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