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OPENING REMARKS: February 25, 7:30p.m., L160 Chazen

Paul DeLuca, Provost, UW-Madison
Susan Stanford Friedman, Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Natalie Zemon Davis, History Department, University of Toronto
Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture, Center for the Humanities
February 25, 7:30-9:30p.m., L160 Chazen
Moderator: Lee Palmer Wandel, History Department, UW-Madison
"Dealing with Strangeness: Language and Information Flow in Early Modern Worlds"

Anna L. Tsing, Anthropology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 26, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Pyle Center
Moderator: Kirin Narayan, Anthropology Department, UW-Madison
"Nonhumans and Globalization: On Multispecies Storytelling"

R. Radhakrishnan, English Department; Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
February 27, 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m., Pyle Center
Moderator: Tejumola Olaniyan, English Department, African Languages and Literature Department, UW-Madison
"The Knowledge Game in a Global World: Who Is Playing Whom?"

PANEL 1: Friday, 9:00-10:30a.m. Pyle Center

Music Race Empire

Moderator: Ron Radano, School of Music, UW-Madison

Lalita du Perron, Center for South Asia, UW-Madison
"The Effects of British Colonial Tastes on North Indian Classical Music"

Scott Carter, School of Music, UW-Madison
"'The Race That Does Not Sing is Doomed': Voice, Evolutionary Science, and the Ordering of Global Song"

Maria Lepowsky, Anthropology Department; Gender and Women's Studies Department, UW-Madison
"Children of Tamáayawut: Song, Prophecy, and Sacred Space in the California Borderlands"

BREAK: 10:30-10:45a.m.

PANEL 2: Friday, 10:45-12:15p.m. Pyle Center

Dreams of a Universal Library: Globalizing Books, Democratizing Access

Moderator: Craig Werner, Afro-American Studies Department, Integrated Liberal Studies Program, UW-Madison

Caroline Levine, English Department, UW-Madison
"Unbearable Translation: The World Literature Anthology and the Democratization of Culture"

Venkat Mani, German Department, UW-Madison
"Random Access Memories: The European Library Project"

Susan David Bernstein, English Department, UW-Madison
"Open Door Policy? Readers at the British Museum Library"

LUNCH BREAK: 12:15-1:30p.m.
Lunch for presenters, AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center

PANEL 3: Friday, 1:30-3:00p.m. Pyle Center

Global Regions: The Case of the Mediterranean through Time

Moderator: David Goldstein, English Department, York University

Steven Hutchinson, Spanish and Portuguese Department, UW-Madison
"'Renegades' in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Traversing Religious, Imperial and Cultural Boundaries"

Brian Sandberg, History Department, Northern Illinois University
"'Against the Detestable Sect of Mohammed': How Religious Violence Shaped the French Mediterranean and Early Globalization"

Névine El-Nossery, French and Italian Department, UW-Madison
"Diasporization of Transnational Identity in Amin Maalouf's Leo Africanus"

BREAK: 3:00-3:15p.m.

PANEL 4: Friday, 3:15-4:45p.m. Pyle Center

Global Reading, Listening, and Writing

Moderator: Richard Goodkin, French and Italian Department, UW-Madison

Stephanie Spadaro, French and Italian Department, UW-Madison
"'Is This Coffee Fair Trade?': Cultivating French Sympathy for the Distant Slave in L'Histoire des deux Indes"

Rachel Brenner, Hebrew and Semitic Studies Department, UW-Madison
"Globalization of the Holocaust: Evasion of the Past and the Legacy of Historical Responsibility"

Jonathan Pollack, History Department, Madison Area Technical College
"Yep Roc Heresy: The Musical Slanguage of Slim Gaillard"

BREAK: 4:45-5:00p.m.

KEYNOTE: Anna L. Tsing, Anthropology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
February 26, 5:00-6:30 p.m., Pyle Center
Moderator: Kirin Narayan, Anthropology Department, UW-Madison
"Nonhumans and Globalization: On Multispecies Storytelling"

PANEL 5: Saturday, 9:15-10:45a.m. Pyle Center

The "Global" in World History, Culture Studies, and Ecological Humanities

Moderator: Susan Friedman, IRH, UW-Madison

André Wink, History Department, UW-Madison
"Is There an Early Modern World History?"

Neil L. Whitehead, Anthropology Department, UW-Madison
"All Cultural, Always, Everywhere - The End(s) of Anthropology"

Rob Nixon, English Department, UW-Madison
"Slow Violence, the Environmentalism of the Poor and the Ecological Humanities"

BREAK: 10:45-11:00a.m.

KEYNOTE: R. Radhakrishnan, English Department; Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
February 27, 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m., Pyle Center
Moderator: Tejumola Olaniyan, English Department, African Languages and Literature Department, UW-Madison
"The Knowledge Game in a Global World: Who Is Playing Whom?"

LUNCH BREAK: 12:30-1:45p.m.
Lunch for presenters, AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center

PANEL 6: Saturday, 1:45-3:15p.m. Pyle Center

Art, Visual Culture, and Globalization

Moderator: Julia Murray, Art History Department, UW-Madison

Ken George, Anthropology, UW-Madison
"When is Modern Islamic Art?"

Nora Taylor, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba and the Condition of the Global Artist"

Jill Casid, Art History Department; Center for Visual Culture, UW-Madison
"Photography's Diasporic Aesthetics"

BREAK: 3:15-3:30p.m.

PANEL 7: Saturday, 3:30-4:45p.m. Pyle Center

Global Violence: Sovereignty, Nations, and Nation-States

Moderator: Richard Avramenko, Political Science Department, UW-Madison

Mark Netzloff, English Department, UW-Milwaukee
"Historicizing Stateless Persons and Non- State Actors: Global Legacies of the Gunpowder Plot"

Helen Kinsella, Political Science Department, UW-Madison
"Gendering Grotius: Sex and Sex Difference in the Laws of War"

Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature Department, UW-Madison
"Globalization and Translation: 'Hearing Voices'"

6:00p.m.: Conference banquet for presenters at Fugu Restaurant, 411 W. Gilman St., 286-7277.

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