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The Feminist Theory Workshop: March 19-20, 2010 at Duke University

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KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS/ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS
SCHEDULE
LOGISTICS
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A two day event featuring keynote lectures and working seminars

As an interdisciplinary field, Women's Studies has long been in critical conversation with a variety of disciplines, such that its languages of analysis, methodological priorities, and histories of research and writing are often recognizably situated in relation to the disciplinary identities of its practitioners. In recent years however, with the international growth of PhD programs, there has been much discussion and speculation about the extent to which Women's Studies has (or should have) its own post-disciplinary or transdisciplinary mode of inquiry. Posed as a question, the field asks itself: does Women's Studies have a distinctive tradition of inquiry of its own? The answer of course is nothing if not debatable, but the chief candidate for affirmation is the seemingly amorphormous entity, feminist theory . It is typically the name of the one course that students in every undergraduate and graduate curriculum are required to take, and it serves as an acknowledged critical domain for debates that cross both disciplinary and national lines.

We call our planned event for March 2010 a workshop to foreground our interest in feminist theory as a scholarly domain of inquiry. Therefore, in keeping with the interdisciplinary impulse central to Women's Studies as a field, we will resist consolidating feminist theory into a canon of great works or privileged authors, or prioritizing it as a specific kind of methodological project. The Workshop will be organized pedagogically to promote intense study, featuring both keynote lectures by internationally known scholars and a working seminar for participants.

We are trying something different for the seminars this year. We are holding one long seminar after all the talks, and each seminar will be led by two people. We ask conference participants to sign up so we can distribute numbers evenly across our seminars and we will assign leaders to it. As always, we will be having an interesting mix of Duke faculty and visitors. All seminar leaders will have made a significant contribution to the development and sustaining of feminist theory over the years, and most will have participated in the workshops at Duke previously.

READINGS This year the workshop organizers will pick a significant article by each keynote speaker, and participants will be expected to read the articles prior to the workshop. The readings will be available below. The seminars will include discussion of the keynote talks as well as the articles circulated.

Robyn Wiegman: Doing Justice with Objects (Or, The “Progress” of Gender), from Object Lessons (Forthcoming, Duke UP, 2011) Please do not cite without the author's permission.

Catherine Mills: Genetic Screening and Selfhood, Australian Feminist Studies, 23:55, 43—55.

Catherine Mills: Normative Violence, Vulnerability, and Responsibility, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 18:2, 133-156.

Coco Fusco: The Other History of Intercultural Performance, from English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (The New Press: 1995), 37-63.

Rey Chow: Issues and Debates 'Woman', fetish, particularism: Articulating Chinese cinema with a cross-cultural problematic, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1:3, 209-221.

KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS AND ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:

Books by keynotes, seminar leaders and roundtable participants will be available for sale during the Workshop. Please note that additional Seminar Leaders will be added as they confirm their participation and they will be assigned randomly.

Tina M. Campt (Seminar Leader) is associate professor of Women's Studies and History at Duke University. An interdisciplinary scholar by necessity and choice, her work theorizes gender, memory and racial formation among African Diasporic communities in Europe, and Germany in particular. In addition to articles in New German Critique, Radical History Review, Meridians and Callaloo, she is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), and Der Black Atlantik (2004), co-edited with Paul Gilroy. Her most recent publications include "Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive" (Social Text 98) and "Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire" (with Saidiya Hartman in small axe 13: 1/28). Her current project, Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe, engages family photography as a crucial site of cultural formation and articulation for two Black European communities: Black Britons and Black Germans.

Rey Chow (Keynote) Visiting Professor in Literature (Duke University) and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory. She is the author of numerous books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991); Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (1995); The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002); The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007). She has edited the collection Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (2000). Her book Primitive Passions, received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into major European and Asian languages.

Madelyn Detloff (Seminar Leader) Director, Women's Studies Program, Miami University, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies. Detloff's research focuses on trauma studies, modernism, Queer theory and studies of gender/sexuality, Virginia Woolf (complexity theory), and Hilda Doolittle. In addition to numerous publications and book chapters she is the author of The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). Dr. Detloff is working on an article on the intersections between "Crip Theory" (a blend of queer theory and disability studies) and Transgender theory. She is in the early stages of a new book project analyzing the cultural impact of the work of contemporary female "public intellectuals" such as Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Janet Malcolm.

