2019 Harvard
9th IWL, Opening Day
July 1-25, 2019
David Damrosch, Opening Lecture
"‘From Literary Worlds to World
Literature"
Keynote lecture by Homi Bhabha
Going Full Animal
Special guest: Robert Coover
“Huck Out West and In the World”
Opening Dinner
Seminar by Thomas Claviez
"Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World
Literature: A Critical Survey”
Special guest: Robert Coover
“Huck Out West and In the World”
Seminar by David Damrosch
“Globalization and Its Discontents”
Seminar by Stefano Evangelista
“Citizens of Nowhere: Writing Cosmopolitanism”
Seminar by Ursula Heise
“Science Fiction and the Imagination of Planetary Futures”
Seminar by Dominique Jullien
“Jorge Luis Borges and/as World Literature”
Seminar by Héctor Hoyos
“World Literature between Historical and New
Materialism”
Seminar by Venkat Mani
“Bibliomigrancy: From Empires of Books to Republics
of Letters”
Seminar by Katharina Piechocki
“Rethinking World Literature through Cartography
and the Spatial Turn”
Seminar by Gisèle Sapiro
“How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?”
Seminar by Mariano Siskind
About the End of the World: Crises of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture and Theory
Seminar by Delia Ungureanu
“Localizing Time in World Literature and World
Cinema”
Seminar by Lawrence Venuti
“Translation Theory and Practice: Instrumental vs.
Hermeneutic Models”
Seminar by Rebecca Walkowitz
“Close Reading and World Literature”
Plenary lecture by Stefano Evangelista
“Strangeness Overcome:
Cosmopolitan Identities, international Journals, and World
Literature around 1900”
Plenary lecture by Ursula Heise
“Environmental Crisis and the Future of
the City”
Plenary lecture by Gisèle Sapiro
“The Role of International
Literature Festivals in the Making of World Authorship”
Pascale Casanova Panel
David Damrosch, Gisèle Sapiro, Delia
Ungureanu
Panel on Publishing
David Damrosch (ch), Verena Conley, Dominique Jullien,
Katharina Piechocki, Li Qingben
Colloquia
Networking with your peers
Closing dinner
Closing dinner
Cruising and dancing
New adventures ahead
Belgrade 2020