Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English; Director, Mahindra Humanities Center; Senior Advisor on the Human- ities to the President and Provost, Harvard University “Statelessness and Death: Re ections on the Burdened Life” Paul Fleming, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature; Taylor Family Director, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University “The Politics of Anecdotes” Alondra Nelson, Professor, Sociology and Gender Studies, Columbia University; President, Social Science Research Council “Moral Institutions and Racial Reconciliation after the Genome” Sari Nusseibeh Professor of Philosophy, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem “Sound Minds”