Between Past and Future: Present Global Problematics
Seminar Organizer: Randy Cota & Simona Livescu
Affiliation: Rutgers University, UCLA
Email: randyrene@excite.com, slivescu@ucla.edu
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Papers for this Topic
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Friday, April 20th, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Chair: Simona Livescu
Title: “The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time”: The Disappearance of Temporality in the Age of the War on Terror
Author: Christopher Pavsek
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Email: cpavsek@sfu.ca
Title: Rules of Cultural Engagement: Humanitarian Imperialism and Perpetual Security
Author: J. Paul Narkunas
Affiliation: Princeton University
Email: narkunas@princeton.edu
Title: Epistemic Terror: Identity Production and the Threat of Violence in the Ripples of 9/11
Author: Randy Cota
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Email: randyrene@excite.com
Title: Where do we go from here: Past, Present and Future at Ground Zero
Author: Yifat Gutman
Affiliation: The New School for Social Reseach
Email: gutmy472@newschool.edu
Saturday, April 21st, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Chair: Randy Cota
Title: The Theater of War in Lebanon 2006: Discrepancies in Mediatic Portrayals of Traumatic Identities
Author: Simona Livescu
Affiliation: UCLA
Email: slivescu@ucla.edu
Title: Operation Back to Life: Bio-Power, Necropolitics and The Intelligibility of State Violence in Turkey
Author: Elif Babul
Affiliation: Stanford University
Email: embabul@stanford.edu
Title: Trick of Memory and Historical Narrative of 1945
Author: Zhuo Liu
Affiliation: New York University
Email: zl297@nyu.edu
Title: Writers and Whores: Anti-Logocentrism in The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Author: Sebastiao Alves Teixeira Lopes
Affiliation: Universidade Federal do Piaui (UFPI)
Email: slopes10@uol.com.br