Lerner Hall
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference.
PROGRAM
8:30–9:00 Breakfast (Satow Room)
9:00–10:30 Keynote address – Dominick LaCapra (Satow Room)
10:45–12:30 Faculty Round Table – Methods of a New Comparativism (Satow Room)
Roald Hoffman, Rosalind Morris and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Moderator: Stathis Gourgouris
12:30–1:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions A: Room 568, Lerner Hall
1:30 – 3:15 Disciplines in Dialogue
“Soliciting the Court: Difference and Deferral in Literature and the Law,” Alicia Gibson, University of Minnesota
“Readings in Parallax: Blurs and Drifts of a Comparative Method,” Julien Bismuth, Princeton University
“Helping the Data Speak: Reading the Marketplace in Egypt across Literary and Economic Texts,” Mara Naaman and Alex Peterhansl, Columbia University
Moderator: Brent Edwards, Rutgers University
3:15 – 5:00 Border Crossings
“Claiming Domains: A Critical Analysis of East Asian Area Studies,” Robin Orlansky, University of Pennsylvania
“Subaltern Horizons in World Literature and the Law of Genre,” Firat Oruc, Duke University
“Comparative Literature: a Model of A-disciplinarity,” David Marno, Stanford University Moderator: Valerie Henitiuk, University of Alberta
Afternoon Sessions B: Room 569, Lerner Hall
1:30 – 3:15 Crises and Responses
“Morts et réincarnations: A Complete History of Reception Theory (Abridged),”Joe Culpepper, University of Toronto
“Comparativism as an Art Form,” Rifat Yalman, City University of New York
“Toward a Newer Comparativism: Charting the Course for Comparative Literature at a State University,” Will Nolan, Carrie Matthews and Heather Hracs, UNC, Chapel Hill
Moderator: Michael Eskin, Columbia University
3:15 – 5:00 The Ends of Secularism
“The Secularization of American Culture,” Jordan Stein, Johns Hopkins University
“Betraying Hagiography: On the Sub-Versions of the Messiah,” Chris Garces, Princeton University
“Contrapuntal Elaborations: Music, Literature, and Nationhood,” Allyson Salinger, University of Southern California
Moderator: Neni Panourgia, Columbia University
5:00-5:15 Coffee Break
Evening Sessions A: Room 568, Lerner Hall
5:15 – 7:00 Media of Comparison
“Interdisciplinarity and the Visual Construction of the Social,” Alejandra Uslenghi, New York University
“Unheard Methodologies: A Semiotics of Sound in (Audio)-Visual Culture,” Brian Smith, Emory University
“The Double Exposures of Exile: Photography, Text, and Genre in Douglass and Sebald,” Julia Faisst, Harvard University
Moderator: Brian Larkin, Barnard College
Evening Sessions B: Room 569, Lerner Hall
5:15 – 7:00 Geographies of Comparativism
“The Residual Visual Topos of the Second World,” Tim Kaposy, McMaster University, Canada
“Re-reading Planetarity: On The Political Construction of the Universal,” Mariano Siskind, New York University
“…A Mongrel Approach To Planetarity,” Joseph North, University of New South Wales, Australia
Moderator: Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
7:15pm Reception, Heyman Center for the Humanities, East Campus, Columbia University
