Forwarded for JP Jones III
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>dear critical geos -- everyone is welcome to the social theory
>conference may 11-14 at UK. details are provided on the website
>address below. among the geogs will be ed soja and julie
>graham. i hope you can make it to lexington. best jp
>
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>>Colleagues:
>>
>>Social Theory 2000, the inaugural conference sponsored by the
>>International Social Theory Consortium and hosted by the University of
>>Kentucky's Committee on Social Theory, will take place May 11-14, 2000 in
>>Lexington, Kentucky. The conference schedule, participant list, and
>>registration information can be found at
>>
>>http://www.uky.edu/AS/SocTheo/Conference/
>>
>>The conference will feature over seventy presentations by social theorists
>>from a full range of humanistic and social science disciplines. In
>>addition, a number of panels will address organizational matters
>>regarding the present and future of social theory and the Consortium.
>>
>> The conference schedule can also be seen below. For further information,
>>contact Wolfgang Natter, [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>Thursday, May 11, 2000
>> 10:00 am
>> Registration begins, Hyatt Hotel Lobby
>> 2:00 - 3:30 pm
>> Session 1
>> Plenary
>> Social Theory 2000: Aims and Aspirations for the Conference and
>>the Consortium
>>
>> Wolfgang Natter, University of Kentucky
>> Steve Turner, University of South Florida
>> 3:30 - 4:00 pm
>> Break/Refreshments
>> 4:00 - 5:30 pm
>> Session 2
>> Panel I
>> Nature and Society
>> Chair, Herb Reid, University of Kentucky
>> Timothy Luke, VPI
>> Social Theory and Environmentalism: Defining Nature/Society in
>>the 21st Century
>> Anne Kull, Lutheran School of Theology Chicago
>> The Cyborg as an Interpretation of Culture-Nature Abstract
>> Theodore Schatzki, University of Kentucky
>> The Social Bearing of Nature
>> Panel II
>> Film, Social Theory and Television
>> Chair, Greg Waller, University of Kentucky
>> James Hurley, University of Richmond
>> Liberation Marketing: Hollywood Film and the Public Sphere in
>>the Society of the Spectacle
>> Tom Byers, University of Louisville
>> Black in the Rainbow: Race, Racism, Erasure in Contemporary
>>Hollywood Cinema
>> Göran Dahl, Lund University Social
>> Theory and Television
>> Panel III
>> Concepts of Childhood at the Millennium
>> Chair, Suzanne Pucci, University of Kentucky
>> Peter Fosl, Transylvania University
>> Abuse and Authority: Children and Regimes of Social Control
>> James Block, DePaul University
>> Socialization and Social Reconstruction: The Politics of Liberal
>>Child-Rearing
>> Susan Roberts, University of Kentucky
>> Child Labor: Geographies of Affect and Action
>> 5:15 - 6:45 pm
>> Reception Hyatt Hotel
>> 7:00 pm
>> Dinner
>> Welcoming Remarks
>> Jim Boling, Vice-Chancellor Research and Graduate Studies,
>>University of Kentucky
>> Consortium Aims
>> Wolfgang Natter, Steve Turner
>>
>>
>>
>> Friday, May 12, 2000
>>
>> 8:30 - 10:00 am
>> Session 3
>> Panel I
>> Democracy, Intellectuals, Professions, Citizenship
>> Chair, Dwight Billings, University of
>>Kentucky
>> Brian Singer, York University
>> Intellectuals and Democracy
>> Albert Dzur, University of Utah
>> Democratizing the Professions: Political Theory and Applied Ethics
>> Donna Burnell, University of South Florida
>> Postmodern Citizenship
>> Elizabeth Taylor, University of Kentucky
>> The Public Role of Social Theory and the Transformation of
>>Academic Regimes of
>> Knowledge: Grassroots Globalization and New Forms of
>>'Participatory Reason' and a
>> 'Citizenship of Care'
>> Panel II
>> The So-Called Third Way
>> Chair, Jeff Freyman, Transylvania University
>> Steve Turner, University of South Florida
>> Workers into Rentiers: The Real Meaning of the Third Way
>> Teresa Brennan, Florida State University
>> The 'So Called Third Way' Social Theory - Critique of Blair and
>>Clinton
>> Miguel Martinez-Saenz, University of South Florida
>> Roberto Mangabiera Unger: A Third Way for the Third World?
