Program for 2004 Spring Conference
“Sovereignty”
Governor Hotel
Portland, Oregon
Friday, April 30th, 2004
9:00am—10:45am
Plenary
Session I
Location: Renaissance Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Bruce Grant (Swarthmore C)
James Ferguson (Stanford U) Governing Extraction:
New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal Africa
Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) Due Diligence: Scienter
and Reasonable Care…Offshore
Kath Weston (Harvard U) Elsewheres of a Sovereign
State: The Offshore as Incarceration
Friday,
April 30th
11:00am—12:45pm
States
of Science
Location: Renaissance Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Mike Fortun (RPI)
Mike and Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute) US Toxicology in Time and Culture
Omar al-Dewachi (Harvard U) Doctors without/in
Empires: Empire, State, and the Creation of the National Medical
Doctor in Iraq
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (UC Irvine) Sovereign
Consumers/Sovereign States: Transnational Configuration of
Genomics
Mei Zhan (UC Irvine) Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers,
and David Beckham's Pajamas: making bodies in post-SARS China
Tim Choy (Ohio State U) Articulated Knowledges:
Experts, Environments, Emergents
Sovereign
Terrain: Governing Bodies and Places in Crisis
Location: Alder West Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Ilana Feldman (Columbia U)
Miriam Ticktin (Colombia U) Sovereignty,
Suffering and Citizenship Considered
Doug Smith (Stanford U) The Homeless Specter
in the No-Places of Sovereignty
Rebecca Stein (Duke U) Israeli Leisure and
the Question of Palestine (Again)
Ilana Feldman (Columbia U) Subjects of Aid:
Humanitarianism and Sovereignty in Gaza
Secrecy
and Sovereignty
Location: Alder East Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Thomas Blom Hansen (U Edinburgh)
Simon Turner (Roskilde U, Denmark) Secrets
and Lies in Burundi Politics
Karen Coelho (U Arizona) Water Engineers
Digging for Truth, Policing the Lines
Tresa Thomas (U New Mexico) The Threatened
Sovereign: Strategies of Difference and Imperialism in the
War on Drugs at the US-Mexico Border
Workshop
1: The Techne of Practice and the Logic of Sovereignty
Location: Vault Room, 2nd Floor
Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley) (Leader) with
Nadia Abu El-Haj (Barnard C) and Bill
Maurer (UC Irvine)
(advance registration is not required for workshops)
A
Roundtable on Human Subjects Issues
Location: Fireside Room, 2nd Floor
(Session runs from 11:00am—12:00pm only)
Stuart Plattner (NSF)
Dan Segal (Pitzer C)
Deborah Heath (Lewis and Clark C)
Friday,
April 30th
2:00pm—3:45pm
Transcendent
Sovereign: Religious Refashionings between Diaspora and Empire
Location: Renaissance Room, 3rd Floor
Chair: Engseng Ho (Harvard U)
Tamara Neuman (Independent) The Pursuit of
Religious Sovereignty in the West Bank
Engseng Ho (Harvard U) Ratcheting the Rhetoric
Upwards
Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn (Harvard U) Sacrificing
for the Nation? Memory, Fear, and the Desire for Sovereignty
Tashi Rabgey
(Harvard U) Discussant
Moving
Beyond Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship: Theorizing Indigenous
Autonomy in the 21st Century
Location: Alder West Room, 1st Floor
Chairs: Darren Ranco (Dartmouth C) and Audra Simpson (Cornell
U)
Darren Ranco (Dartmouth C) Procedural Justice,
Normative Science, and Rights: An Indigenous Critique of Liberal
Modes of Citizenship
Jessica Catellino (School of American Research
and New York U) Relational Sovereignty and Florida Seminole
Casinos: Toward a Theory of Sovereignty as Interdependency
Audra Simpson (Cornell U) Sovereignties Colliding:
Mohawk Border Crossing, the International Boundary Line and
The Racialized Life of Treaty
Mishuana Goeman (UC Berkeley) Sovereignty,
Mapping, and Native American Cultural Production
Taiaiake Alfred (U Victoria) Discussant
Incarcerations
and Exceptions
Location: Alder East Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Bonnie Urciuoli (Hamilton C)
Arzoo Osanloo (U Washington) The Modern State,
Sovereign Authority, and Human Rights: What is the Measure
of Mercy?
