GLOBALIZATION: THE STAKES OF GLOBAL STUDIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2001
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT FREDONIA, FREDONIA NY, USA
PROGRAM

Friday, September 21st, 2001

9:30am-11:00am Roundtable I: Defining Globalization

Paper I: (General Conference Opening Remarks) "Some Stakes of Global Studies and Definitions of Globalization"
Robert P. Marzec, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

Paper II: "Between the Popular Conception and the Multiple Academic Views"
Jacqueline Swansinger, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

Paper III: "Chinese Intellectuals' View of Globalization"
Maurizio Marinelli, Visiting Professor, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

Moderator: Jeanette McVicker, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

11:15am-12:45pm Roundtable II: Re-imagining the Disciplines in Light of Global Studies

Paper I: "Global English?"
Bruce Simon, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

Paper II: "Teaching Global History: Some Notes from the Frontlines"
Richard Eaton, Department of History, University of Arizona

Paper III: "Transdisciplinarity: The Task of the University"
Jeanette McVicker, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

Paper IV: "Literatures in English and Theories of Globalization"
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

Moderator: Markus Vink, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch

2:00pm-3:30pm Roundtable III: Historicizing Globalization

Paper I: "Nineteenth-Century Globalization as Hemispheric Process: The Americas as a Historical Case Study"
Michael Brescia, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

Paper II: "The Modern World System: Two Hundred, Five Hundred, or Five Thousand Years?"
Markus Vink, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

Paper III: "Earlier Moments in Theorizing the Planet"
Richard Eaton, Department of History, University of Arizona

Moderator: Jeanette McVicker, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

3:45-5:15 Roundtable IV: Alterity, Freedom, and Globalization

Paper I: "Contingency, Hegemony, Globalization"
Robert Marzec, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

Paper II: "The Moral Vernacular of Human Rights"
Eric Clarke, Department of English, Pittsburgh University

Paper III: "Repetitions of Religion in the Global Post-Cold War Occasion"
Michael Logan, Department of English, SUNY Binghamton

Moderator: Jacqueline Swansinger, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

7:00pm Dinner--White Inn

Saturday, September 22nd, 2001

9:30am-11:00am Roundtable V: The Global Politics of Gender

Paper I: "Feminism and the Pursuit of Justice"
Ranjana Khanna, Department of English, Duke University

Paper II: "The Irish-Indian Feminist Management of Anglo-American Hegemony, 1917-1947"
Catherine Candi, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

Paper III: "Globalization, Gender, and Women's Studies: Situating Knowledges in Trans/National Contexts"
Deborah Rosenfelt, Women's Studies Department, Maryland University
[WITHDREW FOR FAMILY/TRAVEL REASONS]

Moderator: Adrienne McCormick, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

11:15am-12:45pm Roundtable VI: Identity and Globalization

Paper I: "Globalization and Identity"
David Rankin, Department of Political Science, SUNY Fredonia

Paper II: "The Global Body"
Lennard J. Davis, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago [WITHDREW FOR TRAVEL REASONS]

Paper III: "Queerly Global/Globally Queer"
Rinaldo Walcott, Department of English, York University

Moderator: Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Department of English, SUNY Fredonia

12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch

2:00pm-3:30pm Roundtable VII: Empire, Labor, Capital

Paper I: "Dancing with the IMF and the World Bank Is Not Sexy or Romantic: The Significance, Nature, and Impact of the IMF, World Bank, and Western Donor 'Adjustment Policies'"
Jon Kraus, Department of Political Science, SUNY Fredonia

Paper II: "'A Rumor of War'"
William V. Spanos, Department of English, SUNY Binghamton

Paper III: "Whiteboys and the Commons, or 2 April 1792 and the Birth of Race and Class"
Peter Linebaugh, Department of History, University of Toledo

Moderator: David Rankin, Department of History, SUNY Fredonia

3:45-5:15 Full Conference Roundtable

Open Discussion: "The Stakes of Globalization and Global Studies in Light of the Attack on the World Trade Center"

This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Carnahan-Jackson Humanities Fund of the SUNY Fredonia College Foundation.