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On Marx's CAPITAL for the 21st Century - with Translator Paul Reiter

Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CT
Harris Hall, #108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Translator Paul Reitter and editor Paul North will discuss the first new English translation in 50 years of Karl Marx's Capital, Vol. 1, and what it means to have a Marx for the 21st century.

Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to complit@northwestern.edu.

Presented by the Translation in Theory and Practice series of the Program in Comparative Literary Studies and the Kaplan Humanities Institute.

Paul Reitter is the Ohio Eminent Scholar of German and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University. His translations include The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon (Princeton). Paul North is the Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. His books include The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Jill Mannor
(847) 467-3970
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Interest

  • Academic (general)

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