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Reimagining the Hemispheric South
McCune Room, Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center
University of California, Santa Barbara
January 20 – 21, 2011
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The University
of California, Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce an upcoming
conference devoted to the topic of “Reimagining the Hemispheric
South.” The conference and subsequent series of related events,
including follow-up conferences and lectures, will build on contemporary
retheorizations of the Global South by exploring the rapid transformation
of many relationships, communities, and alliances within the Western
hemisphere. While the concept of the Hemispheric South suggests a move away
from the nation-state as a primary unit of critical analysis, it also
intends to foreground the manner in which imperial, colonial, and
nationalist projects, along with predatory forms of capitalism, have shaped
definitions of hemispheric "Southernness" in terms of unique
poverty (including constructions of indigeneity and the rural), wealth
(including natural resources, beauty), and culture (including ideas of
authenticity).
Overall, the conference will examine the multiple
realities, knowledge systems, migrations, and intellectual border crossings
associated with “southernness” in the Americas, especially as these dynamics
contribute to articulations of the Americas as part of the
“Global South.” In particular, the conference conveners
present this event as an opportunity to consider the ways that the
Hemispheric South has unfolded as a powerful facet of the social
imaginary. Focusing on relationships and negotiations in the Americas
which stretch over many hundreds of years, the conference invites scholars
and the interested public to consider the complicated struggles that have
ensued in various media as a great array of meanings have been attached to
notions of the "southern" in this context.
Reimagining the Hemispheric South
Conference
Schedule
Thursday, January 20
9:00AM – 9:15AM / Conference Introduction
9:15AM – 10:20AM / Neoliberalism and Global
Imperialism
Rosaura Sanchez
(Literature, UC San Diego): “Combating Necessary Illusions in
the South: The
Failure
of Neoliberalism”
Riché Richardson
(Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University):
"Condoleezza
Rice and Race"
Panel Chair:
Paul Amar (Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
10:25AM – 11:30AM / Performance,
Subjectivity and Citizenship
Stephanie Batiste (Black Studies and English, UC Santa Barbara): “Transnationalism
and the
Development of US Black
National Subjectivities in Performance Culture"
Tiffany Ana Lopez
(Theater, UC Riverside): “The Staging of Cultural Citizenship in U.S.
Latina/o
Drama and Visual Production”
Panel Chair: Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
11:35AM – 12:40PM /Media Circuits I
George Lipsitz (Black Studies and Sociology, UC Santa Barbara): "Closer
Together and Farther
Apart: Mediascapes
after NAFTA"
Cristina Venegas (Film
and Media Studies, UC Santa
Barbara): “Post-NAFTA Media Circuits”
Panel Chair: Rita Raley
(English, UC Santa Barbara)
12:40PM – 1:30PM / Lunch
1:30PM – 2:35PM / Critical Spirit
Desirée Martín (English, UC Davis): “Illegal
Marginalizations: La Santisima Muerte”
José David Saldívar
(Comparative Literature, Stanford
University):
“Junot Diaz’s Global South
and
the Fuku Americanus”
Panel Chair: Carl
Gutiérrez-Jones (English, UC Santa
Barbara)
2:40PM – 3:45PM / Indigenous Social
Movements
Maylei Blackwell (Chicana
and Chicano Studies, UC Los
Angeles): “The Practice of Autonomy
in the Age of Neoliberalism: Indigenous
Women’s Organizing, Cross Border
Communities, and the Politics of Scale”
Teresa Shewry (English,
UC Santa Barbara): "Wandering Ecologies: Water and
Indigenous
Politics"
Panel Chair: Ellen
McCracken (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa
Barbara)
4:00PM – 5:45PM / Keynote
Address
Ileana Rodriguez (Spanish
and Portuguese, Ohio
State University):
“Reimagining the
‘Hemispheric
South’: Reflections on the Nature of the Nation-state”
Introduction: Stephanie
Batiste (Black Studies and English, UC Santa Barbara)
Friday, January 21
9:00AM – 10:50AM / Cultivating Critical
Listening: Music and Poetry
Felice Blake (English, UC
Santa Barbara):
"Down These Mean Streets with a Saxophone in My
Hand:
Black and Latino Dialogue in Music and Literature"
Jayna Brown (Ethnic
Studies, UC Riverside): “Represent the World Town: Music, War and the
Rehabitation of Injured Bodies”
Rachel Adams (English, Columbia University): “Listening to
Gaby: Disability Rights in a
Hemispheric
Perspective”
Panel Chair: Shirley
Geok-Lin Lim (English, UC Santa
Barbara)
10:55AM – 12:00PM / Media Circuits II
Curtis Marez (Ethnic
Studies, UC San Diego):
“From Third World Cinema to National Video:
Visual
Technologies and UFW
World Building”
Ellen McCracken (Spanish
and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara):
“Vooks and the Hemispheric
South:
Enhanced E-books and U.S. Latino Literature”
Panel Chair: Cristina
Venegas (Film and Media Studies, UC Santa
Barbara)
12:00PM – 1:00PM / Lunch
1:00PM – 2:05PM /Hemispheric Translations of
the Haitian Event
Susan Gillman
(Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
and Kirsten Silva Gruesz (Literature, UC Santa
Cruz):
“Hugo, Melville, and the Black Jacobins”
Panel Chair: Esther Lezra
(Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
2:10PM – 3:15PM / Binary Logics, Critical
Reversals
Candace Waid (English, UC
Santa Barbara):
"The Reverse Slave Narrative"
Esther Lezra (Global
Studies, UC Santa Barbara): “Wide-Eyed Monkeys, Thoughtful Tigers and
Smiling
Snakes: Re-thinking Self-Other Binaries Dividing Colony and
Metropole”
Panel Chair: Stephanie
Batiste (Black Studies and English, UC Santa Barbara)
3:30PM – 4:35PM ? Afro-Hemispheric
Difference
Winston James (History,
UC Irvine): “Black Contact Zones: Their Role in the Development of
Pan-Africanism,
Transnationalism and Internationalism—The Cases of Panama and
Costa Rica, 1880-1939”
Shelley Streeby
(Literature, UC San Diego):
“Archiving Alternate Black Worlds and Near
Futures:
Scrapbooks, Stereopticons, and Social Movements”
Panel Chair: Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
4:40PM – 5:45PM / Rethinking Plantations
Aisha Finch (Women’s
Studies, UC Los Angeles):
“Sugar's 'Unapparent Histories': Alternate
Temporalities and Rival Geographies
in the Caribbean Plantation”
Clyde Woods (Black
Studies, UC Santa Barbara): “Neo-plantation, Neo-Liberalism”
Panel Chair: George Lipsitz (Black Studies and
Sociology, UC Santa Barbara)
For more
information about this event, please contact Carl
Gutierrez-Jones at: carlgj@english.ucsb.edu
This conference is being supported by the UC Humanities Research Institute,
the Department of English, the Chicano Studies Institute, the Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center,
the Center for Black Studies Research, and the Division of Humanities and
Fine Arts.
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