Lorna A. Rhodes (U Washington) Changing the
Subject: Conversation and Control in Supermaximum Confinement
Peter Rawtischer (UC Berkeley) Kidnapped
Body Politics
Kristen Drybread (Columbia U) Evil Enters the Garden: A Case
of Murder Inside a Juvenile Reformatory
Tahir Naqvi (UC Berkeley) The Multiverse
of Ungovernability: Crime, Democracy, and Globalization in
Contemporary Karachi
Qualifying
Citizens: Life around the Law
Location: Vault Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Lieba Faier (UC San Diego)
Lieba Faier (UC San Diego) Filipina Migrants,
Immigration Laws, and Domestic Exceptions in Contemporary
Japan
Cathryn Clayton (Harvard U/U Macau) The Nonexistent
Macanese
Falu Bakrania (SUNY Binghamton) Reconfiguring
Cultural Citizenship: The Subaltern Nationalisms of British
Asian Youth Cultures
Anand Pandian (UC Berkeley) Governing the
Bestial Heart: On Crime, Descent, and Deceit in Postcolonial
South India
Peter Cuasay (U Washington) Sovereignty Beneath
the Fold: Law as Deferral in the Philippines
Border
Regimes
Location: Fireside Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Ana Alonso (U Arizona)
Brenda Chalfin (U Florida) Sovereignty as
Industry: Producing a Global Customs Regime
Anita Hannig (Reed C) Les Indésirables:
Encountering Sans Papiers in the Interstices of Knowledge,
Power, and Space
Netta van Vliet (Duke U) State of Exception:
The Mas'ha Campsite and the Fight Against Israel's "Separation
Wall"
Tamar Wilson (U Missouri, St. Louis) Anomaly
as Political Threat: Undocumented Mexicans in the United States
Friday,
April 30th
4:00pm—6:00pm
David
Schneider Memorial Lecture
Location: Billiard Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Lisa Rofel (UC Santa Cruz)
Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia U) Post-Apartheid
Perspectives on America and Israel
Paulla Ebron (Stanford U) Discussant
Donald Moore (UC Berkeley) Discussant
Friday,
April 30th
6:00-7:00
Reception
Location: Renaissance Room, 3rd Floor
Cash Bar, Hors d’Oeuvres
Saturday,
May 1st, 2004
9:00am—10:45am
Plenary
Session II
Location: Billiard Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Pauline Strong (UT Austin; President of SCA)
Ana Alonso (U Arizona) Spectacles of Sovereignty:
The Importance of the Visual in Forms of Governmentality
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins U) Sovereignty,
Kinship, and the Argument from Nature
Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia U) Loving v.
