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America and
the Reshaping of a New World Order: Normative Implications,
Cultural Constraints
This conference theme is prompted by the debate
surrounding America's renewed desire, and some would say responsibility,
others presumption, to reshape world order more nearly in
accordance with its own beliefs and values as a result of
September 11, 2001. This project in global governance has
clearly met a decidedly mixed, and in many instances hostile,
response both here and throughout the world. Still, we are
particularly struck by how much the influence of the nation’s
discourse about itself makes its appeal on the basis of assumptions
that are often more ideological than geopolitical, military,
or economic. Moreover, this project is framed in terms that
are, before they are anything else, symbolic, aesthetic, and
metaphorical. We wish to explore the ways such terms may distort,
deform, disguise, or confuse, and also why and how they have
come to exercise such primacy in framing the debate, both
nationally and internationally, about America's role in the
creation of a new world order. Our inquiry becomes even more
crucial than ever as we head into our national elections and
witness an increasing barrage of politically-motivated language
about what America is, should, and could be.
Keynote Speakers
Ronald
Steel
"America's
Mission: the Power and the Glory"
Friday, April 23, 9:30-10:30
USC Professor of International
Relations and Whitney Shepardson Fellow at the Council
on Foreign Relations, Steel researches American foreign
policy through a hybrid lens of history, political science,
sociology, psychology, economics and political anthropology.
His books focus in particular on both the impact of
U.S. relations with other nations, especially Europe,
and the individuals who have driven world events: In
Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy
(2000), Temptations of a Superpower (1996),
Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980),
Imperialists and Other Heroes (1971), Pax
Americana (1967), and The End of Alliance
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Richard
Falk
"Visionary
American Leadership and the Remaking of World Order"
Saturday, April 24, 2:00-3:00
Richard Falk
is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International
Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished
Professor in Global and International Studies at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. One recent
book, , considers the American response to September
11, including its relationship to the patriotic duties
of American Citizens. In 2001 he served on a three person
UN Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the Palestine,
and previously, on the UN Independent International
Commission on Kosovo. He is the author or co-author
of numerous books, including The Great Terror War
(2002); Human Rights Horizons (2002);
Religion and Humane Global Governance (2001);
Predatory Globalization: A Critique (1999);
On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics
(1995); Explorations at the Edge of Time: the Prospects
for World Order (1993); and, forthcoming, This
Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human
Survival.
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Special
Friday Night Performance!
Guillermo
Gómez-Peña of La Pocha Nostra
Ethno-Techno
Friday, April 23, 7:00-9:30
UCSB McCune Room
An interactive,
multidisciplinary and transnational performance installation,
Ethno-techno examines the roles of global
media in the construction of problematic images of
people from immigrant communities and "third
world" countries, and proposes complex notions
of identity, nationality, language and media representation.
It looks at the current appropriation of hybridity,
"revolution-as-style" and "extreme
behavior" by corporate multiculturalism and global
media, and it examines why certain Others get demonized,
while other Others get either romanticized or eroticized.
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Ethno-techno
is an interactive living museum of sacred monsters and
artificial savages.
A performance and installation by Guillermo Gómez-Peña,
Michelle Ceballos, Emiko Lewis and directed by Gómez-Peña.
The performance artists conceive
the piece as an Experimental Ethnography Project and
Living Museum. It takes the form of a series of "living
dioramas," in which the artists construct multi-layered
personas and display themselves as 'inter-cultural specimens',
depicting fetishized, highly charged symbols of cultural
difference.It is a living museum of those displaced
and hybridized 'orphans of the developing world' who
currently exist beyond and across nation states. In
this sense it is a new chapter in the long-term dialogue
between US Latinos and "other" European artists.
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Conference panelists
include David Palumbio-Liu, Gabriele Schwab, Simon Ortiz,
Berndt Ostendorf, Eileen Boris, Ramon Gutiérrez, Carolyn
Porter, Inderpal Grewal, John Carlos Rowe, Mark Juergensmeyer,
Juan Campo, Helmut Anheier, Wade Clark Roof, Lisa Lowe, and
Donald Pease.
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