Events

Shelley Fairweather-Vega, translator of Castigation and Gaia, Queen of Ants, will participate in a panel discussion on Human Translators in the Age of AI. The online event is hosted by the American Literary Translators Association and the Fine Arts Work Center. Find more information and how to register here.

SUP will be attending the 2026 Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference on March 26, 2026 in Chicago. Conference special: all media studies and pop culture titles will be 40% off.

Syracuse University Press welcomes acclaimed author Ibtisam Azem, writer of The Book of Disappearance (longlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize), and her translator Sinan Antoon.

Open to the public, this event features a bilingual reading from the original Arabic novel سفر الاختفاء  and its English translation, followed by a conversation with the author and translator on writing, translating, and the reconstruction of narratives across languages, and historical and political borders, concluding with a Q&A session engaging students, scholars, and community members. This event is part of the Syracuse Symposium Series.

Roger Sheffer will read from and discuss his new short story collection Loon Counters at the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato, Minnesota. The event is part of the Good Thunder Reading Series.

Malcolm Sen will read from and discuss his new book Irish Anthropocene: Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty at the 2026 American Conference for Irish Studies meeting in Denver, CO.