Tuesday, April 15, 2008
6:00 pm
Sanders Hall, 212
Daniel Mendelsohn, award-winning author and the Chares Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College is the Doctor Maurice Sitomer 2008 lecturer . Mendelsohn, the author of "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" will speak about his book and the writing of "Lost," as well as "The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity" (Knopf, 1999; Vintage 2000); "Gender and the City in Euripides' PoliticalPlays " (Oxford University Press, 2002), and is currently working on a new translation of the complete works of the modern Greek poet C. P. Cavafy. Summer 2008 his collection of essays "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken" will be published by HarperCollins. Mendelsohn is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1984 Mrs. Arlene Sitomer honored her husband by endowing the Dr. Maurice Sitomer Lecture Fund. The income of the endowment is used to invite to Vassar College, speakers who enlighten, inspire, and encourage understanding of Jewish culture and concerns.
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