In Memory of Srinivas Aravamudan
Area Studies in a Globalizing World: Past, Present, Future explored the transformation of regional knowledge in the context of increasingly globalized humanities networks. The meeting’s theme reflected the understanding that a global approach – one that sets out from the acknowledgement of multiple languages, cultural conditions, and institutional formations – affects all aspects of scholarship in the humanities. The ongoing urgency of regional expertise, the need for translation and related questions of translatability, and the precarious state of linguistic diversity were central areas of inquiry. Roundtables and workshops also considered the relations between government agencies, scholarly societies, private foundations, and universities. London, the site of this year’s annual meeting, is a key location for the convergence of professional, governmental, and academic worlds, both today and in the past. The meeting drew upon these resources, convening scholars and government leaders in order to consider the place of regional work in the time of globalization.
Area Studies in a Globalizing World: Past, Present, Future emerges within the context of CHCI’s ongoing project of internationalization and the formation of regional humanities networks in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and Latin America. This annual meeting was dedicated to the memory of Srinivas Aravamudan, former president of CHCI, whose vision for CHCI as a leading voice in the global humanities transformed the organization. The meeting recognized the promise of his vision and offered a further step towards fulfilling it.
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Program
Last updated: 18 June 2016
Draft of meeting schedule; subject to change
Sessions were held at Beveridge Hall, Senate House, unless otherwise indicated.
Coffee breaks, lunches, reception, and dinners were held at Macmillan Hall, Senate House, unless otherwise indicated.
| TUESDAY, 28 JUNE 2016 | |
| 9:00 AM | Registration Crush Hall, Senate House |
| 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM | New Directors Meeting Chair: Michael Bérubé, Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University |
| 11:00 AM | Welcome and Introduction Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and Deputy Dean, School of Advanced Study Sara Guyer, President, CHCI |
| 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM | Workshop: The Challenges that Humanities Center Directors Face Catarina Antunes Gomes, Researcher and Coordinator, Centro de Estudos Sociais, Agostinho Neto University Robert Newman, President, National Humanities Center Kerill O'Neill, Director, Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colby College Adrian Parr, Director, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati Chair: Helmut Muller-Sievers, Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 – 4:00 PM | Workshop: Funding, Fundraising, Foundations Bill Abraham, Director of Development, University of London Pablo Oyarzún, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chile Rick Rylance, Director, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study; former Chief Executive of the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council Eugene M. Tobin, Senior Program Officer, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair: Judith Buchanan, Director, Humanities Research Centre, University of York |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Coffee |
| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | Opening Plenary: Toward a Worldly Philosophy Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley Aristides Baltas, Minister of Culture and Sports of Greece; President of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute Introduction by Rosi Braidotti, Director, Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University |
| 6:00 – 8:00 PM | Conference Reception (open to all registrants) Macmillan Hall Welcome address by Roger Kain, Dean and Chief Executive, School of Advanced Study |
WEDNESDAY, 29 JUNE 2016 | |
| 8:00 AM | Registration Crush Hall, Senate House |
| 8:15 – 9:15 AM | Network Meetings |
| 9:15 AM | Welcoming Remarks: Area Studies in a Globalizing World and the Project of CHCI Sara Guyer, President, CHCI |
| 9:30 – 10:30 AM | Plenary: Creolizing the Humanities: Studying English as a Global Language Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics and English, Pennsylvania State University Introduction by Catherine Davies, Director, Institute of Modern Language Research, School of Advanced Study |
| 10:30 — 11:00 AM | Coffee |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Workshop: Beyond the University: Envisioning Regional, National, and Global Projects Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African Studies, University of Ghana Ian Baucom, Dean, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia J D Hill, Research Manager, British Museum Diogo Sardinha, President, Collège International de Philosophie (France) Chair: Andrew Hussey OBE, Director, Centre for Post-Colonial Studies, School of Advanced Study |
| 12:30 – 12:45 PM | Address by Dr. Josephine Ojiambo, Deputy Secretary-General (Political), Commonwealth of Nations Introduction by Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and Deputy Dean, School of Advanced Study |
| 12:45 – 1:45 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 – 2:15 PM | CHCI Business Meeting (all are welcome) Beveridge Hall |
| 2:15 – 3:30 PM | Panel: Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Sustainability: Protecting the Local, Enriching the Global Susana Torres Prieto, Professor of Humanities, IE University, "Pushkin's 'inexplicable feeling': Current Linguistic Diveresity in Former Soviet Republics" Javier Durán, Director, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, University of Arizona, "Cultural Apartheid and the Criminalization of Knowledge: The Case of Arizona" Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin, "Bilingual Manoeuvres and Monolingual States: Making the Interpreter Visible" Chair: Premesh Lalu, Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape |
| 3:30 – 3:45 PM | Coffee |
| 3:45– 5:30 PM | New Formations in the Humanities: International, Transdisciplinary Collaborations John McGowan, Professor of Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Coordinator of the CHCI-Mellon collaboration on "Medical Humanities" Tyrus Miller, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Coordinator of the CHCI-Mellon "Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Training" (IGHERT) project Chair: James Chandler, Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago |
| 6:15 – 8:00 PM | Memorial for Srinivas Aravamudan Senate House |
THURSDAY, 30 JUNE 2016 | |
| 8:15 AM | Registration Crush Hall, Senate House |
| 8:30 – 9:30 AM | Network Meetings Network for Liberal Arts Colleges and Small Universities within CHCI (Room G34) Chairs: Mary Foskett, Director, Humanities Institute, Wake Forest University; Shuchi Kapila, Director, Center for Humanities, Grinnell College Digital Humanities Network (Room G26) Chairs: Tim Murray, Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University; Kathleen Woodward, Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington |
| 9:30 – 10:30 AM | Plenary: Why Does Area Studies Matter? Baroness Valerie Amos, Director of SOAS, former Secretary of State for International Development Introduction by Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and Deputy Dean, School of Advanced Study |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM | Coffee |
| 11:00 – 12:30 PM | Panel: Non-European Classics: Literary Studies and Area Studies Ziad Elmarsafy, Head of the Department of Comparative Literature, King's College London James Ogude, Deputy Director and Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, “African Classics and the Colonial Archive: A Reading in Layered Forms of Translation” Phiroze Vasunia, Professor of Greek, University College London, “How We Lost the Classics, in India, for Example” Chair: Simon Goldhill, Director, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge |
| 12:30 – 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:30 PM | Plenary: Literary Translation and Non-European Classics Sheldon Pollock, Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies, Columbia University Introduction by Debjani Ganguly, Director, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia |
| 2:30 – 4:00 PM | Roundtable: National Organizations, Regional Projects, Global Contexts Tony Chafer, President of the UK Council of Area Studies Associations Adam Roberts, Past President of the British Academy Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies Chair: Amanda Anderson, Director, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University |
| 4:00 – 4:30 PM | Coffee |
| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | Concluding Conversation: Area Studies after Area Studies Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science Eduardo Manzano, Professor, Centre for Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Vice Director for Research and Career Development, University of Vienna Chair: Bin Wong, Director, Asia Institute, UCLA |
| 7:00 – 9:00 PM | Conference Dinner (Prior registration required; $75 per person; see online registration form) Macmillan Hall Address by Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG, OBE, Chair of the University of London Board of Trustees |
FRIDAY, 1 JULY 2016 | |
| 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Optional visits to a choice of venues (prior registration required; costs vary; see online registration form) Option 1: Tour of Senate House Library Option 2: Tour of British Library Option 3: Day Trip to Kew Option 4: Senate House Library (free one-day pass; usable anytime during the Annual Meeting) |