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Just a reminder!
Please join us in New York City for a Conference sponsored by New York University, Fordham University, and the Modern Language Initiative (a Mellon-funded consortium that includes Fordham University Press, Northwestern University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Virginia Press, and University of Washington Press)
Comparative Modernisms, Medialities, Modernities MAY 4-5, 2012 FRIDAY MAY 4 NYU Silver Center (100 Washington Square East), 1st floor Jurow Hall 9:30 - 10:30 EDITORS PANEL: The Profile of a Press & Comparative Studies Cathie Brettschneider (Virginia Press); J. Michael Dash (NYU) Helen Tartar (Fordham Press); chair: Fred Nachbaur (Fordham) 11:00 - 12:45 MORNING SESSION: When Did the Past Become Modern? Jody Greene (U California-Santa Cruz); Kathleen Davis (Rhode Island); John M. Archer (NYU); chair: Jerome Singerman (U Penn). 2:00 - 3:45 MIDDAY SESSION: Against Modernism Toral Gajarawala (NYU); Ben Tran (Vanderbilt); Joseph Slaughter (Columbia); chair: Fawzia Mustafa (Fordham). 4:30 - 6:00 ROUNDTABLE DIALOGUE: Comparative Modernisms, Global Methodologies Susan Stanford Friedman (U Wisconsin), Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers) SATURDAY MAY 5 FORDHAM Lowenstein (60th Street & Columbus Ave), 12th Floor 9:30 - 10:30 EDITORS PANEL: Publishing Comparative Studies Henry Carrigan (Northwestern U Press); Ed Dimendberg (U California-Irvine); Richard Terdiman (U California-Santa Cruz); chair: William Germano (Cooper Union) 11:00 - 12:45 MIDDAY SESSION: Translating Modernities Susan Gillman (UC-Santa Cruz); Michelle Clayton (UC-UCLA); Crystal Parikh (NYU); chair: Arnaldo Cruz-Malave (Fordham) 2:00 - 3:45 AFTERNOON SESSION: New Media and Literary Theory Lydia Liu (Columbia); Ken Wark (New School); Timothy C. Campbell (Cornell); chair: Emily Apter (NYU) 4:30 - 6:00 KEYNOTE: Languages Other than English Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia); respondent: Kyoo Lee (CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay); chair: Chris GoGwilt (Fordham) Conference sponsored by Fordham University's Comparative Literature Program, New York University's Comparative Literature Department, Fordham University Press, and the consortium of presses participating in the Mellon-funded Modern Language Initiative. | 
