Department of Classical StudiesKate Meng Brassel moderates a discussion between Jhumpa Lahiri and Ramie Targoff on "Reception, Tradition, and Translation" hosted by the US Ambassador at the Villa Taverna in Rome.
Description: Reception and tradition are two sides of the same coin: the way culture lives over time. In this conference, itself built around a four-day residency of scholars at the American Academy in Rome—a minireception of its own—we will explore different aspects of this activity. Our aim is not so much to define or redefine something that has engaged many and greater minds for a long time—what is the idea of a “renaissance” without an underlying one of “reception”?—but rather to show how it operates constantly and everywhere, up to our own day, and across the familiar and unfamiliar corners of our territory.
Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNiEU8zE_B0.