C2: Traveling Narratives

Seminar Leader: Dominique Jullien, Columbia University

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Grande Ballroom 2

Dominique Jullien, Columbia University: “Cosmopolitan Borges”

Margarita Marinova, University of Texas – Austin: “‘Innocent’ Nomads: Encounters Between Russia and America in Travel Narratives from the 1860s and 1870s”

Pravina Cooper, California State University – Long Beach: “Culturalist Critique in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children”

Stephanie A. Glaser, University of Copenhagen: “‘The Genius of the Race’: The Gothic Cathedral as Index of Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Europe”

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Grande Ballroom 2

Rachel Trousdale, Agnes Scott College: “‘God Makes Hungry, the Devil Thirsty’: Nabokov, Rushdie, Multilingualism, and the Search for Home

Karen Douglas Alexander, Baylor University: “Early Modern Models: The Cosmopolitans Quevedo, Donne, and Sor Juana”

Peng Hsiao-yen, Academia Sinica: “Dandyism and Cosmopolitanism: Paris, Tokyo, Taiwan, and 1930s Shanghai”

Nirvana Tanoukhi, Stanford University: “The Scale of World Literature”