Understanding Archives - The Helix Center

This roundtable focuses on the literature that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic, with panelists discussing their attempts to make sense of the situation through their works.

Sat
Nov 16th
2019

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Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction

Like sympathy, empathy derives from the Greek root pathos meaning “to endure or to undergo.” It was coined in 1909 by a psychologist at Cornell University, Edward Bradford Titchner, who suggested the term as a translation of the German Einfühlung.

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Covid and Literature

Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction