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A Celebration of Translating at Harvard

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RETHINKING TRANSLATION SPEAKERS: Faculty, staff, and student translators at Harvard University Last year’s reading received such enthusiastic praise that we have decided to repeat the event, with new, recent, and forthcoming translation work from faculty...

Director’s Letter

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August 26, 2024 Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Greetings! As we approach the new semester, we bring you this preview of some of the upcoming events at the Mahindra Humanities Center. These range from conversations with...

Hilton Als in Conversation with Claire Messud

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Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for The Talk of the Town.  Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice...

Elif Batuman in conversation with Beth Blum

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Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker...

"The Netanyahus" with Joshua Cohen and James Wood

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Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Book Store Present: The Netanyahus with Joshua Cohen and James Wood REGISTER HERE This is a hybrid event, taking place in-person at Harvard Hillel and livestreamed on Zoom. Joshua Cohen is the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer...

Writers Speak | Elif Batuman in conversation with Beth Blum

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WRITERS SPEAK SPEAKER: Elif Batuman About the Speakers Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read...

Leslie Jamison in Conversation with James Wood

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Leslie Jamison recently published her new book, a collection of essays called Make It Scream, Make It Burn, in September 2019. She's also written a novel, The Gin Closet, a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, and a critical memoir, The Recovering...

Local Challenges to Tribal Sovereignty: A Citizen Potawatomi Nation Case Study

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Kelli Mosteller, Harvard University Native American Program Dr. Kelli Mosteller has served as the Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program since the summer of 2022. In her role, she...

Javiela Evangelista

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Javiela Evangelista is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology, one of the campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on nationalism, racialization, citizenship...

Urban Conversations | Under Construction

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Urban Conversations Speaker: Henry Grabar In conversation with Rachel Meltzer Why has it become so difficult to build housing in the American city, and what does this tell us about the country's larger problems building things? In this talk, journalist...

Leslie Jamison in Conversation with James Wood

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Leslie Jamison recently published her new book, a collection of essays called Make It Scream, Make It Burn, in September 2019. She's also written a novel, The Gin Closet, a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, and a critical memoir, The Recovering...

Rachel Kushner in conversation with James Wood

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SPEAKER: RACHEL KUSHNER Rachel Kushner's first two novels, The Flamethrowers (2013) and Telex from Cuba (2008), were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction. The Mars Room has been an international bestseller...