<nettime> FYI: Globalization conference

[inke@is.in-berlin.de (Inke Arns)]

>Return-Path: <d-iordanova@uchicago.edu>
>Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 10:51:54 -0600
>
>The Rockefeller Program on
>"Public Spheres and the Globalization of Media"
>presents a conference
>
>COLLISIONS:
>GLOBALIZATION,
>MEDIATION,
>REPRESENTATION
>
>Friday and Saturday, May 9 - 10
>
>Chicago Humanities Institute
>1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-118
>
>
>FRIDAY, MAY 9
>
>7:30-9:30 p.m.
>Video-screening: Representing Globalization
>Introducing the Rockefeller Fellows:
>Oga Abah, Ahmadu Bello University
>Muzaffar Assadi, University of Mysore
>Thomas Frank, Baffler Magazine
>Dina Iordanova, University of Texas, Austin
>
>
>SATURDAY, MAY 10
>
>10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
>Enabling Media: Fusion and Diffusion
>
>Chair:  Homi Bhabha, University of Chicago
>
>"World Music, World Beat: Genealogies and Polemics"
>Steven Feld, University of California, Santa Cruz
>
>"Surveillance, Empathy, and Identity in Global Marketing"
>Richard Maxwell, Northwestern University
>
>"Rigoberta Menchu: Enabling Possibilities and Silencing Strategies"
>Angharad Valdivia, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
>
>Discussant:  Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
>
>
>1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
>Repressive Media: Subjection and Objection
>
>Chair:  Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago
>
>"The Collision of Technology and Culture: A Middle Eastern Perspective"
>Yahya Kamalipour, Purdue University
>
>"Telling Fortunes: Corporate Visions of a Global Future"
>Roger Rouse, University of Michigan
>
>"Objects of Globalization"
>Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University
>
>Discussant: Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
>
>
>4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
>Transforming Media: Extension/In/Tension
>
>Chair: Dina Iordanova, University of Chicago
>
>"Whose Values Will Rule?"
>Mark Alleyne, Loyola University
>
>
>'Mergers and Acqusitions: The Imperializing Image and the Transformation of
>Culture"
>Ronne Hartfield, Art Institute of Chicago
>
>"The Roots of the Nomadic in West African Cinema"
>Dudley Andrew, University of Iowa
>
>Discussant: Stuart Liebman, Queens College, CUNY
>
>
>6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Reception
>
>
>
>Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance: please call
>Barbara Collins in advance at 773-702-8274.
>
>
>
>=================================================
>Dina Iordanova
>                                                Rockefeller Fellow
>
>phone 773-955-4040 ext.5-8132 office            Chicago Humanities Institute
>      773-643-1139  home                        University of Chicago
>fax   773-702-0775                              1100 E.57th Street JRL
>e-mail:d-iordanova@uchicago.edu                 Chicago, IL 60637 USA
>http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/diordano
>http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/eems/main.html
>
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