We’re looking forward to returning to Maine this summer for the Pascal Hall Authors Series, in partnership with the Lesher Family Foundation and Maine Media Workshops + College!

Events are free, but space is limited and registration is required to attend. Each event will begin with cocktails at 5 p.m., followed by the conversation at 5:30 p.m., and a reception and book signing at 6:30 p.m.

Emily Wilson “Translating the Iliad’s Violence”

May 9 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Dr. Emily Wilson will speak on "Translating the Iliad’s violence”.

Organization/Sponsor: Classical Studies Program

Location: 8th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hunter West

Park Avenue, NY NY

Danziger Annual Lecture Series with Emily Wilson

The Department of Classics presents the 2025 Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series with Emily Wilson, College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Translating the Violence of the Iliad

The talk will assess the challenges of interpreting and translating Homeric scenes of violence and massacre. I will suggest that the idea of force as inherently “dehumanizing” runs through influential critical assessments of the poem, including Simone Weil’s famous essay, and is also to be found in several prominent Anglophone translations. I argue that this set of modern ideas about violence is informed by the modern history of warfare and political thought, and is fundamentally different from what we find in the Iliad itself. I treat the central theme of violence as an important test case in the limits and possibilities for understanding and recreating the alien features of ancient poetics and imagination, and I use it to discuss a core challenge of my own work as a translator: how to convey the features of Homer that modern readers may find surprising or even incomprehensible.

Lecture | 4:30

Reception | 6:00

If you have any questions about access or to request a reasonable accommodation that will facilitate your full participation in this event such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text, food options for individuals with dietary restrictions, etc. please contact the event organizer.

Tue, Apr 15, 2025 from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205

Emily Wilson

Portland Arts & Lectures subscription required: SOLD OUT

Thomas More Lecture: War, Homecoming, Heroism, Truth

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:30 p.m., Rehm Library, Smith Hall

Retranslating the Classics with Emily Wilson - 2025 Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

4:00 - 5:00 p.m., Pre-event Reception, foyer of 3rd floor of Old Main

5:00 - 6:00 p.m., Distinguished Lecture in Carson Ballroom, 3rd floor of Old Main

February 27, 2025

Scholars’ Convocation

11 a.m. - Noon

Rosenfield Center 101

Frances A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture presents

An Evening with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson

Join us for an evening of conversation with best-selling author Madeline Miller, author of Circe and Song of Achilles, and Emily Wilson, the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer's Odyssey.

This is a ticketed event.

Saint Mary's College students with ID can attend at no charge. Special discounts are also available for area educators and their students; contact hust@saintmarys.edu for more information. Tickets for this event will be available in early December.

The Annual Ranglas Lecture

Annual Ranglas Lecture: The Glory of Voilence in the Iliad

The Jeannie Hall

9615 Scholars Drive North San Diego, CA 92093

The talk will discuss the representation of war, conflict and honor in the Iliad, considering the relationship between rage and grief. I will also discuss some of the challenges of translating this ancient epic, and consider differences and continuities between ancient and modern attitudes to violence and war.

Guest Speaker: Emily Wilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

The International Poetry Forum has hosted readings by over 800 poets and performers in Pittsburgh, PA, and Washington, D.C., since 1966.

IPF alumni represent more than 50 countries and include nine Nobel Prize laureates, 14 Academy Award recipients, 28 U.S. Poets Laureate, 39 National Book Award winners, and 47 Pulitzer Prize winners—as well as a Princess, a Queen, and a Steelers Super Bowl MVP.

TIME:

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

LOCATION:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

121 Wall Street

New Haven, CT 06511

OPEN TO:

General Public

Emily Wilson with Judith Thurman: The Iliad

Fri, Nov 1 from 3pm - 4pm

at Dock Street Theatre

General Admission

$30.00

plus fees

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Classicist Emily Wilson discusses her new “sparkling and buoyant” translation of The Iliad (New York Times). This effervescent version—a vivid retelling of Homer’s great war story for modern times—conveys the emotional impact of the timeless battlefield epic.

