Event Category: FIGS

Zoom, with in-person audience gathering in Cherpack Lounge Professor Grogory Conti will present his new translation of Leonardo Sciascia’s collection of short stories “The Fire in the Sea” and discuss translation strategies with the students with hands on activities. This online lecture is offered in conjunction with Professor Arianna Fognani’s course on Italian Translation (ITAL […]

Class of 1955 (2nd floor, Van Pelt Library) Acclaimed translator of Elena Ferrante’s novels and former editor of the New Yorker, Ann Goldstein is joining the University of Pennsylvania to discuss the new translation of Alba de Céspedes’ Forbidden Notebook, originally published in Italian in 1952. A New York Times Notable Book of 2023, New […]