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754 Schermerhorn Ext.
Bernard E. Harcourt
Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco
Anna Krauthamer, CCCCT
Daniele Lorenzini, CCCCT
Eileen Gillooly, Heyman Center
Loren Wolfe, Columbia Global Center-Paris
Sarah Monks, ICLS
Shanny Peer, Maison Française
Charleyne Biondi, CCCCT
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University
Columbia Global Center-Paris
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
The Maison Française
The first Uprising 13/13 Extra Seminar. With Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University.
From the start, women’s and gender studies developed along a transatlantic epistemological and geopolitical axis. An interdisciplinary field, they required and fostered difficult conversations between disciplines which had each developed their own conceptual language. They are thus centrally concerned with crossing(s), whether crossing(s) functions as a political goal, a meta-metaphor for the field’s variegated theoretical endeavor, or as the name of a multi-faceted epistemological problem. This workshop focuses on the problem of translation as a form and act of crossing in the geopolitical context of globalization. It asks whether translation, a neo-humanist practice of transnational exchange premised on the irreducibility of idioms and the hospitality to differences can withstand the homogenizing pull of globalization. And it asks what the collapse of differences might do to an intellectual, political and social field whose very “raison d’être” has been and continues to be the excavation of unrecognized or unwanted differences and the promotion of plurality.
To RSVP to this and any other Uprising seminar, and for any questions, email Anna Krauthamer at ak4035@columbia.edu. We look forward to seeing you this year as we explore these questions together.
Check out the Uprising 13/13 sitefor the latest information on the schedule of events.
