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Please note: ASD is now at capacity. What next? Sign up for the ASD waitlist , Join us for an online information session , Attend other campus events in April.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: asinfo@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Special Events.
Saturday, April 4, 2026, 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit artsci.washington.edu. 9th Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry & Poetics
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 334 and HUB 340 (reception to follow). Accessibility Contact: Karla Tofte, ktofte@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Literary Translator Lecture: Tiffany Tsao, "Beyond Novelty and Exoticism: Taking the Long View in Translating Indonesian Literature "
Tiffany Tsao will discuss the challenges of translating Indonesian literature in the context of a publishing industry that has tended to value Indonesian works more for their “Indonesianness” than their literary value. Catering to a readership interested specifically in the history, culture, and living conditions of Indonesia has some near-term benefits, but does this approach do Indonesian writing a disservice over the long term? She will discuss, more specifically, how this state of affairs has shaped the decisions she has made as a translator – from the works she has chosen to translate, to her approach to the translation process itself.
Tiffany Tsao’s translations of Indonesian literature have received the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and a longlisting for the International Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Majesties (2018) and But Won’t I Miss Me (2026), and Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books.
*author photo by Joy Mei En Lai
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 332. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Literary Translator Colloquium: Tiffany Tsao, "The Art of Reviewing Translations"
RSVP Required: https://simpsoncenter.org/form/tsao-colloquium
The past several years have seen an increase in the literary world’s appetite and appreciation for translated works. But what progress has been made when it comes to reviewing translations as translations? Speaking from both her current position as Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books and as a literary translator who follows with great interest how translations are reviewed, Tiffany Tsao will discuss various patterns (and pitfalls) that reviewers of translated works tend to fall into, and share some ideas for how a reviewer might better engage with a translator’s labor and the “translatedness” of a text. Tiffany Tsao’s translations of Indonesian literature have received the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and a longlisting for the International Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Majesties (2018) and But Won’t I Miss Me (2026), and Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books.
*author photo by Joy Mei…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit simpsoncenter.org.