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“Ethics,
Aesthetics, Politics”
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Aboard the Queen Mary
Long Beach, California
May 9-10, 2008
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Friday, May 9th
9:00 - 9:10 am
Introduction
Saba
Mahmood (UC
Berkeley) and Bill Maurer (UC Irvine)
9:10 am – 10:45 am
Plenary
Session I: Hope, Utopia, and Appearance
Location: Britannia Salon
Hirokazu
Miyazaki (Cornell) Personal Hope: From Barack
Obama to Japanese ‘Hopology’
Christopher Pinney (Northwestern) The Rule of Appearances in
21st Century India
Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley)
"Necro-Utopia: The Politics of Indistinction and the
Aesthetics of the Non-Soviet."
Coffee and Tea Served in Britannia Salon
from 10:45 am
Friday,
May 9th
11:00 am – 12:45
pm
Performance and Politics
Location: Victoria
Chair: Peter Redfield (UNC)
Etian Wilf (Chicago) The Co-Production of New Aesthetic
and Critical Practices in the Collegiate Jazz Program
Ari Singh Anand (U of Arizona) Ethical Selfhood and the
Status of the Secular
Robin Balliger (San Francisco Art Institute) Mediating
the Local: The Aesthetics and Politics of Media Expansion
in
Trinidad
Sonali Pahwa (UCLA) Revoicing the Folk in Egyptian Feminist
Theatre
The
Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Indigeneity
Location: Board
Chair: Marisol de la Cadena (UC Davis)
Petrouchka Alexieva (UCLA) Ethics and Political Hypocrisy
in Solving the Roma Problem in Eastern Europe
G.G. Weix (Montana) Indian Education for All: Montana’s
Public Mandate
Nelson Graburn (UC Berkeley) The Art of Colonial Governance:
the Case of the Canadian Inuit
Alexis Celeste Bunten (UC Berkeley) Following or Leading
the Tourist Gaze? Balancing Ethics, Commerce and Representation
in Indigenous Tourism
Matthew Watson (U of Florida) Collaboration and its
Consequences in Maya Historical Knowledge Production
Fashion,
Aesthetics,
Form
Location: Regent
Chair: Mary Murrell (UC Berkeley)
Arandjel Bojanovic (U of Belgrade) The Politics of
the Diesel’s
and the Diesel’s Policy
Annelies Moors (U of Amsterdam) ‘Islamic fashion’ in
Western-Europe: contestations about ethics and aesthetics
S. Chris Brown (U of Washington) Dress-up, Strip-tease,
and X-ray vision: Three Aesthetics of Public Visibility
Brent Luvas (UCLA) Designing Youth: The Production
of Style in Information-Age Indonesia
Simon Hawkins (Franklin and Marshall) Sitting on
the Corner, Watching all the Girls Go By: Desire
and Dress
in Tunisia
Christina Moretti (Simon Frasier U) The Many Eyes
of the City: Seeing, Concealing, and Appearing in
Milan,
Italy
Aesthetic
Norms
Location: Britannia
Chair: Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Wayne State U)
Tiffany Romain (Stanford U) “Fertility. Freedom. Finally.”:
Abnormal strategies to build a normal family
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Wayne State U) Erratic Rhythms:
Sleep, Capitalism, Pharakological Lives
David Pedersen (UC San Diego) The Politics of Continuity:
Joining the Logical with the Aesthetic and the Ethical
Deepa Reddy (U Houston – Clear
Lake) Anonymous Intimacies: Narratives In the Solicitation
of Corporeal Substances
Courtney Everts Mykytyn (USC)
Nature
and the Optimal in Anti-Aging Medicine
Friday,
May 9th
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch: 12:45 pm to 2:00 pm
Cultural Anthropology editorial interns meeting
Location:
Board Room,
12:45-2:00 pm
Friday, May 9th
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Christianity, Ethics, Subjectivity
Location: Victoria
