This year’s “Comparative Literature in Dialogue” biennial conference focuses on the relation of people to books and books to people. It explores how books have shaped human lives and how people have shaped books, from the history of the book to the future of reading, from authorship to readership, from the materiality of books to the immateriality of texts. The conference will address fundamental questions about the nature and function of books and reading, their cultural and social roles, and their political and historical relevance in literary and non-literary contexts.
Addresses by: Gil Anidjar (Columbia)
Guests include:
Talal Asad (CUNY)
Emily Apter (NYU)
Eduardo Cadava (Princeton)
Patricia Crone (IAS)
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia)
Michael Foucault (Rutgers)
Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia)
Leela Gandhi (Brown), and many more.
Sponsored by: The Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Office of the Dean of Humanities, Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University Libraries, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and others.