February 10th, 2024 at 2:30PM

Covid and Literature

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.

February 10th, 2024 at 2:30PM

Covid and Literature

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.
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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Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 2:30pm

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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