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Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Their Epistemologies A lecture by Richard Foley, NYU Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) Respondent: Jane Tylus (Yale) Should inquiries in the basic sciences and the humanities have different aims? Here are two closely related questions: Are the values informing these inquiries typically different and should they be? In his book, The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, the Humanities, How They Differ,…

Objectivity and the Humanities – Prospects for a New Realism: A Lecture by Professor Markus Gabriel

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

The NYU Department of German and Deutsches Haus at NYU present “Objectivity and the Humanities - Prospects for a New Realism,” a talk by Professor Markus Gabriel. Over the last decades, the humanities have come under pressure from the scientific worldview. To many, it seems as if the humanities provide us at best with less-than-objective knowledge claims. Arguably, there are…

Future Humanities: Translating World Literatures

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City

“Future Humanities” is a public conversation on the stakes, challenges, and rewards of editing and translating premodern texts from the world’s great literary traditions. Mariët Westermann moderates a panel featuring the general editors of six groundbreaking publishing projects that specialize in facing-page translations. Topics of discussion include the parameters and methodologies for establishing parallel-text translation series in Arabic, Chinese, Greek,…