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.