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Human Rights and Neoliberalism:
Universal Standards, Local Practices, and the Role of Culture
Friday, March 2 - Saturday, March 3, 2007
UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, HSSB 6020
Free and Open to the Public
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Conference
Schedule
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Friday, March 2 (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, UC Santa Barbara)
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| 9:30 - 10:00AM |
Introduction |
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones |
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| 10:00 - 11:15AM |
Panel One |
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Moderator: Susan Derwin (German and Comparative Literature, UCSB) |
| Giles Gunn (English and Global and International Studies, UCSB) |
"Thinking about the Human in a World of Rights" |
| Russell Samolsky (English, UCSB) |
"Killing Dogs: Animality and Human Rights" |
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| 11:15AM - 12:30PM |
Panel Two |
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Moderator: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (English, UCSB) |
| Rosa-Linda Fregoso (Latin American and Latino Studies, UCSC) |
"Human Rights and the Poetic Imagination" |
| Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UCSB) |
"'Congolese Dilemma': Neo-Liberalism and the Masking of Blues
Culture and Human Rights in Post-Katrina New Orleans" |
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| 12:30 - 1:15PM |
Lunch |
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| 1:15 - 2:30PM |
Panel Three |
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Moderator: Rita Raley (English, UCSB) |
| Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) |
"From the Golden Arches to Abu Grahib: Human Rights in a Culture of Force" |
| Micheline Ishay (International Human Rights Program, U Denver) |
"Defying Neoliberalism: Human Rights, Culture and War"
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| 2:30 - 3:45PM |
Panel Four |
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Moderator: Curtis Marez (Critical Studies, USC) |
| Ralph Armbrsuter-Sandoval (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB) |
"Is another peace movement possible? Is another
immigrant rights movement possible? Race, Empire, Culture, and Resistance:
Notes on Constructing Unlikely Alliances" |
| Arturo Aldama (Ethnic Studies, U Colorado, Boulder) |
"The Timeless Color of Violence: Time, Trauma and Social Justice" |
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| 4:00 - 6:00PM |
Keynote Address |
Campbell Hall, UC Santa Barbara
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| Tariq Ali |
"Rights and Needs: Neoliberalism, Democracy and Military Humanism" |
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| 7:00PM |
Dinner for Conference Participants |
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| Saturday, March 3 (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, UC Santa Barbara) |
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| 10:00 - 11:15AM |
Panel Five |
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Moderator: George Lipsitz (American Studies, Black Studies, and Sociology, UCSB) |
| Bishnupriya Ghosh (English, UCSB) |
"In Search of Forests: Wresting Human Rights from State Governance" |
| Elisabeth Weber (Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, UCSB) |
"'All Those Neighbors': Remarks on Derrida and Ronell" |
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| 11:15AM - 12:30PM |
Panel Six |
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Moderator: John Foran (Sociology, UCSB) |
| George Lipsitz (American Studies, Black Studies, and Sociology, UCSB) |
"Human Rights and Abolition Democracy" |
| Sandra Angeleri (Anthropology, Universidad Central de Venezuela) |
"Legislating on the Right of Women to Have a Life free from Violence: A
Gendered Metacritique of Decolonizing Nationalist Politics of Community
Making in Venezuela" |
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| 12:30 - 1:15PM |
Lunch (provided) |
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| 1:15 - 2:30PM |
Panel Seven |
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Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh (English, UCSB) |
| Kavita Philip (Women's Studies, UCI) |
"Rights to Information: Technology, e-governance and the public
sphere in post-liberalization India" |
| Rita Raley (English, UCSB) |
"The Right to Mobility" |
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| 2:30 - 3:45PM |
Panel Eight |
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Moderator: Guisela Latorre (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB) |
| Debra Castillo (Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell U) |
"Impossible Indian" |
| Curtis Marez (School of Cinema and Television, USC) |
"Seeing Skeletons: the Visual Culture of Farmworker Movements" |
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| 3:45 - 4:30PM |
Closing Remarks |
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| 7:00PM |
Dinner for Conference Participants |
