Program Schedule 

10:30am

Welcome

10:45pm-12:15pm

Panel 1 

The Humanities after Humanism

Faisal Devji, University Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University

Respondents: Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke University & Beth Holmgren, Professor and Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Duke University

12:15pm-1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm-2:30pm

Panel 2

Islamicate Cosmopolitan – A Past without a Future, or a Future Still Unfolding

Bruce Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, Duke University

Re-thinking World Spaces: The New Relevance of Eurasia

Mark Bassin, Professor of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University

Respondent: Engseng Ho, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History, Duke University

2:30pm-3:00pm

– Break –

3:00pm-4:30pm

Imagining Socialism in the Soviet Century 

Anna Krylova, Associate Professor of History, Duke University

Extreme Science: Towards Global Slavic Humanities

Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Russian Literature, University of Colorado-Boulder

Respondent: Leo Ching, Associate Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University