2023 Seminars

July 5-13                                                                            

Thomas Claviez (University of Bern), "Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature: A Critical Survey"

David Damrosch (Harvard University), "Globalization and Its Discontents"

Simon Gikandi (Princeton University), "Decolonization and World Literature"

Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), "What Is a Classic? The Aesthetics of Postcolonial and World Literature"

Mariano Siskind (Harvard University), "About the End of the World: Crises of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture and Theory"

Delia  Ungureanu (University of Bucharest), "The Undiscovered Country: Visionaries of Another World"

Lawrence Venuti (Temple University), "What Is Translation? Theory, Practice, Value"

July 17-27

David Damrosch (Harvard University), "Globalization and Its Discontents"

Jérôme David (University of Geneva), "Historicities of World Literature"

Emily Greenwood (Harvard University), "Fugitive Black Classics in World Literature"

B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Tales of Unsettlement: Refugees and/ in World Literature"

Stephen Owen (Harvard University), "The Problem of the Premodern"

Jessica Pressman (San Diego State University), "Digital Literature: Histories, Theories, Methods"

Shaden Tageldin (University of Minnesota), "World Literature and the Haunts of Comparison"