Events

We continue to explore multiple ways to engage with communities, both locally and globally, during these challenging times.  

NOV 16, 2025: 12.30 pm EST | 9.30 am PST | Upstart & Crow, Vancouver- online

Please join us at Upstart & Crow bookstore's online event to celebrate trace's newest release, Tamil Terrains, with editors Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran, and emerging translators Subhanya Sivajothy and Thamilini Jothilingam. 

Register via Eventbrite to get your zoom link.

NOV 7, 2025: 7-9 pm | Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto

Come celebrate the Toronto launch of Tamil Terrains with Nedra Rodrigo, Geetha Sukumaran, Abi Jeyaratnam, Subhanya Sivajothy, Gobiga Nada & others. 

Please register here. Admission is free, however we encourage you to support the labour involved into this project by selecting the ($20) option for Admission + Book. Your copy (with a special bookmark) will be reserved for you at the event.

OCT 19, 2025: 11 am - 1 pm EST

  • Please join us for an online launch for Tamil Terrains: poems. translations. reflections with editors Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran, and our talented translator-poets

MARCH 16, 2025 

  • Community reading & discussion: Arabic, between Love and War. 

trace: translating [x] / Poetry in Community. #Women's History Month ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR. It's Okay Studios. 468 Queen W Sunday, March 16, 2.30-4.30

JANUARY 24, 2025

  • Community reading & discussion: Arabic, between Love and War.

NOV 28 & DEC 5 2024

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

JULY 23, 2024

British Centre for Literary Translation / National Centre for Writing

JUNE 2024

Diaspora Dialogues, Toronto: with Nedra Rodrigo

APRIL 2024

April Poetry Month (online)

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

April 23-25: Ananke Women in Literature Festival, 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

    MAY 5-26, 2023, Toronto (online)

    trace: Unsettling Translation / river in an ocean

    FRIDAY May 26

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Fall 2019

    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