The Workshop on the Sociology and Cultures of Globalization at the University of Chicago together with the Chicago Center of Contemporary Theory present:

The 7th annual Globalization Conference

Mapping Global Landscapes:
Emerging Spaces and Subjectivities

Friday, May 6th, 2005 Public Opening Session, Speakers and Reception
Saturday, May 7th, 2005 Student Presentation
Social Science Research, 1126 East 59th Street

The annual globalization conference is an ongoing activity of the Workshop on the Sociology and Cultures of Globalization aimed at fostering a network of people who are grappling with the various challenges transnational processes present to the study of globalization.

Opening Session, Social Sciences 122

Friday, May 6, 3.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Panelists

Craig Calhoun

Author of: Critical Social Theory: Culture, History, and the Challenge of Difference
Professor of Sociology, New York University
President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Linda Bosniak

Author of: The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership
Professor of Law Studies, Rutgers University

Warren Sack

Assistant Professor, Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Uma Kothari

Senior Lecturer, Institute for development, policy and management, University of Manchester

Moderators

Saskia Sassen

Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Jean Comaroff

Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

(THE OPENING SESSION WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION…)

Reception, Social Sciences Lobby

Friday, May 6, 6:00 p.m.

Student Panels, Social Sciences 105 and 107

Saturday, May 7, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

CONCURRENT MORNING SESSIONS: 9:30am – 11:30am

POLITICAL RESISTANCE

Social Science 105, 9:30-11:30 am

The Politics of Protest: Subjectivity, Migration and the New Urban Order
- Ann Bartlett, University of Chicago

Neo-Nomadism: an Ideal-Type of Post-Identitarian Mobility in the Global Age
- Anthony D’Andrea, University of Chicago

Rethinking the 1960s (Yet Again): Student Protest, Globalization, and the Periodization of Postwar American History
- Michael H. Carriere, University of Chicago

Indigenous Nations in Transnational Politics: A Case Study of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation
- Lesley Kandaras, University of Chicago

Local Identities in Globalizing Context

Uma Kothari, Discussant and Chair
Social Science 107, 9:30-11:30 am

High Heels and Headscarves: Womanhood, Islam, and Globalization in an Asian Mega-city
- Rachel Rinaldo, University of Chicago

Masculinity in Africa in the Age of AIDS: Does Globalization Matter?
- Robert Wyrod, University of Chicago

Islamic Finance and Gender Relations: Whose Business is it, Anyway?
- Karen Hunt Ahmed, University of Chicago

CONCURRENT AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1:00pm – 3:00pm

CHANGING FORMS OF CITIZENSHIP

Social Science 105, 1:00-3:00 pm

Transforming the Notion of Citizenship: Taiwanese American’s Transnational Political Action
Chi-Chen Chiang, University of Chicago

Transnational Suburbs? The Impact of Immigrant Communities on the Urban Edge
- Jennifer Tello Buntin, University of Chicago

From Corporate Employees to Business Owners: a Path to Chinese Immigrant Transnational Entrepreneurship in Japan
- Gracia Liu Farrer, University of Chicago

Second-Generation Palestinian Immigrants: At the intersection of nationalism and ethnicity
- Randa Serhan, Columbia University

Discoursive spaces

Social Science 107, 1:00-3:00 pm

The online layer: How email shapes social interactions
- Daniel A. Menchik and Xiaoli Tian, University of Chicago

Take Me to Your Leader: Influence and Liking on Internet Forums
- Sasha Goodman, University of Chicago

The World Social Forum as Global Political Actor: Lessons from the First International
- Anita Chari, University of Chicago

“Unpacking” African Diasporic Identities: An Ethnography in Visual Representations
- Derrick R. Brooms, Loyola University Chicago

Closing Comments, Social Science Tea Room

Saturday, May 7, 3:15 p.m.

Co-sponsored by: Center for International Studies - The Norman Wait Harris Fund; The Council on Advance Studies in the Humanities and Social Science.

For more information on the conference, or for person with a disability who believe they may need assistance to attend this event, please contact Michal Pagis (mpagis@uchicago.edu) or 773-3630543