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SUMMARY:Creations: Paradise Lost, the Popol Vuh, and the Diné Bahane' in Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:    Hybrid Event: Click HERE to register for the Zoom link.  What happens, what emerges, what is created when the Navajo creation story, the Mayan creation story, and Milton's Paradise Lost are read side by side? University of Chicago professors Edgar Garcia and Tim Harrison will be joined by Paul Zolbrod for a conversation moderated by UIC's Raffi Magarik that considers these questions and invites the audience to compare specific passages from the three works.    Paul G. Zolbrod is Professor Emeritus of English at Allegheny College, and currently lives in New Mexico. He is a scholar, playwright and translator best known for his 1984 translation of the Diné Bahane' (the Navajo creation story). He has just finished a book comparing Paradise Lost and the Diné Bahane' entitled Paradise Revisited, which will appear in print later this year.    Edgar Garcia is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography (Fence Books, 2019), Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictoraphy, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (U Chicago Press, 2020) and, most recently, Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis (U Chicago Press, 2022). He is currently working on a creative reworking of the 16th century, Nahuatl-language Cantares Mexicanos.    Timothy Harrison is Associate Professor of English and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England (U Chicago Press,2020) and his John Donne's Physics will be published in 2024. With Edgar Garcia, he co-taught the course "Creations: Popol Vuh and Paradise Lost" at the University of Chicago.    Raffi Magarik is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published articles on Milton and is the author of The Fictional Bible in the English Renaissance, forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.       | Event post: https://huminst.uic.edu/events?page_id=7418
LOCATION:Institute for the Humanities. Behavioral Sciences Building 1007 W. Harrison St. Suite 153  Chicago IL 60607
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