Celebrating 100 Years of the Norton Lectures at Harvard

Featured Speakers:

Stephanie Burt, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University

Adam Gopnik, Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Vijay Iyer, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author (The Sympathizer); 2023-24 Norton Lecturer

Moderated by Sean Kelly, Dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard University

About the Event

Established in 1925, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry and its distinguished lecture series have for a century have brought to the Harvard community individuals of rare brilliance with particular achievement in language, music, or the visual arts. To commemorate its centenary, Harvard University Press presents five landmark books by John Ashbery, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Ben Shahn, and Igor Stravinsky, based on their Norton lectures, reissued with a new foreword by a distinguished contemporary voice. The Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities, the Mahindra Humanities Center, and Harvard University Press invite you to join us for a conversation on the vital role of the arts and humanities in public life with Stephanie Burt, Adam Gopnik, Vijay Iyer, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.

This event is co-sponsored by Harvard University Press and the Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities.

There will be a book sale at this event hosted by the Harvard Book Store, with the following books available for purchase:

John Ashbery, Other Traditions

Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content

Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons