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Conference Participants and Abstracts

Participants are listed here in alphabetical order by first name. Click on the abstract title in order to read the abstract.

N.B.: Unfortunately, both Ira Bashkow and Jean Comaroff have had to withdraw from the conference. 

  1. Ali Behdad, University of California-Los Angeles: "On Globalism, Again"
  2. Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Masculinity and Other War Zones (Or, Loving America Differently)"
  3. Beth Povinelli, University of Chicago: "In the absence of 'I,' () refuse"
  4. Daniel Boyarin, University of California-Berkeley: "Can the Subaltern Pray?: Postcolonial Theory and the Formation of Christianity and Judaism as Religions"
  5. David Scott, Columbia University: "The 'Social Construction' of Postcolonial Studies"
  6. Ella Shohat, New York University: "Travelling Postcolonialism"
  7. Florencia Mallon, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Conflictual Spaces of Solidarity: Latin American Studies and Postcolonialism in the Age of Globalization"
  8. Frederick Cooper, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: "Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History"
  9. Harry Harootunian, New York University: "Missed Opportunities, Lost Vocations: Postcoloniality and its Fateful Encounter with Poststructuralism"
  10. James Ferguson, University of California-Irvine: "Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after 'Development'"
  11. Kelwyn Sole, University of Cape Town: "The Witness of Poetry: Economic Calculation, Civil Society and the Limits of Everyday Experience in a Liberated South Africa"
  12. Laura Chrisman, Ohio State University: "Beyond Postcolonial Studies and Black Atlanticism"
  13. Megan Vaughan, Oxford University: "The 'Psychopathology' of Colonialism: Mannoni, Fanon and the African Colonial Experience"
  14. Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick: "The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism"
  15. Nivedita Menon, University of Delhi: "Between Globalization and Cultural Nationalism: Feminist Politics in the 21st Century"
  16. Peter Hulme, Essex University: "Beyond the Straits"
  17. Pradeep Jeganathan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: "Disciplinarity and Politics: An Awkward Relationship"
  18. Rebecca Stein, Amherst College: "Other Israels: Zionism, Historical Memory, and the Rhetoric of Colonialism"
  19. Rob Nixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Environmentalism and Postcolonialism"
  20. Tani Barlow, University of Washington-Seattle: "Gender Scholarship and Colonial Modernity in a China Frame"
  21. Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities: "The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery"
  22. Uday S. Mehta, Amherst College: "Constitutional Politics and the Dilemma of History"
  23. Vilashini Cooppan, Yale University: "Runaway Theory? Facing Up to Globalization"

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