The First Wednesday Reading Group: Sci-fi in translation
Clem Edwards

A series of monthly reading groups on science-fiction in translation. The First Wednesday Reading Group will pay attention to how texts build worlds – anticipating, challenging and enacting lived realities – and how they move in different temporal and cultural contexts.
A motivation for the reading group is to explore ways of putting language to experience of queer life while keeping the experience and the learning that comes with it soft, impressionable, with a possibility of spill.

Session 1: 2 October, 19:00 – 21:00
Session 2: 6 November, 19:00 – 22:00
Session 3: 4 December, 19:00 – 22:00

During the October session, we read a short story by Izumi Suzuki, with a supplementary text by Amitav Ghosh.

During the November session, we will read a short story by Norman Erikson Pasaribu with supplementary readings about Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel prize winner for literature, Deborah Smith, and the expansive, controversial realm of translation.

In December, we will delve into The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei (1995–2021), translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich.

Physical copies are available at Kiosk (3 copies in stock), and Donner can order additional copies upon request. If you are not able to find or afford the book please email communications@ribrib.nl for a digital copy.

Please sign up to the third session by sending an email to communications@ribrib.nl; numbers are strictly limited.

Hosted by Clem Edwards at Rib and supported by CBK Rotterdam.