Globalization Index

Globalization & Resistance

March 3-4, 2006

2nd Graduate Student Conference of the English & Philosophy Ph.D. Program
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

All Sessions will take place in Stewart Center, Rooms 218 ABCD

The conference is free and open to the public.

Featured Speakers

Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley

Keynote Address: “Crisis of Money”

Todd May, Clemson University
Plenary Address: “Why Anarchism Now?”

For more program information, see the web site of The English and Philosophy Ph.D. Program: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/phil-lit/

Conference Highlights

Book Sessions, with authors:

* Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution:

Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).

* Pheng Cheah, Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).

“Activism and Anarchism”:

A lunchtime discussion with Todd May

Special Sessions on:

Citizenship in a Global World, Counter-Violence and the Left, Poststructuralist Politics, Levinas and the Political, The 9/11 Aftermath: “With Our Hands Tied,” Articulating a Non-Normative Identity: Discourses of Resistance, Resisting Corporate Hegemony, and Rethinking the Multitude and Democratization.

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The “Globalization and Resistance” conference is being made possible through the generous financial support of the American Studies Program, Department of Communications, Comparative Literature Program, Department of English, Department of History, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Jewish Studies Program, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Women’s Studies program, Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts, Economics group at the Krannert Business School, whose contribution is made to support intellectual interaction that respectfully reflects diverse viewpoints.