Hot Takes on Homer! — Northwestern faculty panel
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 |
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
(Location to be announced)
Come enjoy lunch and join in the fun as Northwestern humanities faculty share their "hot takes" on the works of Homer! Flash talks may feature:
• Favorite (or least favorite!) Homer translation
• Thoughts on The Odyssey film (and/or the brouhaha over one translator’s comments about it in the media)
• Dramatic readings of favorite passages/sections
• The “how” and “why” to use multiple (or a single) translations/adaptations in the classroom
• And even why keep translating Homeric Greek?
Presented by the Translation in Theory and Practice series of the Kaplan Humanities Institute and Comparative Literary Studies. Undergrads, grads, faculty, and staff all welcome!
This event 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