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Friday,
April 23
9:00 – 9:30
Welcome
Chancellor Henry Yang, Giles Gunn,
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote
Address
Ronald Steel
“America’s Mission: the Power and the Glory”
10:45 – 12:15 America
and the Imaginary, Moderator
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
David Palumbo-Liu
“Pre-emption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination”
Gabriele Schwab and Simon Ortiz
“Imaginary Homeland Security: The Internationalization
of Terror”
1:30 – 3:00 Institutions
of Globalization, Moderator
Richard Appelbaum
Berndt Ostendorf
“Americanization and Anti-Americanization in the Age of
Globalization: A View from Europe”
Eileen Boris
“On Cowboys and Welfare Queens: Independence, Dependence,
and Interdependence at Home and Abroad”
Ramon Gutiérrez
“Reshaping the Americans: Personal and Institutional Relations”
3:15 – 4:45 Transnational
America, Moderator
Candace Waid
Carolyn Porter
“The Scream
in the Fog, or the Sound of the Truth”
Inderpal Grewal
“Transnational America: Empire and Neo-liberalism”
John Carlos Rowe
“The Legacy of the Imperial Dialectic: ‘Embedding’
the Foreign in Domestic U.S. Culture”
7:00 -- 9:30 Performance/Installation
Guillermo Gómez Peña
of La Pocha Nostra, Ethno-Techno
Saturday, April 24
9:00 – 11:00 Religion,
Civil Society, and World Order, Moderator Lisa Hajjar
Mark Juergensmeyer
“American Terror and Guerrilla Anti-Globalism”
Juan Campo
“A Passion for Iraq: Religion in the Re-Presentation of
U.S. Hegemony in the Middle East”
Helmut Anheier
“International Non-governmental Organizations and Globalization:
Organizational and Policy Dilemmas”
Wade Clark Roof
“Civil Religion and War Discourse”
11:15 – 12:45 New
Imperialisms, Moderator Gurinder Singh Mann
Lisa Lowe
“The Metaphoricity of a New World Order”
Lisa Parks
“Air Raids: war, Gender, and TV News”
Donald Pease
“Globalizing American Literary Studies: Some Paradigms
and Paradoxes”
2:00 – 3:00 Keynote
Address
Richard Falk
“Visionary American Leadership and the Remaking of World
Order”
3:00 – 4:00 Panel
Discussion
Berndst Ostendorf, Carolyn Porter, David Palumo-Liu, and Gabriele
Schwab
Giles Gunn, Moderator
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