The speaker is Etienne Anheim (EHESS-CRH). The title of his talk is "Where Does Nature End and Culture Begin? Cultural Heritage between Anthropology and Epistemology." The heritage movement that affects contemporary society has continued to expand, but the notion of heritage has also diversified. One of its main divisions has been based on the opposition...

Adam Talib ( School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University) discusses "As Inconvenient and Offensive as Abundance." Literary studies developed in European modernity in conditions of cultural scarcity and narrowness, though it has often laid claims to universality and universal applicability, especially as it rose to epistemic hegemony in its colonial and global phases. The...

Alexander Beecroft, (Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina) presents a talk titled “Contactless Comparison.” It’s easy to compare things that are produced near each other, by people who are able to influence each other. Traditionally, comparative literature has therefore compared literatures in close contact with each other: at first...