Archive of Past Events
2025
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 The Odyssey: A Reading and Discussion
With Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert CioffiCampus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert Cioffi will read from Mendelsohn's edition of Homer’s Odyssey. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in the New Yorker and many other publications, Mendelsohn gives us a line-for-line rendering of the Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and true to its source. Mendelsohn’s expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s dense verses without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original. A discussion will follow. Please register for this free event here. |
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Monday, April 14, 2025 Traduttore, Traditore? Reflections on Translating Dante
by Joe Luzzi (Bard College)Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Italians have a saying traduttore, traditore – that is, the “translator" of a book can often be a “traitor” to it if he fails to capture both its letter and its spirit! In this event, Professor Joseph Luzzi will discuss his new translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova (Liveright/Norton, December 2024), which was Dante’s first book and a moving account of his youthful love for his muse, Beatrice, and his discovery of his passion for poetry. Professor Luzzi will show how his understanding of translation as a “way of thinking” also helped him complete his recent Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography (Princeton University Press, November 2024). Overall, he will share his experiences in trying to remain faithful to Dante’s original language, while at the same time bringing his own personal understanding and interpretation of the Vita Nuova, an early masterpiece by Italy’s so-called sommo poeta, supreme poet. |
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Monday, April 7, 2025 “All poetry is revolution”: Reading and Discussion of Anna Greki’s Algeria, Capital: Algiers with Marine Cornuet and Ammiel Alcalay
Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4In 1963, a year after Algerian independence, Anna Greki, an Algerian poet of French descent living in exile in Tunisia, published Algeria, Capital: Algiers, her first poetry collection, in French and Arabic. Greki, 32 at the time, had participated in the Algerian revolution and was arrested, incarcerated and tortured by the French military for her activism. Algeria, Capital: Algiers, translated by Marine Cornuet, and introduced by Ammiel Alcalay, includes poems Greki wrote while in prison and is available in English for the first time. Please join us for a reading and discussion of Greki’s life and work, and of the translation itself. Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Recent publications include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar’s poetry collection Pilgrim Bell, and Algeria, capital: Algiers (Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found, 2024), an English translation of Anna Gréki’s poetry collection Algérie, capitale Algers. She holds an MFA from Queens College, CUNY, and is the co-founder of the literary journal Clotheslines. She is a member of the working collective and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. Poet, novelist, translator, essayist, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay’s latest books are CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: a work in four books, his co-translation of Nasser Rabah’s Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece, and the forthcoming Follow the Person: Archival Encounters. In 2017, he received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his work as founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; he is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. |
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025 REAS Film Series
Preston Theater 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 REAS Film Series
Preston Theater 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 |
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media
Andrew Campana, Assistant Professor, Cornell UniversityOlin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 This talk will draw from the just-published book, Expanding Verse, and look at experimental poetic practice in Japan over the last hundred years, focusing on poetry in engagement with cinema in the 1920s and Augmented Reality poetry in the 2010s. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, we will consider how poets push back against the new media technologies of their day, find new possibilities at the edge of media, and in so doing challenge dominant conceptions of both who counts as a poet, and what counts as poetry. |
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 REAS Film Series
Preston Theater 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 |
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025 REAS Film Series
Preston Theater 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 |