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Revised schedule (3/25/08):


Thursday, March 27, 2008

6:30-8:30pm, Opening remarks by Xudong Zhang (19 University Place, Great Room).

Reception to follow, food and wine!


Friday, March 28

9:30am, Breakfast (Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, entrance from Sullivan St.)


10-11:30am, Panel, "Variations on the Other". Moderator: Jenny Lee

  • Lauren Grundhofer (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) “Murakami’s Orientalism”
  • May-yi Shaw (Harvard University) "Hometown Abroad: Reconsidering Cultural and Linguistic Identity in Japan through Hayashi Kyoko's Shanghai."
  • Lorraine Wong (NYU) “More than/Not quite the Ethnic Other: The Incomparable Other in Levinas’s Ethics?”



    • 11:30am-12pm, Coffee break


    12-1:30pm, Panel, "Opening Eurocentric Concepts to Comparative Critique". Moderator: Jeannie Miller

    • Shawn Callanan (University of California, Berkeley) "Unsettling Modernity in Sitti Nurbaya"
    • David Larsen (University of California, Berkeley) “Ma'na, Sign and Affect in Classical Arabic Thought: Towards a Comparative Semiotics”
    • On Barak (NYU) “Periodicalizing Egyptian Periodicals: Towards a Comparative Notion of Comparison”



      • 1:30-3pm, Lunch (not provided)


      3-5pm, Panel, "Utopia: Here and There". Moderator: Ellen He. (Deutsches Haus, Conference Room)

      • Kei Hirakura (University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy) “Utopia through Likeness: Godard's Logic of Similarity”
      • Dennitza Gabrakova (University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy) “Reverberations of a Utopian Utterance: Lu Xun, Kenzaburo Oe, Masahiko Shimada”
      • Satoru Hashimoto (University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy) “‘Chinese Modernity’ in Modern Chinese Aesthetics”
      • Kei Yoshida (University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy) “Comparing and Explaining Different Cultures: The Case of Captain James Cook”
      • Misato Ido (University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy) “Gilded Spaces: Creating Spaces with Gilded Folding Screens”


        • Saturday, March 29

        9:30am, Breakfast (Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South, entrance from Sullivan St.)


        10-11:30am, Panel, "Traveling Genre: World Literature and Disciplinarity". Moderator: Tara Mendola

        • Fares Alsuwaidi (Harvard University) "Arid Grounds for Comparison: On the Arabic Desert Novel”
        • Dwaipayan Banerjee (NYU) “Transactions of Affect in a Indian Folk Epic”
        • Stephanie Frampton (Harvard University) “The Afterlife of Guaman Poma de Ayala: New Directions in World Literature”



          • 11:30-12pm, Coffee break


          12-1:30pm, Panel, "Interpreting Histories in Comparison", Moderator: Pu Wang.

          • James Chappel (Columbia University) “The Strange Case of William Playfair: Political Arithmetic, Vision, and the Graphical Method in 18th Century Political Economy”
          • Andy Liu (Columbia University) “Living Comparatively: On the comparisons of India and China in the works of Kang Youwei and Zhang Taiyan”
          • Scott Paul McGinnis (Washington University in Saint Louis) "Historiography and the Shi ji? An Ancient Chinese Text and the Problem of Universal Genre"



            • 1:30-3pm, Lunch (not provided)


            3-4pm, Keynote Address: "Critical Comparability in the Age of 'Classical Turn'", Professor Takahiro Nakajima (Kevorkian Center, NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION).

            4-4:30pm, Coffee break


            4:30-6:30pm, Roundtable discussion with Hala Halim (NYU), Thomas Looser (NYU), Jean-Marie Grassin (Université de Limoges) and Jason Mohaghegh (Northeastern Illinois University) (Deutsches Haus, Conference Room)


            6:30-8:30pm, Closing reception, food and wine!