🎟️ In person and online Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/yyfb4vzs

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Feminist Literary Translation in English: Insights from an AHRC Network

AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📢 New blog post about feminist literary translation in Italian Translator Matilde Miraglia discusses her feminist translations of poetry by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2026/02/gend...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"The Public Shows Up for Feminist Literary Translation!" - read @audreyeileenkelly.bsky.social's report of our #BhamLitFest2025 event with Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/the-...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

We definitely felt the buzz at #BhamLitFest2025! So happy that the Feminist Translation Network has been supporting the work of @writingwestmids.bsky.social, bringing literature (and literary translation) to audiences in the West Midlands📚📚📚

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Registrations open for this online talk next week by FTN co-lead @olgacastro80.bsky.social at @bcltuea.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Loved seeing a packed room for our book launch on Sat #BhamLitfest2025! The anthology, published by @theemmapress.bsky.social & featuring work by Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar, is free to download: tinyurl.com/42h742h4

The six translators plus event chair Rosalind Harvey holding copies of the "Anthology of New Feminist Translations", at The Exchange, Birmingham

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Laura Creaven @lauracreaven.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Listening to folk from the Feminist Translation Network (@ftnetwork.bsky.social) talk about their practice as part of Birmingham Literature Festival.

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Last chance to grab a free ticket for our book launch tomorrow #BhamLitFest2025 In-person tickets have sold out again but you can still join us online: tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

In-person tickets for our book launch this coming Sat are available again - thanks to a move to a bigger venue! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/bd63rb4x With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar In partnership with @theemmapress.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Tickets still available for the workshop this coming Saturday #BhamLitFest25 on feminist approaches to translating South Asian literature, led by Kavita Bhanot 🎟️tinyurl.com/2jk529yk Presented in partnership with @writingwestmids.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It's #BhamLitFest25 week! Thrilled that the #FTN will be part of the programme for the second year running, with two events on Sat 11 Oct, organised with @writingwestmids.bsky.social, @theemmapress.bsky.social & @englishpen.bsky.social Full programme here: www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A few months ago we hosted a scratch night for the translators involved in our collab with the Feminist Translation Network. It was an honour to peek behind the scenes of the translations-in-progress, with the translators sharing insights into their processes. Watch the recording: buff.ly/XkswZyU

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Thank you to lovely colleagues at University College Cork for hosting an FTN event as part of UCC's Translation Week 2025 - including an inspiring Feminist Translation Slam with @rudotranslates.bsky.social and Eileen O'Connor, expertly chaired by Elizabeth Rosales Martinez

Translation slam with translators Ruth Donnelly and Eileen O'Connor and chair Elizabeth Rosales Martinez

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Looking forward to the FTN event at University College Cork next week, part of UCC's "Translation Week" programme for International Translation Day 2025 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @rudotranslates.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📢 New blog post by Helen Vassallo about her Feminism and Translation workshop at this year's Bristol Translates summer school: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/femi... @translatingwomen.bsky.social @bristoltranslates.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

📢 New blog post by Eleanor Fillingham, our brilliant undergraduate intern! Eleanor, a Classics student at Birmingham Uni, joined the FTN team for six weeks over the summer thanks to the College of Arts and Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/the-...

Hilary Brown (Principal Investigator), Eleanor Fillingham (undergraduate intern) and Olga Castro (Co-Investigator) at Dragon Hall, Norwich

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📢 New blog post from Khadidja Merakchi @heriotwattuni.bsky.social about two feminist author-translators from Algeria, Taos Amrouche and Assia Djebar: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/from...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Free tickets for book launch at #BhamLitFest25: tinyurl.com/2f7c8dss Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm, The Exchange (in-person/online) With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar @theemmapress.bsky.social @writingwestmids.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Calling all translators with an interest in South Asian literature! Come and join our workshop at #BhamLitFest25, led by Kavita Bhanot Sat 11 Oct, 10-12, The Exchange, Birmingham Tickets: tinyurl.com/2jk529yk Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social @writingwestmids.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' events in Norwich yesterday, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social - a lovely mix of reflections on practice, discussion, and poetry readings #BCLT2025

Panel discussion about 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences'

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is the venue for our #BCLT2025 events today, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social Thank you to @hughespeg.bsky.social for a backstage tour of beautiful Dragon Hall before the audiences arrived! 🐉

National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall from the outside

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Looking forward to this discussion about translations of ancient love poetry by feminists and non-feminists through the centuries #BCLT2025

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School is in full swing and we can't wait to join you on Wednesday 30 July for our events on feminist translation! #BCLT2025

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Last few tickets left for our events on 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' in Norwich this week, co-organised with @writerscentre.bsky.social and @bcltuea.bsky.social Booking links here: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/02/even...

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Event 6: Feminist translation and its audiences (symposium/translation ‘tag’) – Feminist Translation Network

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Book launch coming soon! Sat 11 Oct, 2-3.30pm With Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall, Anam Zafar & Rosalind Harvey The Exchange, Birmingham & online Part of Birmingham Literature Festival Co-organised with @theemmapress.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Save the date! Workshop on 'Translating South Asian Literature: A Feminist Approach', facilitated by Kavita Bhanot Sat 11 Oct, 10-12 The Exchange, Centenary Sq, Birmingham Part of Birmingham Literature Festival @writingwestmids.bsky.social Presented in partnership with @englishpen.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Brilliant new blog post by Marie Martine about a creative, feminist translation project she ran with undergraduate students in Oxford @queenscollegeox.bsky.social: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/07/femi...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

What makes a translation 'feminist'? Catch up with translators Marilyn Booth, @rudotranslates.bsky.social, Seán McDonagh, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall & Anam Zafar discussing their works-in-progress for a new anthology published by @theemmapress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwP...

