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. We would also like to thank Marvin Taylor, Patrick Deer and Bryan Waterman for organizing the Punk plenary. Alex Seminar Overview 12 Beecroft and Andy Anderson kept things on track on the ACLA end. Lauren Shizuko Stone stepped in at the last moment, in our sudden and shocking grief, and helped to organize the memorial for Helen Tartar. Seminars in Detail 23 The principal sponsors of this year’s conference are the membership of the ACLA: thank you for your continued commitment to the organization and to the field. We have enjoyed the generous support of the Office of the Dean of Index 309 the Faculty of Arts and Science; the FAS Dean for Humanities; the Graduate School of Arts and Science; the Humanities Initiative at NYU; the Office of the Dean of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU; the Office of the Map 349 Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity; the Fales Library and Special Collections; the NYU Center for Ancient Studies; the NYU Abu Dhabi Literature and Creative Writing Program; and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. Behind the scenes, Susan Protheroe and Jane Kelly, the administrators of the Comparative Literature Department, helped us in myriad ways. Susan, in particular, carried the weight of budgeting, invoicing, and paying creditors and collaborators. She cheerfully kept us honest: this conference would have been impossible to organize without her, and she has our warmest gratitude. 2 3 4 Welcome and General Introduction 5 Welcome to New York, to New York University, and to the 2014 As for New York City—it hardly needs describing; its mad virtues ACLA Conference! The Department of Comparative Literature at will be plain to you immediately. We invite you to find your way in NYU is your host. We very much hope you enjoy these days on this great city, and to get lost here too. The organizers have tried, Washington Square. in two small ways, to bring some of what New York offers to the ACLA membership. Please visit the Independent Press Book Fair. New York University has been on the Square more or less since (We’re all aware of the importance of such businesses, and of how the university was founded in 1831, with a brief stop downtown, precarious an existence they lead!) Also—please note something that near City Hall, and a much longer one in University Heights in the many of us did not know and none of us recalled, but has become Bronx. It is the largest private university in the United States, with an one of ACLA 2014/CAPITAL’s touchstones. On March 31, 1974 a enrollment of over 50,000 students. Two campuses abroad—in Abu band called Television played at a club on the Bowery on the Lower Dhabi and Shanghai—enroll about 1500 students currently, and will East Side of Manhattan. That club was CBGB-OMFUG or Country, eventually house close to five thousand undergraduates. Twelve Blue Grass, and Blues—and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers. other sites in the United States and elsewhere—from Accra to Buenos Hilly Kristal, the club’s owner, had originally thought the club would Aires, Prague, Florence, Madrid, Washington, Berlin… feature the musical styles of its title, but something else happened. —make up the global network across which NYU’s students and CBGBs became the heart of the exploding punk and New Wave scene faculty study, teach, and do research. The University is a member in New York. This March marks the 40th birthday of punk. The of the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC) in New York: Fales Library at New York University and the American Comparative doctoral students can take graduate seminars at nine of the area’s Literature Association are immensely pleased to be able to celebrate universities. punk at 40 at the 2014 ACLA/CAPITALS conference. The Department of Comparative Literature has a faculty of seventeen scholars, many of them appointed in companion Welcome! departments or university programs as well: Africana Studies, East Asian, French, German, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Slavic, Spanish, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. Our Jacques Lezra undergraduate program has about seventy-five majors; all of them Departments of Comparative Literature, spend a term abroad at one of NYU’s global sites. We enroll between Spanish, English and German five and seven new PhD students a year, from across the world and New York University out of an extraordinarily rich and large pool of applicants. Over the past three years, our graduates have accepted tenure-track positions at Brandeis, Brown, Harvard, Northwestern, Rutgers, the University of Mississippi, USC and Yale, among others. The Department, its faculty and students help organize major conferences in New York and abroad, run colloquia, bring speakers to the University, sponsor scholars from across the globe. We work closely with partners at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, in Madrid at the Universidad Complutense, in Berlin, Utrecht, Paris, and of course in the greater New York area. We are host to the Certificate program in Poetics and Theory, and are partners with NYU’s International Center for Critical Theory, which links scholars in Beijing, Tokyo and New York and fosters international conferences and collaboration. You’ll find us on the third floor of 19 University Place, and you can visit us virtually at the department’s website, http://complit.as.nyu. edu/page/home, where you’ll be able to follow links to many of these collaborative projects. 4 5 6 7 Registration: Registration will begin at 5:00pm on Thursday, Transportation: The campus is accessible by subway. The March 20, in the lobby of the Kimmel Center, located at nearest stations are “West Fourth Street – Washington 60 Washington Square South. It will continue on Friday Square” (A, B, C, D, E, F & M lines) and “Eight St - NYU” and Saturday between 8:00am and 12:50 pm, then (N & R lines). “Astor Pl” (6 line) is the closest station to between 2:20 and 6:30 pm in the Silver Center Graduate Cooper Union. Cooper Union is located within walking Student Lounge (Room 120), located at 100 Washington distance from NYU. Square East (entrance at 31 Washington Place). Refreshments: Coffee, tea, water, pastries and fruit will be Welcome Reception: All conference participants are available at regular intervals throughout the conference. cordially invited to the President’s Address and the Please consult the detailed schedule for specific times Award Ceremony on Thursday, March 20, from and locations. 6:00pm-7:00pm, immediately followed by the Opening Night Reception, from 7:00pm-8:30pm. Both events Special Events: In addition to the many panels and plenaries, will take place in the Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin we encourage conference participants to visit the Auditorium, Fourth Floor. exhibition “GoNightclubbing Video Lounge,” located at Fales Library & Special Collection (Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor), Punk/Capital: Stream Locations and Times: Seminars are divided into Independent Press Book Fair (19 University Place, four streams. While most seminars will take place in Ground Floor), as well as the punk concert at Judson the same room and at the same time over all days, a Church (55 Washington Square South). small number of panels in the C stream will meet for an additional session on Friday in the D time slot. There are also a very small number of panels that will meet in different rooms on different days. Please consult the detailed program information for specific information about panel locations and times. A campus map has been included at the back of the program and can also be accessed online at http://www.nyu.edu/footer/map. Important Note: You will need your ACLA name badge to html access all buildings on campus, including Bobst Library, and other special events. Please be sure to bring your A/V and Media Needs: If your panel organizer has name tag with you whenever you come to campus.