Priyamvada Gopal, George F. Kennan Member in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies (2023–24), explores how a talk on Austrian composer Franz Schubert’s relationship to translation and writing inspired her to think about similar themes related to her own research on decolonization.
Watch the talk “From Text to Song: Schubert as Translator”
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