A Global Exploration of Comparative Studies and Multi-sited Research
February 25-26, 2011
Crossing Borders Convocation flyer [1]
See photos from this event [2]
Keynote Speakers:
Caroline B. Brettell, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, “From Cities to Civic Engagement: Comparative Perspectives on Migration”
Alma Gottlieb, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, "Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an “Animist Bush” and in an Urban Diaspora”
Saurabh Dube, Profesor Investigador, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, "Can an undoing of disciplines be conjoined with a doing of subjects?"
Tara Zahra, Assistant Professor, Department of History University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Ethnic Cleansing, Migration, and Humanitarianism in Europe: A Comparative Perspective, 1918-1951"
Schedule:
Friday, February 25, 2011
11:00 a.m. - Welcome to the Convocation
11:15 -1:25 p.m. - Panel 1. Visitor Presentations
Caroline B. Brettell, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, “From Cities to Civic Engagement: Comparative Perspectives on Migration”
Alma Gottlieb, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, "Two Visions of Africa: Reflections on Fieldwork in an “Animist Bush” and in an Urban Diaspora”
2:30-4:30 p.m. - Panel 2. Student Presentations
John Eicher, Department of History, “Flight to the Desert: Mennonite Encounters with Nation-States, 1917-1935” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
P.J. Johnston, Department of Religious Studies, “The Inculturation of Indian Catholicism: Shantivanam and Velankanni” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Hsin-I Sydney Yueh, Department of Communication Studies, “The Tactic of the Weak: A Critical Analysis of Feminine Persuasion in Taiwan” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Aihua Zheng, Department of History, “Patrons and Monks: Japanese Rinzai Monasteries in the 1880s” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Saturday, February 26
9:30-11:40 a.m. - Panel 3. Visitor Presentations
Saurabh Dube, Profesor Investigador, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, "Can an undoing of disciplines be conjoined with a doing of subjects?"
Tara Zahra, Assistant Professor, Department of History University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Ethnic Cleansing, Migration, and Humanitarianism in Europe: A Comparative Perspective, 1918-1951"
1:00-3:00 p.m. - Panel 4. Student Presentations
Nilo F. Couret, Film Studies, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, “Comedy Has No Legs: Ahi está el detalle, Transculturation and Vernacular Modernism” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Alfredo Duplat, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, “Transculturation between Panamericanism and Nationalism in Latin America” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Derek Gromadzki, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, “Of Imitations: The Fate of Non-Standard Translation” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Marcus Palmer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, “Reversing Argentine Orientalism.” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
3:00-5:00 p.m. - Panel 5. Student Presentations
Raquel Lisette Baker, Department of English, “Trauma and the Desiring Subject: The Spatial and Temporal Poetics of Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Yuka Hiruma Kishida, Department of History, “Chinese Students at Manchuria Kenkoku University, 1938-1945” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Renu Pariyadath, Department of Communication Studies, “’Moderating’ Islam: Constituting the ‘Moderate Muslim’ through the Park 51 Controversy” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Richard Wiebe, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, “Spectacles of History: Tourism and Specters of Ruins in Cyprus” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
