CONFERENCE: UCSB Conference on World Literature
Foundational Texts: Translation, Circulation, Diffusion and Adaptation
Wednesday, November 18-Friday, November 20
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB & UCen Flying A Studio
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This conference focuses on canonical or sacred texts -- from Homer’s Odyssey to Murakami’s Genji, from Cervantes to Mayan hieroglyphs, from Dante to Coetzee, from Goethe to Glissant, from the Thousand and One Nights to Jorge Luis Borges -- in a global perspective: how they are translated, appropriated, transformed, how they travel across different cultures and languages, their foundational status evolving accordingly in a post-European world.
Organized by Dominique Jullien, Aboubakr Chraïbi & Paulo Lemos Horta
PROGRAM
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
HSSB Building, UCSB
McCune Conference Room (6th Floor)
9:30-11:00
Chair: Helen Morales (UCSB)
Piero Boitani (Università La Sapienza, Rome): “World Literature 2000 Years Ago and After”
Suzanne Saïd (Columbia University): “Homer: a world writer and his creature”
11:00 – 11:30
Break
11:30-1:00
Chair: Stefania Tutino (UCSB)
Peter Madsen (Copenhagen University): “Liberating Jerusalem - defending Europe: Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata and its role in Central and Eastern Europe in the age of the Turkish Fear”
Jon Snyder (UCSB): “The Writing of the World: the Baroque as planetary aesthetic”
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Rita Raley (UCSB)
Stefan Helgesson (Uppsala University): “The Wondrous Travels of the Post-Europeans, or, Can there be “Foundational Texts” in World Literature?”
Eric Prieto (UCSB): “World Literature, Littérature-monde, and Tout-monde: Foundational Texts in the Anti-Foundational Thought of Edouard Glissant”
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (University of Aarhus): “Subversive Foundations: Cervantes, Montaigne, Shakespeare and the Imported Canon”
5:00 – 5:30
Break
5:30
Keynote Address # 1
“In the light of Translation: Some Insights from Dante’s Commedia”
Sandra Bermann (Princeton University)
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
HSSB Building, UCSB
McCune Conference Room (6th Floor)
10:00-11:15
Chair: Paulo Lemos Horta (Simon Fraser University)
Efraín Kristal (UCLA) & Suzanne Jill Levine (UCSB): “Borges and/on Translation”
Juan Pablo Lupi (UCSB): “Lezama Lima and the Allegories of World Literature”
11:15-11:45
Break
11:45-1:00
Chair: Ron Egan (UCSB)
Michael Emmerich (UCSB): “A New Planet: The Tale of Genji as World Literature”
Evanghélia Stead (Université de Reims, France): “East and West of Arachne:
Worldwide Tales with respect to the Latin Tradition”
3:00-4:30
Chair: Dwight Reynolds (UCSB)
Wen-chin Ouyang (SOAS, London): “Tammuz in love: travels and transformations of an ancient myth in modern Arabic poetry”
Richard Van Leeuwen (Amsterdam University): “The Thousand and One Nights as a canonical text”
430- 5:00
Break
5:00
Keynote Address # 2
“Foundational Translations: The Worldly Origins of National Classics”
David Damrosch (Harvard University)
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
University Center, UCSB
Flying A Studio (1st Level)
9:30-11a.m.
Chair: Wolf Kittler (UCSB)
Gerardo Aldana (UCSB) “Cosmic Sacrifice: hieroglyphic, alphabetic, and iconographic translations of a Mesoamerican Creation narrative”
Ulrich Marzolph (Göttingen University): “The repercussion of the Alexander-Romance in the languages and literatures of the Near East”
Azadeh Yamini Hamedani (Simon Fraser University): “The Inception of a World Literature: On Goethe’s Life with Hafez”
11:00 – 11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Closing remarks and Future Projects: Aboubakr Chraïbi, Paulo Lemos Horta & Dominique Jullien
SPONSORED BY
UCSB Series in Contemporary Literature
UCLA Comparative Literature Department
French Cultural Services
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humaities Center
UCSB Consortium for Literature, Culture, & Theory
UCSB English Department
UCSB East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies Department
UCSB Chicana/Chicano Studies Department
UCSB German, Slavic & Semitic Department & Program in Comparative Literature
UCSB Center for Middle Eastern Studies
UCSB Spanish & Portuguese Department UCSB Classics Department
