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A Celebration of Tom Conley’s Life

What Rough Beast…? On AI’s Potential to Surpass Humanity

Fall Reception and Comp Lit Open House

Fall 2026 Course: COMPLIT 291X / GERMAN 291/ROM-STD 201: Questions of Theory – Jeffrey Schnapp

A CELEBRATION OF TRANSLATIONS AT HARVARD

Lecture by Professor John T. Hamilton

RETHINKING TRANSLATION: Susannah Wright, Scott McGill Translation Workshop

SPRING 2026 COURSE: COMPLIT 126X/HUM5: Literature and/as Artificial Intelligence – Moira Weigel

MHC Seminar: Wickerwork: On Poetic Translation

Mark Harman on Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories

In Memoriam: Margaret Alexiou

HARVARD GAZETTE ARTICLE | Is there a philosopher in the house? with Professor Moira Weigel

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