Chair: Saba Mahmood (UCB)
Angie Heo (UC Berkeley) Examining the Ethics of Circulating
Relics and Icons
Pamela Smart (Binghamton U) Collecting as a Vocation: The
Aesthetic Project of Dominique and John de Menil
Shari Jacobson (Susquehanna U) Made in the Image of God:
Bible-Believing Christians and the Politics of Life
Bruno Reinhardt (UC Berkeley) ‘Accusations of Religion’:
controversies around secularization and material culture
in contemporary Brazil
Nancy Gibson (Marylhurst U) “Junk for Jesus” to
a Trust Based Giving: Changing the Paradigm
Democracy,
Anti-Democracy: People’s Politics in the Global South
Location: Board
Chair: Ruchi Chaturvedi (Smith College)
Ruchi Chaturvedi (Smith College) ‘People’s Democracy:’ Ethics,
Politics and Violence in Kerala, South India
Doreen Lee (Amherst College) The Iconography of Youth in
Post-Suharto Indonesia
Antina von Schnitzler (Columbia U) Democracy’s Infrastructure: “Delivery
Protests” and the Materiality of Politics in Contemporary
South Africa
Karin Zitzewitz (U Chicago) Ethics against Politics: Truth
in art in the age of political society
Joseph Manzella (Southern Connecticut) Media, Politics
and Sociocultural Change in Chavez’s Venezuela
Enforcing
Normalcy
Location: Regent
Chair: Gretchen Bakke (U Chicago)
Hadas Weiss (U Chicago) The Production and Maintenance
of Normalcy in a West Bank Settlement
Denielle Elliott (Simon Fraser U) Managed Life: Pharmacotherapy,
social disorder and the ordinary
Seth Messinger (U of Maryland, Baltimore) Reconfiguring Normal in the Aftermath of Traumatic Limb
Loss among Military Patients
Sigal Gooldin (Hebrew U) “Subtle Madness”:
Negotiating Anorexic Experiences in an Era of Elusive
Normalcy
Discussant: Gretchen
Bakke (U Chicago)
Aesthetics
of Imitation: Science, Medicine, and the Politics of
the Copy
Location: Britannia
Chair: Cori Hayden (UC Berkeley)
Helene Mialet (UC Berkeley) Hawking Meets Hawking
Katie Hendy (UC Berkeley) Ecstasy as Experiment: The
informing of MDMA in experimental settings
Eric Plemons (UC Berkeley) Difference as Product or
Process: bodily changes between ‘before’ and ‘after’
Cori Hayden (UC Berkeley) Simipolitics
Friday, May 9th
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
David Schneider Memorial Lecture
Location: Britannia Salon
Talal Asad (CUNY) Freedom of Speech and Religious Limitations
Discussants: Liisa Malkki (Stanford U); David
Scott (Columbia U)
Friday,
May 9th
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Reception
Location: Verandah Grill
Saturday, May 10th
7:30 am – 9:00 am
Cultural Anthropology Board Meeting
Location:
Board
Room
Saturday,
May 10th
9:00 am – 10:45 am
Plenary Session II: Death,
Ethics, and Bugs
Location: Britannia Salon
Charles Hirschkind (UC Berkeley) Cultures
of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
Hugh Raffles (New School) "Squish That
Bug!"
Patricia Spyer (Leiden) About Face:
Possession, Ethics, and the Neighbor in Postward Ambon
Coffee and Tea Served in Britannia Salon from
10:45 am
Saturday, May 10th
11:00 am – 12:45 pm
Relationality, Gender and Sexuality
Location: Victoria
Chair: Stacy Leigh Pigg (Simon Fraser U)
Naisargi Dave (Toronto)
Activism as Ethical Practice: Queer Politics in Contemporary
India
Sofian Merabet (NYU) The Human Geography of Queer Identity
Formations in Post-Civil-War Beirut, Lebanon
Jelene Veljic (U Belgrade) Cultural Effects of Artistic-activistic
Works Aimed at Promotion of Women’s and Minorities’ Rights,
Belgrade, Serbia 2003-2007
Filmmakers
and Films: Screenings and Discussions
Location: Board
This session continues until 3pm.
