
Krasznahorkai and Biagini win 2014 Best Translated Book Awards
The award is the only prize of its kind to honor the best original works of international literature and poetry published in the United States over the previous year.

Best Translated Book Award honored at London Book Fair
The Best Translated Book Award — launched in 2008 by Three Percent, the University’s website for translated literature — is the only prize of its kind to honor the best original works of international fiction and poetry published in the United States.

Devotion, deviance face off in ‘Madame de Sade’
On Thursday, April 24, the International Theatre Program presents the rarely performed Madame de Sade, a work that explores deeply disquieting questions about the nature of suffering and belief.

Symposium explores trouble with ‘Post-Blackness’
The Humanities Project presents a symposium in which 16 distinguished scholars will discuss what it means to be black in the 21st century.

Scholar Kenneth Gross named first holder of Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professorship in English
Kenneth Gross, a Renaissance scholar and professor of English, became the inaugural holder of the Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professorship in English on Friday, April 4.

2014 Day of the Arts showcases street art
Students, faculty, and staff will gather together to celebrate Day of the Arts 2014: Street Art on Friday, April 11. This two-day series will showcase movement, dance, and art executed outside of traditional art venues.

3-day series looks at reporting in the ‘post-feminist’ age
A three-day film and lecture series looks at the work of female journalists, authors, and filmmakers working to bring attention to stories about motherhood in America, sex and sexuality, reproductive rights, and racial inequality.

Nigel Maister is first recipient of Peck Artistic Directorship
Created with a lead gift by University Trustee Janice M. Willett ’78S (MBA) and Joseph T. Willett ’75S (MBA), the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Directorship is endowed thanks to generous contributions from 176 additional University alumni and friends.

Inaugural visiting artist residency begins
Canadian artists Louis Couturier and Jacky Georges Lafargue’s work uses communication, exchange, and observation to create images, site-specific art, sculptures, special events, and multimedia.

Play explores morality, corporate responsibility
The International Theatre Program presents a modern take on one man’s struggle between morality and self-interest in Henrik Ibsen’s dark satire, An Enemy of the People.