BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Martin Puchner\nAuthor of CULTURE: The Story of Us\n\nSept. 28\ , 7:30pm\nEllis Hall 1st floor lounge\n\nCo-hosted by the English Departmen t\, the Honors Tutorial College and the College of Fine Arts. \n\nProfessor Martin Puchner will be speaking about his recent book\, Culture: The Story of Us\, which tells a global history of culture that raises fundamental qu estions about how culture works\, and how different cultures should relate to one another\, on September 28 at 7:30pm in the first-floor lounge at Ell is Hall. \n\n— Limited number of free copies of Puchner's book will be avai lable for attendees. \n\nSPEAKER BIO:\n\nMartin Puchner\, the Byron and Ani ta Wien Professor at Harvard University\, is a prize-winning author\, educa tor\, public speaker\, and institution builder in the arts and humanities. His writings range from philosophy and theater to culture and technology an d have been translated into many languages. Through his best-selling Norton Anthology of World Literature and his HarvardX MOOC Masterpieces of World Literature\, he has brought four thousand years of literature to audiences across the globe.\n\nPuchner's book\, The Written World\, which tells the s tory of literature from the invention of writing to the Internet\, has been widely reviewed\, has been translated into some twenty languages\, and app eared on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.\n\nIn hundreds of lecture s and workshops from the Arctic Circle to Brazil and from the Middle East t o China\, he has advocated for the arts and humanities in a changing world. \n\nAt Harvard\, he has instituted these ideas in a new program in theater\ , dance and media as well as in the Mellon School of Theater and Performanc e Research.\n\nAmong his prizes are a Guggenheim Fellowship\, fellowships a t the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and at the Cullman Center at t he New York Public Library\, the Berlin Prize\, and the 2021 Humboldt Prize . He is a permanent member of the European Academy. \n\nLearn More: https: //www.martinpuchner.com/ DTEND:20230929T010000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T073513Z DTSTART:20230928T233000Z GEO:39.325781;-82.099386 LOCATION:Ellis Hall\, 1st floor Lounge SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Author: Martin Puchner [CULTURE: The Story of Us] UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_44260438789940 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/author_martin_puchner END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR