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
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