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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Aug 19

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)

In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

Group of people sitting in a circle, in front of bookshelves, discussing.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jun 10

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.

Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Jun 10

Organising this with @zsofia-v.bsky.social was a dream! Thank you to everyone involved 💐

Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · May 30

@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. 🎙️

EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · May 27

Sensitive matters

On 3 June at 9.00 CEST, join a workshop on vulnerability in oral history and interviewing 👉 buff.ly/EfcD0t0

Organised by our Interviewing and Oral History Working Group 👉 buff.ly/ZeDsnIk

📣 #OralHistory #GenderHistory #skystorians

Sensitive matters: vulnerability in oral history and interviewing

This workshop, organised by the Oral History and Interviewing Working Group, explores how interviewing those belonging to marginalised communities enhances already-existing tensions around emotions,…

www.eui.eu

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Apr 30

Running the friendship session on June 20th! 🌊

www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/eventsandtal...

Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Apr 18

Everything @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social writes is required reading in my eyes!

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Apr 18

"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?"

h nn h p @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · Apr 14

'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

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Apr 16

(Although having to listen to my own voice while transcribing remains awful!!!!!)

Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Apr 16

Splitting my time this year between interviewing for my PhD and interviewing translators for @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social and I feel so lucky!!

In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · Apr 16

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...

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In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · Apr 12

“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

Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · Apr 11

Read the first chapter of Our City that Year, my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Hindi novel, in @literaryhub.bsky.social

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Apr 11

“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.

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Mar 31

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!

EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Mar 31

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...

In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

A pink book, entitled ‘On a Woman’s Madness’, shown against a background of a library space.

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