>> Panel III
>> Communicative Action, Deconstruction, and Political
>>Economy
>> Chair, J. P. Jones, University of Kentucky
>> Colm Kelly, St. Thomas University
>> Derrida and the Socius; Derrida and Social Theory; Derrida's
>>Strategies/Styles and Social
>> Theory
>> Andreas Niederberger, University of Frankfurt
>> The Theory of Communicative Action: Criticism and Reconstruction
>> Anne Kaul, Hull University
>> Contextual Social Political Economy
>> 10:00 - 10:30 am
>> Break/Refreshments
>> 10:30 - 11:45 am
>> Session 4
>> Panel
>> Social Theory Programs, Now and Future
>> Chair, Wolfgang Natter, University of Kentucky
>> Alan Sica, Penn State University
>> Wolfgang Natter, University of Kentucky
>> John Hall, University of California at Davis
>> Brian Singer, York University
>> John Holmwood, Sussex University
>> Marv Waterstone, University of Arizona
>> Jon Simons, Nottingham University
>> 11: 50 am
>> Bus Departs for UK
>> 12:15 - 2:00 pm
>> Lunch UK Student Center
>> 2:00 - 3:30 pm
>> Session 5
>> Panel I
>> Social Theory and History
>> Chair, Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky
>> John Hall, University of California at Davis
>> Social Theory and Comparative History
>> Bill Martin, Depaul University
>> Mathesis and Secularism: Sartre, Foucault, and the Meaning of
>>History
>> Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky
>> Consumer Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Vacations in
>>Post-War France
>> Andrew Wise, Daemen College
>> Jerzy Kurnatowski and Polish Solidarism
>> Panel II
>> Human/National Bodies
>> Chair, Paola Bacchetta, University of Kentucky
>> Richard Konigsberg, Social Science Library
>> The Human Body and the Body Politic: Metaphor and the
>>Psychosomatic Construction of
>> the Nation-State
>> Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky
>> Science vs. Pornography: Bodies, Discourse and the
>>Professionalization of the Victorian
>> Surgeon
>> Giti Thadani
>> Section 377, Indian Penal Code: Of unnatural offences: Whoever
>>voluntarily has carnal
>> intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or
>>animal, shall be punished
>> with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either description
>>for a term which may
>> extend to 10 years and shall be liable to fine.
>> Panel III
>> Critical Images, Mass Culture
>> Chair, Tom Byers, University of Louisville
>> David Allen, Georgia Southern University
>> Are Postmodernists Mass Culture Theorists?
>> Jon Simons, Nottingham University
>> Critical Images as Critical Theory
>> Robert Jensen, University of Kentucky
>> Notes on Camp Redux
>> 3:30 - 4:00 pm
>> Break/Refreshments
>> 4:00 - 5:30 pm
>> Session 6
>> Panel I
>> Violence and Philosophy
>> Chair, Dan Breazeale, University of Kentucky
>> M. Michael Schiff, York University
>> Violence and the Social: The 'Feminist' Philosophy of Abjection
>> Neil Braganza, York University
>> Hegel and Violence
>> Chris McCutcheon, York University
>> The Ambivalent Subject of Violence
>> Joseph Rosen, York University
>> Violence and Language: the Ethics of Socio-Historical
>>Interpretation
>> Panel II
>> Naked Truths: The Culture of Erotic
>>Dance/Striptease/Stripping
>> Chair, Renee Smith, Lexington, Kentucky
>> Danielle Egan, Boston College
>> Refiguring Feminist Theory, Refiguring Sex Work; Exotic Dance as
>>a Site of Distention
>> Bernadette Barton, University of Kentucky
>> Drawing the Line: or How to Cope with the Dancer Identity
>> Michael Uebel, University of Kentucky
>> Striptopia
>> Panel III
>> Materializing Democracy
>> Chair, Jeff Peters, University of Kentucky
>> Russ Castronovo, University of Miami
>> Souls that Matter: Slavery, the Socially Dead and the Spirit of
>>History
>> Chris Castiglia, Loyola University
>> Monica, the Musical: The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush
>> Dana Nelson, University of Kentucky
>> Representative/Democracy
>> 5:45 - 6:45 pm
>> Reception UK Faculty Club
>> 6:45 pm
>> Dinner
>> Welcoming Remarks
>> Howard Grotch, Dean
>> College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky
>> 8:00 pm
>> Lecture
>> Lecture Introduction
>> Wolfgang Natter, University of Kentucky
>> Mark Poster, University of California at Irvine
>> Capitalism's Linguistic Turn: An Examination of Digitized
>>Cultural Objects and the
>> Structural Constraints on Imposing Capitalist Principles on the
>>Internet, the Difficulties of
>> Commodifying Consumption in Cyberspace.
