Does Translation Have Capital?

Arthur Goldhammer, a senior affiliate at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, will present  “Does Translation Have Capital?: Roundtable with Arthur Goldhammer” at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, in Alumni Recitation Hall, Room 120

Goldhammer’s translation of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century turned the book into a New York Times bestseller and brought attention to questions of inequality. Goldhammer has also translated over 120 French works in literature and the social sciences. 

Join him and Grinnell faculty translators in a discussion of the role of translation, the work of the translator, and the ideas that are shaping American and European politics right now.

The Dept. of French & Arabic and the Wilson Program are sponsoring the discussion. Refreshments will be served.

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