THURSDAY, APRIL 6
EAST PYNE 010
| 4:30-6:00 PM | Opening Keynote: Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia) Chair: Nigel Smith (Princeton University) “Translation and Catastrophe” |
| 6:00-8:00 PM | Wine and cheese reception (Chancellor Green Lower Hyphen) |
FRIDAY, APRIL 7
MCCORMICK 106
| 9:00 AM | Opening Remarks: Sophie Gee and Sarah Rivett |
| 9:30-11:30 AM | Session I: Shadows of Enlightenment Chair: Claudia L. Johnson (Princeton University) |
| Tony C. Brown (University of Minnesota) “God, State” |
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| Jill Casid (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Enlightenment Terror and its Terrain” |
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| Vivasvan Soni (Northwestern University) “Two Concepts of Reason” |
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| 11:30 AM-1:00 PM | Lunch and Coffee Break |
| 1:00-3:00 PM | Session II: Historiography and Islamic Modernity Chair: Lital Levy (Princeton University) |
| Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard University) “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” |
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| Humberto Garcia (University of California, Merced) “Abu Taleb Khan’s ‘Vindication of the Liberties of the Asiatic Women’: An Indo-Muslim Response to 1790s British Feminism” |
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| Robert Travers (Cornell University) “Indo-Persian Tarikh as Enlightened History: the Seir Mutaqherin (1789-90) and the Eurasian Enlightenment” |
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| 3:00-3:30 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:30-5:30 PM | Session III: Colonialisms Chair: David Kazanjian (Institute of Advanced Study/University of Pennsylvania) |
| Vincent Carretta (University of Maryland) “Strangers in Strange Lands: Letter Writers in the Early Black Atlantic” |
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| Daragh Grant (Harvard University) “Colonization and Cultural Difference” |
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| Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) "Global Enlightenment? De-Theorizing in order to Re-Theorize" |
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| 5:30-6:30 PM | Reception (McCormick Hall) |
SATURDAY, APRIL 8
MCCORMICK 106
| 8:30-10:30 AM | Session IV: Enlightened Geographies Chair: Christina Lee (Princeton University) |
| Bruno M. Carvalho (Princeton University) “Partial Enlightenments: Luso- Brazilian Epistemologies” |
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| Monique Allewaert (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Super-Fly: Makandal’s Enlightenment from Below” |
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| Raúl Coronado (University of California Berkeley) “Rewriting the Terms of the Modern World: Felix Varela’s 1826 Historical Novel "Jicotencal" and Modern Philosophy” |
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| 10:30-11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM-1:00 PM | Session V: Economies of Invention Chair: Sarah Rivett (Princeton University) |
| William A. Pettigrew (University of Kent) “‘As Witches Do the Devil’ (Daniel Defoe). Civil Rights and the Escalation of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans: Some Unexamined Legacies of the Global Enlightenment” |
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| Philip J. Stern (Duke University) “Citizens United? The Corporation and Enlightenment Thought” |
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| Chi-ming Yang (University of Pennsylvania) “Umbrella Work: Translating Colonial Technology and Asian Invention” |
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| 1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:30 PM | Keynote: David Scott (Columbia University) Chair: Andrew Cole (Princeton University) “Superseding Historical Injustice? Enlightenment’s Future’s Past” |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:00-5:30 PM | Concluding Roundtable Chair: Sophie Gee (Princeton University) |
| Branka Arsić (Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature) | |
| Linda Colley (Princeton University, History) | |
| Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University, History) | |
| Steven Pincus (Yale University, History) | |