Symposium to discuss transnational circulation

Citizens of the World, a free one-day symposium exploring how ideas, texts, objects or people circulate through geographic, national and cultural spaces will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10 in 701 Rudder.

The symposium will begin with coffee at 8:30 a.m. and feature two panels of Texas A&M University speakers and invited speakers.

The panels of Texas A&M speakers will feature work by Dennis Berthold, Troy Bickham, Susan Egenolf, Marian Eide, Kohei Furuya, Michael L. Greenwald, Leor Halevi, Melanie C. Hawthorne, David McWhirter, Susan Stabile, and Hana Waisserova. The panels are titled “Seeing the World, from the comfort of Home” and “Crossed Cultures: Translated Selves.”

Invited speakers include Srinivas Aravamudan of Duke University speaking on, “The Institution of Critique in a Cosmopolitan Setting"; Ann Rosalind Jones of Smith College, presenting "Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Artist and Global Cosmopolite"; and Joseph Litvak of Tufts University discussing, "Citizens and Jews".

A concluding reception will begin at 5:30 in the MSC Forsyth Center Galleries.

The Citizens of the World symposium is sponsored by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature, the New Modern British Studies Group, and the South Asia Working Group.

To learn more about the symposium visit the English department website . For more information, contact Nandini Bhattacharya, Margaret Ezell, Robert Griffin, or Mary Ann O'Farrell