Events

In critically revivifying the discourse of the human sciences, this conference seeks to address and to counter the increasingly impoverished discussion that pits the humanities against the sciences in a dead-end configuration of unquestioned imcommensurable terms. The panels will be conducted as comparatist and interdisciplinary conversations amidst several domains: history, literary studies, social and political sciences, health and life sciences, cognitive science, law, economics, anthropology, gender studies, and media a! nd technology studies, and will be international in scope yet focused on the particularities of location. No registration required.

Program:

9:00am: Opening Remarks
Nicholas Dirks - Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Stathis Gourgouris - Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

9:20am-11:05am: Panel 1
Chair: Anupama Rao (History and ICLS, Columbia University)
The Problem of Scale: Narrative Universals in the Human Sciences
Srinivas Aravamudan (English, Duke University)
What is 'the Human' about the Humanities today?
Rosi Braidotti (Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University)
Respondent:
Lydia Liu (East Asian Languages and Cultures and ICLS, Columbia University)

11:20am-1:05pm: Panel 2
Chair: Stathis Gourgouris (Classics, English, and ICLS, Columbia University)
Rethinking diagnosis: Race, stigma, and the politics of schizophrenia
Jonathan Metzl (Sociology, Psychiatry, and Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University)
Making, Critique: A New Paradigm for the Humanities
Katherine Hayles (Literature, Duke University)
Respondent:
Jesús Rodriguez-Velasco (Latin American and Iberian Cultures and ICLS, Columbia University)

1:15-2:30pm: lunch break

2:45pm-4:30pm: Panel 3
Chair: Rosalind Morris (Anthropology and ICLS, Columbia University)
The Return of Italian Philosophy
Roberto Esposito (Philosophy, Italian Institute for the Human Sciences, Naples)
Old and New Archives: Sites for Philosophical Fieldwork
Hent de Vries (Philosophy and Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University)
Respondent:
Patricia Dailey (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

4:45pm-6:30pm: Panel 4
Chair: Akeel Bilgrami (Philosophy, Columbia University)
The Science of Subjectivity
Steven Shapin (History of Science, Harvard University)
The Return of Meaning
James Gleick (author of Chaos and The Information)
Respondent:
Marwa Elshakry (History of Science, Columbia University)