Consequential Encounters: Adriana Babeți Meets America’s Language Wizard
Tue, Jun 21
|Online Event
Americans seen from across the Ocean
Time & Location
Jun 21, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT
Online Event
About The Event
The next episode of “My First American” online series features writer and academic Adriana Babeți, the charismatic popess of Romanian cultural studies and one of the foremost experts in the literary & intellectual history of Central Europe. A consummate polymath doubled by a mesmerizing raconteur, Adriana Babeți reminisces about her boisterous encounter with the much-missed UCLA professor and legendary translator, Michael Heim. English version of the text by Gabi Reigh.
Watch on our Facebook, YouTube, IGTV and Website on Tuesday, June 21, 2 p.m. EST or any time later.
“My First American: Transatlantic Encounters and Portraits” is an online program developed in partnership with the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Bucharest. Next authors in the series: Florin Lăzărescu, Elena Vlădăreanu, and Caius Dobrescu.
Adriana Babeţi is a professor at the West University of Timişoara, associate professor at the University of Bucharest, where she teaches comparative literature, and senior editor…