Program Overview

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Keynote Address

11 A.M.–Noon

Session 2

2–3 P.M.

Niall Atkinson

Diane Brentari

Hillary Chute

Fred Donner

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

An Enigmatic Papyrus Document from Early Islam

Fred Donner

Sascha Ebeling

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

What Is World Literature?

Sascha Ebeling

Judy Hoffman, Tom Gunning

Gabriel Richardson Lear

Marko Malink

William Nickell

Geof Oppenheimer, Jessica Stockholder, Laura Letinsky, William Pope.L

Haun Saussy

Jennifer Scappettone, John Wilkinson, Peter O'Leary, Vu Tran

Bart Schultz

Civic Knowledge Project / Philosophy

Art Means Business

Bart Schultz

Edward L. Shaughnessy

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Signs of Writing in China

Edward L. Shaughnessy

Staff

Robert Whalen

Session 3

3:30–4:30 P.M.

Orit Bashkin

Catherine Baumann

Steven Collins

Martha Feldman

Frances Ferguson

David Finkelstein

Melissa Gilliam, Patrick Jagoda

Amber Ginsburg

Berthold Hoeckner

Dorothea Hoffman

W.J.T. Mitchell

Gina Olson, Linda Zerilli, Monica Mercado

Eric Slauter

Staff

Richard Strier, Rosanna Warren, Sarah Nooter, Srikanth Reddy

Candace Vogler