Northwestern University
School of Speech/Department of Communication
and The Center For Transcultural Studies

Symposium on

ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES

Saturday, April 27, 1996
at
108 Harris Hall
1881 Sheridan Road

Session 1 (9:00-10:30 am)

"Two Theories of Modernity"
Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill University)

Session 2 (10:45 am-12:30 pm)

"Afro-Modernity"
Michael Hanchard (Political Science and CICS, Northwestern University)

"Modernity, Countermodernity and Postmodernity in Iranian Revolutionary Culture"
Zohreh Sullivan (English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Session 3 (2:00-3:45 pm)

"In Search of Chinese Modernity"
Leo Lee (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

"Modernity at Large"
Arjun Appadurai (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

Session 4 (4:00-5:15 pm)

Roundtable

Vincent Crapanzano (Anthropology and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center)
Benjamin Lee (Anthropology, Rice University)
Michael Stone-Richards (Art History, Northwestern University)

Co-sponsors
Center for International and Comparative Studies
The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities
For further information, please call (847) 491-7530