First half: Monday, June 22 through Thursday, July 2
Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh: "Novels and Their Worlds"
David Damrosch, Harvard: "Grounds for Comparison"
Debjani Ganguly, Australian National University: "The Contemporary World Novel: Hauntings and Mediations"
Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University: "When Literature Meets the World"
Franco Moretti, Stanford University: "Tragedy: Conflict and Form"
Jale Parla, Istanbul Bilgi University: "Fictions of Metamorphosis: Classical, Modern, Postmodern"
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Second half: Monday, July 6 through Thursday, July 16
Helena Buescu, University of Lisbon: "'Doing' Things in World Literature"
Thomas Claviez, University of Bern: "Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature: A Critical Survey"
José Luis Jobim, Universidade Federal Fluminense: "World Authors in Ibero-America: Literary and Cultural Circulation"
Gisèle Sapiro, CNRS and EHESS, Paris: "How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?"
Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary, University of London: "Exilic Writing and the Making of World Literature"
Lawrence Venuti, Temple University: "Translation Theory and Practice: Instrumental vs. Hermeneutic Models"