Rights Talk and Rights Work in the Middle East and South Asia
PROGRAM
Thursday, February 28, 2008
5:30-7:00pm Dinner
7:00-8:00pm Welcome: Steven Sheffrin, Dean, Division of Social Sciences, UC Davis
Suad Joseph, Middle East/South Asia Studies, UC Davis
Chair: Kevin Johnson, School of Law, UC Davis
"The Power of Rights and the Rights of Power"
Speaker: Richard Falk, Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:30-9:00am Registration and breakfast
9:00-10:00am Chair: Gayatri Gopinath, Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis
"Sexuality and Rights in Translation"
Speaker: Joseph Massad, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
10:00-11:00am Chair: David Simpson, English, UC Davis
"The Missing Homeland Of Edward Said: Person and Place in Globalization"
Speaker: Aamir Mufti, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
11:00-11:30am Coffee break
11:30-12:30pm Chair: Carolyn de la Pena, Director, Davis Humanities Institute
"The Politics Of The Future"
Speaker: Martina Rieker, Director, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, American University in Cairo
12:30-2:00pm Lunch, University Club Lounge
2:00-3:00pm Chair: Elizabeth Constable, French and Italian, UC Davis
"The Crisis of the Rights-bearing Agent: Radical Politics in a Post-subject Age"
Speaker: Nivedita Menon, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi
3:00-4:00pm Chair: Clarence Walker, History, UC Davis
"The Terrorist In Search Of Humanity"
Speaker: Faisal Devji, Department of History, New School for Social Research
4:00-5:00pm Roundtable: "Rights Talk and Rights Work"
Chair: Flagg Miller, Religious Studies, UC Davis
Speakers: Richard Falk, Suad Joseph, Zeev Maoz, Parama Roy, Sudipta Sen
5:00-6:00pm Reception