>> 9:00 pm
>> Bus departs for Hyatt Hotel
>>
>>
>>
>> Saturday, May 13, 2000
>>
>> 9:00 - 10:30 am
>> Session 7
>> Panel I
>> Community/Economy
>> Chair, John Pickles, University of Kentucky
>> Antonio Callari, Franklin and Marshall College
>> Reconstituting Civil Society: Towards a New Socialist Strategy
>> Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts Amherst
>> Re/articulating Class and Community
>> David Ruccio, University of Notre Dame
>> Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Social Theory
>> Stephen Healy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
>> Amplifying Alternatives: Economic Discourse and the Politics of
>>Resignification in Western
>> Massachusetts
>> Panel II
>> Reason, Religion and Enlightenment Legacies (A)
>> Chair, Chris Zurn, University of Kentucky
>> Gary Mullen, Southern Illinois University
>> Critical Theory, History, and the Normative Motivation of Social
>>Theory
>> Jeff Nicholas, University of Kentucky
>> Social Theory and the Problem of Reason: The Present Task of a
>>Consortium on Social
>> Theory
>> Gregory Sadler, Southern Illinois University
>> Questioning the Enlightenment Narrative: Catholic Social Thought
>>and Critique
>> Panel III
>> Masculinity, Performativity, and Colonialism
>> Chair, Albert Dzur, University of Utah
>>
>> Doug Arrowsmith, York University
>> Self-Mastery and Montaigne's Trope of Masculinity
>> Paul Kingsbury, University of Kentucky
>> The Love that Dare not Speak Its Name: The Beautiful
>>Radicality and
>> Resistance of Wilde Words
>> Jennifer Kopf, University of Kentucky
>> Constructing Railroads and Society in German East Africa
>>
>> 10:30 - 11:00 am
>> 10:30 - 11:00 am
>>
>>Break/Refreshments
>> 11:00 - 12:15 am
>> Session 8
>> Panel
>> Social Theory and Academic Journals
>> Chair, Wolfgang Natter, University of Kentucky
>> John Holmwood, Sussex University
>> Studies in Social and Political Thought
>> David Ruccio, Notre Dame University
>> Rethinking Marxism
>> Christine Metzo, University of Kentucky
>> disClosure
>> Steve Reyna, University of New Hampshire
>> Anthropological Theory
>> Badu Balagangadhara, Ghent University, Belgium
>> Cultural Dynamics
>> Peter Beilharz, Harvard University
>> Thesis Eleven
>> 12:30 - 2:00 pm
>> Lunch
>> 2:00 - 3:30 pm
>> Session 9
>> Panel I
>> Geography, Social Theory and the Urban
>> Chair, Karl Raitz, University of Kentucky
>>
>> Neil Smith, Rutgers University
>> From Lost Geography to Geographical Solicitude: The Politics of
>>Space in the American
>> Century
>> Edward Soja, University of California Los Angeles
>> Re-Theorizing "The City": Focusing the Spatial Turn in Social
>Theory
>> Leonard Feldman, University of Washington
>> Social Control and the Public Sphere: From Vagrancy Law to
>>Anti-Homeless Legislation
>> Panel II
>> Multidisciplinary Social Theory Pedagogy, Curriculum and
>>Composition
>> Chair, Janet Eldred, University of Kentucky
>> Diane Johnson, Kutztown University
>> Theory and Principles: Introductory Sociology as the History of
>>Social Thought
>> Dale Bauer, University of Kentucky
>> Gender in the Pedagogical Sphere
>> Art Jipson, Miami University of Ohio
>> The Relevance and Utility of Sociological theory to the "Real
>World"
>> Jeffrey Hoogeven, Lincoln University
>> Understanding Student Desire Within the History/Economy of
>>Composition
>> Panel III
>> Bauman, Alienation, and Postmodern Sociology
>> Chair, John Holmwood, Sussex University
>> Peter Beilharz, Harvard University
>> Bauman and Modernity
>> Christopher Adair-Toteff, American University
>> Bulgaria Max Weber on the Varieties of Alienation
