discussion to focus on humanities
The Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two related events this week: the annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values and a panel discussion on "Why Translation Matters."
Tanner Lectures
Anthony Grafton, one of America's leading historians, will deliver the 2006 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 18 and 19.
His talks -- "Rats' Alley? The Humanities in the American University" on Oct. 18 and "Clio's Catastrophe? History and the Humanities" on Oct. 19 -- will both be held at 4 p.m. in WHC, 53 Wall St. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and chair of the Council on Humanities at Princeton University, has argued for the need to restore a vital public role for the humanities. He studies the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from antiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from antiquity to the Renaissance. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Balzan Prize for History of Humanities and the Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award. He is the author of 10 books and the co-author, editor, co-editor or translator of nine others, ranging from "The Footnote: A Curious History" to "Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Work of a Renaissance Astrologer."
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values were established by the American scholar, industrialist and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, who hoped that these lectures would contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind.
"Why Translation Matters"
In conjunction with Grafton's Tanner Lectures, the WHC is holding a panel discussion on "Why Translation Matters" on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
The members of the panel are all experts in the field of translation, having published numerous works from multiple world literatures. They are:
* William Granara, the Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic at Harvard University and translator of Egyptian and North African fiction, including Radwa Ashour's novel "Granada" and Tahar Wattar's "The Earthquake."
* Edith Grossman, an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature, including Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and "The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance."
* Richard Sieburth, professor of comparative literature and French at New York University, whose translations include works by Gérard de Nerval, Friedrich Hölderlin, Walter Benjamin and Ezra Pound, among others.
* Eliot Weinberger, a translator, essayist and editor who is known for his editions of Borges, as well as numerous translations of Chinese poetry.
The event will be chaired by John Donatich, director of the Yale University Press, and Peter Cole, famed translator of Hebrew poetry and the 2006 Franke Visiting Artist at WHC.
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