Circulations: "America" and Globalization

How should we think about globalization? How are we to imagine "America" as both a lived place and as one name for the active agency related to the experience of globalization? We will address these questions by considering global circulations of commodities, art forms, cultural practices, organisms, and human bodies. Join us for lively discussions on such topics as migration and immigration, international distributions of film, music, media, and intellectual property, epidemics, and global identities.

Sponsored by the nascent Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere and the Department of English, University of Florida.

February 15, 2002

9:20-9:30 a.m.
Welcome

9:30-11:30 a.m.
Manthia Diawara. "Bamako in the 1960s"
Moderator: Maureen Turim
Respondents: Mark Reid and Phillip E. Wegner
Ruth McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall

1:00-3:00 p.m.
John Nguyet Erni. "Like an Asian Epidemic: Moving Between Bodies after HIV"
Moderator: Blake Scott
Respondents: Sarika Chandra and Kenneth Kidd
Ruth McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall

3:30-5:30 p.m.
Aihwa Ong."Ambiguities of Borders: the Implications for American Citizenship"
Moderator: Malini Schueller
Respondents: Nick Melczarek and Michael Tsin
Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall

February 16, 2002
10:00-12:00 a.m.
Caren Irr. "American Intellectual Property and Global Yoga"
Moderator: Susan Hegeman
Respondents: Nora Alter and Anne Goodwyn Jones
Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall

1:30-3:30 p.m.
Elaine Tyler May. "Cultural Fallout: Family Values in the Post-Cold War Era"
Moderator: Angel Kwollek-Folland
Respondents: Stephanie Smith and Patricia Ventura
Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall

4:00-6:00 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: David Leverenz
Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall