End Date : April 1, 6:30 pm
Casa Italiana
A conference bridging scholarship, activism, policy.
The Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University gratefully acknowledges the support of the following institutions for their contributions to this conference:
Ford Foundation Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Institure for Research in African-American Studies Institue for Research on Women and Gender Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy South Asian Institute
PROGRAM
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
8:00 pm Rotunda, Low Library Welcome: Lee Bollinger
Introduction: Gayatri Spivak and Rosalind Morris
Dialogue: Archbishop Desmund Tutu and Toni Morrison
Discussants: Mary Robinson, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Shashi Tharoor
Thursday, March 31, 2005
10:00am Opening Remarks: Nicholas B. Dirks
Panel: “The Globalization of a Small Planet”
Amartya Sen, “Chatting Across Borders” Lynne Alice, “Globalization in Post-Conflict Kosovo and Aceh” Satoshi Ukai, “Island, Archipelago, Pennisula, and Continent: Towards a Planetary Thinking of Neighourhood”
2:00pm Panel: “Race, Education, Community”
Kendall Thomas, “AID(S) on the Down (Be) Low: George W. Bush, The Millennium Project and the Politics of Race” Mahmood Mamdani, “Exporting Revolution in the Era of Human Rights” Jean-Marc Coicaud, “The International Realm as a Community: Beyond the ‘We’ versus ‘Them’ Divide” Moderator: Farah Jasmine Griffin
4:30pm Panel: “Questions of Civil Society and World Governance”
Joseph Stiglitz, “Remarks” Jean Cohen, “Global Civil Society Talk: Dilemas and Dangers” Jean Franco, “After the Massacres, What Kind of Civil Society?” Dana R. Fisher, “Understanding Disenfranchisement: Civil Society’s Influence and Participation in Global Governance”
Moderator: Rosalind Morris
Friday, April 1, 2005
10:00am Panel: “The United States, the United Nations, and the World at Large”
Andrew Arato, “The Politics of Democracy after the Bush Doctrine” Amina Mama, “The Trouble with Civil Society” Elissavet Stamatopoulou, “Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: An Evolving Dynamic”
Moderator: Hamid Dabashi
2:00pm Panel: “Working for a Just World”
Farida Akhter, “Remarks” Anannya Bhattacharjee, “In Pursuit of Grand Visisions: Civil Society and its Implications for Movement Building” Cori Hayden, “Benefit-sharing: Bioscience and the Politics of Taking and giving”
Moderator: Lisa Anderson
4:30pm Plenary: “New Politics?”
John Harris, “Politics is a Dirty River: But is There a “New Politics’ of Civil Society? Perspectives from Global Citites of Latin America and India” Shashi Tharoot, “Towards a New United Nations” Farhad Mazhar, “Remarks”
Moderator: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
6:30pm Closing Remarks: Xudong Zhang
