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 9th IWL, Opening Day  
July 1-25, 2019



   

 

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 David Damrosch, Opening Lecture  
"‘From Literary Worlds to World  
Literature"



   

 

 

 

 

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 Keynote lecture by Homi Bhabha  
Going Full Animal



   

 

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 Special guest: Robert Coover  
“Huck Out West and In the World”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Opening Dinner



   

 

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 Seminar by Thomas Claviez  
"Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World  
Literature: A Critical Survey”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Special guest: Robert Coover  
“Huck Out West and In the World”



   

 

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 Seminar by David Damrosch  
“Globalization and Its Discontents”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Seminar by Stefano Evangelista  
“Citizens of Nowhere: Writing Cosmopolitanism”



   

 

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 Seminar by Ursula Heise  
“Science Fiction and the Imagination of Planetary Futures”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Seminar by Dominique Jullien  
“Jorge Luis Borges and/as World Literature”



   

 

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 Seminar by Héctor Hoyos  
“World Literature between Historical and New  
Materialism”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Seminar by Venkat Mani  
“Bibliomigrancy: From Empires of Books to Republics  
of Letters”



   

 

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 Seminar by Katharina Piechocki  
“Rethinking World Literature through Cartography  
and the Spatial Turn”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Seminar by Gisèle Sapiro  
“How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?”



   

 

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 Seminar by Mariano Siskind  
About the End of the World: Crises of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture and Theory



   

 

 

 

 

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 Seminar by Delia Ungureanu  
“Localizing Time in World Literature and World  
Cinema”



   

 

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 Seminar by Lawrence Venuti  
“Translation Theory and Practice: Instrumental vs.  
Hermeneutic Models”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Seminar by Rebecca Walkowitz  
“Close Reading and World Literature”



   

 

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 Plenary lecture by Stefano Evangelista  
“Strangeness Overcome:  
Cosmopolitan Identities, international Journals, and World  
Literature around 1900”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Plenary lecture by Ursula Heise  
“Environmental Crisis and the Future of  
the City”



   

 

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 Plenary lecture by Gisèle Sapiro  
“The Role of International  
Literature Festivals in the Making of World Authorship”



   

 

 

 

 

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 Pascale Casanova Panel  
David Damrosch, Gisèle Sapiro, Delia  
Ungureanu



   

 

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 Panel on Publishing  
David Damrosch (ch), Verena Conley, Dominique Jullien,  
Katharina Piechocki, Li Qingben



   

 

 

 

 

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 Colloquia  
Networking with your peers



   

 

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 Closing dinner



   

 

 

 

 

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 Closing dinner  
Cruising and dancing



   

 

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 New adventures ahead  
Belgrade 2020