Seminars

June 29 – July 9

  1. Mita Banerjee (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), Diagnosing Difference: Situating the Body in World Literature
  2. Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Southern Imagining: how to read "south" and why it matters
  3. Kader Konuk (TU Dortmund University), Before the Law: Literature and Critical Legal Studies
  4. B. Venkat Mani (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Tales of Unsettlement: Exile, Forced Migration, and Refuge in World Literature
  5. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), What Is a Classic? The Aesthetics of Postcolonial and World Literature
  6. Lawrence Venuti (Temple University), What is Translation? Theory, Practice, Value

 

July 13– 23

  1. Thomas Claviez (University of Bern), Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature: A Critical Survey
  2. Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford), Writing Cosmopolitanism: World Literature, World Citizenship
  3. David Damrosch (Harvard University), Globalization and Its Discontents
  4. Francesca Orsini (SOAS), The Magazine and World Literature
  5. Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary, University of London), Exilic Writing and the Making of World Literature
  6. Delia Ungureanu (University of Bucharest), The Undiscovered Country: Visionaries of Another World