The final program for the first MLA International Symposium is now available on the symposium Web site. The program is composed of sixty-eight panels, roundtables, and plenaries organized around the theme Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations. It features presentations in English, French, German, and Spanish and includes participants from over thirty countries across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The symposium, to be held at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany, will begin on Thursday, 23 June, with discussions on borders and cosmopolitanism with Françoise Lionnet, Roland Greene, and K. Anthony Appiah, and will conclude on Saturday, 25 June, with a plenary on European “Dreams and Nightmares.”