Naoki Sakai, Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Cornell, will give a lecture as part of the Flying University of the Transnational Humanities workshop The Future of the Humanities and Anthropological Difference: Beyond the Modern Regime of Translation. Professor Sakai is director of the 2016 FUTH workshop. Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies and is a member of the graduate field of History at Cornell University. He has published in a number of languages in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of semiotic and literary multitude - speech, writing, corporeal expressions, calligraphic regimes, and phonographic traditions. His publications include: Translation and Subjectivity, Voices of the Past, and The Stillbirth of the Japanese as a Language and as an Ethnos. He has led the project of TRACES, a multilingual series in four languages – Spanish, Korean, Chinese, English, and Japanese - whose editorial office is located at Cornell, and served as its founding senior editor (1996 - 2004).

The FUTH workshop is a five day event, July 10-14, with public lectures each day and closed workshop seminars for graduate students, postdocs, and young scholars gathering from around the world.