September 20–21, 2024
Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University

Organized by Courtney Weiss Smith and Valeria López Fadul

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PROGRAM

Friday, september 20, 2024

Panels will be held in the Center for the Humanities Seminar Room.

8:30–9:00, Coffee and Pastries (Center for the Humanities Lounge)

9:00–9:30, Welcome and Introductory Remarks

  • Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith

9:30–11:00, Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), “Towards a Conjectural History of Conjectural Histories”

  • Commentator: Roland Greene (Stanford University)

11:00–12:00, Lunch for Participants (Center for the Humanities Lounge)

12:00–1:30, Catherine Cymone Fourshey (Bucknell University), “African Girlhoods, Decolonial History, Resilience, and Philology in Africa”

  • Commentator: Alexandra Lianeri (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

1:30–2:00, Coffee Break (Center for the Humanities Lounge)

2:00–3:30, Ronit Ricci (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Australian National University), “Implicit Comparisons: Visuality and the Interlinear Manuscript Page”

  • Commentator: Shahzad Bashir (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University)

3:30–5:00, Theory and Method Papers (moderated by Emily Apter)

  • Emily Apter (New York University), “Towards a Planetary Concept-Work: Philology, Untranslatables, Language Justice”

  • Peter de Bolla (University of Cambridge), “On Concepts”

  • Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo), “The Stakes of Philology: Things, Origins, Futures”

6:30, Dinner for Participants at Esca (437 Main Street, Middletown, CT)

Saturday, september 21, 2024

Panels will be held in the Center for the Humanities Seminar Room.

8:30–9:00, Coffee and Pastries (Center for the Humanities Lounge)

9:00–10:30, David B. Lurie (Columbia University), “Translating Philology in Premodern East Asia: The Vernacular Commentarial Tradition of Twelfth-Century Japan”

  • Commentator: Nancy Partner (McGill University)

10:30–12:00, Alexander Jabbari (University of Minnesota), “Vernacular Philology in Persian”

  • Commentator: Tuska Benes (College of William and Mary)

12:00–1:00, Lunch for Participants (Center for the Humanities Lounge)

1:00–2:30, Alan Durston (York University), “Tomas Pinpin’s Spanish Grammar for Tagalogs (1610)”

  • Commentator: Rhiannon Stephens (Columbia University)

2:30–3:00, Coffee Break (Center for the Humanities Lounge)

3:00–4:30, Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University), “Dead Letters and Living Words: Iberian Arabism as Political Philology”

  • Commentator: Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College)

4:30–5:30, Wrap-Up Session

5:30–6:30, Reception (Center for the Humanities Lounge)