Future Humanities: Translating World Literatures

Talk

WHEN September 24, 2018
6-8 PM EST WHERE Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU New York WHO NYU Abu Dhabi Open to the Public

“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.

Please register here: https://goo.gl/forms/enqONHOdR7lTWFsY2

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

In Collaboration with

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