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Postcolonial Representation[s] & the U.S.
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Centennial House, UC Santa Barbara
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Conference
Schedule
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| 8:30 – 9:00 AM |
Registration and Light Breakfast |
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| 9:00 – 9:10 AM |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
- Conference organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, Sarah Hirsch, Caroline Hong, Dan Pecchenino
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| 9:10 – 10:30 AM |
Panel 1 – Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Globalization |
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Moderator: Professor Giles Gunn (English and Global and International Studies, UCSB) |
- Stefka Hristova (Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
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“Unlawful Combatants under the Nomos of the Empire” (abstract) |
- Lily Wong (Comparative Lit, UCSB)
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“Skins for Emergence: Sounding a Possible Language of Transformation in Post-Colonial Critique” (abstract) |
- Mark Young (American Lit, San Diego State U)
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“The Forbidden Story: A Look at Manlio Argueta’s One Day of Life Through the Lens of James C. Scott’s ‘Behind the Official Story’” (abstract) |
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| 10:30 – 10:40 AM |
Break |
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| 10:40 AM – 12:00 PM |
Panel 2 – Speaking Transnationally: Postcolonial Identities in Diaspora |
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Moderator: Professor James Kyung-Jin Lee (Asian American Studies, UCSB) |
- Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero (English, U Miami)
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“Immigrant Motherhood and Transnationality in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction” (abstract) |
- Rosie Kar (Comparative Lit, UCSB)
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“D for Desire, ABD for American Born Desi” (abstract) |
- Eric Martinsen (English, UCSB)
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“Reading the Movies: Spectatorship and Global Moments in Transnational Fiction” (abstract) |
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| 12:00 – 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 – 2:50 PM |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "Opening Elsewhere: The Postcolonial Logics of Telepathy," Bishnupriya Ghosh |
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| 2:50 – 3:00 PM |
Break |
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| 3:00 – 4:00 PM |
Panel 3 – Postcolonial Empire: Narrative Transformations of U.S. National Identity |
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Moderator: Professor Stephanie LeMenager (English, UCSB) |
- Gabriela Frank (English, Cal State U, Stanislaus)
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“Toward a Founding Moment: Violence as a Sign of Social Transformation in James Fenimore Cooper’s Novel The Last of the Mohicans” (abstract) |
- Elizabeth Nixon (English, Ohio State)
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“Past and Post: Metafiction in Catherine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie” (abstract) |
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| 4:00 – 4:10 PM |
Break |
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| 4:10 – 5:30 PM |
Panel 4 – Expanding the Canon of Postcolonial Literatures |
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Moderator: Professor Christopher Newfield (English, UCSB) |
- Michial Farmer (U Nebraska, Omaha)
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“Classism as the New Racism in ‘Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man’” (abstract) |
- Danielle La France (Comparative Lit, UCSB)
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“Fronteriza Identity in Leonor Villegas and Jovita Gonzalez” (abstract) |
- Mary Seliger (Comparative Lit, UCSB)
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“The Symbolic and Political Logic of Contracts in George Washington Gómez” (abstract) |
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| 5:30 – 5:45 PM |
Closing Remarks |
- Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, ACGCC Director (English, UCSB;
Director, Center for Chicano Studies)
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