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Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 2 of 2

A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA

Saturday, May 22, 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Day two of a two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA.

All events are held in 314 Royce Hall.

Panel III (10:00-11:45am)

• Intersecting Discourses of Orientalism: Identity and Modernity in Late Imperial Russia with Leah Feldman, UCLA.
• On the 'Asala of Salafiyya, and 'Almaniyya with Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh.

Panel IV (2:00-4:00)

• Disorienting Transition: 'World Literature in the Eye of 'Development' with Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University.
• Cosmopolitanism in Deep Time with Bruce Robbins, Columbia University.
• Derealizations of the Ideal: Walcott Encounters Seferis with Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University.

Concluding Remarks and Roundtable (4:30-6:00)

• With Paul A. Bove, University of Pittsburgh; Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, University of Pittsburgh; Aamir Mufti, UCLA; Stathis Gourgouris, Columbia University

 

Cost: Free

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
cnes@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes