
Seattle Arts and Lecturess (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Town Hall Seattle—The Great Hall
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
Town Hall Seattle—The Great Hall
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
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
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)
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
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