End Date : March 29, 8:00 pm
Maison Francaise
Within the ever-changing landscape of comparative literature in our global society, we think it is particularly pertinent that we come together to dialogue about the current state of our discipline.
PROGRAM
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
9:30 – 11:30 am
Introduction
Jean Howard
Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives
Columbia University
Moderator: Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University)
Dina Al-Kassim (University of California, Urvine)
Laughing Matters: Secularism, Literacy and the Task of the Comparatist
Etienne Balibar (University of California, Urvine)
The Differend of the Universal – Walking with Lyotard, Spivak and Others
Satoshi Ukai (Hitotsubashi University)
Analogy is Not Logos – From Etiemble to Spivak via Some Experiences of Crossing
Borders in East Asia
John Bender (Stanford University)
Rational Choice in Love
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Moderator: Paul Anderer (Columbia University)
Isabel Hofmyer (University of Witswatersrand)
The Perils of Comparative Abolitionism: Gandhi, Andrews and the Abolition of Indian Indentured Labor
Colleen Lye (University of California, Berkeley)
Problems of Asian American Literature
Vicente Rafael (University of Washington)
The Colonial Uncanny: Translation and Theater in the Spanish Philippines
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)
Ethics of Comparison: On Translation and Colonial Difference
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Moderator: Martin Puchner (Columbia University)
Michèle Barrett (Queen Mary, University of London)
Conflicted Languages of War: Aldous Huxley’s ‘Richard Greenow’
David Damrosch (Columbia University)
Philology in the Face of Fascism: Re-examining Auerbach, Curtius, and Spitzer
Cathy Caruth (Emory University)
TBA
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Maison Française (Buell Hall)
East Gallery, (1st Floor)
9:30 – 11:30 am
Moderator: Anupama Rao (Columbia University)
Tom Conley (Harvard University)
Cinema and its Relation to Locational Imaging
Mary Louise Pratt (New York University)
Beyond Translation: Towards a Geolinguistic Imagination
Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine)
The Shadow of Words: Literature’s Transformational Labor in Times of Global Distress
Deborah Elise White (Emory University)
The Burning Library: Hugo’s Question
1:00 – 3:00 pm
Moderating: Rosalind Morris (Columbia University)
Ackbar Abbas (University of Hong Kong)
Comparative Literature: The Hong Kong Case
Clarisse Zimra (Southern Illinois University)
Can We Still Call It Postcolonial? Or What (else) Are We After?
Kasian Tejapira (Thammassat University, Thailand)
The Party as Mother: Ruam Wongphan and the Making of a Revolutionary Metaphor
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Moderator: Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Hendrik Maier (University of California, Riverside)
Stammer in the Margin – Indonesian Literature in the World
Jean Franco (Columbia University)
Outside the Box: The Desire for Writing
Alberto Moreiras (Duke University)
Newness, World Language, Alterity
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Teatro, Casa Italiana (117th & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Capstone Address:
Jonathan Culler (Cornell University)
Whither Comparative Literature
Discussant:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
Moderator:
Rosalind Morris (Columbia University)
