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“The Gift and the Commons: Creativity and the Public Good”

Date: February 4, 4:00pm Location: Templeton Campus Center, Council Chambers

Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination.  He is the author of The Gift (1983) and Trickster Makes This World (1998).  A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing.  Hyde is currently at work on a book about our “cultural commons,” that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to produce, and he is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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