Regional Logics
March 9-10, 2007
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
San Marino, CA
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
9:00 – 9:15 AM – Welcome
Robert Ritchie, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
9:15 – 10:45 AM – Keynote Lecture
Thinking with Regions
Richard White, Stanford University
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Panel
What Is a Region?
Chair: John Bender, Stanford University
Arguing with Regions
John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles
Beyond Global/Local: Regions and the Politics of Scale
Neil Smith, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
12:30-2:00 – Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 PM – Workshop
Measuring the Humanities: Metrics, Assessment, and Advocacy
Victor Bailey, University of Kansas
Wiljan van den Akker, Netherlands Royal Academy of Science
4:00 – 5:30 PM – CHCI Business and New Directors’ Meeting
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
9:00 – 9:15 AM – Opening Remarks
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University and CHCI President
9:15 – 10:45 AM – Keynote Lecture
Civilizational Thinking and its Discontents
Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Panel
Cultural Translation
Chair: Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
Making Scale (Matter): Context, Conjuncture, Problematic and Ontology
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mary Jacobus, Cambridge University
Versioning, Voyaging, Tracing: Rilke and Twombly on the Nile
12:30 – 2:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 PM – Workshop
Situating the Humanities: Spaces, Places, and Adjacencies
Susan Manning, The University of Edinburgh
Michael Steinberg, Brown University
4:00 – 5:30 PM – Panel: Oceanic History
Chair: Iain McCalman, The Australian National University
Literatures, Oceans, Locales
Roland Greene, Stanford University
Is a History of the Indian Ocean Possible?
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles
5:30 PM – Closing Remarks
Marjorie Garber, Harvard University