[This is the full schedule for this year's GSA conference, to be held here in Chicago this time. GSA has over 300 members in North America, plus another branch in the UK with members across the globe. If you're up for some fairly high level discussion and debate on all theory, policy and strategic matters pertaining to globalization and how to deal with it, this is the place to be. If you're into 'Less Talk, More Action' and don't care much for academic discussion, save your money. -- CarlD.]
ALTERNATIVE GLOBALIZATIONS
5th Annual Conference
Global Studies Association / North America
May 12 –14, 2006
DePaul University
Schmitt Academic Center,
2320 North Kenmore Avenue,
Chicago, IL
Co-Sponsor:
DePaul University International Studies Program
Open to the Public
for those who Join or Register
www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/conferences.html
Schedule of Events:
Friday:
12:00PM: Registration Begins
3:00PM to 5:00PM: Workshops
1. World Social Forum in Venezuela
Chair: Lauren Langman, Loyola University
with Peter Hudis, Mel Rothenberg, Mary Beth Noble, Jackie Smith, and Jan Nederveen Pieterse
*****
2. Tradition, Migrations and Globalization: Real/Screen Faces/Voices of India
Chair: Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nation and Its Outcasts:
Marginal Figures in on the Indian Screen
by Reshmi Mukherjee
Bride and Immigration:
the Problem of the Idealized Expatriate
by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Who am I? Diglossia of Identities in popular Cinema
by Rajeshwari Pandharipande
*****
3. Media and Globalization
Chair: Bill Pelz
Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Global Communication
by Michael Curtin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Director of Global Studies
Torture in US Popular Culture and Media
by Julie Shackford-Bradley, California State University at Monterey Bay, Global Studies
Venevision, Telesur, and the Bolivarian Revolution
by Lee Artz, Purdue University Calumet, Communication Department
*****
4. Africa, Crisis and Development
Chair: Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy
The Crisis in Darfur/Sudan, Race, Gender, Oil and Weapons: What Can’t We Do?
by Amal Madibbo, University. of Toronto, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
The Colonial Goal of Creating a Docile Labor Force in Southern Africa: Its Impact on Development Today
by Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy
Mapping Alternate Legalities in Post apartheid South African Fisheries
by Ken Salo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*****
5. Women and Globalization
Chair: Ann Ferguson, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Philosophy and Women's Studies
Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping: Consumerism as a Moral Dilemma
by Lisa Cassidy, Ramapo College, New Jersey
Women, Globalization and Global Justice
by Ann Ferguson, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Philosophy and Women's Studies
*****
6. The Impact of Globalization on Education and Pedagogy
Chair: Deepanwita Dasgupta
Globalization and Pedagogy, or a View from Below: Towards Collaborative Social Relations of Educational Situations
by Juha Suoranta, University of Minnesota, Visiting Professor of Finnish Studies and Sociology, University of Tampere, Finland, Professor of Adult Education
Experiential Education Projects for Global Citizenship
by Aaron Dziubinskyj, DePauw University of Indiana, Coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Why Global Studies? Plotting an Intellectual Jailbreak
by Edward Kolodziej, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Director of Center for Global Studies
Ideology, Globalization, and Educational Policy
by Dale R. Howard, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Sociology
*****
7. The Environmental Challenge
Chair: Jim Davis, DePaul University
Globalization and the Environment
by Jim Davis, DePaul University
Alternative Globalizations or Alternative Localizations? Anarchist and Ecologist Antiglobalisms from a Comparative Perspective
by Rafal Soborski, University of Surrey, UK
Society of Cities, Regions and Borderlands: A Roadmap to the Ibero American Dream
by Manuel Freire Barcia
Alternative to Global Capital: Global South as an Ecological Creditor
by Robina Bhatti, California State University at Monterey Bay
5:00PM to 6:00PM: Reception
6:00PM to 8:00PM: Keynote Speakers
Alternative Globalization in Latin America
Speakers:
Martin Sanchez: Chicago Consul General of Venezuela
Mark Weisbrot: Center for Economic and Policy Research
Saturday:
8:30AM to 9:15AM: Coffee
9:15AM to 11:00AM: Keynote Speakers
China: Market Socialism or Capitalism
Speakers:
David Schweickart, Loyola University
Yiching Wu, University of Chicago
11:15AM to 1:00PM: Workshops
1. The General Effects of Globalisation, Neo Liberalism and Imperialism within Chicano and Latino Context: The Struggle for an Alternative Perspective
Chair: Jose Moreno, Oxnard College and CSU, Channel Islands
with Luis Moreno, CSU Northridge and Ernesto Bustillos, Activist Scholar
*****
2. Exploring Spaces of Resistance to Neo-Liberal Globalization
Chair: Ligaya McGovern, Indiana University at Kokomo
Beyond Bourgeois Democracy and Masochistic Conformity
by Karen Bettez Halnon, Pennsylvania State University
Education, Work and Globalization
by William Mello, Indiana University
What’s Haunting Globalization? Globalization!