Friday  |  October 18  |  5:45 pm  |  Brookfield Place Terminal

Please join us for a sunset ferry cruise down the Hudson River with readings from The Iliad by Nick Flynn, Eugenia Leigh, Natalie Shapero, Emily Wilson, and friends. The ferry leaves promptly at 5:45pm from the Brookfield Place Terminal, a block from Poets House. Reception to follow in the Margo Viscusi Reading Room.

All proceeds support Poets House.

The 2024 Kardamyli festival will run from Thursday 3rd October to Monday 7th October.

Kardamyli is the Peloponnese’s most beautiful seaside village and was the home of Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor. What better place to stage a festival devoted to all that’s best in the worlds of literature, history and culture?

With just 370 attendees, this is an unmissable chance to join some of the world’s top thinkers within the spectacular seaside charm of Kardamyli in the Greek Peloponnese.

Emily Wilson & Stephen Greenblatt

Friday, September 27, at 3:30 p.m.

Join literary historian Stephen Greenblatt (The Swerve, Second Chances) and scholar-translator Emily Wilson (Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) for a conversation about renewal in literature and life—the vitality of Shakespeare and Greek classics, and the role that the two of them play in animating and elucidating these works for contemporary readers.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024

4:10 pm - 5:10 pm EDT

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Where:Walter E. Washington Convention Center - West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building)

801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Emily Wilsonin conversation withJennifer Saint

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Thursday, 15 August

An Evening with Emily Wilson: Glasgow Sauchiehall Street

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Emily Wilson: A Translation Odyssey

• Wed 14 Aug 14:00 - 15:00

• EFI Venue T

Anton Hur, R F Kuang & Emily Wilson: Found in Translation

Tue 13 Aug 19:45 - 20:45

• EFI Venue NW

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/anton-hur-r-f-kuang-emily-wilson-found-in-translation

Translation and language itself are under the microscope in this panel discussion led by writer, editor, and translator Daniel Hahn. Hear as Anton Hur discusses the complexities of translating contemporary Korean literature; R F Kuang talks about translation as an act of violence at the heart of her speculative novel Babel; and renowned translator and academic Emily Wilson speaks about her groundbreaking translations of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey.

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free to members/$25 nonmembers
Registration required

May 29, 6 pm

Free for members, $15 for nonmembers

THE ATHENÆUM
OF PHILADELPHIA

219 S. 6th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106-3794

This annual event honors the memory of Procope S. Costas, a longtime, beloved professor of classics. The event will begin with the departmental awards ceremony, including the presentation of the Procope S. Costas Memorial Award, followed by Wilson’s talk, “Re-Translating the Iliad: Why and How.” A reception will follow in the Occidental Room, Student Center.

RSVP to rsvp@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Student Center, Room 502, State Room

Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series

Lecture III: The Wisdom of Stories

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 – NEW YORK CITY
6:00 p.m. EDT (US)
St. Bartholomew’s Church, 352 Park Avenue (between 50th & 51st Streets)

Emily Wilson: Reading The Iliad

Date and Time

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 7 - 8 PM

End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.

Location

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Celeste Bartos Forum

Fully accessible to wheelchairs

Tickets available for In-Person & Livestream

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Re-translating Homer: Why and How

Emily Wilson

Professor of Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, April 25

5:15 p.m.

101 Debartolo Hall

"Retranslating the Iliad"

Professor of Classical Studies (University of Pennsylania), Emily Wilson will outline her priorities and approach to retranslating the Iliad. She will discuss how translating ancient literature is different from translating contemporary literature, and the specific challenges of translating ancient metrical verse. She will also contextualize her translation within contemporary scholarly and popular receptions of Homer and compare her translation to others. Finally, she will also discuss how Homeric translation is different from translating other ancient poets.

Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Stern Center Lecture

March 27

5:15 - 6:15pm EDT

Room 50, Gilman Hall

Homewood Campus

3400 North Charles Street

Baltimore , Maryland 21218

Registration is required

This event is free