Chair: Bruce Grant (NYU)
Aaron Glass “In Search of Hamat’sa” (33
mins) + discussion
Wazhmah Osman (NYU) The Politics of Playing the Native
Informer in the Making of “Postcards from Tora Bora” (87
mins) + discussion (with producer/editor Stephen Jablonsky
(Ramapo C)
Noelle Stout "Luchando" (55 mins) + discussion
Revolutionary
Reformations: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Misrecognition
in Contexts of Crisis
Location: Regent
Chair: Benjamin Eastman (U Chicago)
Benjamin Eastman (U Chicago) Souvenirs of Socialism:
The Ethics and Aesthetics of
Contemporary Cuban Political Transformation
Jeffrey Bennett (U Missouri, Kansas City) Revolutionary
Reflections
Laura Roush (El Colegio de Michoacan) Crisis, Protection,
and the Santa Muerte in Mexico City
Ivan Arenas (UC Berkeley) Walls and Images: Reworking
Spatial Practices, Aesthetic Form, and Politics in Oaxaca
Paul Liffman (El Colegio
de Michoacan) Discussant
Local
Orientations
Location: King’s View
Chair: Bill Maurer (UC Irvine)
Sanjay Jayaswal (Cal State Los Angeles)
Little India: Debating Spaces
Denise Lawrence-Zuniga (Cal Poly Pomona) Politicizing
the Aesthetics of Historic Home and Neighborhood Preservation
Sarah Taylor (Cal State Long Beach) Gracias a los Gringos
Krystal Long and Cynthia Wilson (Cal State Long Beach)
Dave in the Shade
New
Interfaces: Cultural Anthropology's Public
Advisory Board
Location: Britannia
Chair: Kim Fortun (RPI)
Discussion in this session will focus on the goals
and strategies of Cultural Anthropology’s recently
formed Public Advisory Board.
Saturday
May 10th
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Bodies Exhibited: Science Education and the Body
as Property
Location: Victoria
Chair: Frayda Cohen (U Pittsburgh)
Frayda Cohen (U Pittsburgh) (Dis)embodied Exhibitions:
Chinese Persons and the Commodification of the
Body
Amy Speier (Lawrence U) Body Worlds: the Display
of Healthy Versus Unhealthy Bodies
Carlo Caduff (UC Berkeley) Deliberation Day. The
Prioritization of Pandemic Vaccine and the Politics
of Public Engagement
in the United States
Abouali Farman (CUNY) From the Good Life to Life
is Good
Andine Hennig (Institute for Plastination)
Ron Loewe (Cal State Long Beach) Discussant
Filmmakers
and Films: Screenings and Discussions
Location: Board
Continued from 11am.
Perilous
Positions: Performing Critical Perspectives on Late Capital
Location: Regent
Chair: Vicki L. Brennan (U Vermont)
Marina L. Peterson (Ohio U) Artist/Homeless:
Art and Urban Development in Downtown Los Angeles
Vicki L. Brennan (U Vermont) “Where do you fellowship?”:
Gospel Music, Corruption and the Crisis of Christianity in
contemporary Nigeria
Lorraine Plourde (Columbia U) Consuming Excess: Futurism and the Avant-Garde
in Bubble-Era Japan
Mary Taylor (CUNY Graduate Center) Folk Dance as an Ethical Project of the Self;
Cultural Management and the Spectre of Post
Socialist Ethnonationalism
in Hungary
Ravinder Kaur (Roskilde U) Open Secret: The
Art of Humor and Dissent in Iranian Politics
Andrew Apter (UCLA) Discussant
War
Stories, Secrets and Silences: Politics and Mediation
in the Aftermath
of
Violence
Location: Britannia
Chair: Victoria Bernal (UC Irvine)
Susan Bibler Coutin (UC Irvine) Re/Membering
the Nation
Christina Schwenkel (UC Riverside) Irreconciliation
and Tales of Transnational Betrayal in Post-War
Vietnam
Victoria Bernal (UC Irvine) The Many Meanings
of ‘Martyr’ and
the Afterlife of Violence
James Ellison (Dickenson C) Beads, Skirts,
and Civilization: Politics and Critical Memories
in Southern Ethiopia
Saturday, May 10th
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Ethics of Neoliberal Secularity
Location: Victoria
Chairs: Mayanthi Fernando (Washington University in St. Louis
and Andrea Muehlebach (U Chicago)
Stephen J. Collier (The New School) The Calculus of Public
Value
Andrea Muehlebach (U Chicago) The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare
State and Ethical Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
Mayanthi Fernando (Washington University in St. Louis) Disciplining
