FairVega
  • 2024 ALTA Conference

    Milwaukee, WI

    This year, I'll be speaking on a panel about translating computer voices, providing a live demo of one way to use computer-assisted translation software for literary translation, and debuting some translated love poetry from Hamid Ismailov's next book.

  • 2024 ATA Conference

    Join me and Kate Deimling as we present Making Sense of the Senses: Translating Images, with examples from our work translating French to English and Turkic languages and Russian to English. And come to cheer for me and all the readers at the After Hours Cafe.

  • Translating In & Out of the Ivory Tower

    online via Zoom Seattle, WA

    Translators of fiction and nonfiction often find their professional circles overlapping with the academic universe. We might translate books by noted experts, contend for academic awards, handle criticism from scholars, and ask professors to review our books and teach them in their classes. In this revised and expanded talk, two NOTIS translators will discuss their ...

  • Multilingual Translation Workshop

    Online

    I'm leading a workshop again this year, open to translators with work in progress from any language.

  • Translating Mothersland

    Byre Theatre Abbey Street, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom

    Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language Dr Sarah Gear, School of Modern Language I'll be appearing virtually with novelist Shahzoda Samarqandi and Dr Sarah Gear to explore the Soviet legacy, ecocide, feminism and translation’s role in amplifying Central Asian voices. Part of Byre World, celebrating global storytelling and ideas. Running time: 1h

  • Three paths to publishing professional literary translations

    Westin Boston Seaport Boston, MA, United States

    I'll present some translation case studies at the American Translators Association 66th Annual Conference! I'll also be at the After Hours Café and other events throughout the conference.