Coco Fusco (Keynote and Seminar Leader) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been included two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). Fusco's work combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. Her most recent work deals with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Those works include Operation Atropos (a film about interrogation training), and A Room of One's Own (a monologue about female interrogators). Fusco is currently developing a new performance that explores the "Black Codes" that were established in the Americas after slavery for the 2010 World Congress of the International Drama/Theatre Education Association in Brazil. She is also researching a new project on the experience of incarceration in the U.S.

Elizabeth Grosz (Seminar Leader and Roundtable) is Distinguished Visiting Professor Women's Studies at Duke University and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her areas of interest include contemporary French philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the body, and theories of time and space. Her writings include books Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Read Space (MIT, 2001); Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (Routledge, 1995); Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Indiana, 1994); Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (Routledge, 1990); and Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (Unwin and Hyman, 1989). Most recently she has published Nick Of Time: Politics, Evolution, And The Untimely (Duke University Press, 2005) and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) (Duke University Press, 2005).

Clare Hemmings (Seminar Leader) is Director of the Gender Institute and Reader in Feminist Theory at the London School of Economics. Her teaching and research interests reflect her interdisciplinary background and are focused in three main areas: sexuality and space; feminist historiography: and feminist epistemology and methodology. Her writings include Bisexual Spaces: a Geography of Sexuality and Gender (Routledge, 2002); The Feminist Seventies (Raw Nerve Books, 2003); and her co-edited collection The Bisexual Imaginary (Cassell, 1997). Her new book Telling Feminist Stories, critiques dominant progress narratives within Western English-speaking feminist theory, arguing for a more nuanced engagement with the recent feminist past. Ongoing work coming out of this project concerns 'The Work That Gender Does' in carrying or deflecting other inequalities. Her interest here is in the limits of existing epistemological frames - such as intersectionality - for understanding the global movements of gender discourse.

Ranjana Khanna (Chair - Roundtable) is the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and professor of English, Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University. Her research interests include Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. She has published numerous articles on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, autobiography, postcolonial agency, multiculturalism in an international context, postcolonial Joyce, area studies and women's studies, and Algerian film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present (2008). her current book projects in progress are "Asylum: The Concept and the Practice" and "Technologies of the Unbelonging."

Wahneema Lubiano (Roundtable) is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. Before coming to Duke she taught at Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin, and Williams College. Her essays and articles have been published in a variety of interdisciplinary venues, including Social Text, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, American Literary History, Callaloo, and New England Quarterly. She is the editor of The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (1996) and author of the forthcoming books, Messing With the Machine: Politics, Form and African-American Fiction and Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: "Deep Cover" and Other "Black" Fictions. Her current research interests include race studies, critical theory, African-American literature, African-American popular culture and film, feminist theory, and black intellectual history.

Catherine Mills (Keynote and Seminar Leader) is a lecturer in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney in Australia. Mills focuses on issues in bioethics, particularly relating to reproductive and genetic technologies, along with aspects of contemporary European philosophy and feminist theory. She has published work on the concept of biopolitics, particularly in the work of Agamben and Foucault, as well as on concepts of responsibility and embodiment in relation to technology. Mills is currently completing a manuscript on bioethics, biopolitics and responsibility, tentatively entitled Futures of Reproduction, for publication with Springer. This book draws on contemporary continental philosophy and feminist theory (especially the work of Foucault, Derrida, Butler and Cornell) to address issues in bioethical debates around reproductive technologies and genetics. She is also the author of The Philosophy of Agamben (2008) in addition to numerous articles and book chapters.

Jackie Stacey (seminar leader) is currently Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. She was previously Professor and Co-Director of Women?s Studies at Lancaster University. Her interests primarily concern issues in feminist cultural theory, including visuality, embodiment and subjectivity. Her publications include: Star Gazing: Female Spectators and Hollywood Cinema (1994) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997) and (as co-author with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury) Global Nature, Global Culture (2000). She has also co-edited a number of books, including Romance Revisited with Lynne Pearce (1995), Screen Histories: A Screen Reader with Annette Kuhn (1998), Thinking Through the Skin with Sara Ahmed (2001) and Queer Screens with Sarah Street (2007). She has just completed a new book for Duke University Press entitled The Cinematic Life of the Gene (forthcoming, March 2010). She is also an editor of Screen and Feminist Theory. She is currently a coordinator of the Manchester Feminist Theory Network and an organiser of the annual Sexuality Summer School at the University of Manchester run by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) in collaboration with the International Arts Festival, Queer Up North.

