Future Humanities: Translating World Literatures

“Future Humanities” is a public conversation on the stakes, challenges, and rewards of editing and translating premodern texts from the world’s great literary traditions. Mariët Westermann moderates a panel featuring the general editors of six groundbreaking publishing projects that specialize in facing-page translations. Topics of discussion include the parameters and methodologies for establishing parallel-text translation series in Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Latin, Old English, and Sanskrit and other Indian languages.

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Panel Members

• Whitney Cox, Editor, Murty Classical Library of India
• James Hankins, General Editor, The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Jeffrey Henderson, General Editor, Loeb Classical Library
• Philip Kennedy, General Editor, The Library of Arabic Literature
• Paul W. Kroll, Senior Editor, Library of Chinese Humanities
• Jan Ziolkowski, General Editor, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

Moderated by

• Mariët Westermann, Vice President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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