Friday, April 29

10:00-10:30 Coffee ( Levis 407)

10:25 Welcome: Michael Rothberg, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Theorizing Globalization and Neoliberalism ( Levis 407)

Xudong Zhang (NYU): "Neoliberalism and the Neocons: Political Overlaps and Philosophical Symbiosis"

William Mazzarella ( University of Chicago): "Further thoughts on Culture, Globalization, Mediation"

Chair: Gary Xu, EALC

12:00-1:30 Break

1:30-3:00 Panel 2: The Violence of Neoliberalism ( Levis 407)

Nikhil P. Singh ( University of Washington): "The Afterlife of Fascism"

Lesley Gill ( American University): "The Unreal Thing: Coca-Cola Workers, Neoliberalism, and Political Violence in Colombia"

Chair: Bill Maxwell, English

3:00-3:30 Coffee ( Levis Third Floor)

3:30-5:00 Keynote Address ( Levis Third Floor)

Wendy Brown ( University of California, Berkeley): “'God Will Provide': Moral Values and Neoliberalism in Thinking the Short and Long Term"

Introduction: Melissa Orlie, Political Science

7:30-9:30 Film Screening (Armory 101)

Alan Klima ( University of California, Davis ): Ghosts and Numbers

Introduction: Ellen Moodie, Anthropology

Saturday, April 30

9:30-10:00 Coffee ( Levis Third Floor)

10:00-11:30 Keynote Address ( Levis Third Floor)

Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff ( University of Chicago): "Ethnicity, Inc.: On the Commodification and Consumption of Cultural Identity in the Brave Neo World"

Introduction: Matti Bunzl, IPRH/Anthropology

11:45-1:15 Panel 3: Citizenship, Inc. ( Levis Third Floor)

Lisa Duggan (NYU): "Neoliberal Citizenship and Contemporary Marriage Politics"

John Clarke (Open University): "Citizen Consumers: Neo-liberal Subjects or Points of Contested Articulation?"

Chair: James Hay, Speech Communication

1:15-2:30 Lunch for participants and audience (Levis Music Room, Second Floor)

2:30-4:00 Panel 4: Boys and Girls: Genders and Sexualities in a Neoliberal Age ( Levis Third Floor)

Tomiko Yoda ( Duke University): "The Formation of Girl-centered Consumer Culture in Japan"

Eng-Beng Lim ( University of Washington): "Global Asian Queer Boys: The Case of Singapore."

Chair: Karen Kelsky, EALC/Anthropology

4:15-5:15: Closing Roundtable with Graduate Students ( Levis Third Floor)

Valerie Barske, UIUC; John Cho, UIUC; Melissa Girard, UIUC; Elizabeth Jane Hayward-Smith, NYU; Andrea Muehlebach, University of Chicago

Chair: Zsuzsa Gille, Sociology

7:00-11:00 Art opening/Conference party: at OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E. Washington St., Champaign: “ Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance”