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Pau Pitarch

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I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.

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文学通信 @bungakureport.bsky.social · 1h
自分の「物語」を描くーA ”Tale” of One’s Own(国際日本学コース:小林未來さん) – 早稲田大学 大学院文学研究科 www.waseda.jp/flas/glas/ne...
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自分の「物語」を描くーA ”Tale” of One’s Own(国際日本学コース:小林未來さん)
小林未來(修士課程(国際日本学コース)在学生) 私が国際日本学コースを志望した理由 幼少期から平安文学が好きで、専門的に学ぶことが夢でした。早稲田大学文化構想学部国際日本文化論プログラム(JCulP)でその夢は叶いましたが、学びを深めるほど「まだ学び足りない」という想いが膨ら...
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's a famous quote to the effect of "You write down your ideas to understand them yourself / to know what you think. You revise your writing so others understand them / that as well." Does anybody know me the source / original formulation?
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
阪神連覇!
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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week's t-shirt is a very silly joke for fans of linguistics, Ghibli, and milky drinks. #WeeklyTshirt #Ghibli #Boba danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/kiki...
A black spikey shape wearing a red bow and riding a witch's broom. 
A blobby shape filled with milk and tapioca balls, with a red spiral stripped straw.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...
part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To make sense of speech, listeners must segment sound streams into pieces. Across languages, people do so based more on consonants than vowels. A new @science.org study investigates the phenomenon via EEG recording in humans & dogs, finding that dogs also show consonant bias in word segmentation.🗣️🐶🧪
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Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias
Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike nonhuman primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vo...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stunning upset in men's volleyball: Finland just beat current world champs Italy 3-2, in Turin.
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Finland stun Italy in the CEV Men’s Volleyball European Championship quarterfinals and join France and Slovenia as 2027 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Cup qualifiers; the three teams advance to the EuroV...
The three teams advance to CEV EuroVolley semis along with World Cup hosts Poland
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me parece una solución muy buena.
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Maite Madinabeitia @maitemadinabeitia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hoy ha salido a la venta esta cosita: pura divulgación filosófica. Hacía tiempo que no experimentaba la traducción a la vieja usanza, con libros y más libros de consulta encima de la mesa, apuntes y notas a mano. Yo no sé por qué me gustan tanto estas cosas, pero ¡ay!
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Harimoto Isao (張本勲/장훈, 1940-2026) has left us. Hiroshima native and atomic bomb survivor. NPB all-time leader in hits (3,085), amassed over a 23-year career (1959-1981), most of them with the Tōei Flyers.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Open access book _Modern Japanese Literary Studies_ (University of Michigan Press, 2026) Edited by Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abel
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Modern Japanese Literary Studies
<P><I>Modern Japanese Literary Studies</I> brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary and institutional perspectives on the state of the field and presses for overdue recognition that Japanese...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I saw. I was watching NCAA volleyball the other day there.
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木村夏彦/文芸誌『jem』3号制作中! @natsuhiko-kimura.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
\拡散希望🌈/ 文芸誌『jem』 3号刊行のためのクラウドファンディングに挑戦中! アルメニア、タイ、台湾における日本文学受容、中国における日本SF受容についての論考(計4語圏) 「表記」から日本語に新たな光を当てる大特集 海外文学と言語教育の関係をめぐる小特集 ・シーンを牽引する詩人、歌人、俳人から、最前線で活躍中の国内外の翻訳家・研究者までが一同に集結 ・翻訳小説や詩歌など創作も多数!過去最大ボリュームの一冊 【ツリーに目次あり】 9/6(日)まで ぜひ、ご支援をお願いいたします。 greenfunding.jp/lab/projects...
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BungakuReportEN(文学通信 海外版) @bungakureporten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Engagements with Modern Japanese Literature By Angela Yiu www.routledge.com/Engagements-...
