______  Edward W. Said Symposium  ____

The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature  

ALL EVENTS IN ENGLISH (instantaneous translation provided)

1. International Symposium on Edward W. Said

       (Co-sponsored by the FAS Office of the Dean)

 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 Opening Note: Dean Patrick McGreevy

3: 15: Introductory Remarks: Samir Khalaf

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

2. The Memorial lecture, 2010 

 By Professor Etienne Balibar

 “Cosmopolitanism and Secularism: controversial legacies and prospective
interrogations”

  Thursday, November 12, ‏2009

At 7:00 p.m. (Issam Fares Hall)

Prof. Etienne Balibar is Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris X- Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is one of the most influential philosophers and social theorists of our times and is the author or co-author of a number of agenda-setting books, including Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser) (1965), On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976), Race, Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities (Verso, 1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, Classes, Ideas (Routledge, 1994), The Philosophy of Marx (Verso 1995), Spinoza and Politics (Verso 1998), Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002), We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2004).