Celebratory 20th Anniversary HISB Conference
Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: Memory·Spaces·Cities·Images
Wednesday, October 10
Location: Humanities Lecture Hall Room 1006
5:00 - 7:00pm Queer Cosmopolitanism
Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California) and José E. Muñoz (New York University), "Manifesto for a Queer Anti-Anti Utopianism"
Moderator: Christa Erickson
Thursday, October 11
Location: Wang Center Lecture Hall 2
9:30am Registration
10:00am Welcome
10:15 - 11:30am Panel One: Cosmopolitan Media
Nicholas D. Mirzoeff (New York University), "Full Spectrum Chaos: The Work of Culture and the War in Iraq "
Faye Ginsburg (New York University), "Blak screens and Cultural Citizenship: Indigenous Media and Cosmopolitanism"
Moderators: Ira Livingston and E.Ann Kaplan
11:45 - 1:10pm Lunch break
1:15-2:30pm Keynote: Robert Neuwirth (Author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World ), "The 21st Century Medieval City" Introduced by John Lutterbie
2:30-4:00pm Panel Two: Global Cities
Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago), "The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier"
Diane Barthel-Bouchier written with Dean Bond (Stony Brook University), "Historic Urban Landscapes and Cosmopolitan Memories"
Moderator: Dan Levy
4:15-5:30pm Keynote: Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra), "Philosophy for Sale, Learned Ignorance and Pascal's Wager"
Introduced by: Eduardo Mendieta
Friday, October 12Location: Humanities Lecture Hall Room 1006
9:30am Registration
10:00am Welcome
10:15 - 11:45am Panel Three: Cosmopolitanism and Literature
Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania), "Coercive Cosmopolitanisms"
Paul Armstrong (Brown University), "Two Cheers for Tolerance: E.M. Forster's Anti-Nazi Broadcasts and the Problem of Civility in a Mongrel World"
Moderator: Peter Manning
11:45am - 1:10pm Lunch break
1:15-2:30pm Keynote: Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania),"Zombies, Specters and Multitudes: A Question for Literature in the Age of Failed States"
Introduced by: E. Ann Kaplan
2:45 - 4:15pm Panel Four: Global Politics, Race and Religion
Gabriele Schwab (University of California, Irvine)
David Theo Goldberg (University of California, Irvine)
Moderator: Susan Scheckel
5:00-6:45pm Keynote: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor, Columbia University), "Twenty Questions"
Introduced by Hugh Silverman
Saturday, October 13 Location: Humanities Lecture Hall Room 1006
9:15 Registration
9:30am-11:30am Panel Five: Old Literatures and New Global Relations
Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania), "Cosmopolitan Legacies"
John Urry (Lancaster University), "The Air Gaze and the Global"
Michael M.J. Fisher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "The Lively Futures of Cosmopolitanism"
Moderator: Said Arjomand
11:40-12:40pm Lunch break
12:45pm Etienne Balibar (Paris X Nanterre), "From Cosmopolitanism to Cosmopolitics"
1:25-3:30pm Panel Six: Cosmopolitanism Versus Universalism
Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke University), "Monolingualism and Cosmopolitanism"
Bruce Robbins (Columbia University), "Cosmopolitanism as a Term of Praise"
Stephen J. Mailloux (University of California, Irvine), "Cosmopolitan Identity, Universalist Rhetoric and Political Contingency"
Moderator: Lorenzo Simpson
3:45-5:00pm Panel Seven: Cosmopolitan Women
Patrice Petro (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Women and Cosmopolitanism: Anna May Wong, Marlene Dietrich, and Leni Riefenstahl"
Shirley J. Lim (Stony Brook University), "Speaking German like Nobody's Business: Anna May Wong and Walter Benjamin on the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism"
Moderator: Rosemary Feal
5:15 - 6:30pm Keynote: Caryl Phillips (Yale University)
"Colour Me English"
Introduced by Rowan Ricardo Phillips