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cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Culture, The
Department of Anthropology, The Institute for Social and Economic
Research and Policy (ISERP) and the Middle East Institute
Thursday, April 6th and Friday, April 7th, 2006
with keynote speaker James Schamus of Columbia University and Focus Features
featuring
Tawia Ansah
Indrani Chatterjee
Lawrence Cohen
Eric Fassin
Saba Mahmood
Tricia Rose
Michael Warner
and Robyn Wiegman
with Kate Bedford, Katherine Franke, Victoria de Grazia, Alice
Kessler-Harris, Marianne Hirsch, Janet Jakobsen, Lila Abu-Lughod,
Sharon Marcus, Rosalind Morris, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Anupama Rao
responding.
The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Schedule
A WEEK OF INTIMACY, POSTCOLONIALISM, POSTSECULARISM
Monday, April 3, 2006
Film: Late Marriage (Koshashvili, 2001)
7pm
754 Schermerhorn Extension
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Film: Rana’s Wedding (Abu-Assad, 2002)
7pm
754 Schermerhorn Extension
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Film: Human Remains (BBC, 2000)
7pm
Case Lounge, 701 Jerome Greene Hall
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Jerome Greene Hall: First Floor Auditorium
7:30pm
Welcome
Lila Abu-Lughod (Director of IRWaG) and Elizabeth Povinelli
James Schamus
Professor, Columbia University’s School of the Arts
Co-President, Focus Features
“Next
Year in Munich: Zionism, Masculinity and Diaspora in Kushner and
Spielberg's Epic (with a few thoughts on Brokeback Mountain thrown in)”
9pm
Reception
Friday, April 7th, 2006
CASE LOUNGE, 701 Jerome Greene Hall
9:30-10:00am
Coffee and Breakfast
10am-12:00pm
Tricia Rose
“Envisioning Intimate Justice in African-American Culture”
Alice Kessler-Harris, Respondent
Eric Fassin
“Intimacy Unveiled, Sexual Democracy and the Racialization of the French Republic”
Victoria de Grazia, Respondent
Indrani Chatterjee
“Vernacular Victims and Cosmopolitan Ancestors”
Anupama Rao, Respondent
noon-1:00pm
Lunch break
1-3:00pm
Saba Mahmood
“Trafficking in Signs in a Secular Age”
Kate Bedford, Respondent
Michael Warner
“Managed Strangeness”
Janet Jakobsen, Respondent
Tawia Ansah
“`Wherefore, My Beloved’: Love, Death and Law in the Age of Grace”
Elizabeth Povinelli, Respondent
3-3:30pm
Coffee break
3:30-5:00pm
Robyn Wiegman
“Doing Justice with Objects”
Sharon Marcus, Respondent
Lawrence Cohen
"Beautiful Life: Thinking through Surgical Intimacy"
Marianne Hirsch, Respondent
5-5:30pm
Break
5:30-6:00pm
Roundtable
Katherine Franke, Elizabeth Povinelli, Rosalind Morris
6-7:00pm
Reception
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