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Workshop

The Oxford Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Contributor Workshop

11.11.2022 – 11.12.2022

Event Summary

This two-day workshop brought together contributors to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Cosmopolitanism. Participants presented papers on a wide range of topics, including "Digital Pathways," "Universalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Invention of Art," "The Worlding of World Literature," and more. Other members of the Reimagining Cosmopolitanism working group and invited University of Chicago scholars and students also participated.

Speakers

Emily Apter

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Department Chair and Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Speaker

Professor of French and Philosophy, Columbia University

Claire Farago

Speaker

Professor Emerita of Art History, University of Colorado Boulder

Debjani Ganguly

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Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia

Rolien Hoyng

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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Murad Idris

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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Michel Laguerre

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Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology, University of California Berkeley

Rochona Majumdar

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Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Svitlana Matviyenko

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Assistant Professor of Critical Media Analysis, SFU School of Communication

Anjali Mohan

Speaker

PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Chicago

Sandra Ponzanesi

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Professor and Chair of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University

Donald Preziosi

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Professor Emeritus of Art History, UCLA

Sophia Rosenfeld

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Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Prathama Banerjee

Participant

Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Participant

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago

Lisa Wedeen

Participant

Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), University of Chicago