Modernity's Histories in Global Context
Spring Quarter Workshop:
Globalities and Marginalities: Perspectives on Boundaries and Identities
in the Early Modern and Modern World
Tentative Program, April 5-6. This program is tentative and preliminary,
and is almost certain to change. Paper titles given with "//"
preceding them are descriptions or working titles, rather than actual titles.
After March 25, the abstracts for many of the papers will be accessible
directly from this webpage.
NOTE: Clicking on a name will take you to the abstract; clicking
on a paper title will take you to the paper.
Updated March 31, 1997.
SATURDAY, April 5
9:00 AM Opening: William Hagen, Ray Kea, Edmund Burke, Doug White
SESSION 1:
9:30 Krista Harper, Anthropology,
UCSC: //Revising World-Systems Theory from an Eastern European Environmental
Perspective
10:00 Doug White, Social Science, UCI: Simulating Modernity's Histories:
Testing Theories of Embeddedness, Effects of Differential Class Formation,
Ownership, and Decision Making
10:30 Sudipta Sen, History, Beloit
College and UCB: Of Markets and Marketplaces: Reconsidering Margins of the
Early Modern World Order and Colonial Rule in India
11:00 Thomas Burr, History, UCD:
Conceptualizations of World History: Globalization, World System Theory
and the One Humanity
11:30-12:00 General discussion
ROUNDTABLE 1: Inventing and contesting the "nation" in modernity
9:30-12:00
[Joan Canty, English,
UCR: Jonathan Swift's Ambivalent Identity as English Colonist and Irish
Patriot: The "Colonizer who Refused" (NOTE: Joan Canty will not
be able to attend the conference. Those interested in her paper should contact
her at the English Department, UCR)]
Janet O'Shea, Dance, UCR: Problematizing
the Old in the New: Originality and Origin in Bharata Natyam
Eileen Otis, Sociology, UCD: The
Gender Politics of Chinese Nationalism: The New Culture Movement's Response
to the Woman's Question
Estee Neuwirth, Sociology,
UCD: The Limits of National Identity: A Comparative Case Study of Representations
of Ethiopian Jews in Israeli Society
Moderator: Augustin Kposowa, Sociology, UCR
12:00-1:30 LUNCH (We will provide box lunches to eat around the Highlander
Hall pool, budget allowing)
SESSION 2:
1:30 Ralph Crowder, Ethnic Studies, UCR: //the development of maroon
communities in the New World
2:00 Colin Fisher, History, UCI:
Anglophilia and the American Landscape: Frederick Law Olmstead, the California
Landscape, and Memories of England
2:30 Augustin Kposowa, Sociology, UCR: //Racism in Western Society
3:00-3:30 Break -- Cookies and Sodas
SESSION 3:
3:30 Edgar Butler, Sociology,
UCR: Globalization of the Mexican economy (joint project with James B. Pick,
Business, University of Redlands)
4:00 Richard Weiner, History,
UCI: National Symbols, Magonismo, and the Mexican Revolution
4:30 Chris Erickson, UCD: Shock
Wave: Transnational University Based New Left Revolts March-October 1968
in the United States, France and Mexico
ROUNDTABLE 2: Finding identities on the margins of modernity
2:00-4:30
Jennifer Brezina, English, UCR:
Women, Public Spaces and Modernity: Maggie on the Street
James Curiel, Sociology, UCD:
The Pride and the Prejudice: Comparing Eurocentric Social Evolution with
Native American Literature
Rob McCoy, History, UCR: Christianity and the Modern Project in European
and Native American Contexts
Deena Mauldin, English, UCR:
Women Warriors and Reigning Monarchs
Moderator: Ray Kea, History, UCR
6:30 PM: Dinner: Bombay Restaurant, Riverside (walking
distance from conference site). Spicy and Mild, Meat and Vegetarian dishes
will be provided. Cash bar.
SUNDAY, April 6
SESSION 4:
9:30 Opening: Coffee and pastries
10:00 Ray Kea, History, UCR: The question of travel: West Africa
and the political and cultural economy of displacement in the early modern
world
10:30 Carole Fabricant, English, UCR: //Travel theory: Post-colonial
perspectives and critiques
11:00 Devra Weber, History, UCR: //transnational migration
11:30 Cathryn Clayton, Anthropology,
UCSC: Notes Towards a New History of the Origins of Macau
12:00 Closing discussion
Vans depart Highlander Hall for Ontario Airport, 1:00 PM (tentative, depending
on travel plans)