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Feminist Translation Network: Scratch Night

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Delighted to welcome Eleanor Fillingham to the FTN team! Eleanor is a second-year Classics student and will developing web resources linked to our events @writerscentre.bsky.social (30.07.25) as part of the College of Arts & Law Collaborative Research Internship scheme @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

'Struck' by Susanna Bissoli, "a delicate portrait of a family navigating life's catastrophes", translated by FTN member Georgia Wall - we've heard extracts and are looking forward to publication date! Available to pre-order now: www.lindeneditions.com/shop/p/struc...

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Struck by Susanna Bissoli, translated by Georgia Wall (pre-order) to be published 15th July 25 — Linden Editions

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

What does feminist literary translation look like in practice? FTN Steering Group member @gabrielasaldanhav.bsky.social has been following our events closely and offers some reflections here: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/06/femi...

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Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Lots of buzz at the moment about Emily Wilson and her performance-readings from her translations of Homer's #Odyssey. You can watch those readings (and so many more!) on our channel: check us out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1at...

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Emily Wilson's dramatic mini reading from Homer's The Odyssey - Book 1

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Şebnem Susam-Saraeva @sebnemsaraeva.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New book - A Voice of their Own. Encouraging Caring and Ethical Practices in Trauma Screen Translation, Open Access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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A Voice of Their Own

This open access book provides good practice guidelines for the ethical on-screen translation of material depicting trauma and Gender-Based Violence

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Travel bursaries available for our 'Feminist Translation and its Audiences' events @writerscentre.bsky.social, 30/07/25, for students/freelancers/those without institutional funding Further info: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/02/even... Co-organised with @bcltuea.bsky.social

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Event 6: Feminist translation and its audiences (symposium/translation ‘tag’) – Feminist Translation Network

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Missed our recent scratch night, co-hosted w/ @theemmapress.bsky.social, and featuring translators Anam Zafar, @eletenf.bsky.social, Georgia Wall, Marilyn Booth,@rudotranslates.bsky.social & Seán McDonagh? Read the brilliant write-up by Leilani Willis: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/05/what...

Image of the six translators: Anam Zafar, Elete Nelson-Fearon, Georgia Wall, Marilyn Booth, Ruth Donnelly and Seán McDonagh

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

📢Blog post and doc summarising insights from the FTN so far: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/05/femi... Thanks to all who have contributed to discussions and to our partners, including @writingwestmids.bsky.social @stephenspender.bsky.social @translationexch.bsky.social @bcltuea.bsky.social

'The Task for Feminist Translators Today', panel at the London Book Fair, March 2025, co-organised with the British Centre for Literary Translation

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New blog post on feminist post-editing by Matilda Hicklin, FTN member and PhD student @bristoluni.bsky.social, based on her research into contemporary Russian poetry and machine translation: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/05/prod...

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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🔔 EVENT REMINDER 🔔 Feminist Translation Network: Scratch Night 🖋️ Hosted by The Emma Press & @ftnetwork.bsky.social Friday 9 May 2025, 7pm Online (Zoom) Book free tickets here: buff.ly/8mnp0Pw

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Book now to hear Josephine Balmer and Jennifer Ingleheart discuss translations of ancient love poetry by feminists and non-feminists through the centuries, 30 July, 4.30pm, NCW Norwich, co-organised w/ @writerscentre.bsky.social & @bcltuea.bsky.social nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/women...

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Women Translating Men Translating Women: Sappho 31 & Catullus 51 - A Translation Tag

Join Jennifer Ingleheart and Josephine Balmer to play ‘translation tag’ with two of the most famous ancient love poets: Sappho and Catullus.

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

New blog post on introducing feminist translation to MA students by Mazal Oaknín, Associate Professor in Spanish Language and Literature and Gender Studies at University College London: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/2025/04/a-de...

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

What does feminist translation look like? Join our online event on 9 May to hear from the translators working on an anthology of new 'feminist' translations to be published by @theemmapress.bsky.social and launched later this year at the Birmingham Literature Festival @writingwestmids.bsky.social

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

With @lediciacostas.bsky.social winner of this year's Barco de Vapor prize from Ediciones SM. I translated an extract from an earlier YA novel by her for the @ftnetwork.bsky.social Feminist Translation Conference at Oxford University, but this is the first time we had a chance to meet. #kidlit #xl8

Selfie with Ledicia Costa, in a gorgeous bright blue dress, behind us is the stage where tonight she will receive the Barco de Vapor prize for her middle grade novel FERIÓPOLIS.

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Laura Woolley-Núñez @woolzz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I had a wonderful time recording the latest episode of the Feminist #Translation Network podcast with the brilliant Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social!! We talked about feminist translation, disruptive strategies...and even sledgehammers #iykyk

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Missed our recent feminist translation slam with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social and symposium organised together with @translationexch.bsky.social and @stephenspender.bsky.social? Event report now available on our website: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/outputs/

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Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Check out our new podcast: @woolzz.bsky.social in conversation with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social. A fascinating discussion about visibility, 'disruptive' strategies & more! feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/outputs/ @translationexch.bsky.social @stephenspender.bsky.social

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