>> Rekha Mirchandani, Bucknell University
>> Zygmunt Bauman's Postmodern Sociology: Reconciling the
>>Epistomological and Empirical
>> 3:30 - 4:00 pm
>> 3:30 - 4:00 pm
>>
>>Break/Refreshments
>> 4:00 - 5:30 pm
>>
>>Session 10
>> Panel I
>> 21st Century Critical Scholarship and Pedagogy
>> Chair, J. P. Jones, University of Kentucky
>> Marv Waterstone, University of Arizona
>> Situatedness of Critical Scholarship and Pedagogy in the 21st
>>Century University
>> Eugene Halton, Notre Dame University
>> Some System Requirements of the Post-Democratic Military/
>>Industrial/ Academic/
>> Entertainment/ Sport Complex
>> Gregory Cameron, York University
>> The Consummation of the Object and the Future of Social Theory
>> Panel II
>> Reason, Religion and Enlightenment Legacies (B)
>> Chair, Jack Furlong, Transylvania University
>> John Meeks, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
>> Iniquitous Readings: Kant, Hegel and the Master-Servant Dialectic
>> Hilarie Roseman, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
>> Research: Fading Catholic Memories
>> John Meeks, Gary Mullen, Jeff Nicholas, Hilarie Roseman, Gregory
>>Sadler
>> Panelist Forum
>> Panel III
>> Cyberspace, Social Theory, and the Internet
>> Chair, Mark Poster, University of California at
>>Irvine
>> Matt Kirschenbaum, University of Kentucky
>> Information in the Information Age
>> Adam Perzynski, Case Western Reserve University
>> Habermas and the Internet
>> Marc Bousquet, University of Louisville
>> Web Authority
>> 5:30-6:45
>> 5:30-6:45
>>
>>Reception Hyatt Hotel
>> 6:45 pm
>> Dinner
>> Consortium Focus
>>
>>Sunday, May 14, 2000
>>
>> 9:00 - 10:30 am
>> Session 11
>> Panel I
>> Ethics and Social Theory
>> Chair, Steve Turner, University of South
>Florida
>> Scott Schaffer, Fullerton University
>> Resisting Ethics: Complicity and the Construction of Ahistorical
>>Social Ethics
>> M. Ross DeWitt
>> Rejecting the Normative Assumption in Social Theory Development
>> Andrew Ward, Georgia Institute of Technology
>> Cognitive Science and Social Epistemological Constraints on
>>Naturalized Ethics
>> Panel II
>> Neurohermeneutics, Fact-Value Conflict and Consent
>> Chair, Ted Schatzki
>> Stephen On, University of Virginia
>> A Balancing Act: Social Sciences' Contribution to the Fact/Value
>>Conflict
>> Steve Reyna, University of New Hampshire
>> Cultural Neurohermeneutics
>> Donald Poochigian, University of North Dakota
>> The Paradoxical Character of Consent
>> Panel III
>> Reflexivity and Communication
>> Chair, Ernie Yanarella, University of Kentucky
>> John Holmwood, Sussex University
>> After Reflexivity: the Displacement of Explanation in Recent
>>Theories of Social Inquiry
>> Hans Herbert Koegler, University of North Florida
>> Normative vs. Holistic Approaches to Reflexivity in Critical
>>Social Theory
>> Louis Kontos, Long Island University
>> Interaction, Communication, and Generalized Media
>> 10:30 - 11:00 am
>> Break/Refreshments
>> 11:00 - 12:00 pm
>> Session 12
>> Organizational Wrap up:
>> What are the future aims of the Consortium?
>> Wolfgang Natter, University of Kentucky
>> Steve Turner, University of South Florida
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>john paul jones
>department of geography
>university of kentucky
>lexington, ky 40506-0027 usa
>phone: 606 257-6950
>fax: 606 323-1969
>email: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geography
>
Lawrence D. Berg, Ph.D.
Department of Geography
University of Victoria
PO Box 3050
Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P5
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