In Conversation. Karen Van Dyck speaks with Souleymane Bachir Diagne: mutuality and unexpected collaboration in translation

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Karen Van Dyck

Karen Van Dyck is Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature at Columbia University. Her publications include Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, and Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Senegalese philosopher and Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University. His publications include African Art as Philosophy. Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude, The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition, and Postcolonial Bergson.