Humanities in the Village, featuring Brad Harmon, translator of "Who Killed Bambi?"

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Join us for the November edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. We’re thrilled to welcome Brad Harmon as the featured guest, in celebration of the new book he translated: Who Killed Bambi? by Monika Fagerholm. Published to great acclaim in the original Swedish, Who Killed Bambi? weaves together a complex network of causality and consequences as it examines the aftermath of a sexual assault. Fagerholm’s indicting, sharp prose, aptly translated by Brad Harmon, leads the reader back and forth through time, abandoning linear narrative. This kaleidoscopic, elliptical approach shatters the facade of contemporary polite society, examining the sinister forces that attempt to maintain and protect the status quo in the years following a violent event that shocks an entire community. Professor Dora Malech will join Brad Harmon for this exciting conversation. Whether it’s your first time at the series or you’ve been attending for years, we hope you’ll join us to usher this exciting new book into the world!

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