Co-sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB; the Office of the Chancellor, UCSB; the Office of the Provost, College of Letters and Science, UCSB; the Office of the Dean, College of Letters and Science, UCSB; the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies; the UCSB Comparative Literature Program; the UCSB Consortium for Literature, Theory and Culture; the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies; the UCSB Departments of English, French and Italian, and Spanish and Portuguese; the Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA; the International Center for Writing and Translation, UCI; the Department of Comparative Literature, USC; and the Department of French and Italian, USC. Special thanks to Amy Ziering Kofman, Jane Doe Films, Richard Rand, Kenneth Reinhard, Peggy Kamuf, and J. Hillis Miller.