Description: Transcending its immediate condition of production and moving across geographies, languages, and traditions, literature has always thrived across borders. Members of this panel will consider what this crossing of borders means in our rethinking of artistic production, scholarship, and what it means to be human.

Speakers

Ferial Maya Boutaghou, U of Virginia

Ben Conisbee Baer, Princeton U

Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz

Frieda Ekotto, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Presider

Simon Gikandi, Princeton U