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Hot Takes on Homer! — Northwestern faculty panel

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Kresge Hall, 2351-Kaplan seminar room, 1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Undergrads, grads, faculty, and staff all welcome!

Come enjoy lunch and join in the fun as Northwestern humanities faculty who regularly read, teach, write about, or translate Homeric epic share their rapid-fire “hot takes" on Homer! 

Featuring Germán Campos-Muñoz (Classics); Nava Cohen (Classics & Comparative Literary Studies); Marianne Hopman (Classics & Comparative Literary Studies); Ryan Platte (Classics); Wendy Wall (English); and Will West (English, Classics, & Comparative Literary Studies)

Moderated by Ann Gunter (Art History, Classics, & Humanities)

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

This panel is a pre-event "appetizer" to the November 16 keynote by Daniel Mendelsohn, who will discuss his new translation of The Odyssey at one of the Kaplan Institute's fall Critical Conversations in the Humanities.

Audience

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

Contact

Jill Mannor
(847) 467-3970
Email

Interest

  • Academic (general)
  • Arts/Humanities

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