[Peace] IPRH Panel on Globalizing Abu Ghraib

[carol inskeep]

    The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities presents

Globalizing Abu Ghraib:  A Roundtable

   
  - What are the global implications of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal?

  - What are the international perceptions of the events at Abu Ghraib?

  - How is Abu Ghraib linked to processes of globalization and the question of empire?

  - What is the relationship of Abu Ghraib to the U.S. prison-industrial complex?

  - How is Abu Ghraib related to Guantánamo Bay and other non-U.S. based detention centers?

  - What are the geopolitical dynamics of prison, torture, and a culture of brutality?


  PANELISTS
        
BEHROOZ GHAMARI (History)
ZSUZSA GILLE (Sociology)
ELLEN MOODIE (Anthropology)
MICHAEL ROTHBERG (English)

CHAIR & ORGANIZER

STEPHEN HARTNETT (Speech Communication)



  Thursday, April 20
4:00pm
Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana




Participants

BEHROOZ GHAMARI is Assistant Professor of History and Sociology at UIUC. He specializes in transnational and global histories in the Middle Eastern postcolonial context, with a focus on social movements and intellectual articulations of Islamic conceptions of modernity. He is completing a manuscript entitled "Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran."

ZSUZSA GILLE is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UIUC. Her research interests include environmental sociology, sociology of knowledge, globalization, cultural studies, and Eastern Europe. She is the co-author of Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (2000). Her book From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: A Social Theory of Waste is forthcoming.
 
STEPHEN HARTNETT is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at UIUC. He is the author of Democratic Dissent & The Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America (2002) and Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror (2004), as well as the forthcoming books Executing Democracy: Enlightenment, Modernity, and Capital Punishment in America, 1683-1855 and Empire of Deception: The War in Iraq, Globalization & The Twilight of Democracy (co-authored with Laura Stengrim).

ELLEN MOODIE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UIUC. Her research addresses violence and insecurity in Central America, with a particular focus on social suffering as it is constituted and revealed through talk, mass media, and historical archives. She is currently working on a book on violence in post-civil war El Salvador.

MICHAEL ROTHBERG is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at UIUC. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000) and co-editor, with Neil Levi, of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003). He is currently at work on a book project on Holocaust memory in the age of decolonization.



  For more information, please contact the IPRH at 244-3344
or go online at www.iprh.uiuc.edu




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Matti Bunzl

Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel.: (217) 333-3138
Fax: (217) 333-9617
e-mail: bunzl at uiuc.edu

Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
109 Davenport Hall
607 South Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel.: (217) 265-4068
Fax: (217) 244-3490
e-mail: bunzl at uiuc.edu  Stephen Hartnett
Associate Professor of Speech Communication
University of Illinois
702 S. Wright St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-1593; hartnett at uiuc.edu 


		
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