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Feminist Translation Network
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AHRC-funded project which explores what feminist literary translation means in practice in the twenty-first century
https://feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/
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"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-...
Audrey Kelly
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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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📚📚📚
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Registrations open for this online talk next week by FTN co-lead @olgacastro80.bsky.social at @bcltuea.bsky.social
bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Oct 9
✨Join Olga Castro for The Transnational Turn in Feminist Translation Theory and Practice✨

📅 Wednesday 22 October 2025
⏲️ 4.00–5.30pm (BST)
📍 Online

Find out more and register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Listening to folk from the Feminist Translation Network (@ftnetwork.bsky.social) talk about their practice as part of Birmingham Literature Festival.
Room full of people looking at a panel of speakers. Man in the foreground reading a book
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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
A screenshot of an online meeting, featuring 7 people and one illustration of flowers A screenshot of a Word document with various lines of Arabic and English highlighted in different colours, showing a translation process A picture of a bedsheet decorated with red ribbon stencils and completely covered in black handwriting
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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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
Main Quad, University College Cork Translation slam with translators Ruth Donnelly and Eileen O'Connor and chair Elizabeth Rosales Martinez
September 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Looking forward to the FTN event at University College Cork next week, part of UCC's "Translation Week" programme for International Translation Day 2025
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September 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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📢 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
September 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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📢 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
September 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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📢 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...
September 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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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

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August 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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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
August 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Great to read that one of our #FeministTranslationNetwork events helped to inspire your PhD project, @rudotranslates.bsky.social!
August 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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' Photo of speakers and FTN team
July 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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 View of the inside of Dragon Hall
July 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Looking forward to this discussion about translations of ancient love poetry by feminists and non-feminists through the centuries #BCLT2025
bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Jul 17
Join Jennifer Ingleheart and Josephine Balmer to play ‘translation tag’ with two of the most famous ancient love poets: Sappho and Catullus 💞

Find out more and register: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
July 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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
bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social · Jul 11
Join Josephine Balmer, Rebecca DeWald, Jennifer Ingleheart, Fran Olivares Medina, Eva Megias & Sophie Stevens in a roundtable discussion about the place of feminist translation in the contemporary literary landscape.

Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
July 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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...
Event 6: Feminist translation and its audiences (symposium/translation ‘tag’) – Feminist Translation Network
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July 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Congratulations to FTN member @rudotranslates.bsky.social 🎉
rudotranslates.bsky.social Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social · Jun 26
Excited (and faintly terrified) to announce that I’ve been awarded a bursary to study for a PhD in feminist translation for Latin American children’s literature at University College Cork, starting next Tuesday! What could possibly go wrong?!
July 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
Illustration of a bunch of flowers with text 'An Anthology of New Feminist Translations'
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM