The Cultural Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh presents:

Citizenship in the 21st Century:

An International Colloquium

March 17-18, 2008

Étienne Balibar

Université de Paris X - Nanterre

Keynote Speaker

with noted international scholars,

Yves Citton, Université Stendhal - Grenoble

Antonella Corsani, Université de Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne

Todd May, Clemson University

James Swenson, Rutgers University

Philip Watts, Columbia University

In our transnational societies, where economic and cultural exchanges have led to massive phenomena of migration and social mutation, the very institution of national citizenship is coming under attack. A political response is being articulated worldwide, since traditional forms of democratic representation and the current understanding of national cultures may be nearing obsolescence.  The conference will address new theories and practices of cultural and political intervention at the international level. 

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Conference Program: 

 

MONDAY, MARCH 17 2008, 2500 WWPH

 

8:00 – 8:30 am:  Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:50am: Giuseppina Mecchia, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh:  Welcome and Introductory Remarks

 

9:00-12:00 am: The Cultural Subject as Citizen

 

Yves Citton, Université de Grenoble III : “Citizenship and the Power to Scenarize”.

Alyssa DeBlasio, University of Pittsburgh: “Academic Citizenship and the Legacy of Marxism in Post-Soviet Russia”.

Dorcinda Knauth, University of Pittsburgh “Politics or Faith?  Excursions in Islam through Indonesian Rock Music”.

James Swenson, Rutgers University: “Citizenship and Religion in Rousseau”

 

Chair and Respondent:  Ronald Judy, University of Pittsburgh

 

12:00- 1:30:  Lunch break

 

1:30- 3:30 pm:  The Subaltern as Citizen

 

Sambriddhi Kharel, University of Pittsburgh:  “The Struggle for Full Citizenship for Dalits in Nepal:  Approaches and Strategies of Dalit Activists”.

Natalie Kimball, University of Pittsburgh:  “Envisioning Incorporation:  Campesino Citizenship and ‘Progress’ in the Bolivian National Revolution, 1952- 1964.

Todd May, Clemson University:  “The Zapatistas:  From Identity to Equality”

 

Chair and Respondent:  Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh

 

3:30-4:00 pm:  Coffee Break

 

4:30 – 6:00 pm:  The Hybrid Subject as Citizen

 

Rahul Mitra, Bowling Green State University :  “Examining Ruptures:  An Ethnographic Study of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India”.

Jungwon Park, University of Pittsburgh:  “From Sovereign to Neighbor:  Cosmopolitanism and Nation Across the US-Mexico Borderlands”.

 

Chair and Respondent: John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 18 2008, 2500 WWPH

 

9:30 am-12:00 pm. The American Outsider as Citizen

 

Randolph Hohle, SUNY – Albany: “Symbolic Citizenship and Black Political Representation:  Competing Black Political Projects and the Civil Rights Movement”

Courtney Helgoe, University of Minnesota:  “Coming through Katrina:  The Citizen-Refugee of New Orleans”.

Philip Watts, Columbia University:  “Rififi and Democracy”

 

Chair and Respondent: Joshua Lund, University of Pittsburgh

 

12:00-2:00 pm.  Lunch Break

 

2:00– 4:00 pm.  The Neo-liberal Subject as Citizen

 

Antonella Corsani, Université Paris I – Pantheon-Sorbonne:  “Are Capitalism and Democracy Compatible?  The Dangerous Liaison between Cognitive Capitalism and Neo-Liberalism”. 

Aysha Mawani, McGill University: “Emergent Forms of Citizenship:  The Case of Multiculturalism in Canada”. 

Katie Moriarty, University of Pittsburgh:  “Nordic Citizenship in the 21st Century” 

 

Chair and Respondent: Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

William Pitt Union Ballroom

 

5:00 – 7:00 pm.  Keynote Address:  Etienne Balibar, University of California at Irvine: “Historical Dilemmas of Democracy and their Contemporary Relevance”

 

사뭇 박사 과정인 것 뿐만 아니라, 도대체 몇년째 학생인 신분으로 사는 것인지를 생각하면 한숨이 나온다.
그래서 모든 기준들이 대략 학생의 기준에 무의식적으로 맞춰져 버리는 현실이라니.
돈을 조금 더 많이 주고, 지도교수의 한마디에 기분이 오락가락하지 않아도 되는 것이 참으로 감사하게 느껴질 정도다. 
그런데 막상 학생의 신분을 떠나려고 하니 왠지 맞지 않는 옷을 입어야 하는 심정이랄까?
 

오늘 좀 무리해서 달렸더니 왜이리 피곤한지, 말이지.
몸을 움직거리기조차 귀찮고 힘들다.

정말 나이를 먹어가고, 몸이 예전만 못하다는 게 이런거구나 절실해진다.
밤늦게 라면을 먹으면 다음날 아침까지 속이 더부룩.

그래도, 내일 일찍 일어나자스라.