6th Annual Crossing Borders Convocation
Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Tensions, Expressions, and Resolutions
April 1-3, 2005
Keynote Speakers:
Gautam Ghosh, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, "GODSPEED! Equality Re-Calculared in the Global Hindu Avant-Garde."
Robert Blecher, (Obermann Center Fellow, UI, History, University of Richmond, Virginia), "Cosmpolitanism, Solidarity, and the Aid Industry in Palestine"
Schedule:
Friday, April 1, 2005
6:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Welcome and Conovocation Overview
7:00 p.m. Film Screening
"Local Angel" (2002), Director Udi Aloni
After Film Discussion
Shira Robinson, UI History
Saturday, April 2, 2005
9:00 a.m - 9:15 a..m. - Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Paul Greenough, Director, Crossing Borders Program
9:15 a.m. - 11: 15 a.m. - Panel Discussion - Latin America Facing Cosmopolitan Challenges
Chair: Claire Fox, UI English
Victor Galarraga-Oropeza, Spanish and Portuguese, "Livin' La Vida Loca(l)! (Word Modernity and Queer Sexualities in Latin America)" *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Robert Starkins, History, "Hello, My Name is Fidel and Tonight I'll be Your Waiter: Cuban Tourism and the Flow of Globalization, 1990-2005" *Crossing Borders Fellow*
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion 2 - Centrifugal and Centripetal Communities of South Asia
Chair: Paul Greenough, UI History
Ned Bertz, History, "Indian Ocean World Travelers: Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and South Asian History on the Move," *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Amit Baishya, English, “The Jack, Rose and T-Rex Mobile Show: Global Media Flows and Their Dissemination in the Peripheries,” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Gautam Ghosh, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, "GODSPEED! Equality Re-Calculared in the Global Hindu Avant-Garde."
Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai, Cinema and Comparative Literature, "Being Home: Caste in Indian and Religion in the Diaspora," *Crossing Borders Fellow*
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Panel 3 - Forming Global Communities of Reception
Chair: David Depew, Communication Studies and POROI
Young Cheon Cho, Communication Studies, "Participatory Democracy in the Global Public Sphere: Scale, Media Events, and Compassion" *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Alessandra Madella, Communication Studies, "Memory and Cosmopolitanism in Hiroshima mon amour: A Contextual and Intertexual Reading," *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Yung Bin Kwak, Cinema and Comparative Literature, "The Politics of Another Time and Elsewhere: On Die Another Day," *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Sunday, April 3, 2005
9:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Panel 4 - Colonial Cosmopolitanism and Expressive Media
Chair: Glenn Penny, Historym UI
Brett Van Hoesen, Art and Art History, "The Cultural Boundaries of Cosmopolitanism: Recent German and Nambian Debates over the Herero Genocide," *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Linda Mokdad, Cinema and Comparative Literature, "Reimagining Alexandria: The Construction of History in Youssef Chahine's Autobiography Trilogy," *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Paul Greenough, History, UI, "Traveling in Style, Ripe with Desire: a Bengal Prince in Ragtime Europe, 1926"
Robert Blecher, (Obermann Center Fellow, UI, History, University of Richmond, Virginia), "Cosmpolitanism, Solidarity, and the Aid Industry in Palestine"
11:00 - 12:00 p.m. - General discussion and closing remarks
