Laura Brueck

Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities - Northwestern University

Here is the press release about last year’s winner: humanities.northwestern.edu/about/transl...

Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16.

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Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities - Northwestern University

Very excited to announce the winner of the 2025 HiT (Humanities in Translation) Prize!

humanities.northwestern.edu/about/transl...

2024-2025 Block Museum Student Associates Acquire Work by Chitra Ganesh The 2024-2025 Block Museum Student Associate (BMSA) cohort is pleased to announce the acquisition of three works by Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975) from her series She the Question (2012). The Student Associa...

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India Takes Notice as Pakistan and Bangladesh Strengthen Ties After Sheikh Hasina’s fall, Dhaka — long aligned with New Delhi — is recalibrating its regional alliances and drawing closer to its historical adversary

A lot has been happening in South Asia and a lot has been written about it. This story becomes even more relevant now 👇

Pakistan & Bangladesh strengthen ties and the shift is making New Delhi uneasy.

Waleed Nasir writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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I just assigned one of my own 😬 in a college class I’m teaching at a men’s prison in Illinois

How Urdu travel writers brought the world back home When once asked about his favourite childhood reads, the renowned Urdu writer Naiyer Masud mentioned Khaufnak Dunya: Jazira-i Borniyo meñ Safar aur Jangaloñ meñ

From December 2023: Daniel Majchrowicz’s The World in Words illustrates the ways in which Southasians imagined new geographies and cultures and their relationship to them, conveyed through the production and circulation of travel writing across the subcontinent.

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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

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

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Visiting Prof. Nico Slate talks race and caste in conversation with NU professors Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted a conversation about civil rights solidarity between race and caste, a hereditary and class division system in Hindu society, in Harris ...

Packed the house last night for this stimulating conversation around race, caste, and nonviolence at Northwestern #kaplanhumanities

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Spent some time @artinstitutechi.bsky.social #projectablackplanet to engage in a different worldview than the one we’re being thrust into today

Very important day for the #FeministTranslationStudies community! 🤩 The inaugural issue of our journal is now out with all articles in #FreeAccess until 31 Jan. Come & see! tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/1/1 Pleasure working with
@LauraSpoturno, @VMisiou #LucianaCarvalho. Published by @WeAreTandF

Caste Is Having a Cultural and Political Moment Globally. It Has Not Always Been So For decades before it became a global phenomenon, Dalit writers in diverse Indian languages fought to make marginalized lives visible

Happy 2025 everyone! As caste infiltrates the American discourse and becomes more mainstream in Indian pop culture, we have a brilliant essay today @newlinesmag.bsky.social on Dalit narratives in Indian literatures by @humanprof.bsky.social. Read, read. newlinesmag.com/essays/caste...

Caste Is Having a Cultural and Political Moment Globally. It Has Not Always Been So For decades before it became a global phenomenon, Dalit writers in diverse Indian languages fought to make marginalized lives visible

My new article in @newlinesmag.bsky.social today…

newlinesmag.com/essays/caste...

Finally got my copy in the mail!

Only a month left to submit your application for The Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize!

The winner will receive a total cash prize of $5,000 and publication by Northwestern University Press.

This year's theme is "living in monstrous times".

“Stitched in black thread by his mother” and the recipient of a $10 faculty award at Harvard, 1821. Go get it Emerson!

The Best Books We Read in 2024—And What We're Looking Forward to in 2025 - Words Without Borders WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about.

WWB staff members on their favorite translated books of the year and the 2025 titles they're most excited about—click to read the full list: https://buff.ly/4floVHO

Many years ago in New Mexico a woman who wrote a couple of film reviews for me at the newspaper said, “thank you for the article on my dad.” Her dad was Zakir Hussain. I would have fired myself if we hadn’t written about him coming to town!

Yes… that’s true. But it feels even worse than grading a bad student paper, which at least is my actual job! ;)

I know this is part of/ the reason for peer review, but agreeing to review an article that sounds promising and then discovering how very bad it is… sucks.

End of term brief disappearance into the woods underway…

The Call - This American Life One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed.

Jeez… donate to NPR and then immediately have a “driveway moment” … what are the odds

www.thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call

Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications!

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YouTube video by Sumyshoo The hairstyle inspo for every teen boy I know right now! #shorts #fyp #animal #hairstyle #memes

Truth

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