Events

For over a decade the Translation Symposium has been the intellectual and creative high point of the Oberlin academic year. It is a fast-paced, multilingual event that introduces and celebrates...

"Beautifully Unfaithful: What Makes a Good Literary Translation?” Mark Polizzotti, publisher and editor in chief at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, asks why certain literary...

Why do certain translations sing, while others merely sink? Is a “faithful” translation always best, and what do we even mean by “fidelity”? Can we, and should we, judge...

Please join us for the Weltzheimer/Johnson open house. Designed for the Weltzheimer family in 1948, the house is the first of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian homes built in Ohio and one of the few...

This Sunday Object Talk at the Allen Memorial Art Museum features Walker Shadle ’19, speaking on The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine by Baldassare Peruzzi . Designed for the casual visitor,...

Julia Harbutt ’20 gives a lecture titled ‘‘Contextualizing Degeneracy: Richard Wagner, Paul Klee, and the Degenerate Art Show.’’ Harbutt explores the role of the term...

This Sunday Object Talk at the Allen Memorial Art Museum features Emma Larson speaking on Japanese Satsuma Ware from the late 19th century. Designed for the casual visitor, these sessions focus on a...

Relax in this mindfulness session, facilitated by experienced practitioners, in the exhibition Nature and Nostalgia in Early 20th-Century Art . Open to all Oberlin College students, faculty, and...

Andrea Gyorody, Ellen Johnson '33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Allen Memorial Art Museum curators lead this series of informal morning talks, which provide a focused...

Papermaker Aimee Lee ’99 collaborates with the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) in an afternoon of Asian-themed fun for all ages. Lee is the leading maker and researcher of hanji (traditional...