Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

SESSION V: Medium, Mode, and the Work of Interpretation • Creating Identity through Writing: A Case of ancient Greek vase inscriptions Ma”ngorzata Zadka, University of Wroclaw, Poland • Indexicals and Interdiscursivities Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan

SESSION IV: Technologies of Writing and Imaginations of Community • Ideologies and Technologies of Tamil Book Printing: Lessons from nineteenth century French India and Guiana Sonia Das, New York University • From Cultural Periphery to Cultural Capital: Ili and the making of modern Uyghur culture Joshua Freeman, Harvard University • Sign Language Mediated by Digital Technology as a Link to Build Cultural Identities Ana Gediel, Federal University of Viços, Brazil (with Molly Bloom, University of California, Los Angeles)

Summary and Lunch

Session II: Shifting Genealogies of Sacred Languages • Hebrew Language and Inquisition Censorship: The crisis of post-Tridentine Spanish humanism Francisco Javier Perea Siller, University of Córdoba, Spain • Neo-Aramaic Enriched Biblical Narratives Oz Aloni, Middlebury College • There’s an App for That: The democratization of texts and Qur’anic healing in Morocco James Riggan, Florida State University

Welcome: Tamar Mayer, Middlebury College Session I: Writing System in Deep Time • Learning to Write in the West Stephanie Frampton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • A Spectrum of Literacy: Writing and the ancient Maya James Fitzsimmons, Middlebury College

The Rohatyn Center is hosting a gallery opening and reception to celebrate a new photography exhibit. Come view the work of Sarah Corsico ’18 and Hannah Blackburn ’17, who spent last summer in Rwanda documenting the Faces of GHI (Gardens for Health International). Snacks will be served.

“Racism in International Development” panel with Emma Crewe, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SOAS, University of London; William Michael Cunningham, founder, Creative Investment Research; and Conor Shapiro ‘03, president and CEO, St. Boniface Haiti Foundation. Cosponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and the Center for Creativity, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship.

A participatory workshop on the topic of protest music, with guest musicologist Noriko Manabe.

Power and Protest: Global Responses to Atomic Energy Keynote: Power The Carrot or the Stick? How Do Governments Push Nuclear Power? Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University

Dr. Miral Mahgoub, an Egyptian novelist and Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, will speak about her novel, The Tent (1996), a dream-like portrayal of rural Bedouin life in Egypt. Dr. Mahgoub was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2010 for her novel Brooklyn Heights and was recently profiled by the New York Times: “Making the Life of a Modern Nomad into Literature” (1/4/2012).