by Alan Spector, Purdue University, Calumet
A Critical Analysis of the Current Philippine Government’s Crackdown on Progressive Elements in the Context of Neo-Liberal Globalization and the Dialectics of Resistance
by Ligaya McGovern, Indiana University
Organizing Against the Limits of the Law: Filipino Im/Migrant Women's Transnational Struggles
by Robyn Rodriguez, Rutgers University
*****
3. Cultivating Alternatives: Identity, culture and multitude.
Chair: Scott Byrd, University of California at Irvine
The spaces between: Alternative globalizations as radically restructured social relations
by Scott Byrd, University of California at Irvine
The non-reflective fiction that created friction: Anti-WTO protest and media coverage in Seattle
by Bobby Chen, University of California at Irvine
From Hawaii to the world: The Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement’s connection to a globalized world
by James Stobaugh, University of California at Irvine
Informalization revisited: Transnational migration and managed globalization
by Ryan Pearce, University of California at Irvine
*****
4. Globalization and Social Theory
Chair: Manjur Karim
Imperialist Violence and Terrorism: The Debate between Camus and Sartre:
by Ron Aronson, Wayne State, Michigan
Discipline and Produce! A Foucaultian Analysis of Coercion and Globalization
by Gerard Kuperus, DePaul University
Achieving Outcomes through Framing: An Analysis of the Role and Effect of Framing Process in International Political Outcomes
by Marcus Holmes, Georgetown University
Waveforms: The Influences of Global Events and the Effects upon Members of the Currently Forming Global Society ‘Symbolic Interaction’
by Gregorio Morales, San Diego State University
*****
5. Global Capitalism, Trade and Poverty
Chair: Bill Pelz
Globalizing Capitalism: the Transnational Neoliberal Network in Action
by Jackie Smith, Notre Dame University
The Impact of WTO Export Subsidy Commitments on International Food Aid
by Matias E. Margulis, Former adviser and delegate to the WTO, OECD, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Implications of Economic Externalities for Globalization
by Subbu Kumarappan, Michigan State
*****
6. State, Class and Globalization
Chair: Jerry Harris
Competing Transnationalisms: Transnational Capitalist Class vs. Transnational Co-ethnics
by Rubin Patterson, University of Toledo, Ohio
A Retreat to Statism? The Debate Over Alternatives To Neo-Liberalism in the Movement Against Global Capital
by Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College, Illinois
Counter Hegemony in the State, Market and Civil Society
by Jerry Harris, DeVry University, Chicago
Privatization of the Military
by Joy Hylton: University of California, Santa Barbara
*****
7. Sexual Identity and Globalization
Chair: Turgay Bayindir, Purdue University, Department of English
The Emergence of ‘Gay’ Identity as a Product of Recent Globalization in Turkey
by Turgay Bayindir, Purdue University
Queer Tourism in Rio: A Queer Utopia?
by Simone Cavalcante DaSilva, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sexual Paradise/Sexual Pariah, Imagining Jamaica in the Age of Globalization
by Natalie Bennet, DePaul University
*****
8. Open Roundtable and Discussion on Global Studies Programs
Discussion convener Kirk Shaffer, Pennsylvania State University
1:00PM to 2:30PM: Lunch and Student Meeting
2:30PM to 4:00PM: Keynote Speakers
Alternative Globalizations: Autonomous Movements or State Power
Speakers:
Fred Rosen, Editor NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America)
Graciela Monteagudo, Argentina Automista Project
4:15PM to 5:45PM: Workshops
1. Transnationalism from the Middle
Chair: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Deploying the Global Obsession: the Dynamics of Neoliberal Governance on the Ground
by David Wilson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Geography
The Role of Intermediaries in Migration: Questions and Suggestions
by Satomi Yamamoto, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sociology
The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization
by Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sociology
Approaching Neo-liberalism as Financial Hegemony: The Case of South Korea
by Jin-Ho Jang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*****
2.The Political Economy of Neo-Liberalism
Chair: Mel Rothenberg
Not trade but VADE (Value Added Destined for Export): issues in measuring openness and its economic impact
by Mehrene Larudee, DePaul University
The International Trade and Unequal Exchange
by Ron Baiman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Neo-liberalism to neo-imperialism
by Mel Rothenberg, University of Chicago
Neo-liberalism in Latin America
by Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
*****
3. The Emergence of China
Chair: Peter Hudis
Post-Mao Intellectuals in Cyberspace: Reading Reincarnations of Chinese Literary Classics Under Globalization
by Hui Xiao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Struggle of China: From Social Revolution to Market Experimentation
by Ning Wang, Arizona State University, School of Global Studies
Nostalgia and Nationalism: Social and Cultural Change in post-Revolutionary China.
