CONFERENCE PROGRAM (abbreviated form)
Thirty-First Annual Conference
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Comparative Colonialisms:
PreIndustrial Colonial Intersections in Global Perspective
October 31 and November 1, 1997
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*** Plenary Speakers ***
John Van A. Fine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) "Resisting the 'Great
Tradition' Hierarchs: Religious Co-Existence and Cultural Identity in
Bosnia, 12th to 19th centuries."
Gwendolyn Hall (Rutgers University) "Patterns of Formation of Cultures and
Societies in the Americas: an Encounter of Africans, Native Americans, and
Europeans."
Anthony Reid (Australian National University) "Imperialism and the
Construction of Identities: Some Southeast Asian cases."
(jointly with the New York Conference on Asian Studies)
Walter Mignolo (Duke University) "From 'El Derecho De Gentes' to 'La
Dignidad Humana': The Zapatistas' Theoretical Revolution."
Patricia Seed (Rice University) "The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit
of Riches in the Americas: Comparing Colonialisms."
*** Concurrent Sessions (with over seventy speakers) ***
Constructions of Identity: The Ottoman Empire
Acquiring Land, Acquiring a Literary Canon: Geoffrey Chaucer,
Edmund Spenser, and Anne Clifford.
Gender and Colonizing Discourse
(sponsored by the Society for Feminist Scholarship).
Images of Order in Colonial Regimes
Material Fashions and Cultural Transformation: Colonizing the
Colonizers
Crusades/Colonization/Colonialism
Territories of Reflection: American and Western Cultural Constructions and
(Self) Critiques
Sodomy and the Geopolitics of Imperial Desire.
(sponsored by the Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages).
Colonial Worlds: Pre-Contact and Post-Contact
Asia and the World: Comparative Methodologies
(joint session with the New York Conference on Asian Studies)
"Hybridities and Linguistic Colonialism: An Early Modern Reassessment."
Colonial Narrative: Framing Texts and the Body Framed
Identity and Fusion: East Africa and Sicily
Insular Relations: Colonial Intimacies of the Medieval British Isles.
English as a Colonizing Agent in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Converging/Converting Identities: Gender, Community, and Nation in Religious
Texts and Images."
(sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship)
Issues of Representation
Western Colonial Projects and the African Continent.
Contextualizing Colonial Relations
New Readings in Nineteenth-Century Colonialism
(sponsored by the Victorian Studies Workshop, Binghamton).
Visual Constructions of National Identity/ Ethnicity and Gender: Pre-Modern
Europe Constructs the Other."
(sponsored by the Medieval Feminist Art History Project)
Consolidating Culture: Five Anthropological Case Studies of Colonial Identity.
Western Colonial Projects and the African Continent."
The Politics of Maintenance and Control
For further information write to Professor Charles Burroughs, Conference
Coordinator, Thirty-First Annual Conference, CEMERS Binghamton University,
PO Box 6000, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000; or telephone the CEMERS
secretary, Ann DiStefano, (607) 777-2730 or 777-2130. E- mail:
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Registration Fee.......................................$40.00
Graduate Students...................................$25.00
(includes continental breakfasts on both days, but not other meals.
Tickets available for banquet and concluding reception)
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