Program Overview
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Keynote
Session I
Michael Bourdaghs
East Asian Languages & Civilizations
1950: The Year "Tokyo Boogie Woogie" Crossed the Pacific
Michael BourdaghsBenjamin Callard
Christopher A. Faraone
Philip Gossett
Alison James
Michèle Lowrie
Kaley Mason
Steven Rings
Lawrence Rothfield
English Language & Literature/Comparative Literature
Antiquities Under Siege: Baghdad, Cairo, and Libya
Lawrence RothfieldHaun Saussy
Comparative Literature
The Memory Man Visits the Land of Amnesia: Maurice Halbwachs at the University of Chicago
Haun SaussyOlga Solovieva
Staff
Ulrike Stark
South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Experimental Field, Laboratory of Modernity: The Beginnings of Popular Education in Colonial India
Ulrike StarkJessica Stockholder
Rebecca West
Romance Languages & Literatures/Cinema & Media Studies
Rudolph Valentino: The First "Latin Lover"
Rebecca WestSession II
E. Annamalai
South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Survival of Multilingualism in the New Economy in India
E. AnnamalaiShadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Orit Bashkin
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
An Exodus? Why did the Jews Leave Iraq in the 1950s?
Orit BashkinPhilip Bohlman
Diane Brentari
Alain Bresson
Raúl Coronado
English Language & Literature
Revolutionary Catholic Political Philosophy? Print Culture and the Independence of Latin America from Spain
Raúl CoronadoMatthew Jackson
Anne Leonard
Salikoko Mufwene
Bart Schultz
Civic Knowledge Project/Philosophy
Empowering the Poor through the Humanities: Reflections on the Worldwide Clemente Course in the Humanities
Bart SchultzStaff
Malynne Sternstein
Slavic Languages & Literatures
“Hooliganism” and the Art of East European Dissent
Malynne SternsteinGary Tubb
South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Dreaming and Waking: Sanskrit Stories of Delusion and Freedom
Gary TubbCandace Vogler
David Wellbery
Session III
Ted Cohen
Lenore Grenoble
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Endangered Languages: The World’s Languages in Crisis
Lenore GrenobleJason Grunebaum
South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Hindi Boot Camp: Learn the Devanagari Alphabet in One Hour
Jason GrunebaumChris Kennedy
Gabriel Lear
Alice McLean, Ana Maria Lima
Romance Languages & Literatures
How Best to Learn a Foreign Language? The Case of Brazilian Portuguese
Alice McLean, Ana Maria LimaDeborah Nelson
English Language & Literature
Around 1948: Global Realignments in Politics and Culture
Deborah NelsonWilliam Nickell
David Schloen, Miller Prosser
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Using Computers to Help Scholars Have Good Arguments: An Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment
David Schloen, Miller ProsserMatthew W. Stolper
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Recording Persian Antiquities in Crisis: An Update on the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project
Matthew W. StolperAugusta Read Thomas
Jennifer Wild
Leila Wilson, Megan Stielstra , Rachel DeWoskin
Committee on Creative Writing
The Art of Writing through Reading
Leila Wilson, Megan Stielstra , Rachel DeWoskinDavid Wray, Hilary Strang
Open Houses
Hoyt Long, Niall Atkinson, Peter Leonard, Richard Jean So
East Asian Languages & Civilizations