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2001
Midwest Modern Language Association Panels
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Globalization and the Image
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Friday,
2 November 2001
All sessions held in the Savoy Room, Sheraton Cleveland City Centre |
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I Images and Empires (8:30-10:00) |
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| Chair: Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve University | |
| (1) | Scott
Cohen, University of Virginia “Constellatory Modernism: Imperial Landmarks and Making the World One” |
| (2) | Kristine
Kelly, Case Western Reserve University “Parodies of Empire: British Colonial Fictions and the Politics of Self-Representation” |
| (3) | Kate
Thomas, Dartmouth College “Whiteness and Universalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain” |
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Session
II
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| Chair: Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr College | |
| (1) | Matthias
Bruhn, University of Hamburg “The Commercial Image and the Process of Globalization” |
| (2) | Sharon
Sliwinski, York University “Blowback: Witnessing Bosnia through the Lens of the Holocaust” |
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| (3) | Kirsten
Ostherr, Wesleyan University “Globalization as Viral Contagion” |
| (4) | Marc
Tuters, Concordia University “Variations on a Videogame: Image-Touring the Real-Time City of the Future” |
Discussant: Max Thomas, Case Western Reserve University |
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III
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| Chair: Kate Thomas, Dartmouth College | |
| (1) | Lawrence
Needham, Lakeland Community College “Parochial and Ecumenical Imaginings of the World ‘Out There’: Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame and Transnational Exchanges” |
| (2) | Jeannie
Martin, University of Alberta “Imaging the ‘Child’ in (Neo)Imperial Missions of Globalization” |
| (3) | David
Brenner, Kent State University “Translation and Transference in the Holocaust Blockbuster, Globally and Locally” |
Discussant: Marguerite Helmers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh |
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Session
IV |
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| Chair: Ute Lehrer, SUNY Buffalo | |
| John
Grech, University of Technology Sydney “Berlin? Berlin!” |
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Saturday,
3 November 2001
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Session
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| Chair: Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University | |
| (1) | Chi-she
Li, National Taiwan Normal University “Globalization and Its Relics: A Melancholy History of Taipei in Tzu Tianxing’s ‘The Old Capital’” |
| (2) | Karl
Erik Schollhammer, Pontificia Universidade Catolica “Sebastiao Salgado: Images from the Edge of the World” |
Discussant: Antonio Candau, Case Western Reserve University |
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| (3) | Nandita
Ghosh, Independent Scholar “New Global Communities: The Internet as a Tool to Build Resistance to Corporate Capital” |
| (4) | Tsung-yi
Huang, SUNY Stony Brook “Walking in Tokyo: Between Global Flows and Carnal Flows” |
Discussant: David Brenner, Kent State University |
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Session
VI |
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| Chair: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Oberlin College | |
| (1) | Marguerite
Helmers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh “Because It’s There: Mount Everest and Ideology” |
| (2) | Ivy
I-chu Chang, National Chiao Tung University “An Alien Traveler: The Portrait of an Asian American Queer as an Artist” |
Discussant: Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr College |
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| (3) | Ute
Lehrer, SUNY Buffalo “The Spectacularization of the Building Process” |
| (4) | Trui
Vetters, University of Ghent and Rutgers University “‘You Can’t Beat the Feeling’: Selling the World in the Age of Globalization” |
Discussant: Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve University |
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Session
VII |
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| Chair: Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) | |
| (1) | Susan
Parulekar, Syracuse University “Transforming and Imagining Elite Femininity in Mumbai: Femina Magazine 1960-2000” |
| (2) | Ted
Gup, Case Western Reserve University “Cooperation and Conflict in the Conduct of Transnational Journalism” |
| (3) | Marilia
Martins, Journalist “Brazilian Press and Globalization” |
Discussant: Peter Jaszi, American University |
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Session
VIII |
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| Chair: Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University | |
| Topic: empire - globalization - Empire | |
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Conclusion
of Conference
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