Laura Brueck
@humanprof.bsky.social
Professor @northwesternu, Director @AliceKaplanInstitute, South Asian and Comparative literature, anti-caste.
Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16.
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The Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize | Northwestern University Press
Funded by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and Northwestern University Press The
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October 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Attention translators and friends and lovers of translators! The 2026 Humanities in Translation (Hit!) Prize Competition is now open. Deadline Jan. 16.
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Very excited to announce the winner of the 2025 HiT (Humanities in Translation) Prize!
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Humanities in Translation (HiT) Prize: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities - Northwestern University
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June 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Very excited to announce the winner of the 2025 HiT (Humanities in Translation) Prize!
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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
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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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May 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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...
Pakistan & Bangladesh strengthen ties and the shift is making New Delhi uneasy.
Waleed Nasir writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in...
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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.
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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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April 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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.
buff.ly/SW0VHJY.
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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
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
@translationexch.bsky.social @stephenspender.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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
Packed the house last night for this stimulating conversation around race, caste, and nonviolence at Northwestern #kaplanhumanities
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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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January 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Packed the house last night for this stimulating conversation around race, caste, and nonviolence at Northwestern #kaplanhumanities
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Spent some time @artinstitutechi.bsky.social #projectablackplanet to engage in a different worldview than the one we’re being thrust into today
January 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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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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
@LauraSpoturno, @VMisiou #LucianaCarvalho. Published by @WeAreTandF
November 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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
@LauraSpoturno, @VMisiou #LucianaCarvalho. Published by @WeAreTandF
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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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January 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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...
Finally got my copy in the mail!
December 21, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Finally got my copy in the mail!
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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".
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".
December 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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".
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".
“Stitched in black thread by his mother” and the recipient of a $10 faculty award at Harvard, 1821. Go get it Emerson!
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 AM
“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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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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December 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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
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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!
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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December 16, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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!
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.
December 15, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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.
End of term brief disappearance into the woods underway…
December 13, 2024 at 11:58 PM
End of term brief disappearance into the woods underway…
Jeez… donate to NPR and then immediately have a “driveway moment” … what are the odds
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The Call - This American Life
One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed.
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December 7, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Jeez… donate to NPR and then immediately have a “driveway moment” … what are the odds
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