Etienne Balibar; Joseph Cleary; Samir Khalaf; Elias Khoury; Saree Makdisi; Patrick McGreevy

 Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (College Hall B1)

From 3 to 8 pm

3:00 Maher Jarrar: Revisiting Edward Said’s Legacy

3: 15 Dean Patrick McGreevy: Opening Note

3: 30 Samir Khalaf: Opening Speech

First Panel:
3:30 Etinne Balibar Politics as Translation: Lyotard, Derrida, Said

4:10  Elias Khoury Palestine and the Intellectual

4: 50 Discussion

5:30-6:00 break

Second Panel:
6:00 Saree Makdisi Keywords for Reading Said

6: 40 Joseph Cleary Edward Said and the History of the Novel:Romance, Realism and Empire

7:20 pm Discussions