When: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Where: Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241 Event Type: Workshop
USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, USC Libraries, USC’s Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, and Villa Aurora present:
Gerhard Falkner
POETRY. ENTRANCES AND EXITS
In a conversation with Robert von Hallberg, Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, Falkner will discuss the entrances into and exits from poetry, addressing such topics as the selection of style of language for specific contexts and how the language of poetry makes it possible to say more with less, and the various media outlets, for example film and the performing arts...
When: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Where: Harman Academy for Polymathic Study, DML 241 Event Type:
The Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study is pleased to announce a Polymathic Pizza event with Dick Davis, the finest living translator of Persian literature into English. Dana Gioia, the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at USC, will join Professor Davis in a polymathic conversation on the great Persian poetic legacy. Davis’s translations include Attar’s The Conference of the Birds (with Afkham Darbandi), a book of medieval epigrams (Borrowed Ware), Pezeshkzad’s My Uncle Napoleon, Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, Gorgani’s...
