Center for Transcultural Studies: Conference on "Citizenship Under Duress"

Center for Transcultural Studies: Conference on "Citizenship Under Duress" Northwestern University
School of Speech/Department of Communication Studies
and The Center for Transcultural Studies

Conference on

CITIZENSHIP UNDER DURESS

Friday/Saturday April 11-12, 1997

108 Harris Hall - 1881 Sheridan Road - Evanston Campus

Co-sponsors:
The Center for International and Comparative Studies
Program in African Studies
The Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities
Great Expectations Bookstore

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY April 11

Session One 1.00-3.45 pm

Opening Remarks

What is the Meaning of Equal Citizenship?
Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill University)

Modes of Modernity and Citizenship in Mexico
Claudio Lomnitz (History, University of Chicago)

Citizenship and the African Political Imaginary
Achille Mbembe (CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal)

Moderator: Thomas McCarthy (Philosophy)

Session Two 4.00-6.00 pm

Immigrant America?: How Foreignness "solves" Democracy's Problems
Bonnie Honig (Government, Harvard University)

Cultures of Citizenship
Kamala Visweswaran (Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin)

Moderator: Adam Green (History)

RECEPTION: 6.00 pm to 8.00pm

GREAT EXPECTATIONS BOOKSTORE
909 Foster Street, Evanston

SATURDAY April 12

Session Three: 8.30-10.30 am

Citizenship and the Logic of Publicity
James Bohman (Philosophy, Saint Louis University)

The Limits of Dialogic Democracy: The Case of Lippmann-Dewey Debate
John Peters (Communication Studies, University of Iowa)

Moderator: Michael Leff (Communication Studies)

Session Four: 10.45 am -12.45 pm

"Sex in Public"
Lauren Berlant (English, University of Chicago)
and
Michael Warner (English, Rutgers University)

Moderator: Mimi White (Radio/Television/Film)

LUNCH

Session Five: 2.00-4.00 pm

A Critique of Pure Politics
William Connolly (Political Science, The Johns Hopkins University)

Performing the Citizen-Subject
Benjamin Lee (Anthropology, Rice University)

Moderator: S. Sara Monoson (Political Science)

Session Six: 4.15 -6.15 pm

Citizenship Between Nationalism and Communitarianism
Craig Calhoun

Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism
Bruce Robbins (English, Rutgers University)

Moderator: Dilip Gaonkar (Communication Studies)