Symposium on Globalization and the Humanities: Then and Now, Here and There

  IRH 50th Anniversary Symposium:   The Symposium will address a number of vital debates about globalization, focusing on what the humanities can contribute to understanding globalization as well as how the humanities are being reinvented as a result of globalization. The political, economic, and technological controversies about globalization often overshadow its cultural and philosophical dimensions. Social science debates typically focus on the pros and cons of globalization in the context of conflictual relations between the “West” and the rest of the world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The humanities have much to learn from these debates but also much to contribute.   Keynote Speakers: Natalie Zemon Davis, History, University of Toronto Anna L. Tsing, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz R. Radhakrishnan, English; Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine   Panelists: Susan David Bernstein Rachel Brenner Scott Carter Jill Casid Lalita du Perron Névine El-Nossery Ken George Steven Hutchinson Helen Kinsella Mary Layoun Maria Lepowsky Caroline Levine Venkat Mani Mark Netzloff Rob Nixon Jonathan Pollack Brian Sandberg Stephanie Spadaro Nora Taylor Neil L. Whitehead André Wink This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Center for European Studies, the Center for the Humanities, Global Studies, and the Mellon Foundation.