States of Power: Culture, Governmentality, & Market in Transition
San Francisco, 1999

 

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1999
9:00 am - 2:00 pm Foyer Registration & Exhibits


9:30 am - 12:30 pm English RoomGraduate Student Panel I: Social Geographies of Gender, Race and Nation.
Tresa Thomas (Arizona), "Living Late Capital: Hierarchy and Desire in a Border Town"

Marla Frederick (Duke), "The Question of Progress: Race and Gender in Rural North Carolina"


10:30 am - 11:00 pm Foyer Coffee Break


Sarah England (Davis), "Creating a Global Garifuna Nation? Reinserting Race, Place, and Gender into a Theory of Empowerment in the Age of Globalization"

Tom Boellstorff (Stanford), "A Geography of the 'Gay World' in Indonesia: Conjunctions of Capital, State, and Method"


Discussant: Drexel Woodson (Arizona)


9:30 am - 12:00 pm Garden Room

Workshop I: Neoliberalism & the Public Sphere.
Facilitator, Don Nonini (Chapel Hill)


2:00 pm - 5:00 pm English & Garden Rooms

Panel I: Violence, Citizenship, and the Global Moral Order

Caroline Humphreys (Cambridge), "Emergent Forms for Rule in the Ashes of Soviet Power in Siberia"

Mahmood Mamdani (Capetown), "The Citizenship Crisis in Kivu Region, Eastern Congo"

Philippe Bourgois (UCSF), "Re-Confronting Violences in El Salvador & the US Inner City with a Cold War Hangover"


3:20 pm - 3:40 pm Foyer Coffee Break


Discussion


5:30 pm -7:00 pm Lanai Room Cash bar reception


SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1998
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Foyer Registration & Exhibits


9:00 am - 12:00 pm English & Garden Rooms

Panel II : Transitions: Mutations of Capital, Space and Time

Akhil Gupta (Stanford), "State Biographies: Exploring Narratives of Government"

John Borneman (Cornell), "Relocating the Capital: Anticipatory Reflexion and new Powers of State"

Anna Tsing (UCSC), "Inside the Economy of Appearances"


10:30 am - 11:00 am Foyer Coffee break


Discussion


2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Garden Room

Workshop II: Doing Ethnography of Bio-Social Formations
Facilitators, Judith Farquhar (Chapel Hill) and Paul Rabinow (Berkeley)


2:00 pm - 4:30 pm English Room

Graduate Student Panel II: Transitions from Socialism

Ari Shapiro (Princeton), "Transition Economics: Socialism, Capitalism, and the Culture of Property"

Lisa Hoffman (Berkeley), "How to Have Culture, Capital and Connections: The Art of Becoming a Modern Professional in China's 'Socialist' Market"

Dominic Boyer (Chicago), "Longitudinal Schimogenesis and the Fact of Eastern-ness in the Eastern German Media Since 1990"

Lyn Jeffery (UCSC), '"Re-education through Labor" in the Chinese Market Economy"


Discussant: Gail Kligman (UCLA)


4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Foyer Coffee Break


5:00 pm - 6:30pm English & Garden Rooms


The David M. Schneider Distinguished Lecture, "State-power and Production and Destruction of Public Value: Toward an Ethnographic Approach" by Ashraf Ghani (Johns Hopkins University & The World Bank)


6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Lanai Room Hosted Reception


SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1998
9:00am -- 12:00 noon English & Garden Rooms

Summing up discussion

10:30 am -- 11:00 am Foyer Coffee Break

The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) performing "The Crossing."

From Deborah Thomas, "Democratizing Dance: Institutional Transformation and Hegemonic Re-Ordering in Postcolonial Jamaica,"

CA 17, no 4 (2002):512-550. (Photo courtesy of Maria La Yacona).