This Spring we inaugurated our new Center for the Humanities at Tufts with a symposium on “The Art and Ethics of Translation.” On March 6 and 7 the Center hosted five internationally known translators and scholars, including 2007 John D. and Catherine MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole, for a series of lectures and panels.

Later in March on the 26th and 27th, we held a second symposium, “Fashion and Its Discontents,” with the participation of Tufts alumna Jill-Hudson Neal, design editor of the Washington Post, and four Tufts professors who discussed, among other topics, Virginia Woolf’s horror of shopping, and the vogue for all things “Kahlo.”

The symposia are central to our breadth of purpose. We promote innovative, collaborative study in the humanities and arts, and encourage conversation and debate in an effort to reach beyond the borders of a given discipline.

Recent Events:
Fashion and Its Discontents
March 27-28, 2008 - view schedule and participants >

The Art & Ethics of Translation
March 6-7, 2008

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