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American
Identities & Global Crises
An Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference
Saturday,
May 14th, 2005
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara
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Conference
Schedule
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| 8:15-9:00: Registration and
Light Breakfast
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| 9:00-9:10: Welcoming
Remarks: Sarah Hirsch, Caroline Hong and Eric
Martinsen,
Conference Co-Organizers
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| 9:10-10:30: Reading
American Identities, Writing National Spaces:
Moderator Chris Hoffpauir (UCSB)
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Ly Chong Thong Jalao (UCSB) |
Amalia Gomez: The
Politics of a Miracle |
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Sarah Park (U of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) |
Constructing Identities: Korean
American Adoptees in Children’s Books |
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Sarah Hirsch (UCSB) |
Beyond a Binary: C.L.R. James
and the Chronotope of Narrative |
| 10:30-10:40: Break
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| 10:40-12:00: Borders
Between Bodies, Spectacles of Difference:
Moderator Andrea Tinnemeyer,
Assistant Professor, Utah State University
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Andrea Tinnemeyer (Utah State) |
Body Parts: The U.S.-Mexican
War and Amputation |
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Laurie Clements Lambeth (U of
Houston) |
Cinema’s Fraudulent Blindness:
Thomas Edison to Yimou |
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James Hall (U of Houston) |
"Exposed in a
Free Society": The American Sous-Text of Abu
Ghraib |
| 12:00-1:00: Lunch
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| 1:00- |
2:20: Keynote:
George Lipsitz
Professor and Chair,
American Studies, UC Santa Cruz
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The Metaphor of Two Worlds: Abolition
Democracy and Global Justice
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2:20-2:30: Break
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2:30-3:50:
Constructing Violence, Mapping Global Crises:
Moderator Erik Love (UCSB)
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Jacob Berman (UCSB) |
William Eaton and the 200 year
anniversary of the U.S. War with Tripoli, 1801-1805 |
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Stefanie Stauffer (UCSB) |
The Social Construction of Terror:
What are the motives of Al-Qaeda and where did they come
from? |
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Sol Neely (Purdue) |
From Abu Ghraib to Attica: The
Biopolitical Organization of Torture Under the State of
Exception (or, "We Are All Undesirables") |
| 3:50-4:00: Break
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4:00-5:20: Moving Icons,
Globalizing Pop Culture:
Moderator Emily Davis (UCSB)
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Sumita Lall (UCSB) |
India's Elvis: Signifiers of
American Freedom in Junglee (Hindi film, 1961) |
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Brandon Fastman (U of Arizona) |
What Can The Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit Issue Teach Us About The Postcolonial World? |
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Kenneth S. Habib (UCSB) |
Arab-Americans Locating Home
with the Lebanese Superstar Singer Fairouz |
5:20-5:30:
Closing Remarks: Giles Gunn, ACGCC Director; Professor
of English and of Global
and International Studies, UC Santa
Barbara |
