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Plenary
Session:
“Presenting the 2004 ACLA Report
on the State of the Discipline”
Friday April 16, 2004
4:30-6:00 PM
Gresham I & II
Caroline Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State University,
Christopher Braider, University of Colorado - Boulder,
David Ferris, University of Colorado - Boulder,
Roland Greene, Stanford University,
Haun Saussy, Stanford University,
Emily Apter, New York University,
Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University,
Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut,
Gail Finney, University of California - Davis,
David Damrosch, Columbia University,
Steven Ungar, University of Iowa
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Plenary
Address:
“Comparison and the Circulation of Forms”
Arjun Appadurai
Saturday April 17, 2004
5:30—7:00 PM
Grande Ballroom |
Arjun Appadarai is Provost and Senior Vice President
for Academic Affairs at the New School University. Previously
William K. Lannan Jr. Professor of International Studies and
Director of the Center on Cities and Globalization at Yale University
and Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of South
Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Globalization
Project at the University of Chicago, Appadurai is one of the
premiere theorists of globalization. He is the author of numerous
essays and books, including Worship and Conflict Under Colonial
Rule: A South Indian Case (Cambridge 1981), The Social
Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge
1986), and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
(Minnesota 1996).
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Poetry
Reading
Hermine Pinson
Saturday April 17, 2004
9:30—10:00 PM
Grande Ballroom |
| Hermine Pinson, Associate Professor
of English at the College of William and Mary, is a writer
of poetry, short stories, and plays, and has also edited a
volume of scholarship on Critical Voicings of Black Liberation.
Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Konch, Callaloo,
African American Review, and Eyeball. She
has published two books of poetry: Mama Yetta and Other
Poems (Wings Press 1999) and Ashe (Wings Press
1991).
“What Hermine Pinson knows of remembrance
could recreate Heaven itself. Mama Yetta and Other Poems
is a joyous trek through, in, over and under the world that
we will all have hoped to have lived in.” -- James Mardis
Hermine Pinson is King•Chavéz•Parks
Visiting Professor
Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost
University of Michigan |
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