Georgia-Taygeti (she/her)
@georgiakat.bsky.social
Researcher writing about sexuality and intimacies in the Greek Left 📚 @eui-history.bsky.social @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social
Wrote something short and sweet about the theme of our first Ferrante seminar this Friday. ☀️ Tickets for this week have sold out but you can join us for the remaining three sessions! @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/inotherw...
Troubling Daughters, Wayward Mothers, and Class in Elena Ferrante and Annie Ernaux
From our Ferrante Summer Seminar Series: The Patriarchy Passes Through the Body
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The patriarchy passes through the body: Elena Ferrante in conversation with feminist writers. 🌊 For a third summer in a row, we are delving into the world of Elena Ferrante. The four seminars will focus on Elena Ferrante’s standalone novels, bringing them into conversation with feminist writing.
A Carlo Ginzburg, figlio di Leone e Natalia, storico illuminante, intellettuale enorme, antifascista.
We are inviting contributions! Our global history of HIV activism team (ghiv.stir.ac.uk) is preparing a sourcebook on decentring the queer medical humanities. Please read the following call for contributions, which includes the concept note and submission guidelines: ghiv.stir.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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From our Talking with Translators interview with Margaret Jull Costa: inotherwordsbooks.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
Talking with Margaret Jull Costa: Interpretating Voice, the Pleasure and Sensibilities of Human Translation, and the Supernatural Short Stories of Maria Judite de Carvalho
Georgia Katakou and Claudia Marzollo talk with acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa about her translation from Portuguese of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s And How Have You Been?
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Presented at one of the coolest conferences of the year in Prague 🌈 My paper was titled “Queer Comrades: Teenage Friendship and Same-Sex Desire in Hungarian Sex Education During the Cold War” 👩❤️👩
Georgia-Taygeti Katakou: Archiving the Greek Left: Friendship, Queerness, and Counter-Communities of Emotion ****
🌈Look at that QFSWG delegation in Prague!🌈 Many of our members are presenting at the "Queering 20th century East Central Europe" conference in Prague 🏛️💅 The keynote, Ann Cvetkovich, talked about queer methods, emotions and the archive 🦄💡 You can see our list of presenters and their topics below!
We spoke with @jeremytiang.bsky.social about their translation of ‘Night Train’ by Xu Zechen, published by @twolinespress.com We discuss translating sound, untranslatability, the entanglement of literary translation and imperialism, collaboration as a practice in the arts, and so much more!
Talking with Jeremy Tiang — In Other Words
Georgia Katakou and Claudia Marzollo talk with novelist, playwright and literary translator Jeremy Tiang on their translation of Night Train by Xu Zechen, published by Two Lines Press. We discuss tra...
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My secret passion is excel, budgets, and fundraising (to ensure brilliant researchers and activists can attend conferences without socioeconomic barriers)! We have spent much of this past year working on the Queer Fragments conference and it's a joy that it is finally here. @eui-qfg.bsky.social
EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2mo agoA joyful and enraged call to action On 4-5 June, join the conference Queer fragments, organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group 👉 loom.ly/3kc_wuM The conference will bring together researchers, thinkers, and artists discussing why queer lives are made disposable, triable, and unlivable
Our 'Talking with Translators' series is now on Substack and Claudia and I recently spoke with the incredible @jeremytiang.bsky.social 📚 Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/inotherw... 🚂 @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social
Really enjoyed speaking at the European University Institute last Friday for a workshop discussing sexuality and activism across Europe organised by @zsofia-v.bsky.social, @georgiakat.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 3mo ago💥🦾Panel 1 - *Recovering Activist Voices*: Anna Feleki (EUI), @joseph-price.bsky.social (University of Warwick), Jan Daniel Schubert (EUI), and @georgiakat.bsky.social (EUI) 🦾💥
Had the best time at the Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe workshop last Friday! Co-organised with the wonderful @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 3mo ago👏 Thank you to all the participants of the “Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe” workshop 👏 We had a great day of inspiring presentations, illuminating discussions and thought-provoking questions ✨🦄💥 👀🎤Find a sum-up of the keynote and panels in the thread! 🎤👀
Another @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social interview, this time with Mima Simić, whose thoughts on translating from the margins have stayed with me for months after our conversation. Thanks @vqbooks.bsky.social for letting us do this! We loved every minute of it. 💐
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe spoke with Mima Simić about her translation of Ivana Sajko’s 'Every Time We Say Goodbye', published by @vqbooks.bsky.social We discuss the challenges of translating the melody and rhythm of a book & writing and translating from the margins! www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
It was an honour for me to deliver the keynote lecture on the topic of shared authority in queer oral history. The workshop website is the following: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe
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I have learned a lot from inspiring papers and energising discussions at the amazing workshop entitled 'sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe', which @georgiakat.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social organised at the European University Institute!
Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe
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So excited for our workshop tomorrow with @georgiakat.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social! You can follow the keynote lecture by @npapadogian.bsky.social chaired by @elisaheinrich.bsky.social and all the following panels in person or online 💫
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 4mo ago💥💅🏽Join our Workshop on sexuality in Western, East Central and South Eastern Europe!💅🏽💥 🏫Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati ⏳24 April, 9:30-18:00 🧑🏼🎨Illustration by Emese Veszely (1991 World AIDS Day in Budapest)
Another @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social interview I haven't stopped thinking about! So grateful I get to do these with Claudia and Kate. (We have so many amazing translators lined up to interview in the coming weeks, too!👀)
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe spoke with @antonhur.com about his translation of Park Seolyeon’s ‘Capitalists Must Starve’, published by @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social. We loved our conversation with Anton, whose work we have admired for years! Give this one a read. 📚 www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
💥💅🏽Join our Workshop on sexuality in Western, East Central and South Eastern Europe!💅🏽💥 🏫Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati ⏳24 April, 9:30-18:00 🧑🏼🎨Illustration by Emese Veszely (1991 World AIDS Day in Budapest)
One of my favourite interviews we have ever done with @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social! Have not stopped thinking about Angst, since. Thank you @nicciprasa.bsky.social and @silver-press.bsky.social for setting this up! 📚
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe spoke with Sophie Lewis about her translation of Hélène Cixous’ Angst! @silver-press.bsky.social www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/talking-with...
Co-organising this with Lola and Zsófi has been a joy and we are all so excited! You can join us in person or online, just register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58... The brilliant @npapadogian.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote on 'Shared authority and queer oral history'.
Lola Dickinson@loladickinson.bsky.social · 4mo agoSo excited for the upcoming workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ which I have organised with the brilliant @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social. Promises to be a fantastic day of talks and beautiful Italian sunshine! www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
📣 #CfA 📣 Are you a #PhD researcher enrolled in a doctoral programme in and holding nationality of one of the countries included in the #EUIWidening Europe Programme? Apply for a funded research visit with us! (autumn term 2026-2027) 👉 loom.ly/7QHy_yo ⏰ Apply by 30 April 2026 📣 #PhDlife
Reinscribing gender and sexuality in space(s) On 11 March, 14.00 CET, join a workshop with Jocelyne Dakhlia @ehess.fr on her recent book Harems et Sultans 👉 loom.ly/PI6CdyY Organised by M'hamed Oualdi and @eui-qfg.bsky.social 🌐 Open to online participants 📣 #SexualityHistory #GenderHistory
@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social is hiring and we are so excited to have another person join our small but mighty team!!
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoWould you like to work with us? In Other Words is run by three people - Georgia in Florence, and Claudia & Kate in Edinburgh - in moments of time between books, research, and babies.
Many changes happening this year but one reliable source of joy is 'Talking with Translators', our @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social series of conversations with translators we admire. Claudia and I recently spoke with @jencalleja.bsky.social and it felt like an absolute dream. Give it a read!
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe spoke to writer and translator @jencalleja.bsky.social about her translation memoir 'Fair: The Life-Art of Translation'. 'Fair' was one of our favourite reads of 2025 and Jen is someone we deeply admire!
‼️Deadline approaching‼️ One week left to apply for the Queer Fragments Conference! 💥🌟 The great proposals we received made us even more eager to collect more to make this conference, as we promised, joyfully and enragedly queer. Find more detailed info on the application process in the CfP! 🦄💅
EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group@eui-qfg.bsky.social · 7mo ago💥Extension announcement!💥 New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!). New notification of acceptance: 27 February. In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨
Chairing this in Edinburgh in a couple of weeks! If you are in the city, come by! 📖
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 9mo agoJoin Iliyana Nedkova-Byrne and In Other Words for a conversation around Balkan women’s writing, exile, and translation, drawing on her translation of Balkan Rhapsody! 🎟️: www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk/events/balka...
Kate, Claudia, and I dreamt of this together and it has been a delight to meet and discuss Ferrante's work, two summers in a row. (Hire me to lead your reading groups, please <3)
In Other Words@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social · 12mo agoEarlier this summer we hosted three sold-out sessions of our seminar series ‘Our Brilliant Friends’, focusing on the Neapolitan Novels written by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein. Held at Tills Bookshop, we gathered to discuss how these novels have shaped our lives.
What a great day, full of inspiring conversations about positionality, agency, and intimacy in oral history. I learnt a lot from the keynote speakers and the researchers' projects. Thank you so much to @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social for organising it.
Zsófia Veszely@zsofia-v.bsky.social · last yr.THANK YOU to the participants of our Sensitive Matters oral history workshop @georgiakat.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social ✨ keynotes Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince and Dr Ráhel Turai ✨ chairs @mboluferp.bsky.social @elisaheinrich.bsky.social Monika Baár, Benno Gammerl ✨ poster emeseveszely.com