Ara Wilson (Seminar Leader) is associate professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the program in the study of sexualities at Duke University. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in global modernity, transnational feminists, uban Southeast Asia and the cultural logics of global capital. Her book The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Labies in The Global City was published in 2004. Her research combines attention to political economy, critical studies of culture, and post-colonial critiques of Eurocentrism. She is currently engaged in two ongoing research projects, the first one on medical tourism to Thailand and Singapore. The second, part of a book project in progress provisionally entitled "Sexual Latitudes." is based on her engagement with such international processes as the 1995 Beijing UN Conference on Women and the World Social Forum.

Robyn Wiegman (Keynote) is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University, where she directed the Women's Studies program from 2001-07. She has published American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (Duke 1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (Illinois 1995), Feminism Beside Itself (Routledge 1995), AIDS and the National Body (Duke 1997), The Futures of American Studies (Duke 2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (Duke 2002). From 1998-2004 she was co-director with Donald Pease of the Dartmouth Institute on the Futures of American Studies. She has recently finished Object Lessons (Duke, 2011), a collection of essays on U.S. identity knowledges, and is now working on Being in Time with Feminism.

SCHEDULE
Friday, March 19, 2010

REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN AT 1:00 PM AT THE SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY

2:00 pm ..........Ranjana Khanna, Opening Remarks

2:30 pm...........1st Keynote, Robyn Wiegman

4:00 pm............Reception

5:30 pm............2nd Keynote, Catherine Mills

Saturday, March 20, 2010

10:00 am ........ 3rd Keynote, Coco Fusco: Invasion of Space by a Female: Sex as a
Weapon in the War on Terror

11:30 am..........Lunch

1:00 pm ...........4th Keynote, Rey Chow: Foucault, Deleuze, and Postcolonial Visibilities

2:30 pm............Break

2:45 ................Seminar

4:45.................Break

5:00 ................Closing Roundtable

LOGISTICS:

Duke University Interactive Map

West Campus Map and Location of the Sanford School of Public Policy (printable)

A peek inside the Sanford School of Public Policy

Sanford School of Public Policy Interactive Map

Sanford School of Public Policy Directions and Parking

Additional University Parking Information (all lots will be open on Saturday) and a Map.

We are unable to provide parking on Friday, March 19th. You can park in the Parking deck behind the Bryan Center and if you are traveling from East Campus on Friday you can take Bus C-3 and get off at the 2nd stop on Towerview before the turn onto Science Drive. The schedule and a map of the route are available here. On Saturday, March 20, parking will be available in the Sanford parking lot where a parking monitor will be available to provide access.

Local Hotels (pdf)

Local Restaurants (Word)

SPONSORS:

Many thanks to our sponsors including the following Duke University Departments: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The Duke University Center for International Studies, The English Department, The Literature Program, and The Office of the Dean of Faculty

Institutional Co-Sponsors: The Department of Women's Studies at Emory University; The Women's Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio; The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania; The Women's and Gender Studies Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University

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			The Feminist Theory Workshop: March 19-20, 2010 at Duke University


