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From Royal Society to the 2020 Olympics: Transcultural Symbolic Languages

144 Louis A. Simpson Building

Previous translation lectures have focused on the richness of metaphor and the challenges and rewards if affords translators and their readers. Beginning in the seventeenth century a powerful countercurrent has appeared: suspicion of the ambiguity of language and a search for an alternative symbolic system to purify thinking and break down cultural barriers.

Gutenberg & After: Europe’s First Printers 1450-1470

Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery Princeton

Showcasing the rare and unique collections in Princeton's Scheide Library and nine other leading institutions, Gutenberg & After tells the story of the two decades that transformed text production and distribution across Europe. Until December 15, 2019

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