[Reader-list] Conference: The World Looks at America, April 30-May 1

[Avishek Ganguly]

The World Looks at America, April 30-May 1

If after September 11 2001 the United States garnered
considerable global sympathy, the war that began on
October 7th, together with intensified US government
aspirations for global military and economic
supremacy, now leave the United States largely
isolated on the global stage.  Never has it been more
important to look critically at U.S. military,
economic and political dominance along with American
cultural hegemony.  Never has it been more important 
to understand how the rest of the world views the
United States.  
To that end, the Center for Place Culture and Politics
at the Graduate Center, City University of New York,
is hosting a two day conference for scholars from
around the world and at home converge to assess global
views of the United States amidst war.

The World Looks at America
April 30-May 1

Wednesday, April 30 Proshanksy Auditorium, CUNY
Graduate Center

Introduction:  Bill Kelly (Graduate Center Provost,
CUNY), Neil Smith (Center for Place, Culture and
Politics, CUNY)

4:00-5:30  Keynote: Arif Dirlik, (History, University
of Oregon):  
Empire? Some Thoughts on Colonialism, Culture and
Class in the Making of Global Crisis and War in
Perpetuity

5:45 -7:45  Empires, Wars, Borders

Andrew Ross (American Studies, New York University):  
Is Anti-Americanism the Anti-imperialism of Fools

Matt Sparke (Geography and International Studies,
University of Washington): Empire's Geography: The War
and Globalization

Salim Tamari (Institute of Jerusalem Studies, New York
University): Between Two Empires: Little Syria in New
York.

Respondent: Moustafa Bayoumi (English, CUNY)

7:45  Reception

Thursday, May 1 Proshanksy Auditorium, CUNY Graduate
Center

9.30-11.30  Imperial Lenses

Vandana Shiva: (Research Foundation for Science,
Technology and Ecology, New Delhi): From a Permanent
War Economy to Economy of Peace and Permanence

David Harvey (Anthropology, CUNY): TBA

Respondent:  Ida Susser (Anthropology, CUNY)

Lunch break

1:00-3.15  Global Parallax

Margit Mayer (North American Studies, Free University
of Berlin) The German View: Elites, Intellectuals,
Social Movements (dis)united in Anti-Americanism?

Lisa Law (Geography, National University of
Singapore): A view from the 'second front':  Post-911
perspectives on the enduring fiction of Southeast Asia

Ibrahim Aoude (Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaii): 
National Liberation and US Empire: The Palestinian
Struggle in a Regional Context

Respondent:  Jeff Derksen (Center for Place, Culture
and Politics,CUNY)

3:30-5:45  Surveillance at Home

Christian Parenti (Center for Place Culture and
Politics, CUNY): Today's Crackdown in Historical
Context: Surveillance and Resistance Under the Chinese
Exclusion Act, 1882 to 1942

J.C. Salyer (American Civil Liberties Union of New
Jersey): Illegal People: The Government's Targeting of
Immigrants after September 11.

Chris Dunn (American Civil Liberties Union of New
York): TBA

Respondent: Cindi Katz (Environmental Psychology,
CUNY),          


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