Seminars

June 28 – July 8

  1. Mita Banerjee (University of 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 (Technical University Dortmund), "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 12 – 22

  1. Thomas Claviez (University of Bern)," Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism and World Literature: A Critical Survey"
  2. David Damrosch (Harvard University), "Globalization and Its Discontents"
  3. Stefano Evangelista (Oxford University), "Writing Cosmopolitanism: World Literature, World Citizenship"
  4. Francesca Orsini (SOAS, University of London), "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"