Conference Schedule

All conference events take place in the Levis Faculty Center, which is located on the corner of Illinois and Gregory Streets in Urbana. Click on the title of any of the listed talks in order to read an abstract for that talk.

SCHEDULE UPDATE: Please note that both Jean Comaroff and Ira Bashkow will be unable to attend the conference. Accordingly, see below for the revised schedule.

Click here for a campus map.
Click here for a campus map of the area nearest Levis.

Thursday, April 25, 2002

8pm:

Welcome: Suvir Kaul

Introduction: Ania Loomba

Keynote Address: Peter Hulme, "Beyond the Straits"

10-11pm:

Center for Advanced Study Reception

Friday, April 26, 2002

9:00 am:	Coffee and muffins
9:30-11:30:	Session 1: Gender/Sexuality (Chair: Antoinette Burton) Tani Barlow, "Gender Scholarship and Colonial Modernity in a China Frame" Nivedita Menon, "Between Globalization and Cultural Nationalism: Feminist Politics in the 21st Century" Anne McClintock, "Masculinity and Other War Zones (Or, Loving America Differently)"
12:00 - 1:15:	Lunch break
1:30 - 3:00:	Session 2: National/Linguistic/Colonial Identities (Chair: Adam Sutcliffe) Uday Mehta, "Constitutional Politics and the Dilemma of History" Megan Vaughan, "The 'Psychopathology' of Colonialism: Mannoni, Fanon and the African Colonial Experience" David Scott, "The 'Social Construction' of Postcolonial Studies"
3:00 - 3:30:	Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00:	Session 3: Travelling Postcolonialisms (Chair: Michael Rothberg) Daniel Boyarin, "Can the Subaltern Pray?: Postcolonial Theory and the Formation of Christianity and Judaism as Religions" Rebecca Stein, "Other Israels: Zionism, Historical Memory, and the Rhetoric of Colonialism" Ella Shohat, "Travelling Postcolonialism"

Saturday, April 27, 2002

8:30 am:	Coffee and muffins
9:00-10:30:	Session 4: Globalization (Chair: Zsuzsa Gille) Vilashini Cooppan, "Runaway Theory? Facing Up to Globalization" Ali Behdad, "On Globalism, Again" James Ferguson, "Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development"
10:30 - 11:00:	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30:	Session 5: Encounters in Theory (Chair: Matti Bunzl) Pradeep Jegannathan, "Disciplinarity and Politics: An Awkward Relationship" Beth Povinelli, "In the Absence of 'I', () refuse" Harry Harootunian, "Missed Opportunities, Lost Vocations: Postcoloniality and Its Fateful Encounter with Poststructuralism"
12:30 - 1:45:	Lunch Reception
2:00 - 3:30:	Session 6: Development/Environment (Chair: Rolando Romero) Timothy Brennan, "The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery" Rob Nixon, "Environmentalism and Postcolonialism" Kelwyn Sole, "The Witness of Poetry: Economic Calculation, Civil Society, and the Limits of Everyday Experience in a Liberated South Africa"
3:30 - 4:00:	Coffee Break
4:00 - 6:00:	Session 7: Postcolonial Critiques (Chair: Jed Esty) Florencia Mallon, "Conflictual Spaces of Solidarity: Latin American Studies and Postcolonialism in the Age of Globalization" Frederick Cooper, "Postcolonial Studies and the Study of History" Laura Chrisman, "Beyond Postcolonial Studies and Black Atlanticism" Neil Lazarus, "The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism"

Sunday, April 28, 2002

9:30 - 11:30 am:

Brunch and Post-Conference Conversation

[ Up ] [ Overview ] [ Schedule ] [ Participants/Abstracts ] [ Accommodations ] [ Registration ]