June 28 - July 8
Helena Buescu, University of Lisbon: "'Doing' Things in World Literature"
Dieter Lamping, Johannes Gutenberg University: "The Diversity of World Literature"
B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees: Borderlines of World Literatures and Global Histories"
Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London: "Exilic Writing and the Making of World Literature"
Dubravka Ugrešić, "The Elusive Substance of Archives"
July 12-22
David Damrosch, Harvard University: "Globalization and Its Discontents"
Stefano Evangelista, Oxford University: "Citizens of Nowhere: Writing Cosmopolitanism"
Françoise Král, Paris Nanterre University: "Literature in a World Perspective : Undoing the Monoglossic Turn"
Natalie Melas, Cornell University: "Figures out of Place: Lyric and Human Difference (or, Race) in the Modern Imperial World System"
Delia Ungureanu, University of Bucharest: "Localizing Time in World Literature and World Cinema"