Konf.: World History: Class, Culture, and Globalization, Chicago, 20.3.99

CLASS, CULTURE & GLOBALIZATION

Humanities Instructional Building, Room 135

Cost: free

SCHEDULE:

8:15 AM - Registration

9:00 AM to 12:15 PM - Morning Panel:
>> NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CLASS AND CULTURE <<

CHAIR: Daniel Schroeter, UC Irvine

* Elizabeth Dore, University of Portsmouth, "Debt Laborers' Class and Gender Consciousness: Nicaragua, 1870-1920."

* Christine Stansell, Princeton University, "Free Love Across the Class Line: Heterosexual Experiments in the Early Twentieth Century"

* Anand Yang, University of Utah, "The Making of an Indian Convict Laboring Class in Southeast Asia in the Early Nineteenth Century."

* Sandhya Shukla, Columbia University, "Indians Abroad: Local/Global Formations of Ethnic Community."

DISCUSSANT: Lynn Mally, UC Irvine

2:00PM to 5:15 PM - Afternoon Panel:
>> GLOBALIZATION: PARALLELS AND CONNECTIONS IN WORLD HISTORY <<

CHAIR: Bin Wong, UC Irvine

* David Montgomery, Yale University, "Before Globalization: Empire, Race, and Working-Class Mobilizations"

* Fred Cooper, University of Michigan, "The Problem with Globalization: Africa and Its Connections."

* Heidi Tinsman, UC Irvine, "Rethinking Gender, Dictatorship, and Neoliberalism: Temporary Fruit Workers in Pinochet's Chile"

* Bruce Cummings, University of Chicago, "The American Ascendancy: The Making and Remaking of A Liberal World Order, 1939-1999."

DISCUSSANT: Ken Pomeranz, UC Irvine

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

For more information, please contact: Marc Kanda at (949) 824-6521 or Judy

Morgan at (949) 824-4626.