Book Week 2025!
Join us May 15-21 to celebrate publications of all kinds at the Kaplan Humanities Institute's Book Week 2025! We will honor new books published by Northwestern faculty, engage with translation and translated works, and focus on the process of pitching and prepping manuscripts.
All events take place in Kresge #2-351, the Kaplan Institute Seminar Room.
Kaplan third thursday
New Faculty Books celebration
Thurs., May 15
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Come celebrate the books, edited volumes, and translations that Northwestern humanities faculty have published in the last couple of years! We'll gather with colleagues and friends to ooh and aah the books on display and lift a glass to the accomplishments of scholars from a range of disciplines!
Hot off the Press
Fri., May 16
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch will be served
For our annual Hot Off the Press series, we will host the Northwestern University Press acquisitions team, including Faith Wilson Stein, Marisa Siegel, and Megan Stielstra. The editors will discuss the academic publishing process and offer advice on prepping and pitching manuscripts and book proposals. All faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are invited to attend, though RSVPs are requested.
Please RSVP here: https://forms.office.com/r/k33ybnmVKC
Translation in Theory and Practice
Wed., May 21
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch will be served
More Than Two Things I Want to Say: Khatibi, Translation, and "Being" a "Translator"
A workshop with Matt Reeck, scholar, poet, and translator of French, Hindi, Korean, and Urdu.
The Translation in Theory and Practice series is co-presented with the Program in Comparative Literary Studies.