Please note: all discussions on Friday and Saturday will be based on precirculated papers. Please e-mail [email protected] to gain access to the papers. All discussions will last 60 minutes. All conference events will take place at the Oakley Center, except for the keynote lecture in Griffin 3, the exhibit reception in the Chapin Gallery of Sawyer Library, and the final roundtable at Mount Hope Farm.

Thursday, September 26

6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Keynote lecture by Antony Grafton, Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. Location: Griffin Hall 3

Friday, September 27

9:00 a.m.  Welcome

9:15 a.m. Heng Du, “Did They Truly Learn from Others? Cross-Cultural Comparison and the Making of the Universal in Early Chinese Discourse”

10:15 a.m. John Marenbon, “Comparing Comparisons from Medieval Europe”

11:25 a.m. Nathan Vedal, “Comparing Writing Systems in Early Modern China”

2 p.m. Camilla Townsend, “The Notion of Comparison in the Indigenous New World Annals of Don Domingo Chimalpahin”

3 p.m. Dan Sheffield, “Educating the Soul at the School of Doctrines: Universalism and Comparison between Safavid Iran and Mughal India”

5:00 p.m. Opening reception of exhibit “A World of Comparisons” in Chapin Gallery, Sawyer Library

Saturday, September 28

9:15 a.m. Carlos Cañete Jiménez, “A Particular Maghrib: Occidental Lands and the Spanish Historical Imagination in Early Modern Times”

10:15 a.m. Matthew Fraleigh, “Wa-kan Assemblages: Classical Japanese Comparisons of Japanese and Chinese verse”

11:25 a.m. Ronit Ricci, “Implicit Comparisons: Arabic, Translation, and the Manuscript Page in the Indonesian-Malay World”

2:00 p.m. Tanvi Solanki, “Poetics, Theology, and the ‘Connectedness of All Things’: Herder’s Comparative Method”

5:00 p.m. Concluding roundtable conversation (Mount Hope Farm)