6-7pm:
Poetry reading by Haitian Poet and Harvard Scholar at Risk Fellow Louis Bertony
7-8pm:
Faculty Presenter:
David Damrosch
Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature
Title: “A Rune of One’s Own,” on the interplay of runes and the Roman alphabet in the Nordic world
Graduate Student Respondent:
Maria Dabija
PhD Student in Comparative Literature
Event open to all. Refreshments will be served.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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