Comparative Humanities Conference, 27-28 October 2011
Comparative Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conference at Stockholm University / Södertörn University, 27-28 October 2011
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Organisers
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University
Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University
Anna-Pya Sjödin, Södertörn University
Participants and titles
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Barbara Cassin, CNRS, Paris
On translation as paradigm: in praise of a consistent relativism
Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna
A new pluralism in comparative methods and their relevance for critical research today
Naoki Sakai, Cornell University
The locale of comparison and the microphysics of power
CONFERENCE DELEGATES (in alphabetical order)
Cecilia Alvstad, Stockholm University
Translating voice: voice as a travelling concept in the humanities
Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Uppsala University
Social science and social policy, India, Europe, and the empire, 20th century
David Attwell, University of York
Stilted conversations: postcolonial mimesis and postcolonial theory
Gunnel Cederlöf, Uppsala University
International mercantile commerce, law and nature; Bengal, Burma, Yunnan: reframing regions, early 19th century
Bret W. Davis, Loyola University Maryland
The unavoidable dilemma of (comparative) philosophy:
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toward a middle path with the Kyoto School
Bo G. Ekelund, Stockholm University
The production of ambivalent space in anglophone Caribbean fiction
Staffan Ericsson, Södertörn University
Why compare media?
Victoria Fareld, University of Gothenburg
History compared
Heather Goodall, University of Technology, Sydney
Intercolonial interactions: comparative strategies for understanding decolonisation in Australia, India and Indonesia in the eastern Indian Ocean
Paulo Lemos Horta, NYU Abu Dhabi
(title to be announced)
Dan Karlholm, Södertörn University
Levels of comparability: art history as a comparative discipline
Christina Kullberg, Uppsala University
Caribbean ethnographic poetics
Joseph Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross
In search of the strangely familiar
Maria Olaussen, Linnaeus University
Finding the future in the archive: South African expressions of slave memory
Martin Owens
Interpreting Śamkara: creativity and scepticism in comparative philosophy
Mahesh Rangarajan, Delhi University and NMML
(title to be announced)
Sharon Rider, Uppsala University
Comparison, crisis and critique
Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn University
Comparativity: illuminating or imperialising
Madhucchanda Sen, Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University
Kolkata
The Self and the Other and the Inner and the Outer: dissolving binaries
Sverker Sörlin, KTH, Stockholm
Literature for global change
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University
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Cultural intimacy and global dominance: the troubles of finding new grounds for comparison in literature studies
Hubert Timmermanns, Maastricht University
Karl-Otto Apel and his “Transformation der Philosophie”: why comparative philosophy is intercultural communication
Jason Wirth, Seattle University
What is comparative philosophy?