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Princeton University professor David Bellos will deliver the Hansmann Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Bellos also directs the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. His lecture, titled “Translation and the Meaning of Everything,” is free and open to the public.
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Princeton University Professor Caryl Emerson will deliver the Hansmann Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Emerson is a professor of comparative literature and the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton. The lecture, part of the Humanities Forum, is titled “Eugene Onegin the Play: Pushkin, Prokofiev, and the Stalinist Stage.” It is free and open to the public.
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Los Angeles-based artist Sandow Birk will kick off this year's Humanities Forum with a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Birk is a painter and filmmaker who creates elaborate artworks concerning a broad range of topics—including politics, inner-city violence, graffiti, war, prisons, surfing and skateboarding. His lecture, titled “’American Qur’an’ and Dante: Cross Cultural Adaptations,” is free and open to the public.
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Professor of English Steven Yao will chair a panel discussion on “Translating Victor Segalen’s Stèles” on Thursday, April 12, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium. First published in 1912, Stèles is an original collection of prose poems – or stèle-poems – in French and Chinese. Segalen’s title comes from the inscribed stone monuments, scattered around China in temple courtyards, tombs, and along roads.
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Francis Bradley, assistant professor of history in the department of social sciences and critical studies at the Pratt Institute, will give a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center room 3024. Bradley will discuss “Translating Islam: The Interplay between Language and Religion in Southeast Asia” as part of Hamilton’s 2012 Humanities Forum on Translation and Cultural Exchange. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Can the disparate fields of academia and spiritual fulfillment ever work toward the same goal? Does the never-ending quest for knowledge push matters of religion and spirituality to the periphery? These questions lie at the center of massive cultural and institutional shifts in education and society, particularly in the West, that occurred over the past two centuries. Yale Law professor Anthony Kronman addressed the spiritual-academic gap that America faces today in a Hamilton lecture, “Education in an Age of Disenchantment.”
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Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School Anthony Kronman will present the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 4:10 p.m. in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. His lecture, part of the 2011 Humanities Forum, is titled “Education in the Age of Disenchantment” and is free and open to the public.
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Understanding between individuals forms the basis of productive communication. We rely on mutual understanding in conversation, argumentation and reading. For this reason, it is highly surprising to consider that perhaps no two people can ever understand one another completely.
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David Rosenthal, professor of philosophy at the City University of New York, will present a lecture titled “Translation, Theory, Understanding” on Monday, Oct. 17, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium,Taylor Science Center. The event is co-sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, the Yordán Lecture Fund and the Philosophy Department, and is free and open to the public.
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Sheila Fisher, professor of English at Trinity College, will give a lecture titled “The Art of Translating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The event is a part of the fall 2011 Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.
