Events

We will continue to explore multiple ways to engage with communities, both locally and globally, during this (not-yet-over) pandemic. 

 Readings / Conversations 

NOV 28 & DEC 5 2024

  • Register for trace's online readings for Read Palestine Week

 

JULY 2024

British Centre for Literary Translation / National Centre for Writing

July 23, 7 pm GMT/ online (recorded)

  • Meet The World : River in an Ocean
  • with Yasmine Haj, Nedra Rodrigo, Lisa Ndejuru & Nuzhat Abbas

 

JUNE 2024

Diaspora Dialogues, Toronto: with Nedra Rodrigo

 

APRIL 2024

April Poetry Month (online)

  • trace: translating [x] / TAMIL & ARABIC poetry in translation

 

Ananke Women in Literature Festival, April 23-25, Dubai / online (recorded)

  • Panel: with Nedra Rodrigo, Geeta Sukumaran, Rahat Kurd & Gopika Jadeja
  • Interview: with Nuzhat Abbas

 

    OCTOBER 24, 2023, Toronto (online/ recorded)

    Scholars Strike Canada / Unsettling Borders: Translation's Intimate Labours

    • with Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Rahat Kurd & Nuzhat Abba

     Green 'weed' with yellow flower growing out of grey pavement. Scholars Strike 2023 Against Social Abandonment with details about trace event, with Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Rahat Kurd and Nuzhat Abbas

     

    AUGUST 17, 2023. Vancouver (online) 

    • Upstart & Crow Bookstore
    • with Iryn Tushabe, Rahat Kurd & Nuzhat Abbas

     Beige background and ochre border below. Upstart & Crow, presents River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, Aug 17, 2023

     

    JUNE 8, 2023, Toronto Launch/ with Another Story bookshop

    Innis College Courtyard/ Cafe (UT) | 7-9 pm EST

    Readings and Conversations with:

    Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Geetha Sukumaran, Norah Alkharashi & editor/publisher, Nuzhat Abbas.


    MAY 5-26, 2023, Toronto (online)

    trace: Unsettling Translation / river in an ocean

    FRIDAY May 26: Geetha Sukumaran, Rahat Kurd & Gopika Jadeja

    trace: Unsettling Translation / river in an ocean. Off-white, blue and yellow background with text and three black and white portraits of the presenters: Geetha Sukumaran, Rahat Kurd and Gopika Jadeja

    FRIDAY May 19: Nedra Rodrigo, Lisa Ndejuru & Norah Alkharashi

    trace: Unsettling Translation/ river in an ocean Event Poster. Blue, off-white and yellow background with text and three black and white photos of presenters: Lisa Ndejuru, Nedra Rodrigo and Norah Alkharashi

    FRIDAY MAY 12: Yasmine Haj, Iryn Tushabe, Suneela Mubayi

    (& Françoise Vergès)

    trace: Unsettling Translation/ river in an ocean-Event poster. May 12 with Yasmine Haj, Iryn Tushabe and Suneela Mubayi. Blue, off white and yellow backgrounds with black and white photos of presenters.

    FRIDAY May 5: Khairani Barokka and Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

    Francoise Vergès joined us for May 12 session instead

    trace: Unsettling Translation/ river in an ocean Event Poster. Blue, off-white and yellow background with three black and white photos of presenters.

     

    APRIL 2023

    trace: translating [x] celebrations/ readings for April Poetry Month

    Friday 4/28 | 12-2 pm EST | ARABIC/ENGLISH:

    Saturday 4/22 | 11 am-1 pm EST (online) | TAMIL/ENGLISH

     

     

    Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow

    Summer 2020

    Scott Neigh (Talking Radical Radio) interviews Shahrzad Mojab on her work with political prisoners and Saeed Yousef's Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow.

    Listen to podcast

    Spring 2020 (cancelled)

    May 4-6, Abolition Convergence 2020. Toronto. Shahrzad Mojab discusses Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow in the context of global state violence, critical memorialization and ethical pedagogy.

    May 28-30, Happenings Festival. 918 Bathurst, Toronto. trace book table 

    Fall 2019

    Saeed Yousef and Shahrzad Mojab discussed the importance of poetry and critical memory at the English and Persian book launches of Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow at the Reclaiming Justice: Memory and the Memorialization of Violence conference at Innis College, University of Toronto

    October 26th, 2019 – 5.00 pm /  in English

    October 27th, 2019 – 2.00 pm / in Farsi