July 4-14
Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, "Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature: A Critical Survey"
Dieter Lamping, Johannes Gutenberg University: "The Diversity of World Literature"
B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Tales of Unsettlement: Refugees and / in World Literature"
Dubravka Ugrešić, "The Elusive Substance of Archive"
Lawrence Venuti, Temple University: "What is Translation? Theory, Practice, Value"
July 18-28
Helena Buescu, University of Lisbon: "'Doing' Things in World Literature"
David Damrosch, Harvard University: "Globalization and Its Discontents"
Stefano Evangelista, Oxford University: "Citizens of Nowhere: Writing Cosmopolitanism"
Françoise Král, Paris Nanterre University: "Worlding in Tongues: World Literature and the Polyglot Turn"
Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary University of London: "Exilic Writing and the Making of World Literature"