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8th IWL, University of Tokyo, July 2-26, 2018

Akamon Red Gate

Opening Event: The World of World Literature

Conversation between Pheng Cheah and David Damrosch

Getting together for the opening dinner

... and anticipating our exciting seminars, colloquia, and guest lectures

Christopher Bush, "The Avant-Gardes in the World"

Seminars

Pheng Cheah, "World Literature and Cosmopolitanism in Postcolonial Globalization"

Seminars

David Damrosch, "Globalization and Its Discontents"

Seminars

Ursula Heise, "Science Fiction and the Imagination of Planetary Futures"

Seminars

Mitsuyoshi Numano, "Somewhere in Between: Boundaries, Resonances, and Interactions in Time and Space"

Seminars

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

Seminars

Jing Tsu, "Multi-Scale Literary Studies"

Seminars

Delia Ungureanu, "Localizing Time in World Literature and World Cinema"

Seminars

Zhang Longxi, "From Comparison to World Literature: Readings and Conceptual Issues"

Seminars

Colloquia

Sharing your work and elaborating new projects in a friendly environment

Guest lecture: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

YHCHI G0ES T0 HARVARD (AND THE UNIVERSITY 0F T0KY0! M0M!)

Guest lecture: Yoko Tawada

"A Dream of Multilingual Poetry"

Guest lecture: Motoyuki Shibata

"The Task of the Translator"

Ursula Heise, "The Novel and the City in the Anthropocene"

Plenary Talk

Jing Tsu, “The Cosmic Smalls: Who is at the Center of Literature?”

Plenary Talk

New Japanese Voices. A Conversation with Japan's Leading Young Novelists

Kawakami Mieko, Ono Masatsugu, Hirano Keiichiro

Panel on Publishing

Sean Seeger, Zhang Longxi, David Damrosch, Delia Ungureanu

Panel on the Job Market

Hao Lan, Wiebke Denecke, Marie Ostby, Ben Holgate, David Damrosch

A vibrant intellectual environment

... and the best adventures are yet to come