No reading experience compares to the intense reading of a book I’m about to translate: I’m examining what the words and sentences and rhythms do to me, anticipating how I might deal with them but making no decisions yet. I’m feeling for patterns, seeking threads. It’s beautiful.

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Doubly saddened to learn today that this means the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme has been indefinitely "paused". For me and for many arts & humanities academics, being an NGT was an opportunity to share ideas with BBC viewers and listeners, and it created so much great public scholarship.

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A few tickets left for @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social's lecture 'From the Venice Ghetto to Dublin’s ‘Little Jerusalem’ and beyond' at @tlrhub.bsky.social Tomorrow, 6.15pm! www.eventbrite.ie/e/from-the-v...

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#OTD 102 years ago Alena Hájková was born, resistance fighter, historian, grandmother. I think of her everyday week. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alena_H...

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Sometimes I swear I am still on European time. It has its perks some days, like being able to watch the livestream of the Frankfurt Friedenspreis ceremony. This year it goes to Philippe Sands with a laudatory address by the NS-Dokumentationszentrum’s Mirjam Zadoff.

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