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Georgia-Taygeti
@georgiakat.bsky.social
PhD researcher writing about friendship, gender, and the Greek Left

(she/her)
Chairing this in Edinburgh in a couple of weeks! If you are in the city, come by! 📖
Join Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody!

🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Kate, Claudia, and I dreamt of this together and it has been a delight to meet and discuss Ferrante's work, two summers in a row.

(Hire me to lead your reading groups, please <3)
Earlier this summer we hosted three sold-out sessions of our seminar series ‘Our Brilliant Friends’, focusing on the Neapolitan Novels written by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein. Held at Tills Bookshop, we gathered to discuss how these novels have shaped our lives.
August 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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What a great day, full of inspiring conversations about positionality, agency, and intimacy in oral history. I learnt a lot from the keynote speakers and the researchers' projects. Thank you so much to @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social for organising it.
THANK YOU to the participants of our Sensitive Matters oral history workshop @georgiakat.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social ✨ keynotes Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince and Dr Ráhel Turai ✨ chairs @mboluferp.bsky.social @elisaheinrich.bsky.social Monika Baár, Benno Gammerl ✨ poster emeseveszely.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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As an end-of-year activity, the Working Group visited the Centro di Documentazione Aldo Mieli in Carrara 🏛️ This public LGBTQIA+ archive is run by and grew out of the personal collection of Luca Locati Luciani and welcomes curious researchers and activists.

cdocaldomieli.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Organising this with @zsofia-v.bsky.social was a dream! Thank you to everyone involved 💐
THANK YOU to the participants of our Sensitive Matters oral history workshop @georgiakat.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social ✨ keynotes Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince and Dr Ráhel Turai ✨ chairs @mboluferp.bsky.social @elisaheinrich.bsky.social Monika Baár, Benno Gammerl ✨ poster emeseveszely.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
@zsofia-v.bsky.social and I have put months of effort into this and we can't wait to listen to and learn from our two wonderful keynotes (Dr. Ráhel Katalin Turai and Dr. Natalya Benkhaled-Vince).

You can join us online for the first part of the day. 🎙️
May 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Running the friendship session on June 20th! 🌊

www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...
April 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"But what is the “correct” way to make sense of the relationship of the individual to the historical? Are romances, feelings, and dreams incidental or consequential? What about those of figures about whom no biographies or obituaries were written?"
'HOW'S YOUR MOOD, COMRADES? Psychoanalysis, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union'

long essay for @parapraxismag.bsky.social feat Gorbachev’s dreams, Annie Ernaux’s Soviet lover, Lacanians in Tbilisi, Ukrainian mystics etc etc

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/how...
How’s Your Mood, Comrades? — Parapraxis
Psychoanalysis, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union Hannah Proctor
www.parapraxismagazine.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Splitting my time this year between interviewing for my PhD and interviewing translators for @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social and I feel so lucky!!
We talked to Natasha Lehrer and @laurenelkin.bsky.social about their experience of co-translation and working together on Colombe Schneck's "The
Paris Trilogy". 🌊🌊

www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
April 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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“When life itself had become a collage in which slivers and scraps floated about, sticking hither and thither as in the aftermath of an explosion, forming and deforming shapes, how could we escape the incomplete, the scattered, the broken?”

@shreedaisy.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social
Read the first chapter of Our City that Year, my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, in @literaryhub.bsky.social
“Into this city the three of them came forth. Panicked. Determined to bring everything to the fore: the crime and the criminal; the wounded and the dead. All of it.” Read from Geetanjali Shree’s Our City That Year, translated by @shreedaisy.bsky.social.
April 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Co-organising this with the wonderful @gisellebernard.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social @ricbul.bsky.social

You can join some of the workshop via Zoom!
A queer history of modern France

On 7 April at 10.00 CEST, join a workshop with Tamara Chaplin on her recent book on female same-sex intimacy in modern French history 👉 loom.ly/D-u5XnA

Organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group

📣 #QueerHistory #FrenchHistory
March 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Running these four seminars in the Biblioteca Femminista was a joy! 💜

We reflected on feminist translation, the relation between the senses and reading, archives, motherhood, the emancipatory nature of writing about violence...
We had our last session of the Translation Table last night and we are so thankful for what has been a wonderful community of readers, writers, and translators! 💫

Our final book of the series was ‘On a Woman’s Madness’, by Astrid Roemer and translated by Lucy Scott.
@tiltedaxispress.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM