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A Symposium

University of Chicago

April 25-26, 2008

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DIRECTIONS

Symposium Schedule

Friday, 25 April

11:30 AM

Light Lunch, Wilder House

 

12:00-1:30 PM

Opening roundtable discussion

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Departments of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago

Elizabeth Povinelli
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University

Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Department of Indigenous Studies
Queensland University of Technology

 

1:30-2:00 PM

Break

 

2:00-4:30 PM

Logics of settlement: economy, property, sovereignty

Kehaulani Kauanui
Departments of Anthropology and American Studies
Wesleyan University
Milking the Cow for All It’s Worth: The Logic of American Settler Colonialism in Hawai`i

Hadas Weiss
Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
West Bank Settlers and Capitalist Ideology

Jessica Cattelino
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
High Prices and Strange Currencies: Economic Logics of Settler Colonialism

Bain Attwood
Department of History
Monash University
Wolfson College, Cambridge University
Sovereignty and Land: A Comparison of Settler Colonies and Settler Colonialisms

Discussant: Amahl Bishara
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago

 

4:30-5:00 PM

Break

 

5:00-6:30 PM

Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Department of Indigenous Studies
Queensland University of Technology
White Possession: Writing off Indigenous Sovereignties within the United States Critical Whiteness Studies Literature

 

7:00 PM

Dinner for presenters

 

Saturday, 26 April

8:30 AM

Breakfast, Wilder House

 

9:00-11:00 AM

Creating new subjects: settler colonialism and indigenous studies in the academy

Raymond Fogelson
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
The Concept of “Colonialism” in Native North America: Absent, Qualified and Assumed

Andrea Smith
Indigenous Feminism and Settler Colonialism

Stuart Macintyre
Department of History,
University of Melbourne
Australian Studies, Harvard University
'Escaping into politics': Australian social scientists and Aboriginal inquiry in the 1960s

Aroha Harris
Department of History
University of Auckland
Passionate About Subjectivity

Discussant: Ramón Gutiérrez
Department of History
University of Chicago

 

11:00-11:30 AM

Break

 

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Insistence, Resistance and Sympathy

Audra Simpson
Department of Anthropology and American Indian Studies
Cornell University
Subjects of Sovereignty: Indigeneity, the Revenue Rule, and Juridics of Failed Consent

Amanda Macdonald
Department of English Language and Literature
University of Chicago
If everybody could just settle down: representational insistence in lieu of resistance in the pre-post-colony of New Caledonia

Christopher Bracken
Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta
Sympathy, Property, Nullity

Discussant: Orit Bashkin
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago

 

1:00-2:00 PM

Lunch, Wilder House

 

2:00-5:00 PM

Unsettled futures and the conditions of the past
Part one, 2:00-3:30 PM

Fred Hoxie
Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Defining a Native Nation in a Settler State: William P. Ross and the Defense of Indian Territory

D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark
American Indian Studies Program
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Without Our Lands, We are Nothing, Or, the Existential Situatedlessness that Post-national Settler Colonialism Imposes

Caroline Schuster
Ph.D. candidate Anthropology
University of Chicago
Banking on Indigeneity: The Politics of Microcredit in Argentina’s Altiplano

Discussant: Bain Attwood
Department of History
Monash University

 

3:30-3:45 PM

Break

 

Part two
3:45-5:00 PM

Chris Andersen
Native Studies
University of Alberta
Mixed Ancestry or Métis? Settler Colonialism, Law and Indigenous Self-Identification in Canada's Martimes

Miranda Johnson
Ph.D. candidate, History
University of Chicago
Settling the Past: Decolonization and the Problem of History in Settler Societies

Stephen Turner
Department of English
University of Auckland
Remediated history and the resettlement of New Zealand

Discussant: Leela Gandhi
Department of English
University of Chicago

5:00-5:30 PM

Wrap-up

Jean Comaroff
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago

Jessica Cattelino
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago

Audra Simpson
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University

 

7:00 PM

Dinner for presenters

 

 

 

 

   
 

In addition to 3CT, the symposium is supported by the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Gender Studies, the Department of History, the Harris Fund in International Studies, the Native American Students Association, the Nicholson Center for British Studies, and the Human Rights Program.

 

 
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