Henry Líu

Registrations are now open for APTIS25 “Better Together”: How Can Industry and Academia Collaborate to Empower Future Language Professionals?

For information on how to book your place and the programme, please visit: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aptis25ucl/

We look forward to seeing lots of you there!

YouTube video by Brandon Bovia Lettering: The Hidden Art of Manga Localization - GPL Anime Con 2025

youtu.be/19SspJ4R2-I The audio is pretty rough but I hope you enjoy me yapping about lettering for 45 minutes

The colonizer still lives in Nigeria through me Although the colonizers have formally left our shores, their influence lives within. I am now consciously dismantling the residual effects of colonial ideologies, values, and systems that shape my identity.

Although the colonizers have formally left our shores, their influence lives within. I am now consciously dismantling the residual effects of colonial ideologies, values, and systems that shape my identity.

I complain about how AI discourse is everywhere but I realize the problem is me :). I watched this awesome segment about Terry Gross and my first thought was "this is why we can't replace reading with LLM summaries"

Find it at arablit.org/between-two-...

The worst thing about EVs is that automakers are using them as an opportunity to effectively turn cars into digital devices with all the worst aspects that come with it to extract more profit: data collection, screen first, subscription business models, etc.

Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.

LMAOOOOO I would absolutely love to watch AI try to translate English into American Sign Language. They’ll never get to that level.

So prekär sind die Arbeitsbedingungen in der Gaming-Branche Die Bedingungen in der Gaming-Branche sind unterirdisch, lange gab es kaum Widerstand. Nun vernetzt sich eine neue Generation von Spieleentwickler:innen.

Prekär sind die Arbeitsbedingungen übrigens auch für Videospielübersetzer*innen!
Daher: #joinyourlocalAVTassociation!
Und #TranslatorsInTheCredits

New book purchases! Now paralysed with indecision about which to read first, obviously…

Applications Open: 2025 Workshop for Translating Taiwan Literature! 📣✨ This intensive and immersive training program is tailored for emerging translators who aspire to specialise in translating Taiwan literature into English.

Apply Now: event.culture.tw/mocweb/reg/N...

We're thrilled to support the new World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award for schools

The World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award is a new competition for schools to promote international and inclusive reading.
🌎 Schools anywhere in the world can enter, as long as English is one of the main languages of instruction.
🌎 More information & how to enter: buff.ly/lzmBWL9
#WorldKidLitMonth

The last two books from my @charcopress.com 2025 bundle arrived this week. Can’t wait to dive in! I’ve said it many times before, but book subscriptions from indie publishers are one of my favorite things. I can’t recommend them highly enough. Wonderful surprises scattered throughout the year!

Starting The World We Saw Burning by Renato Cisneros, translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch. @charcopress.com

Restoration by Ave Barrera and An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky, both books on a wooden table with a pineapple plant

Bookmail from @charcopress.com ❤️🖤 Restoration is a “ghost story about photography, feminism, bad men and old houses” and An Infinite Sadness is a sanatorium novel set in the Swiss Alps after WW2. Yes please! #booksky #witmonth

Elena Knows: Claudia Piñeiro Translated from Spanish by Frances RiddlePublished by Charco Press, 2021, 220 pages. Original version published in 2007. “She has to take the train into the city at ten o’clock…right after th…

A book for #WomeninTranslationMonth: Elena Knows by @claudiapineiro.bsky.social. Packs a punch for such a slim book. About hypocrisy, the burden of care, and the lack of control women have over their bodies. Fantastic. Trans. Frances Riddle. @charcopress.com
talking-about-books.com/2023/01/21/e...

La Lucha (Preorder) — Charco Press In recent years Latin America has become a global flashpoint in the feminist struggle within many different key areas: environmentalism, anti-colonialism, human rights, with striking, game-changing re...

This #witmonth we look to to LA LUCHA, out in Oct! These essays regard feminist struggles in Latin America across 17 countries. From patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, or in indigenous cultures.

charcopress.com/bookstore/la...

Awarding the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 is a highlight of our summer!

Have you read the winner? Ivana Bodrožić’s brilliant Sons, Daughters translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, published by @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social Big thanks to judges Fergal Keane, Selma Dabbagh, Uilleam Blacker & chair, Maya Jaggi

Missed the #EBRDLiteraturePrize2025 final? 📚
 
Winners: Ivana Bodrožić & Ellen Elias-Bursać for Sons, Daughters @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social.
Finalists:
Tanja Maljartschuk & Zenia Tompkins
Olga Tokarczuk & Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Thanks to our judges:
Maya Jaggi Uilleam Blacker Selma Dabbagh Fergal Keane

Winner of the 2025 EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE Sons, Daughters by Ivana Bodrožić, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać

SONS, DAUGHTERS has won the 2024 @ebrd.bsky.social Literature Prize!

Congratulations to Ivana Bodrožić, Ellen Elias-Bursać, and the incredible team at @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social, who have done such a great job bringing this book to our UK readers.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 24TH AUGUST!

Get your application in now!

The Poetry Translation Centre is recruiting trustees to our board and a new Chair.

Read more on our website to find out about how you can join:

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Expanding China’s Geopolitical Influence through Peripheral Communication - Mapping China's Strategic Space The discourse of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and trio of global initiatives implies that the country’s geopolitical interests are firmly global. Nonetheless, in recent years Chinese scholars and ...

Since 2015, a new concept has emerged in the PRC propaganda sphere: "peripheral communication" (周边传播).
For @nbr.org, @angrant.bsky.social examines how this new propaganda theory purports to help China better penetrate the information space of its neighbors.
strategicspace.nbr.org/expanding-ch...

15 Novels in Translation You Should be Reading This Summer and Fall - Electric Literature The second half of 2025 is introducing literary voices from Japan, Ecuador, Kurdistan, and elsewhere"

The second half of the year is when quieter, stranger novels tend to rise to the surface, and these newly translated works from around the world are no exception.

We are offering up to 10 studentships for PhD students to attend the conference. They must be based in the UK and not at Oxford. It will cover a one-night stay at St John's College and conference dinner on the 11th of September and a small contribution towards local travel.

International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality Reimagining comparative literature through the lens of decoloniality, 11-12 September 2026, St John's College, University of Oxford

Tickets available for International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality (September 11-12, Oxford).

A collab with the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social, @stjohnsox.bsky.social, OCCT, and the BCLA.

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Extract from Dr Jamison’s presentation at NZSTI conference. Not published, private communication attached with permission.

Dr John Jamieson has been on this especially the wider use of Te Reo grammar

Just tell any bilingual/multilingual/polyglossia children
RT @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social with thanks

The 'two languages confuse children' line is literally assimilationist shit from two generations ago that has been so massively debunked even as whole cohorts lost their mother tongues at school.

🥳🥳🥳

Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar:

Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined.

literarytranslators.org/event/nwupre...