by Victor Lang, DePaul University, International Studies Program
Biospheric Limits to Chinese Hegemonic Succession
by John Gulick, University of Tennessee
*****
4. Africa: The Struggle of Global Insertion
Chair: Gail Presbey
Grassroots Resistance to Global Capitalism: Reflections on South Africa’s Anti-Eviction Campaign
by Faranak Miraftab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
The Significance of African Culture in Socio-Economic Development
by John Otieno Ouko, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy
Namibia’s Economy in Transition
by Mona Aburmishan, DePaul University, International Studies
The Gentrification of Africa in the Contemporary Capitalist World-System
by Paul Mocombe, Florida Atlanta University
*****
5. The Environmental Resource Crisis and Civil Conflict
Chair: Stephanie Farmer
The effect of deforestation on indigenous cultures: The case of the Mbyá Guaraní of Argentina.
by Penny Seymoure and Sarah Stampfl, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Globalization, Water and Civil Society: Lessons from Bolivia
by Kathleen A. Tobin, Latin American Studies, Purdue University, Calumet
Competing Coalitions and Corporate Privatization of Municipal Water Supply
by Stephen P. Gasteyer, Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
An Unwanted World: The Processes of Global Warming, Global Dimming, and Global Cooling as an Alternative Globalization
by Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Political Science
*****
6. Resistance Politics
Chair: Carl Davidson
Gramscian Strategy and the Anti-War Movement
by Carl Davidson; Networking for Democracy, Chicago
On the relevance of Gramsci: community, politics, and hegemony in struggles for alternative globalizations.
by Justin Paulson, University of California, Santa Cruz
The European Anti-Capitalist Left Conference: Toward a New Political Force?
by John O’Connor, Central Connecticut State University
Manipulating Discontent: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
by Aniruddha Mitra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*****
7. The Contours of Globalization and Empire
Chair: Ganesh K. Trichur, St. Lawrence University, New York, Department of Global Studies
The Politics of Absent Multitudes: Uneven Alternative Globalisation on the European Semiperiphery
by Istvan Adorjan, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Sociology and Social Anthropology
The Two Gulfs: Perceptions and Lessons from the Privatization of Disaster
by Ganesh K. Trichur, St. Lawrence University, New York, Department of Global Studies
Shifting Sands: An Alternative Globalization Found Among the Ruins of the Silk Road
by Allison Witt, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Multifunctional Agriculture in the Doha Development Round: Resistance or Reflexive Liberalization?
by Martin Lenihan, Pennsylvania State, Rural Sociology Program
*****
8. Human Rights
Chair: Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Canada
Integration of the Honor Culture and the Ideology of Human Rights as Alternative Globalization
by Gordana Yovanovich, University of Guelph, Canada
Health as a Human Right in the Globalized World
by Brian Orend, University of Waterloo, Canada
The Importance of International Treaties: Is Ratification Necessary?
by Jeffrey L. Roberg, Carthage College, Wisconsin, Chair - Political Science
Translocal Community Formation as a Resolution to "the Refugee Problem": Implications for Theory from the Guatemalan Refugee Return Movement
by Stephanie J. Silverman, York University, Canada
6:30PM to 10:00PM: Banquet
Reza’s Restaurant on Ontario
Guest Speaker:
Dennis Brutus, 'Alternative Globalization, How Fares Africa?'
Sunday:
8:30AM – 9:15AM: Coffee
9:15AM to 10:30AM: Global Studies Association Annual Business Meeting
10:45AM – 12:30PM: Workshops
1. The Solidarity Economy: High Road Economics
Chair: Dan Swinney, Center for Labor/Community Research, Chicago
Sustainable Economic Development as Political Strategy
by Dan Swinney, Center for Labor/Community Research, Chicago
The Italian Co-operative Movement
by Matt Hancock, University of Bologna, Italy
Resistance: Corporations and Ethics in the Global Market
by Isaias Rivera, Loyola University Chicago
*****
2. Transnational Networks of Migration
Chair: Lina Beydoun
Uncovering the Causes of Growth in Remittance-Sending Volume for Mexican Immigrants in the United States
by Stacie Steinke, DePaul University
Globalization and Transnational Communities: Latin American Indigenous Migrations to the United States and the Formation of Resistance Identities
by Cosme Perez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Examining Lebanese Migration within a Global Framework
by Lina Beydoun, Wayne State University, Michigan
The Economics of Migrant Labor
by Micaela Cayton Garrido, Notre Dame University
*****
3. India Faces Globalization
Chair: Deepanwita Dasgupta
All India Women Conference and Center for Women Development Studies 1990-2000
by Tripta Desai, Northern Kentucky University.
Ends of Modernity and the Alternative Science Debate in India
by Deepanwita Dasgupta, University of Minnesota, Department of Philosophy
Scripting Resistance: Coca-Cola and the struggle in Plachimada, India
by Shivali Tukdeo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*****
4. Cultures and Identity
Chair: Bill Pelz
The Commodification of Everyday Life and Popular Culture
by Bill Pelz, Egin College, Chicago
Wrestling with Globalization: Sumo and Japanese Identities"
by R. Gerard Pontsioen, University of Guelph, Canada, Sociology and Anthropology
Global Enemies And Their Linguistic Representation In The Political Agenda
by Antonio Reyes-Rodríguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Beyond Pluralism: Toward a New Model of Global Religion
by Ian Muhlhauser, University of Chicago, Divinity School
*****
5. Globalization and Latin America
Chair: Harry Targ
How to Change the World by Taking State Power or Why the Peripheral State Still Matters: an Examination of Venezuela under Chavez.
by Stephanie Farmer; University of Binghamton, SUNY
Alcohol consumption patterns and the effects of globalization in an Indian Mexican Community
by Luis Berruecos, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.
Political Economy of Precarious Classes Formation in Latin America & the Caribbean
by David R. Cormier, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University and Harry Targ, Purdue, Political Science.
Counter-hegemonic Movements and Globalization: The Case of Venezuela
by Trudie Coker, San Francisco State University
*****
6. Networks of Resistance in Civil Society
Chair: Manjur Karim
The Global Activist Network of Peoples Global Action
by Hermann Maiba, University of Illinois, Chicago
Problems of Democratization in Global Civil Society
by Javier Vazquez D'Elia, University of Pittsburgh, Political Science
Global Stage, Global Actor: Reframing Global Society Through NGO Networks
by Drew Woodley, York University, Canada
Globalization, Hegemony, and Resistance: A Narrative from Bangladesh
by Manjur Karim, Sociology and Political Science, Culver-Stockton College, Missouri
*****
7. The WTO Doha Development Round: Country Perspectives
Chair: Mehrene Larudee, DePaul University, International Studies
China and the Doha Development Round.
by Evan McKay
Indonesia and the Doha Development Round.
by Shaila Noronha
Haiti and the Doha Development Round.
by Dominique Charles
Mali and the Doha Development Round
by Jason Willhoite Bell
*****
8. The Virtual Struggle: Technology in Global Society
Chair: Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Sociology
CyberSpace Democracy: Hope or Hype?
by Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Sociology
Toward an Anthropology of Cyberspace: A New Field
by Scott Macleod, Pittsburg
American and Chinese Intellectual Copyright Law, Variants and Perspectives
by Richard J. Knecht, University of Toledo, Ohio and Dexin Tian, Bowling Green State University
Factors Influencing Elementary School Teachers Use of Technology: A Global Perspective
by Serhat Kurt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Curriculum & Instruction
Adjournment
*****
Conference Registration:
Non-members $60.00
GSA Members $48.00
Students, Retired, and Unemployed $20.00
Banquet $40.00
GSA Membership:
Concessionary (student, retired, unemployed) $20.00
Senior Academic $50.00
Junior Academic $50.00
Institution $100.00
Special Offer:
GSA Membership and Conference Registration $88.00
Checks should be made payable to:
'Networking for Democracy'
with a memo on the bottom 'For Global Studies Association'.
Checks should be sent to:
Jerry Harris
GSA/North American Secretary
1250 North Wood Street
Chicago, Illinois 60622
USA
Or you can pay at the door.