Modernities Histories

Co-organized by John Mohr (UCSB) & John Hall (UCDavis)

 

                                                                                                                      

Cliff House
University of California,                                                    

Santa Barbara                                                                                        

May 8th-9th, 1999                                                                                                                                                               

Funded by the University of California Intercampus Academic Program Improvement Fund

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Saturday, May 8th
9.00 Welcome. John Mohr (Sociology, UCSB); John R. Hall (Sociology, UCD)
9.15 RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND EPISTEMOLOGIES IN MODERNITY'S HISTORIES. Chair: Randy Head (History, UCR)
Ray Kea (History, UCR), "Atlantic Africa, the African Diaspora, and New Approaches to Modernity's Histories: Accumulation, Rebellion, Travel, and Belief in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World."
Lilyan Brudner-White (Department of Anthropology, UCI), "Colonial Capitalism, Fragmentation and Subjectivity."
John R. Hall (Sociology, UCD), "The fractal reflexivity of discourse: social epistemology and modernity in Hegel and colonial India."
10.30 BREAK
11.00 IDENTITIES' MEDIATIONS. Chair: Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi (Sociology, UCSB)
Jason Young (History, UCR), "Saline Sacraments, Water Ritual, and Spirits of the Deep: Christian Conversion in Kongo and along the Sea Islands of the Deep South."
Driss Maghraoui (History, UCSC), "The representation of Moroccan Colonial Troops in the French Military Novel: a Study of Colonial Mentalité."
Matthew Hoddie (Political Science, UC Davis), "Aboriginal Identity in Australia: An Instrumentalist Interpretation."
David Anthony (History, UCSC), "An African Diasporic Dream Deferred: The Strange Case of Max Yergan, 1892-1975."
12.30 LUNCH (at the Cliff House)
1.30 ECONOMIES AND MODERNITIES. Chair: Lilyan Brudner-White (Department of Anthropology, UCI)
Stephen J. Miller (History, UCLA), "The Status of Landed Property and Feudalism in France, 1770 - 1789."
David Del Testa (History, UCD), "Working Modernity in Colonial Indochina."
2.45 BREAK
3.15 DIALECTICS OF ECONOMY AND CULTURE. Chair: Terry Burke (History, UCSC)
Sarah Brown (Sociology, UCLA), "Production under Capitalism: How Producers, not Consumers, Drive Product Design."
Sean Metzger (Theater & Dance, UCD), "The fetishism of Asian identity in transnational cultural products: French film and the case of Irma Vep."
Silvia Casasola and Narda Alcántara (Program in Social Networks, UCI), "Guatemalan Colonial Elites as Social Networks"
Chipasha Luchembe (Visiting Scholar, History, UCR), "Cultural Policy and Development in Southern Africa.

Sunday, May 9th
9.00 AMBIGUOUS CULTURES OF MODERNITY. Chair: John Mohr (Sociology, UCSB)
Warren Dym (History, UCD), "Paracelsus contained, or the fixing of modern knowledge categories."
David Carl (Comparative Literature, UCD), "Modernity's roots in the Romantic Symgenre"
Augusto Espiritu (History, UCLA), "The dialectics of modernity and tradition: Carlos Bulosan's Philippine-American world."
Britta Wheeler (Sociology, UCSB), "The institutionalization of the avant garde: performance art 1978-1998."
10.30 BREAK
11.00 ROUNDTABLE: REFLECTIONS AND ANTICIPATIONS.
Moderator: Bill Hagen (History, UCD)

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