THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED, new date TBD
Speaker: Jennifer Nelson, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
Title: “Translating War Space: Germanophone and Ottoman Cartographies around the 1566 Siege of Szigetvár.”
Jennifer is also a highly respected and innovative poet who has translated their visual orientation as an art history scholar into poetic form. They have long been interested in border zones, and their presentation to our seminar will address both geographic borders and the maps that translate them.
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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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