[Peace] FW: Nigel Thrift - Transnational Workshop, 4/14(Sat) 10:a.m. Rm.22 Education Building

[Lisa Chason]

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Eighth Transnational Workshop UIUC


Trends in Capitalism


April 14th, 2007


College of Education Building*, Rm.22
(1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL)


10 - 11:30 a.m.  Keynote Address  


Nigel Thrift


New Forms of Capitalism
Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick


11:30 a.m.


New technologies/knowledge 1


Hyomin Kim, Sociology, UIUC             

Germinating Brown Rice in Korea: Productive 
Biotechnoscience Meets the Subjects of Consumption

Amit Prasad, Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia Srirupa Prasad,
Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia

Citizenship, Identity, and Power in Neoliberal Globalization: Medical
Tourism, Medical Transcription, and Drug Testing in India 

Discussant: Fazal Rizvi, Global Studies in Education, UIUC 


12:45 p.m.                Lunch


1:45 p.m.      


New technologies/knowledge 2


Ryuta Komaki, Sociology, UIUC

"Read Japanese on Your Blackberry": Expatriate Japanese Corporate Workers in
the Unites States, and (Not So) Global Circulation of Japanese Labor

Andrew Orta, Anthropology, UIUC

Managing the Margins: Conceiving International Differences in MBA Training

Discussant:  Colin Flint, Geography, UIUC


3 p.m.


Transnational trends


Hsiang-Chieh Lee, Sociology, UIUC

Flexible Acculturation: Practices of Taiwanese Business people who Move
Across the Strait  

Tom Bassett, Geography, UIUC

Producing Poverty: Power Relations and Formation in the Cotton Commodity
Chains of West Africa

Jerry Harris, History, DeVry Institute of Technology

To Be or Not To Be: The Nation Centric World Order Under Globalization

Discussant: Manisha Desai, Sociology/WGGP, UIUC 


6: 30p.m. Dinner Party


 

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