Special Seminar:
Stream A: “Comparative Literature: The Past Decade”
In this three-day seminar, twelve past presidents of the ACLA and the president of the ADPCL share their perspectives on the developments that the discipline has undergone since the publication of the Heise Report in 2014. The seminar is one of several events sponsored by the Board of ACLA in preparation for the decennial State of the Discipline Report.
Moderator: Waïl Hassan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ACLA President 2020
Panelists:
Day 1 (6/16)
David Damrosch, Harvard University. ACLA 2001 – 2002
“The International American Comparative Literature Association”
Sandra Bermann, Princeton University. ACLA 2006 – 2008
“Translation and Migration.”
Haun Saussy, University of Chicago. ACLA 2009 – 2011
“The Recent Past and Near Future of Comparative Literature: Time-to-Degree as Symptom.”
Françoise Lionnet, Harvard University. ACLA President 2012
“Beyond Compare: Conversation, Juxtaposition, Relation.”
Day 2 (6/17)
Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston. ACLA President 2013
“The Americas, Otherwise: Part 2.”
Eric Hayot, Penn State University. ACLA President 2014
“The End of Literary History?”
Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles. ACLA President 2015
“Jack of all Trades, Master of None.”
Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ACLA President 2016
“Translating Comparative Literature.”
Thomas Beebee, Penn State University. The Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL) President
“Parallel Lives: The ADPCL and the ACLA.”
Day 3 (6/18)
Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University. ACLA President 2017
“World Literature on Fire.”
Emily Apter, New York University. ACLA President 2018
“‘Theory’ in Comparative Literature: Before-Times and Afterlives.”
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University. ACLA President 2019
“Abolish the Doctoral Exams, or ‘We Hardly Talk Anymore’.”
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland. ACLA Vice-President 2021
“Thinking Small: Intra Regional Comparative Studies.”
