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FRIDAY, JUNE 4

Opening Remarks

Sandra Bermann

Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University; Acting Director, Fung Global Fellows; President, AILC-ICLA

9:40 AM-10:00 AM

A Conversation with Award-Winning Author and Cultural Historian Dr. Saidiya Hartman

with Sandra Bermann, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University; Acting Director, Fung Global Fellows; President, AILC-ICLA

10:00 AM-11:15 AM

Keynote (Plenary)

Break

11:15 AM-11:20 AM

International Publishing

11:20 AM-12:30 PM

Keynote Panel (Plenary) chaired by Christie Henry, Director, Princeton University Press

Break

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Making the World Legible: Some Notes on the Promise of Scholarly Writing

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Workshop (Plenary) with William Germano, Author and Professor of English Literature, The Cooper Union; introduction by Paulo Lemos Horta, Associate Professor, Literature and Creative Writing, NYU Abu Dhabi; Affiliate Faculty, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU; English Secretary, ICLA.

Break

2:30 PM-2:45 PM

Thinking Globally across Disciplines

2:45 PM-3:45 PM

Zoom Interactive Roundtable chaired by Sandra Bermann

One-on-One Discussions between Editors and Scholars (15 min. each)

2:45 PM-5:45 PM

Lightning Rounds

Virtual "Coffee Lounge"

2:45 PM-5:45 PM

Networking Event

SATURDAY, JUNE 5

Virtual "Coffee Lounge"

8:45 AM-9:45 AM

Networking Event

Unequal Literary Worlds

8:45 AM-9:45 AM

Zoom Interactive Roundtable chaired by Marko Juvan

Can the Subaltern be Translated?

8:45 AM-9:45 AM

Zoom Interactive Roundtable chaired by Isabel Gomez

Ideology and the Making of Literary Worlds chaired by Oana Fotache Dubalaru

8:45 AM-9:45 AM

Zoom Interactive Roundtable chaired by Oana Fotache Dubalaru

Break

9:45 AM-10:00 AM

Keynote Address by Jhumpa Lahiri | Three Faces of Translation

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Keynote (Plenary) with Introduction by Karen Emmerich, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Break

11:00 AM-11:20 AM

Publishing in Translation

11:20 AM-12:30 PM

Keynote Panel (Plenary) chaired by Anne Savarese, Executive Editor, Princeton University Press

Break

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

How to Write an Article

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Workshop (Plenary) with Wendy Belcher, Author; Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Department for African American Studies Princeton University; with Introduction by Sandra Bermann

Break

2:30 PM-2:45 PM

One-on-One Discussions between Editors and Scholars (15 min. each)

2:45 PM-5:45 PM

Lightning Rounds

Virtual "Coffee Lounge"

2:45 PM-5:45 PM

Networking Event

Sunday, June 6

Virtual "Coffee Lounge"

8:30 AM-9:30 AM

Networking Event

The Anthropocene, technology and the making of literary worlds

8:30 AM-9:30 AM

Zoom Interactive Roundtable chaired by Youngmin Kim

(Un) Translatibility in Near Eastern Contexts

8:30 AM-9:30 AM

Zoom Interactive Roundtable chaired by Matthew Reynolds

Break

9:30 AM-9:45 AM

Closing Remarks

Sandra Bermann, Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University; Acting Director, Fung Global Fellows Program; President, AILC-ICLA

and

Paulo Lemos Horta, Associate Professor, Literature and Creative Writing, NYU Abu Dhabi; Affiliate Faculty, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU; English Secretary, ICLA

9:45 AM-10:00 AM