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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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

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

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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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Surbhi Gupta @surbhigupta.bsky.social · May 20

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
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in...

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

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · May 20

I just assigned one of my own 😬 in a college class I’m teaching at a men’s prison in Illinois

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Apr 20

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.

buff.ly/SW0VHJY.

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

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Laura Woolley-Núñez @woolzz.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

Feminist Translation Network @ftnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 9

Check out our new podcast: @woolzz.bsky.social in conversation with Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci and @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social. A fascinating discussion about visibility, 'disruptive' strategies & more! feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/outputs/
@translationexch.bsky.social @stephenspender.bsky.social

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Mar 22

www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Jan 23

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

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/01/22/c...

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 ...

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Jan 22

Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Jan 21

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

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olgacastro80.bsky.social @olgacastro80.bsky.social · Nov 19

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

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Surbhi Gupta @surbhigupta.bsky.social · Jan 3

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

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Jan 3

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

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

newlinesmag.com

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 21

Finally got my copy in the mail!

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · Dec 17

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".

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 17

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

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Dec 16

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

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.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social · Dec 16

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!

Reuters @reuters.com · Dec 16

Zakir Hussain, considered one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and known for his ‘dancing fingers,’ has died reut.rs/4ivPw89

Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain dies at 73

Zakir Hussain, considered one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and known for his "dancing fingers", has died.

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 15

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

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 15

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.

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 13

End of term brief disappearance into the woods underway…

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 7

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

www.thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call

The Call - This American Life

One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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