Freedom: French Secularism and the Problem of Religious Authority
Sherine Hamdy (Brown U) The Sacralization of the Body in
Organ Transplantation
Mohammed Tabishat (Wissenschaftkolleg) Rewriting the Soul
Moral
Topographies of New Media and Technology
Location: Board
Chair: Heather A. Horst (UC Berkeley)
Patricia G. Lange (USC) Pure and Dangerous Cyberspaces:
When Semiotic Ideologies Collide Online
Jeffrey W. Mantz (George Mason)
Digital Absolution and Penitent Trade: Corporate Imaginations
and Congolese Coltan
Heather A. Horst (UC Berkeley) Landscapes of Capitalism: Discipline and Practice in Silicon
Valley
James Smith (UC Davis) That Which You Have Eaten You Indeed Possess: Reflections
on Time and Temporal Process in the Congo and California
The
Ethics of Disconnection
Location: Regent
Chair: Ilana Gershon (Indiana U)
Ilana Gershon (Indiana U) Breaking Up is Hard To Do
Allison Alexy (Yale U) Balancing Disconnect in Contemporary
Japanese Marriages
Karen Ho (U Minnesota) Wall Street’s Downsizing Ethic:
Disconnection and the Formation of ‘Men (and Institutions)
of Mettle’
Jeremy Campbell (UC Santa Cruz) Intimate Mobilities:
Speculation along an Unpaved Amazonian Highway
Ernestine McHugh (U Rochester) A Cultural Aesthetic of
Morality
Susan Coutin (UC Irvine) Discussant
Graduate
Student Professionalization Workshops
Location: Brittania Salon
Chairs: Judith Farquhar (U Chicago)
Stacy Leigh Pigg (Simon Fraser U)
Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine)
This workshop is open to all graduate students interested
in learning more about the job market, preparing a
job application, campus visits, and writing and publishing.
Saturday, May 10th
5:15 pm – 6:30 pm
Visibility and Contamination in the Making of Nature
Location: Victoria
Chairs: Stephanie C. Kane (Indiana U) and Kathleen
Sullivan (Cal State Los Angeles)
Stephanie C. Kane (Indiana U) Politics of Assembly in Buenos
Aires (or, who cares about dead fish?)
Anne Brydon (Wilfrid Laurier U) Whales to Waterfalls: Making
Nature in Iceland
Philip E. Steinberg (Florida State U) Liquid Urbanity
Kathleen Sullivan (Cal State Los Angeles) Natures in the
Currents of Memories
Sally Ann Ness (UC Riverside) Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics,
and Yosemite National Park
Mixed
Media/Short Takes
Location: Board
Chair: Mike Fortun
Hanna Ruckman (Cal State Long Beach) Community Theater: Lifting the Spirits, Patricios, Argentina
Sheila O’Rourke (UC Irvine) Keeping
Up with ‘Realities’:
On Empowered Aesthetic Expressions that Speak to New Politicized
Convergences of Magic, Religion, and Science
Saydia Kamal (UNC Chapel Hill) Lightening Bug, Bashundhara
City and Modernity in Bangladesh
Money, Value and Exchange
Location: Regent
Chair: Danilyn Rutherford (Chicago)
Mireille Abelin (Columbia) Subversions of Sincerity: The
Argentine Debt Default as Gesture of Sovereign Refusal
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant (UC San Diego) The Pragmatic Imagination:
Public and Private Utopias in Contemporary Cuba
Damla Isik (Western Connecticut State U) Secrets of Globalized
Labor Relations and Habituation of Pious, Industrious Behavior:
The Ethics of Doing Work in Konya s Carpet Weaving Industry
Julienne Obadia (New School) Volunteering Positions: The
Shape of Help in the U.S. Imaginary
Allison Truitt (Tulane) Cash in the Machine: ATM Networks
in Vietna,
Pakistani
Modalities: Emergencies,
Publics, Hopes
Location: Britannia
Co-Chairs: Tania Ahmad and Lalaie
Ameeriar (Stanford)
Tania Ahmad (Stanford) Regular Exceptions: Public Space,
Security and Everyday Life in Karachi
Lalaie Ameeriar (Stanford) Mediating Globalization: Karachi
Immigration Offices Selling the Promise of a Better Life
Tahir Naqvi (Reed C) Rule by Emergency and the Autonomy
of Popular Urban Politics During the Third Dictatorship
Steven Gardiner (Lahore University of Management Studies)
Emergency Times: The Public Sphere and the Aesthetics
of Protest in the Pakistani Student Movement
Asad Ali Ahmed (Harvard) Discussant
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