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When comparative linguistics was born in the 19th century, scholars explained the distribution of Indo-European languages by population dispersal: as PIE-speakers migrated into different regions of Eurasia, they lost contact and their speech diverged, producing the various branches of the family. This model still underwrites an approach to Greek culture which explains its resemblances to other IE-speaking […]

An unnamed man (probably Friedrich Schlegel) cuts out silhouettes of himself to give away as party favors. So begins the longest fragment (#336) to appear in the programmatic Early Romantic Athenäumsfragmente of 1798, one that is attributed to theologian and philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher. Papercutting is hidden in plain sight at the center of German Romanticism’s […]

Register here: https://forms.gle/FTujJWYE78hq1DdH6 Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley) will deliver the Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture in Literature. Sponsored by: The Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and The English Department

Michael F. Moore in conversation with Yiyun Li (Princeton University) on Moore's new translation of The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni. The talk will explore how Moore brought a 19th-century Italian historical novel into modern American English, and the startling relevance of this text today. Please complete the Registration Form to attend this event.

Poet, educator, scholar, and art activist Jonah Mixon-Webster, whose debut poetry collection, Stereo(TYPE), received the PEN America/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, reads from his work along with four creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative […]

This event is part of “Love, That’s America,” the Fall 2022 UCHV Film Forum.