18th Annual Comparative Literature Conference at UofSC
25 - 28 February, 2016
Over the past two or three decades, as global economic and cultural integration has accelerated, academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have begun to re-think what it means to practice an academic discipline in a global context. This shift has had different impacts in different disciplines. This has sometimes meant (re)discovering or inventing new objects of study, acquiring new skills, or even developing new theories and methods. Whatever the case, most disciplines continue to be challenged by the task of making their project a genuinely global one.
The goal of this conference will be to think comparatively across disciplines about this project of “worlding the disciplines.” Can we learn from each other? Can world historians teach scholars of world literature to ask new questions? Can disciplines that have always been transcultural offer lessons to newly-worlding disciplines, and vice versa? What role do culture-specific skills, such as language learning, have to play in global studies? This conference will welcome both paper and panel proposals on these and related questions.
University of South Carolina 18th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
“Worlding the Disciplines”
26-27 February, 2016
Friday, 26 February
Sessions at the Inn at UofSC
10:30-12:30 Session One: Imagined Worlds
Don Wehrs, Auburn University:
Cognitive Constants, Phenomenological Worlds, and Re-Imagining Literary History
Seydina Diouf, University of South Carolina
World literature: listening to the periphery.
Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech:
Continental Gaia
Lunch Break
1:30-3:30 Session Two: Places in the World
Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Finding the Drive To Read (Or Do) World Literature
David Beek, University of South Carolina
The Deathbed Novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes: Regionalism in World Literature
Zhang Jingsheng, University of South Carolina
The Circulation of the Avant-Garde and Its Practices in China in the 1980s
Nicole Simek, Whitman College
Ironic Locations: Bourdieu, Postcolonial Literature, and Anamnesis
4:00-5:30 Plenary Address: Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz
World Scale, World Literature
Saturday 28 February
All Sessions in the Humanities Classroom Building on the UofSC Campus
9:30-11:30 Session Three: Networked Worlds
Anne-Marie McManus, Washington University St. Louis
Falling Short of the World: Networks, Archives, and Oral Histories
Jin Xiang, University of South Carolina
Networking Global Korean Literature in China and America
Bernard Oniwe, University of South Carolina
African Woman, Global Sex: Globalization and Subjectivation in Chika Unigwe’sOn Black Sisters Street
James Mulholland, North Carolina State University
Translocalism, Poetry, and the Problem of Circulation in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Madras
Lunch Break
12:30-2:00 Plenary Address: Jocelyne Guilbault, University of California, Berkeley
The Politics of Musical Bonding: New Prospects for the Study of Worlding Creative Practices
2:15-4:15 Session Four: World Enough in Time?
Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College
The Exilic Palestinian: Difference Otherwise than Being
Luo Dan, University of South Carolina
The Chinese Figure as Political Other in the American Imagination
Jeffrey DiLeo, University of Houston-Victoria
On American World Literature
4:30-6:00 Plenary Address: David Summers, University of Virginia
Art History Worlded?