1998 Conference

Cosmopolitan Geographies 57th Session Friday - Sunday September 25-27, 1998 Longfellow Hall 13 Appian Way Harvard University What is cosmopolitanism? The 57th annual meeting of The English Institute seeks to chart the past and the present of cosmopolitanism, its alternatives, and their possible futures on the threshold of the twenty-first century. Taking a symbolic excursion through those regions where various texts, genres, and literatures map and remap worlds we inhabit, the conference brings into juxtaposition a diversity of historical, cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic terrains: from Chaucer's England and medieval Italy to emergent empires and early modern trade; from urban Europe and its ecology to the Holocaust; from Confucian China and Buddhist Tibet to postcolonial Africa and India; and from the international stage in New York to contemporary American theory and poetry. FRIDAY BRUCE ROBBINS, Rutgers University The Village of the Liberal Managerial Class KIM F. HALL, Georgetown University Gender, Labor, and Pleasure in Early Modern "Sugar-Work" ROBERT R. EDWARDS, The Pennsylvania State University "The Metropol and the Mayster-toun": Cosmopolitanism and Late-Medieval Literary Culture BHARATI MUKHERJEE, University of California, Berkeley An Indian Writer's Cosmopolitan Worlds   SATURDAY DAVID HARVEY, The Johns Hopkins University Urban Ecologies and Moral Orders PHENG CHEAH, Northwestern University Chinese Cosmopolitanism and Postcolonial National Memory SHARON MARCUS, University of California, Berkeley Anne Frank and the Production of Universal Pathos ROBERT THURMAN, Columbia University Tibetan Buddhist Civilization and Contemporary Western Cosmopolitanism   SUNDAY UNA CHAUDHURI, New York University Cosmopolitanism and Theater K. ANTHONY APPIAH, Harvard University Africa and Cosmopolitanism   Program directors K. Anthony Appiah, Vinay Dharwadker, and Karen Newman.