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All panels can be accessed via our Digital Meeting Room, linking from there to Webex (desktop or browser).
To access live sessions, please use the password obtained upon registering to enter the Digital Meeting Room.
| Wednesday, 7 July 2021 | |
| 15:45 Berlin (6:45 Los Angeles, 9:45 NYC,10:45 Buenos Aires, 19:15 New Delhi) | Check-in |
| 16:00 Berlin (7:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 NYC, 11:00 Buenos Aires, 19:30 New Delhi) | Conference Opening by the Directors of the EXC 2020 Andrew James Johnston and Anita Traninger and the Conference Organisers Frank Kelleter, Miltos Pechlivanos, and Chunjie Zhang |
| Panel 1: Competing Notions of the Global | |
| 16:30-18:00 Berlin (7:30-9:00 Los Angeles, 10:30-12:00 NYC, 11:30-13:00 Buenos Aires, 20:00-21:30 New Delhi) | Part 1 Moderated by Simon Godart (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020) Chunjie Zhang (University of California, Davis), “World as Method in the Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Perspective” Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020), “What is the ‘Global’ in Global History?” |
| 18:00-19:00 Berlin (9:00-10:00 Los Angeles, 12:00-13:00 NYC, 13:00-14:00 Buenos Aires, 21:30-22:30 New Delhi) | -Break- |
| 19:00-20:30 Berlin (10:00-11:30 Los Angeles, 13:00-14:30 NYC, 14:00-15:30 Buenos Aires, 22:30-00:00 New Delhi) | Part 2 Moderated by Jasmin Wrobel (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020) Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020), “Temporal Communities: Connecting the Dots” Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Universidade de Coimbra), “How the Arts and Literature May Destabilize the Abyssal Line Structuring: The Spatio-temporal Cartography of Western Modernity” |
| Thursday, 8 July 2021 | |
| Panel 2: Constructing ‘Worlds of Literature’ | |
| 14:30-16:00 Berlin (5:30-7:00 Los Angeles, 8:30-10:00 NYC, 9:30-11:00 Buenos Aires, 18:00-19:30 New Delhi) | Part 1 Moderated by Bart Soethaert (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020) Susanne Frank (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, EXC 2020), “Competing Claims to World Literature as Heritage (The Mid-1930s and Beyond)” Jutta Müller-Tamm (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020), “‘One heritage; one future; one city. Two sectors.’ Building International Literary Communities in 1960’s Berlin (East and West)” |
| 16:00-17:00 Berlin (7:00-8:00 Los Angeles, 10:00-11:00 NYC, 11:00-12:00 Buenos Aires, 19:30-20:30 New Delhi) | -Break- |
| 17:00-19:30 Berlin (8:00-10:30 Los Angeles, 11:00-13:30 NYC, 12:00-14:30 Buenos Aires, 19:30-23:00 New Delhi) | Part 2 Moderated by Dustin Breitenwischer (Universität Hamburg) & Samira Spatzek (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020) Aamir Mufti (University of California, Los Angeles), “The Nomos of World Literature” Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University), “English as an Additional Language” David Damrosch (Harvard University), “What Isn’t World Literature?” |
| 19:30-20:15 Berlin (10:30-11:15 Los Angeles, 13:30-14:15 NYC, 14:30-15:15 Buenos Aires, 23:00-23:45 New Delhi) | -Break- |
| 20:15 Berlin (11:15 Los Angeles, 14:15 NYC, 15:15 Buenos Aires, 23:45 New Delhi) | Reading by Sergio Raimondi Hosted by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin Moderated by Susanne Klengel (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020). |
| Friday, 9 July 2021 | |
| Panel 3: Temporalities of the Global | |
| 14:00-16:30 Berlin (5:00-7:30 Los Angeles, 8:00-10:30 NYC, 9:00-11:30 Buenos Aires, 17:30-20:00 New Delhi) | Moderated by Anna Degler (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020) Bernhard Huss (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020), “Global Temporalities Under Construction: Petrarch at Work” Daniel Purdy (Penn State University), “Paris-Weimar and the Worlding of Chinese Novels” Gloria Chicote (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires), “Popular Culture as a Starting Point of the Global: Ibero-American Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century” |
| 16:30-17:30 Berlin (7:30-8:30 Los Angeles, 10:30-11:30 NYC, 11:30-12:30 Buenos Aires, 20:00-21:00 New Delhi) | -Break- |
| Panel 4: Scales of the Global | |
| 17:30-20:00 Berlin (8:30-11:00 Los Angeles, 11:30-14:00 NYC, 12:30-15:00 Buenos Aires, 21:00-23:30 New Delhi) | Moderated by Lindsey Drury (Freie Universität Berlin, EXC 2020) Ban Wang (Stanford University), “Does Tianxia Need the Nation-State? National Passages to Cosmopolitanism” Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), “The Case for a ‘Trans-‘Critical Optic” Harsha Ram (University of California, Berkeley), “World Literature, Urban Scale, and Travelling Genre” |
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20:00 Closing with the Co-Organisers.
