Session 3

Kay Heikkinen has translated several modern Arabic novels into English, including Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura (American University Press, 2014) and Huzama Habayeb’s Velvet (Hoopoe Books, 2019). She is the Ibn Rushd Lecturer of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Agnes Callard is the author of one book, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (Oxford University Press, 2018) and many academic articles in ancient philosophy and contemporary ethics. She writes a column on public philosophy for The Point Magazine. Callard is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Catherine C. Baumann specializes in reading comprehension and language testing. She is a certified language proficiency tester and trainer. Baumann is Director of the University of Chicago Language Center and Director of the German Language Program.

Niall Atkinson’s research focuses on late medieval and Renaissance Italy and the sensory experience of pre-modern urban life through the prism of architecture and space. Currently, he is exploring ways of digitally visualizing early modern urban soundscapes through GIS technology as well as investigating spatial and cultural disorientation in the accounts of Italian travelers. His publications include a monograph entitled The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016).