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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:16:42 -0700
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Conference announcement
The American Society of Phenomenology,
Aesthetics, and the Fine Arts convenes 16-18
April 1999 in Cambridge, Mass. The conference
theme is: "Theater of Life and the Stage of the
World: Theatrum mundi in Literature, Drama,
Poetry, Music, Opera, Fine Arts, Aestetics,
Philosophy, Architecture, and Landscape Gardens.
Contact: Marlies Kronegger at
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http://www.phenomenology.org/
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:39:01 -0500
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Organization: Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
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Subject: Conference Announcement
The 4th Annual Rutgers Comparative Literature Conference:
"New World (dis)Orders: Globalization, Culture + Identity"
February 18 + 19, 1999 - Free + open to the public
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Keynote Speaker: Homi K. Bhabha (Art + English, University of Chicago)
with moderator Bruce Robbins (Comparative Literature + English, Rutgers)
Keynote Panel: bell hooks (English, CUNY) + Drucilla Cornell (Law,
Women's Studies + Political Science, Rutgers) in a dialogue on global
feminism
moderators :: Sujata Moni and Yukari Yanagino (Comparative Literature,
Rutgers)
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For detailed info visit the conference website:
http://complit.rutgers.edu/conferences/new_world_disorders
The schedule of events is as follows:
THURSDAY, FEB 18 - PANELS 9:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M.
GRADUATE STUDENT LOUNGE, CAC
9:00 -10:15 a.m. PANEL I: "READING THE GLOBE"
Moderator: Janet Walker (Comparative Literature, Rutgers)
1. Anthony Alessandrini, "Reading the New World (dis)Order, or Bharati
Mukherjee: The Postcolonial Balzac" (English, Rutgers)
2. Yaakov Perry, "Mimetic Desire, Desiring Mimesis: The Traps of Power
in Mbembe's Reading of the 'Postcolony'" (Comparative Literature,
Rutgers)
3. John Scanlon, "'Scales Unknown in the World:'" The Strange
Affiliations of Gravity's Rainbow" (English, Rutgers)
4. Violeta Davoliute, "Identity Formation and the Post-Totalitarian
City: Divergent Paths in Recent Lithuanian Literature" (Comparative
Literature, University of Toronto)
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10:30 - 11:45 a.m. PANEL II: "ETHICS, VALUES & HUMAN RIGHTS"
Moderator: Abena Busia (Comparative Literature + English, Rutgers)
1. Elizabeth Brereton Allen, "The Old Interior Angel: David Whyte's
Poetry for the Corporate World" (Romance Languages + Literature,
Washington University, St. Louis)
2. Bridget Conley, "What Barbed Wire Does Not Enclose" (Comparative
Literature, Binghamton University)
3. Susan Koshy, "Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Neocolonialism
and Emerging Universalisms" (Asian American Studies, University of
California, Santa Barbara)
4. Neloufer de Mel, "(Dis)ordering Motherhood: The Sri Lankan Mothers'
Front in an Era of Militarization" (English + Women's Studies,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
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12:00 - 1:15 p.m. PANEL III: "WHAT'S A NICE 'COLORED GIRL' LIKE YOU
DOING IN A TEMPLE LIKE THIS?"
1. Karla Jackson-Brewer, "Spinning a Thread Back Home" (Iyalocha, Ifa
Practitioner)
2. Regina "Gunga" Lewis, "On the Battlefield" (NLP Master Practitioner +
Hindu Practitioner)
3. Davine Del Valle, "An Invitation to Wholeness" (Psychotherapist,
Writer + Tibetan Buddhist Practitioner)
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2:30 - 3:45 p.m. PANEL IV: "NATION, IDENTITY, AND INTELLECTUALS"
Moderator: Louisa Schein (Comparative Literature + Anthropology,
Rutgers)
1. Meyda Yegenoglu, "Inhabiting Other Spaces: Tourists and Migrants in
the Post-Colonial World" (Sociology, Middle East Technical University,
Ankara, Turkey)
2. Turjo Haapamaki, "Nationalism, Exile and Paul Celan" (English,
University of Toronto, Canada)
3. Melanie A. Perez Ortiz, "The Word of the Intellectual" (Spanish +
Portuguese, Stanford)
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4:00 - 5:00 p.m. GUEST SPEAKER :: Steven Ungar
"Display and Identity: The 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibition in Context"
(Chair, Comparative Literature, University of Iowa)
Moderator :: Josephine Diamond (Comparatuve Literature + French,
Rutgers)
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5:00 - 7:00 p.m. MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE & RECEPTION
Techne
with Eugene Thacker + Nikola Stojsin (Comparative Literature, Rutgers)
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1999
Douglass College, Meeting Room B in the Douglass Student Center
9:00 -10:15 a.m. PANEL I: "CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION:
GLOBALIZATION, NATIONALISM, AND THE MARKETING OF IDENTITY"
Moderator: Elin Diamond (Comparative Literature + English, Rutgers)
1. Chris Vaughan, "Embarking on a Globalizing Century: Identities and
the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines" (Journalism + Mass Media,
Rutgers)
2. Lisa Coxson, "All God's Children Need Travelin' Shoes: Reading
Travel, Transgression, and an African-American Female Subjectivity"
(English, University of Pittsburgh)
3. Martine Gantrel, "French Exception or French Delusion? A Country's
Difficult Response to Globalization" (French, Smith College)
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10:30 - 11:45 a.m. PANEL II: "MAPPING THE METROPOLIS"
Moderator: Dorothy Hodgson (Anthropology, Rutgers)
1. Emily T. Bauman, "Global Violence: Miami Cubans and the Arts of
Exile" (English, University of Pittsburgh)
2. Tsung-yi Huang, "From Slums to Skyscrapers: Abject Spaces in the
Global City" (Comparative Literature, SUNY, Stony Brook)
3. Abdou Maliq Simone, "Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in
Africa" (Public and Development Management, University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa)
4. Tolonda Tolbert DiFranco, "The Dances of Kinship and Creation:
Aesthetic Cultural Productions of Garifuna Identity and Community"
(Comparative Literature, Rutgers)
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Loree Hall 022 Douglass Campus
1:30 p.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER ::
Homi K. Bhabha
(Art + English, University of Chicago)
moderator :: Bruce Robbins
(Comparative Literature + English, Rutgers)
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Loree Hall 022 Douglass Campus
3:30 p.m. KEYNOTE PANEL ::
bell hooks
(English, CUNY)
+
Drucilla Cornell
(Law, Women's Studies + Political Science, Rutgers)
a dialogue on global feminism
moderators :: Sujata Moni and Yukari Yanagino (Comparative Literature,
Rutgers)
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conference organizers:
Bethuel Hunter ([log in to unmask])
Thomas Ponniah ([log in to unmask])
Romana Uhlirova ([log in to unmask])
Sara Warner ([log in to unmask])
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