Every Tuesday, Shawkat Toorawa invites members of the campus and New Haven communities to a short presentation on three topics he thinks they should know about.
The Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies along with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto welcomes Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University to the March 7 Convivium, for a lecture entitled, “Women as Witnesses: Grieving Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Register now, to join the March 7 lecture via zoom and learn more information by visiting https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/convivium-jane-tylus-women-...
FAS Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa’s new book is a curated English translation of Qur’anic verses that evokes the literary qualities of the original Arabic in fresh, living, lyrical prose.
Sam Hodgkin has been invited by the Nâzım Hikmet Research Center at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul to deliver their annual lecture in honor of the major Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet on January 15 at 9 AM Eastern US time. The talk is entitled “Love, Translated: Sentimental Internationalism and Nâzım’s Late Style.” You can tune in at the zoom link provided at the event website.
Tylus, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature, was inducted into one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious scholarly academies.
FAS Assistant Professor Samuel Hodgkin’s new book shows how the classical Persianate canon shaped the poetry of revolution across modern Eurasia.
The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on April 11, 2024, their appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants, the Class of 2024 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise. As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon...
