[Peace] Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Unit for Criticism Conference on Neoliberalism]

[Alfred Kagan]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Richard J. Leskosky" <rleskosk at uiuc.edu>
> Date: April 4, 2005 2:42:05 PM CDT
> To: rleskosk at uiuc.edu
> Subject: [Fwd: FW: Unit for Criticism Conference on Neoliberalism]
> Reply-To: rleskosk at uiuc.edu
>
>
>
> The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory presents:
>
> Fetishizing the Free Market:
> The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism
>
> A Conference organized by Karen Kelsky, Michael Rothberg, and Gary Xu
>
> With Keynote Lectures by Wendy Brown (Berkeley) and Jean Comaroff and  
> John Comaroff (Chicago)
>
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> April 29-30
>
>
>
> Friday, April 29
>
> 10:00-10:30 Coffee (Levis 407)
>
> 10:25 Welcome: Michael Rothberg, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive  
> Theory
>
> 10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Theorizing Globalization and Neoliberalism (Levis 
>  407)
>
> Xudong Zhang (NYU): "Neoliberalism and the Neocons: Political Overlaps 
>  and Philosophical Symbiosis"
>
> William Mazzarella (University of Chicago): "Further thoughts on  
> Culture, Globalization, Mediation"
>
> Chair: Gary Xu, EALC
>
>
> 12:00-1:30 Break
>
>
> 1:30-3:00  Panel 2: The Violence of Neoliberalism (Levis 407)
>
> Nikhil P. Singh (University of Washington): "The Afterlife of Fascism"
>
> Lesley Gill (American University): "The Unreal Thing: Coca-Cola  
> Workers, Neoliberalism, and Political Violence in Colombia"
>
> Chair: Bill Maxwell, English
>
>
> 3:00-3:30 Coffee (Levis Third Floor)
>
> 3:30-5:00  Keynote Address (Levis Third Floor)
>
> Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley): "'God Will Provide': 
>  Moral Values and Neoliberalism in Thinking the Short and Long Term"
>
> Introduction: Melissa Orlie, Political Science
>
>
> 7:30-9:30 Film Screening (Armory 101)
>
> Alan Klima (University of California, Davis ): Ghosts and Numbers
>
> Introduction: Ellen Moodie, Anthropology
>
>
> Saturday, April 30
>
> 9:30-10:00 Coffee (Levis Third Floor)
>
> 10:00-11:30 Keynote Address (Levis Third Floor)
>
> Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff (University of Chicago): "Ethnicity,  
> Inc.: On the Commodification and Consumption of Cultural Identity in  
> the Brave Neo World"
>
> Introduction: Matti Bunzl, IPRH/Anthropology
>
>
> 11:45-1:15  Panel 3: Citizenship, Inc. (Levis Third Floor)
>
> Lisa Duggan (NYU): "Neoliberal Citizenship and Contemporary Marriage  
> Politics"
>
> John Clarke (Open University): "Citizen Consumers: Neo-liberal 
> Subjects  or Points of Contested Articulation?"
>
> Chair: James Hay, Speech Communication
>
>
> 1:15-2:30 Lunch for participants and audience (Levis Music Room, 
> Second  Floor)
>
>
> 2:30-4:00 Panel 4: Boys and Girls: Genders and Sexualities in a  
> Neoliberal Age (Levis Third Floor)
>
> Tomiko Yoda (Duke University): "The Formation of Girl-centered 
> Consumer  Culture in Japan"
>
> Eng-Beng Lim (University of Washington): "Global Asian Queer Boys: The 
>  Case of Singapore."
>
> Chair: Karen Kelsky, EALC/Anthropology
>
>
> 4:15-5:15: Closing Roundtable with Graduate Students (Levis Third 
> Floor)
>
> Valerie Barske, UIUC; John Cho, UIUC; Melissa Girard, UIUC; Elizabeth  
> Jane Hayward-Smith, NYU; Andrea Muehlebach, University of Chicago
>
>
> 7:00-11:00 Art opening/Conference party: at OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E.  
> Washington St., Champaign: "Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and  
> Resistance"
>
>
>
> Co-sponsors: LAS State-of-the-Art Conference Fund, FLB Executive  
> Officers, Asian American Studies Program, Center for East Asian and  
> Pacific Studies, Center for Global Studies, Department of 
> Anthropology,  Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 
> Department of English,  Illinois Program for Research in the 
> Humanities, Unit for Cinema  Studies.
>
> For more information, contact Michael Rothberg (mpr at uiuc.edu). More  
> information is available on our website:  
> http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu
>
>
> -- 
> Richard J. Leskosky            Office phone: (217) 244-2704
> Associate Director             FAX: (217) 244-4019
> Unit for Cinema Studies        <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema>
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 3035 Foreign Languages Building
> 707 S. Mathews Avenue
> Urbana, Illinois 61801
>


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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