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Saturday, Oct 28, 2000
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159 Kresge College
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Attendance is free and open to the public.
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Saturday – October 28, 2000
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| 8:45 |
Hugh Raffles, welcome.
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| 9:00 |
Wlad Godzich, keynote. "The Ends of Globalization."
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Recently appointed Dean of Humanities at UCSC, Dr. Godzich has held appointments in French, Comparative Literature, and Russian and Eastern European Literatures at major universities in North America and Europe, including Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Montreal, the University of Toronto, and, most recently, the University of Geneva, where he was Chair of English and Professor of Emergent Literatures. The author of several books, including The Emergence of Prose : An Essay in Prosaics (Minnesota 1987), The Culture of Literacy (Harvard, 1994), and numerous edited volumes, Dr. Godzich was also founding editor of the University of Minnesota Press's highly influential Theory and History of Literature series.
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| 9:30-12:30 |
Session 1: INSIDE A WORLD IN MOTION |
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 Charles Briggs: "Globalization, Cultural Reasoning, and the Institutionalization of social Inequality: Racializing Death in a Cholera Epidemic."
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Charles L. Briggs is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. His research has focused on the linguistic dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, and on discourses of law and medicine Latin America. Among his many publications are Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research (Cambridge, 1986),), Disorderly Discourse: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality (Oxford, 1996), and Infectious Diseases and Social Inequality in Latin America: From Hemispheric Insecurity to Global Cooperation (co-authored, 1999).
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Jacqueline Nassy Brown: "Rooted in the Global, Routed through the Local: Cosmopolitanism in Liverpool's Age of Sail."
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Jacqueline Nassy Brown is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her essays concerning the politics of race, gender, diaspora, and locality in Liverpool, England have appeared in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist. She is currently completing a book entitled Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race and Identity in the Port City of Liverpool, England.
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Anthony King: "Globalized Localities: New Wine in Old Bottles?"
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Anthony D. King is Professor of Art and Art History at the State Univeristy of New York at Binghamton. His widely influential work on the social production of building form, colonialism and urbanism, spatial theory, and transnational cultures has appeared in numerous journals including Historical Geography and Comparative Studies in Society and History. His most recent books include the edited volume Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity (Minnesota, 2nd edition, 1997), and two monographs, Global Cities: Post-imperialism and the Internationalization of London (Routledge, 1991) and The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture (Oxford, 2nd edition, 1996).
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Pheng Cheah: "Universal Areas: Asian Studies in a World in Motion." |
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Pheng Cheah is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He is co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation (Minnesota, 1998) and Thinking Through the Body of the Law (NYU, 1996). One of his current book projects is entitled Spectral Nationality, which looks at the philosopheme of culture as freedom in modern philosophy and the vicissitudes of this philosopheme in decolonizing nationalism. The other is on global financialization and the inhuman.
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| 1:30-4.30pm |
Session 2: BORDERS AND TEMPORALITIES
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Charles Piot: "Placing the Local at the Millenium: Thoughts on an African Postcolony."
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Charles Piot is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. His research focuses on the political economy and history of rural West Africa. Having just completed a monograph, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (University of Chicago Press) which retheorizes a classic out-of-the-way place as "within" modernity and as thoroughly globalized, he is beginning a new research project of transnational constructions of Africa through discourses like those on clitoridectomy, AIDS, democracy and violence. Forthcoming Articles include "Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic" (2001), and "Of Hybridity, Modernity and their Malcontents: Reflections on John and Jean Comaroff's Of Revelation and Revolution" (2001).
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Grahame Thompson: "The Limits to 'Globalization': Taking Economic Borders Seriously."
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Grahame Thompson is Professor of Government and Policy at the Open University, UK. His work on the political economy of the international system concentrates on four areas: the future of the welfare state, the idea of "international competitiveness;" the potential development trajectory for "peripheral" economies under what is a dramatically changing international economic environment; and the new forms of private authority emerging amongst the institutions of international governance and standard setting. His recent Globalization in Question (with Paul Hirst, Polity Press, 2nd edition, 1999) has provoked considerable debate. His new book, Between Hierarchies and Markets: The History and Significance of Network Organization (Oxford) will be published in 2001.
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Anna Tsing: "Objects Are Closer Than They May Appear."
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Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has co-edited Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon Press, 1990). Her book, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Princeton University Press, 1993), addressed questions of marginality and state rule in Indonesia, and developed an influential critique of anthropological representations. Her current book-in-progress is on environmental discourses and the locations of global politics. She has recently published "Inside the Economy of Appearances" in Public Culture 12(1), a special issue on globalization.
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Saskia Sassen: "Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization."
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Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. A prominent figure in the literature on globalization, she has carried out wide-ranging research into the formation and effects of a globalized economy, and into the impact that electronic networks are having on macro-economic processes. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, her publications include: The Global City (Princeton, 1991), Cities in a World Economy (Pine Forge Press, 1994), Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (Columbia, 1996), Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (New Press, 1998), and Guests and Aliens (New Press, 1999).
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| 4.30 |
Lisa Rofel, closing remarks.
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| 4:45-6:30 |
RECEPTION |
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