[Peace] Fwd: Beyond a Boundary: Area, Ethnic, & Gender Studies & the "New" Global Imperative: Starts this Thursday

Mon Nov 29 16:52:49 CST 2004

>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:51:13 -0600
>To: african at uiuc.edu
>From: African Studies <jmcgowan at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Beyond a Boundary: Area, Ethnic, & Gender Studies & the "New"
>   Global Imperative:  Starts this Thursday
>
>Beyond a Boundary: Area, Ethnic, & Gender 
>Studies & the "New" Global Imperative
>Dec. 2 - 4, 2004
>at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>for more info, visit: http://www.afrst.uiuc.edu/beyondaboundary.htm
>
>
>Thursday, DECEMBER 2
>3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center
>
>7:30 p.m.
>KEYNOTE     "Remapping Area Knowledge:  Beyond Local/Global"
>Neil Smith, City University of New York
>
>
>
>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
>Rm 210, Illini Union
>
>8: 45 a.m.
>Opening Remarks: Jean Allman, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>9 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
>“A Bloody Stupid War”
>Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
>
>10:10 a.m. -11:40 a.m.
>Roundtable I:   How do we explain the turn 
>toward the “global” on US campuses?  What has 
>made the global the center of academic, 
>administrative, and policy debate?  What are the 
>implications of privileging the “global”, the 
>“hybrid” or the “transnational” over the “local” 
>or the “subaltern”?
>
>Participants:
>Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
>Charles Piot, Duke University
>Radha Hegde, New York University
>Pedro Caban, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Moderator:  Jean Allman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>12:50 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
>“Global Africa and the Challenges of 
>Globlization: Race/Ethnicity, Gender & Area 
>Studies Nexus”
>Darryl Thomas, Binghamton University
>
>2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
>Roundtable II:  Area, Ethnic/Race and Gender 
>Studies have, for many decades, engaged in 
>scholarship that de-centers white Euro-America. 
>Can we consider the work of area, ethnic and 
>gender studies of the past decades “global” 
>work?   How do our historic and programmatic 
>differences shape, enhance or limit our ability 
>to address the global?
>
>Participants:
>Darryl Thomas,  Binghamton University
>Pearl Robinson, Tufts University
>David Nugent, Colby College
>Kwaku Korang, Ohio State University
>Aimee Carrillo-Rowe, University of Iowa
>Andrew Orta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Moderator: David Roediger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>3:40 p.m.- 4:40 p.m.
>“Outside American Studies: On 
>Internationalization and Critical Exceptionalism”
>Robyn Wiegman, Duke University
>
>4:45 p.m.- 6:15 p.m.
>Roundtable III:   Should university initiatives 
>for enhancing both diversity on campus and the 
>study of race, ethnicity, and gender be counter 
>posed to international diversity and 
>international content as areas of knowledge? 
>What are the stakes in considering area 
>knowledge as distinct from US multicultural 
>knowledge, or gender as distinct from gender “in 
>global perspective,” especially given the 
>changing demographics of US campuses since Brown 
>vs. the Board of Education?
>
>Participants:
>Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Columbia College
>Gertrude Fraser, University of Virginia
>Courtenay Sprague, Carnegie Corporation of New York
>Edward A. Kolodziej, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Charles Stewart, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Sundiata Cha-Jua, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Moderator: Kent Ono, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>
>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
>Rm 210, Illini Union
>
>9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
>“Asian Latinos: When Two Diasporas Collide”
>Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
>
>10:10 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
>Roundtable IV:  How has recent scholarship 
>coming out of area, ethnic/race and gender 
>studies programs challenged the paradigms and 
>disrupted the terminologies which have divided 
>area, ethnic/race and gender studies?   What new 
>theoretical possibilities are posed by this work 
>and how do they meet the challenge of the global?
>
>Participants:
>Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University
>Kim Butler, Rutgers University
>Michael Salman, University of California, Los Angeles
>Philip Deloria, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
>Christine Skwiot, Georgia State University
>Elizabeth Esch, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Moderator: Lisa Cacho, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
>“Latina Transborder Feminisms, in Dialogue”
>Rosa Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz
>
>2:10 p.m. - 3:40 p.m
>Roundtable V:   What challenges does the new 
>global imperative pose for area, ethnic/race and 
>gender studies today?  In what ways have these 
>centers of interdisciplinary study met the 
>challenges?  What work is left to be done?  What 
>are the possibilities for theorizing across 
>area, ethnic and gender boundaries and of 
>bringing the subaltern, the local, the regional 
>and the national to bear on the global and 
>transnational?
>
>Participants:
>Rosa Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz
>Nikhil Singh, University of Washington
>Robyn Wiegman, Duke University
>Susan Koshy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Fanon Wilkins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>Moderator: Shefali Chandra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
>3:50 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
>Closing Remarks
>Neil Smith, City University of New York
>
>9 p.m.  Open Reception with band and beverages 
>at the home of Jean Allman & David Roediger
>
>ORGANIZERS
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>
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>STUDIES; RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN, & EUROASIAN 
>CENTER; COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES; 
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>DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPARTMENT OF 
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>SOCIOLOGY; GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES; GLOBAL 
>STUDIES PROGRAM; LATINA/O STUDIES PROGRAM; 
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>RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES; WOMEN & GENDER IN 
>GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
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