Past Lectures

The Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Seminar with Matylda Figlerowicz

Lectures

5:00 pm

- 6:30 pm

Nov

12

MHC Seminar: Wickerwork: On Poetic Translation

Lectures

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

Oct

30

RETHINKING TRANSLATION: Author Marek Torčík with Jonathan Bolton and Veronika Tuckerova

Lectures

5:30 pm

- 7:30 pm

Oct

20

MHC Seminars in History of the Book and Rethinking Translation: Nathaniel Hess

Lectures

5:15 pm

- 6:45 pm

Oct

15

Rethinking Translation Seminar: Yassin Adnan and translator Alexander Elinson

Lectures

1:00 pm

- 2:15 pm

Oct

10

Forms of Intelligence Lecture Series: Dennis Yi Tenen

Lectures

4:30 pm

- 6:00 pm

Sep

23

Greek Jews, survivors of the Shoah: Difficult Return and Starting Anew

Lectures

2:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

Apr

30

Talk by Alum: Professor Miriam Udel

Lectures

6:00 pm

- 7:30 pm

Apr

24

Svetlana Boym Memorial Lecture: Galin Tihanov

Lectures

5:00 pm

- 7:00 pm

Apr

23

Translating Korean Literature: Lecture followed by Q&A

Lectures

4:30 pm

- 6:00 pm

Apr

10

The Birth of a (Korean) Nation (in Mexico): Cacophonous Intimacies and Transpacific Entanglements in Kim Young-ha’s Black Flower

Lectures

4:30 pm

- 6:30 pm

Apr

03

Transmitting Indigenous, Vulnerable, and Endangered Languages | A Symposium

Lectures

6:00 pm

- 8:00 pm

Apr

02

Annie Kaufman on Ben Gold’s “Your Comrade, Avreml Broide” (1944)

Lectures

5:00 pm

- 6:30 pm

Apr

01

From Isolation to Integration: Media Portrayals of Albania Towards EU with Data-Driven Insights from Magazines

Lectures

6:00 pm

- 8:00 pm

Mar

31

Lecture by Emmanuel Bouju: In the Age of Epimodernism: A Princip Principle for Literature Today

Lectures

5:00 pm

Mar

25

Rethinking Translation: Translator Jenna Tang

Lectures

7:00 pm

- 9:00 pm

Mar

03

Rethinking Translation Seminar – Damion Searls: The Philosophy of Translation

Lectures

5:00 pm

- 7:00 pm

Feb

19

Susan Rubin Suleiman: “To Be or Not to Be Jewish and Hungarian: Dilemmas of Identity in the Films of István Szabó”

Lectures

4:00 pm

- 5:30 pm

Feb

18

2025 Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference: Prof. Saul Noam Zaritt

Lectures

12:00 pm

Feb

02

Talk by Martin Puchner

Lectures

6:00 pm

- 7:30 pm

Nov

07

English Debates: AI with Stephanie Burt and Martin Puchner

Lectures

6:00 pm

Apr

29

Seminar on Cultural Politics: Jeffrey Schnapp: “In the Company of AI (Cultural Computation)”

Lectures

6:00 pm

Apr

23

Tim Parks: “The Translator as Reader and Writer”

Lectures

12:00 pm

- 1:30 pm

Apr

19

Lecture by Tom McEnaney

Lectures

3:30 pm

- 5:00 pm

Apr

11

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