BIOPOLITICS ACROSS BORDERS: IDEAS AND PRACTICES
A Graduate Student Conference
April 9, 2010
9 am – 6:30 pm
East Gallery, Maison Française
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9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Welcome
9:30-10:45 Panel 1: Biopolitics and Internationalism
“Displaying Bodies, Making Politics: The Diffusion of a ‘Bio-political Dispositif of Health’ by the German Hygiene Museum in Developing Countries in Asia and Africa in the Era of the Cold War”
Berit Bethke (University of Bielefeld)
“Social Welfare Advisory Services in the Early Years of the United Nations”
Alexander Cameron-Smith (University of Sydney)
Discussant: Professor Matthew Connelly
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:45 PANEL 2: Biopolitics and Race
“The Transnational Biopolitics of Immigration Restriction in White Settler Colonies”
Júlio Decker (University of Leeds)
“‘Diseases of Civilization’: African-American Missionaries and the Biopolitics of Anti-Colonialism in Colonial Africa”
Elisabeth Engel (Free University Berlin)
“The Instituto de Estudios Africanos, 1945-1966: Franquist Biopolitics in Equatorial Guinea and Spain”
Cécile Stehrenberger (University of Zurich)
Discussant: Professor Adam McKeown
12:45-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:30 Panel 3: Approaches to the Biopolitical
“Liberalism, State Sovereignty, and Territory: The Belated Origins of Foucault’s Idea of
Biopolitics in 1970s France”
Philip Fileri (Harvard University)
“Agro-Industrial Growth in the Brazilian Amazon: An Ethnographic Account of Open Air Experiments on Environmental Life”
David Rojas (Cornell University)
"The Camp and the Citizen: Origins of Postcolonial Sovereignty in India, 1948-1952"
Sunil Purushotham (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Professor Deborah Coen
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00 Panel 4: Reproduction
"The Moral Geography of Reproductive Technology: Assisted Reproduction Policies in Sweden and the American Image"
Carolina Jonsson Malm (Lund University)
“Reprogenetics, Bioethics and the Law: Tracking the Impact of International Commercial Surrogacy”
Stu Marvel (York University, Toronto)
Discussant: Professor Samuel Roberts
5:00-6:00 Final Reception
Sponsored by the Center for International History, the Department of History Board of Visitors, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Lehman Center for American History, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, the Center for the Study of Human Rights, and Maison Française