Symposia
Global Knowledge/Knowledge of the Global, 2011-12
Fall is complete, but Winter and Spring are still under construction. Please check back for changes and updates as information becomes available.
Fall 2011
Dialogos I: Tuesday, October 11, 11:45 a.m., LTC Lunch, Weitz Center 236, Large Meeting Room
Jay Levi, Sociology/Anthropology, "Indigineity and the Holocaust as Global Discourses"
Discussant, Van Dusenbery, Sociology/Anthropology
Winter 2012
Dialogos II: European Immigration, time and place tbd
Devashree Gupta, Political Science, “Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the New Northern Ireland”
Gudrun Willett, Institutional Research, “Reasons for Hope and Caution: Formation of a Russian-Speaking Community in Amsterdam”
Discussant/s: tba
Sessions by
Ross Elfline, Art and Art History, “Rem Koolhaas and Architecture’s Global Scale”
Shana Sippy, Religion, “Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Cultivation of Longing”
Discussant/s: tba
Spring 2012
Dialogos III: Title, time and place tbd
Sigi Leonhard, German, “Transnational Literature” (the impact of displacement on agency, intended audience, and writing codes in cross-cultural fiction)
Arnab Chakladar, English, “Globalization and Hindi Fiction: Reading Uday Prakash”
Discussant/s: tba