The sixth Institute for World Literature meets between June 20 -- July 14, 2016 at Harvard. The plenary lectures by our IWL faculty, the Keynote Lecture by Homi Bhabha, as well as the panel sessions are open to the public:
Keynote Lecture, Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 4:30-6:00pm
July 6: Homi Bhabha (Harvard), “The Internal Emigrant: or, Who Is at Home in the Humanities?”
Plenary Lectures: Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 4:30-6:00pm:
June 20: David Damrosch (Harvard): “What Isn’t World Literature? Problems of Language, Context, and Politics”
June 27: Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers), “Reading Both: Literary History and the Monolingual Model”
July 4: Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS and CNRS), “Authorship in Transnational Perspective: World Literature in the Making”
July 11: Mariano Siskind (Harvard), “Dislocating France: Comparative Modernisms and Cosmopolitan Distance”
Panel sessions: Harvard-Yenching Auditorium, 4:30-6:00pm:
June 29: Panel on Publishing:
David Damrosch (ch), Paul Bandia, Eric Hayot, Lital Levy, Bruce Robbins
July 13: Panel on Jobs:
David Damrosch (ch), Paul Giles, Gisèle Sapiro, Jing Tsu