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朝日新聞 @asahi.com · 27/08/2026
【写真特集】前衛芸術家の草間彌生さんが死去、97歳 足跡をたどる
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【写真特集】前衛芸術家の草間彌生さんが死去、97歳 足跡をたどる:朝日新聞
カラフルな水玉、網目模様、カボチャのオブジェなどの作品で知られ、世界的に有名な前衛芸術家の草間彌生(くさまやよい)さんが14日、亡くなりました。97歳でした。 草間さんのこれまでの足跡を写真で振り返…
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
📰 Over the weekend in the ARB: Ben Woollard reviews “Angel at the Earth’s Extreme” by Chūya Nakahara and translated by Jeffrey Angles buff.ly/oE0hJmW
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Now available *open access* from @uofmpress.bsky.social — CHINA'S DATE DEBATE: HOW MANCHURIAN SCHOLARS REWROTE WORLD WAR II, by @emilymatson.bsky.social. press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
Cover image of CHINA'S DATE DEBATE: HOW MANCHURIAN SCHOLARS REWROTE WORLD WAR II, by Emily Matson.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Not framed as horror, but you might find this book interesting too: www.sup.org/books/asian-...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Lindsay Nelson's work. lindsaynelson.jp
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I ara veig que Quaterni també va treure fa poc _Los milagrosa de Namiya_ en traducció de Laura Beatrice Stetco Kerekes. quaterni.es/producto/los...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
En castellà Ediciones B va publicar _La devoción del sospechoso X_ i _La salvación de una santa_, totes dues traduïdes pel catedràtic de dret de la U. de Saragossa, Francisco Barberán, si no vaig errat.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ha mort Higashino Keigo, l'autor més popular de misteri del darrer mig segle al Japó. Mai no vaig entendre per què les seves novel·les no tenien més èxit a Espanya. A la Xina i Corea també ho petaven.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Discover the legacy of Moutai. See less." would be great ad copy.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Tal com està el món, sobreviure l'estiu ja és una proesa.
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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 16/07/2026
Last lecture in the Contemporary Tokyo Seminar Series coming up this Friday! "Leaving Home for Tokyo: Desire, Mobility, and Urban Life in Modern Japan, 1920–2000" 📅 Fri 17 July 2026, 18-20h  📍 Waseda University, Toyama Campus, Room 31-311 🎤 Takane Suzuki (Waseda Univ) www.mfj.gr.jp/evenement/le...
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Leaving Home for Tokyo: Desire, Mobility, and Urban Life in Modern Japan, 1920–2000 - Événements - IFRJ / MFJ
vendredi 17 juillet 2026 | This event will be held at Waseda University, not at the Maison franco-japonaise. Why did so many people leave their homes for Tokyo during Japan’s modernization? This talk ...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ハイライト
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Japan 🇯🇵 vs. Poland 🇵🇱 - Highlights | Week 3 | Women's VNL 2026
YouTube video by Volleyball World
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
女子バレーボール日本代表VNLファイナルラウンド進出! 0-2から大逆転勝利!
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Marc Riera @mrcasals.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Ja són públics els llibres del Bungaku del curs que ve! Aquest any, amb modalitat online! carbonera.cat/bungaku-club...
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Bungaku | La Carbonera Llibreria
El club de lectura per a amants de la cultura japonesa Si sou amants de la cultura nipona o sempre us ha cridat l'atenció la seva literatura, però nosabeu
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Jordi Serrano-Muñoz @jordi.serranomunoz.com · 29/06/2026
📣Disasters Maybe is out: a podcast about disaster imagination in contemporary fiction, produced as part of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Ghent University. Six episodes with scholars and writers about what narrating catastrophe can and cannot do for our environmental imagination. 🧵
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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It’s here 📖 ✍️ “Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures” is out today from UCL Press— in print & free open access PDF. Co-editing it with Jay and Eduardo, in honor of Niek Veldhuis, has been one of the most meaningful projects. uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...
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Scribal Worlds
Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient hist...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
En traducción de Jesús Carlos Álvarez Crespo.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Miwa Akihiro was a national treasure.
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美輪明宏主演/田村正和共演! 『黒薔薇の館』 オリジナル予告編映像 初公開!!
YouTube video by 松竹チャンネル/SHOCHIKUch
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日経電子版 @nikkei.com · 28/06/2026
美輪明宏さんが死去 91歳、「ヨイトマケの唄」や舞台「黒蜥蜴」 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO...
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美輪明宏さんが死去 91歳、「ヨイトマケの唄」や舞台「黒蜥蜴」 - 日本経済新聞
「ヨイトマケの唄」などのヒット曲で知られ、長年にわたって舞台でも活躍した歌手で俳優の美輪明宏(みわ・あきひろ、本名=丸山明宏=まるやま・あきひろ)さんが6月20日、老衰のため死去した。91歳だった。告別式は近親者で行った。所属事務所が公式サイトで発表した。長崎県生まれ。1952年に東京・銀座のシャンソン喫茶「銀巴里」に出演し活動を始めた。57年の「メケ・メケ」がヒットし、作詞・作曲も手
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Interessantíssima conversa amb Eudald Espluga @eudaldec.bsky.social al darrer episodi de @esperantelcometa.bsky.social sobre com imaginem una possible fin del món, i com afecten aquestes narratives la manera com vivim el present. www.audio.cat/podcast/espe...
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Esperant el cometa - pòdcast
'Esperant el cometa' és un pòdcast mensual organitzat per l’A. C. El Biblionauta i conduït per Miquel Codony i Edgar Cotes. El pòdcast està dedicat a la literatura fantàstica en català i compta amb co...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies "Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis" November 12–14, 2026 - Portland, Oregon, USA Proposal Deadline: EXTENDED TO JULY 15, 2026 utopian-studies.org/conference20...
Interconnections between Utopia and Dystopia in Times of Crisis
2026 Society for Utopian Studies Conference
November 12–14, 2026
Embassy Suites Portland Downtown
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NEW Japanese to English translation competition!!! This is aimed at emerging literary translators who have never published a novel before. You must translate one of the short stories from 「#真相をお話しします」by the end of October. omusubi-agency.co.jp/competition1/
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1st Japanese Popular Fiction Translation Competition | OMUSUBI
1st Japanese Popular Fiction Translation Competition. Discovering, nurturing, and supporting translators who share our vision of bringing Japanese culture to the world.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good to know. My own pile of Uehashi TBR is already tall enough as is.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How was the new Uehashi novel?
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 09/12/2024
Okay, I've compiled all the recommendations below into a list here. Happy to add more titles basically indefinitely!
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An Incomplete Reading List of SFF Nonfiction — Molly Templeton
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Les circumstàncies de la traducció semblen més misterioses que la novel·la en si.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
El nou Ciutat maragda dedicat a un dels meus llibres preferits.
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Ciutat Maragda - El (nou) quadre de Dorian Gray, amb Yannick Garcia - 3Cat
El traductor Yannick Garcia ha signat per a la Bernat Metge Universal la versió definitiva d'"El quadre de Dorian Gray", a partir de l'original que va escriure Oscar Wilde i que fins ara era inèdit en...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
最新の『ゆる言語ラジオ』がめっちゃ面白かった。 youtu.be/q0IMJI6emLE
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Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In a week! Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) on her new book “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan”, in conversation with Yumi Kim (University of California Berkeley) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6602790
A screenshot of the MJHA webpage with the event details typed out, featuring a blue and red book cover with old photographic images plus bold red and white circular designs.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Incredibly addicted to this game now. Guess the Wikipedia article based on its categories. catfishing.net
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catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I see I should not have given up on this game when we were down 7-0 in the top of the 7th... youtu.be/xk-JvqHMXUM?...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
M'ha fet gràcia quan Harker pensa que si li vol enviar una carta a Mina ho farà escrivint en estenografia, que segur que Dràcula no ho entendrà. Quina fe en el poder de la tecnologia! Pobrissó...
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I had the pleasure of introducing my students to some classics in the history of translation today.
Light Yagami from the anime Death Note. The subtitle says "Just according to keikaku." On the upper part of the image: "(Translator's note: Keikaku means plan)".
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Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Compared to Japan, definitely.
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