Peter Davies

A room full of excellent people!

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Deadline 26 March 2026

This is where testimonies and novels do better than political histories

Translation Studies Research Seminar Series: Delphine Grass | Translation Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture An in-person seminar by Dr Delphine Grass (Lancaster University) on the impact and challenges created from maps of translation studies such as the Holmes/Toury map.

For those in/around Edinburgh: Join us at @translation-uoe.bsky.social on Wednesday, 11 March 2026 (4.10-6.00) for an in-person research seminar by @delphinegrass.bsky.social on #translation as a creative-critical practice. For details see llc.ed.ac.uk/translation-... @uoe-llc.bsky.social

Der interessante Podcast zum Simultandolmetschen beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen vom Nürnberger Prozess bis heute, natürlich nicht mit der wissenschaftlichen Tiefe des Beitrags weiter unten von @pdavies.bsky.social zum Auschwitz-Prozess.
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...

Dad?

It’s a special military operation, how many times do we have to say?

Every Pete Hegseth collapses on first contact with reality

Napoleon(ish)

This will really impact the HE sector in Scotland (and rUK) and I hope it will address the issues that we are all struggling with. One already slightly depressing note though is how ‘education’ is treated as synonymous with ‘skills’ here. Unfortunate legacy of Scottish education reforms

“Fetischisierung einer Leerstelle” werde ich mir merken, gute Beobachtung

Diolch yn fawr iawn

I saw this last week, it was really great

Happy for the English Greens, but worth remembering that our experience of the Greens in actual government in Scotland was - not good. So hold them to their promises.

Btw, I have been to Denton but not Gorton and used to live in Longsight so am more qualified as a local candidate than Matt Goodwin

So they are letting in convicted criminals after all…

Am waiting for the first outbreak of violence when it gets Filioque wrong

Do you want to get another schism? Because this is how you get another schism

RIP Eliane Radigue

Will bishops still have a role in the House of Edgelords?

This is Nureyev vs. Miss Piggy territory

The only alternative would have been to furlough all university staff and just not have higher education for a couple of years. Imagine the response to that!

Long overlooked, Soviet Jewish stories written after the Holocaust emerge in new translation - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The writer Sasha Vasilyuk interviews the translators behind "In The Shadow of the Holocaust."

Good interview with @returnstosender.bsky.social on translating Yiddish and Russian-language Soviet Holocaust literature into English, and the impossibility of escaping contemporary historical resonances. www.jta.org/2026/02/20/i...

More author/translator sessions like this, please. I’ve been to book festival talks with famous authors who talk about language etc without even mentioning their translator, let alone discussing the process

Jointly with the Chair of W+IGS and the President of the GLA, the President of the AGS, @pdavies.bsky.social, has sent a letter to the Principal of Heriot-Watt University opposing proposed staff cuts to the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies and threats to close German and Chinese.

Die Lustigen Nibelungen, von Oscar Straus (Handlung dreht sich um einen Schaumwein-Fabrikanten)

🚨 The deadline for submitting papers for the AGS conference is fast approaching 🚨

If you are intending on submitting an abstract, do so by Friday!

I find this world of political communication incomprehensible - when Labour increase spending on benefits they spin it as a cut, but when the Scottish govt makes cuts to spending that are a bit less than they had projected, they spin it as an increase. It’s very confusing

<stares back in Richard Lionheart>

Small point maybe, but from a translation point of view - interesting how the subtitles correct Healey’s words about ‚Russia’ fighting Germany in WW2 to the ‚USSR’ (which is what he should have said)

Translating Holocaust Literature in Times of Genocide While designing a poster for a lecture on our new book, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press), one of the event’s organiz…

For LitHub, Harriet Murav and I wrote about translating Holocaust literature in these our genocidal times — to share some of the thoughts that have accompanied us during our work on “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” in the last few years, the years of Ukraine and also Gaza. lithub.com/translating-...

Sign the petition to save languages and intercultural studies at Heriot-Watt university. Friends there going through drastic times. They have an incredible interpreter training programme there