the State of Empire
Saturday,
May 1st
11:00am—12:45pm
Subverting the Currency of the Sovereign
Location: Library, 2nd Floor
Chair: Robert Foster (U Rochester)
Beth Notar (Trinity C) Revolutionary Reclaiming:
Guerrilla Currencies in 1930s China
Allison Truitt (Cornell U) Recovering Venerable
Ho' Notes
Jane I. Guyer (Johns Hopkins U) National
Idioms for Monetarism: the Nigerian Economy Represented under
Military Rule
Sovereignty
in an Age of Democracy
Location: Alder West Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Ilana Gershon (Yale U)
Ilana Gershon (Yale U) The Paradox in the
Parliament: When Maori Chiefs are Members of the NZ Parliament
Hoon Song (U Notre Dame) Trash and the Fetus:
Negativity in a Right-Wing Imaginary
Thomas Blom Hansen (U Edinburgh) Performers
of Sovereignty: On the Privatization of Security in Urban
South Africa
Eric Worby (Yale U) Night of the Chikwambo:
Promiscuous Sovereignty and the Democracy of Terror
Conflicted
Boundaries of Sovereignty: Expansions, Fragmentations, Alternatives
Location: Vault Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Ismael Vaccara (U Washington)
Ismael Vaccaro (U Washington) Chair
Heather Lazrus (U Washington) Buoyant Sovereignties:
Global Climate Change and Tuvaluan Sovereignty
Courtney Carothers (U Washington) Creating
Sovereign Experts
Julie Brugger (U Washington) Where “the
People” are Sovereign: Public Land and the American
Political Imagination
Amanda Poole (U Washington) Displaced Sovereignty:
Repatriation, Diaspora, and the Making of the Eritrean Nation-State
Brian Tilt (U Washington) Locating the State:
Sovereignty and Resistance in Personal Narratives about Industrial
Pollution in Sichuan, China
Modernity
and Divinity: Religion Inside and Outside Sovereignty
Location: Fireside Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara)
Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara) Secular Sovereignty
and Popular Religion in China
Mandana Limbert (Queens C/CUNY) Questions
of Legitimacy in a Sultanate and its Spectral Theocracy
Esa Ozyurek (UC San Diego) The Headscarf
Issue in the Turkish Parliament: Reflections on Center of
Power in a Democracy’
Jeanette Edwards (U Manchester) "You
Knit Me in My Mother's Womb": English Baptist Ministers
and New Reproductive Technologies
Saturday,
May 1st
2:00pm—3:45pm
Neoliberal
Gambles
Location: Library, 2nd Floor
Chair: Carol Silverman (U Oregon)
Maya Parson (UNC Chapel Hill) Spectral Sovereigns,
Neoliberal Leviathans: State, Citizen and Social Contract
in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua
Emma Kowal (U Melbourne, UC Berkeley) Modernity
and other Lost Objects: Suspicion and Desire in Australian
Indigenous Health
Sven Ouzman (UC Berkeley and National Museum
of South Africa) The Nature of Stewardship: Contemporary Challenges
to Native Sovereignty
Kim Christen (UC Santa Cruz) Cybersovereignties:
Networking the Outback
Carol Silverman (U Oregon) Discussant
Spectral
Forms and National Sovereignty
Location: Alder West Room, 1st Floor
Chair: Ann Anagnost (U Washington)
Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins U) A Consideration
of National Sovereignty through the Friendship of Children
and Jinns
Lisa Mitchell (Bowdoin C) The Appearance
of Affect: Death and the Re-Making of Sovereignty in Telugu
South India
Deirdre Leong de la Cruz (Columbia U) First
Filipino Apparitions: The Virgin Mary and the Emergent Nation
in Late 19th Century
Dard Neuman (Columbia U) From Native Informant
to Celebrity: Technology, Nation and the Hindustani Musician
Workshop
2: Engaging the “New Normal”: Terror, Homeland
Security, and American Power
Location: Vault Room, 2nd Floor
Joe Masco (U Chicago) (Leader) with Monica
Schoch-Spana (U Pittsburgh)
(advance registration is not required for workshops)
Globalization
Sovereignty and the Remaking of Power
Location: Fireside Room, 2nd Floor
Chair: Kamari Clarke (Yale U)
Kamari Clarke (Yale U) Sovereignty Revisited:
Universal Personhood and the Undermining Citizenship
George Baca (Goucher C) U.S. Military Power
and Myths of Popular Sovereignty: The State of the Exception
in American Nationalism
Guillaume Boccara (CNRS, Paris) Exotic Clients
or Uncivilized Terrorists: State Sovereignty, Global Governmentality
and Indigenous Peoples in Chile
Saturday,
May 1st
4:00pm-5:00pm
Closing
Session: Polemics
Location: Alder West Room, 1st Floor
Chairs: Bruce Grant (Swarthmore C) and Lisa Rofel (UC Santa
Cruz)
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