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C a p i t a l s Capitals acla acla acla / new york university march 20-23 2014 2 0 1 4 4 2 3 Acknowledgments The organization of the ACLA 2014 conference at New York University—the largest convention by far in the Association’s history—has been the work of the graduate students and faculty of the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU. Our graduate students decided on the conference’s theme—CAPITALS. The marvelous team of Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca, Kevin Goldstein and Sonia Table of Contents Werner, with members of the Department’s faculty, including Emanuela Bianchi and Eduardo Matos Martín, selected the seminars and papers. Ozen, Kevin and Sonia fought for precious space, arranged caterers, designed the program, helped organize our plenary sessions, fielded questions from the membership, oversaw our undergraduate helpers, and ran around at the last minute seeking Acknowledgements 3 solutions when small organizational inconveniences turned into real dilemmas. You will see them in the halls; please don’t fail to thank them for their efforts. Anastassia Kostrioukova designed the cover for this program and Elizabeth Welcome and General Introduction 4 Benninger helped mightily to pull together the semi-plenary on the Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Many more graduate students of Comparative Literature helped plan and organize: Anastasiya Osipova, Tara Mendola, Juan General Information 6 Carlos Aguirre, Nienke Boer, Mert Reisoglu, Daniel Howell, Brian Droitcourt, Dafne Duchesne-Sotomayor, Erag Ramizi, Michael Krimper, Alessandra Guarino, Ziad Dallal, Amanda Perry, Agata Tumilowicz, Constanza Schaffner, Amy Obermeier, Zach Rivers, Lauren Wolfe, Andrew Ragni, Devin Thomas, as Complete Conference Schedule 8 well as our undergraduates Guillian Pinon and Tycho Horan and many others who have helped in large and small ways.
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