Risk and Breakdown: Shifting the Study of Culture
Cultural Anthropology Graduate Student Conference
Duke University
Friday, March 31, 2006
Location: John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 (http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/)
9:00-10:00: Breakfast
10:00-10:15: Opening Remarks
10:15-11:45: Panel I: Edge of the Stage
Cultural Disrobing in Contemporary Chile: Nudity or Simulacra? Iara Diaz-Araujo (Romance Studies, Duke University)
Get Wrecked, Dwayne Dixon (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
Risk in Performance: LaRibot’s 40 Espontaneos, Louise Owen (English/Drama, Queen Mary, University of London)
Filmic Intervention: Breakdown, Failure, and Social Change in Born into Brothels, Shilyh Warren (Literature, Duke University)
Respondent: Professor Diane Nelson (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
11:45-12:45: Lunch
1:00-2:45: Panel II: Everyday Collisions
Borders at Risk: Israeli-Jewish Tourism to Sinai, Neta Bar (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
Failure and Everyday Life in Suleimani, Iraq, Andrew Bush (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
Hello Risky! Interpellation, Recognition, and HIV Outreach to ‘Young Women Who Sleep with Women’, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (English, Duke University)
Elevator Breakdowns in Three Eras, Daniel Levinson-Wilk (New York Historical Society)
Intentional Community as a Response to Perceived Risks and Imminent Societal Breakdown: The Case of Earthaven Ecovillage, Joshua Lockyer (Anthropology, University of Georgia)
Respondent: Professor Rebecca Stein (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
2:45-3:00: Break
3:00-4:30: Panel III: States of Globality
The Discourse of National Crisis and De/Reconstructing Nationalism During the IMF Intervention in South Korea, Younghan Cho (Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Trading Rights, Claiming Risks: Democracy, Representation, and Tradables, Jason Cross (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
States of Disintegration: Writing Assassination, Arbitrary arrest, and the Failures of Law in Thailand, Tyrell Haberkorn (Anthropology, Cornell University)
(Post)coloniality as Failure? Srinath Jayaram (Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Respondent: Professor Orin Starn (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
4:30-4:45: Break
4:45-5:00: Closing Remarks
5:00-6:30: Keynote Address
Alienation as the Shattering of the Imagination: a Tentative Critique of the Notion of Constituent Power, David Graeber (Anthropology, Yale University)
7:00: Dinner for conference participants
For additional information, please contact Leigh Campoamor at leigh.campoamor@duke.edu or visit http://www.culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news/Riskandbreakdown.html.
The event is co-sponsored by: African and African American Studies; Asian and African Languages and Literature; Center for European Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Department of Cultural Anthropology; Franklin Humanities Institute; Program in Cultural Studies – UNC-CH; Program in Literature; Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies; Women’s Studies Program