			Please click above to Register. READINGS KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS/ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS SCHEDULE LOGISTICS SPONSORS A two day event featuring keynote lectures and working seminars As an interdisciplinary field, Women's Studies has long been in critical conversation with a variety of disciplines, such that its languages of analysis, methodological priorities, and histories of research and writing are often recognizably situated in relation to the disciplinary identities of its practitioners. In recent years however, with the international growth of PhD programs, there has been much discussion and speculation about the extent to which Women's Studies has (or should have) its own post-disciplinary or transdisciplinary mode of inquiry. Posed as a question, the field asks itself: does Women's Studies have a distinctive tradition of inquiry of its own? The answer of course is nothing if not debatable, but the chief candidate for affirmation is the seemingly amorphormous entity, feminist theory . It is typically the name of the one course that students in every undergraduate and graduate curriculum are required to take, and it serves as an acknowledged critical domain for debates that cross both disciplinary and national lines. We call our planned event for March 2010 a workshop to foreground our interest in feminist theory as a scholarly domain of inquiry. Therefore, in keeping with the interdisciplinary impulse central to Women's Studies as a field, we will resist consolidating feminist theory into a canon of great works or privileged authors, or prioritizing it as a specific kind of methodological project. The Workshop will be organized pedagogically to promote intense study, featuring both keynote lectures by internationally known scholars and a working seminar for participants. We are trying something different for the seminars this year. We are holding one long seminar after all the talks, and each seminar will be led by two people. We ask conference participants to sign up so we can distribute numbers evenly across our seminars and we will assign leaders to it. As always, we will be having an interesting mix of Duke faculty and visitors. All seminar leaders will have made a significant contribution to the development and sustaining of feminist theory over the years, and most will have participated in the workshops at Duke previously. READINGS This year the workshop organizers will pick a significant article by each keynote speaker, and participants will be expected to read the articles prior to the workshop. The readings will be available below. The seminars will include discussion of the keynote talks as well as the articles circulated. Robyn Wiegman: Doing Justice with Objects (Or, The “Progress” of Gender), from Object Lessons (Forthcoming, Duke UP, 2011) Please do not cite without the author's permission. Catherine Mills: Genetic Screening and Selfhood, Australian Feminist Studies, 23:55, 43—55. Catherine Mills: Normative Violence, Vulnerability, and Responsibility, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 18:2, 133-156. Coco Fusco: The Other History of Intercultural Performance, from English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (The New Press: 1995), 37-63. Rey Chow: Issues and Debates 'Woman', fetish, particularism: Articulating Chinese cinema with a cross-cultural problematic, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1:3, 209-221. KEYNOTE LECTURES, SEMINAR LEADERS AND ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: Books by keynotes, seminar leaders and roundtable participants will be available for sale during the Workshop. Please note that additional Seminar Leaders will be added as they confirm their participation and they will be assigned randomly. Tina M. Campt (Seminar Leader) is associate professor of Women's Studies and History at Duke University. An interdisciplinary scholar by necessity and choice, her work theorizes gender, memory and racial formation among African Diasporic communities in Europe, and Germany in particular. In addition to articles in New German Critique, Radical History Review, Meridians and Callaloo, she is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), and Der Black Atlantik (2004), co-edited with Paul Gilroy. Her most recent publications include "Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive" (Social Text 98) and "Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire" (with Saidiya Hartman in small axe 13: 1/28). Her current project, Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe, engages family photography as a crucial site of cultural formation and articulation for two Black European communities: Black Britons and Black Germans. Rey Chow (Keynote) Visiting Professor in Literature (Duke University) and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University. Rey Chow studies 20th-century Chinese fiction, both canonical and popular; postcolonial theory and fiction; interdisciplinary analyses of film; and critical and cultural theory. She is the author of numerous books, including Woman and Chinese Modernity (1991); Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (1995); The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002); The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007). She has edited the collection Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (2000). Her book Primitive Passions, received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into major European and Asian languages. Madelyn Detloff (Seminar Leader) Director, Women's Studies Program, Miami University, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies. Detloff's research focuses on trauma studies, modernism, Queer theory and studies of gender/sexuality, Virginia Woolf (complexity theory), and Hilda Doolittle. In addition to numerous publications and book chapters she is the author of The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). Dr. Detloff is working on an article on the intersections between "Crip Theory" (a blend of queer theory and disability studies) and Transgender theory. She is in the early stages of a new book project analyzing the cultural impact of the work of contemporary female "public intellectuals" such as Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Janet Malcolm. Coco Fusco (Keynote and Seminar Leader) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been included two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). Fusco's work combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. Her most recent work deals with the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror. Those works include Operation Atropos (a film about interrogation training), and A Room of One's Own (a monologue about female interrogators). Fusco is currently developing a new performance that explores the "Black Codes" that were established in the Americas after slavery for the 2010 World Congress of the International Drama/Theatre Education Association in Brazil. She is also researching a new project on the experience of incarceration in the U.S. Elizabeth Grosz (Seminar Leader and Roundtable) is Distinguished Visiting Professor Women's Studies at Duke University and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her areas of interest include contemporary French philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the body, and theories of time and space. Her writings include books Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Read Space (MIT, 2001); Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (Routledge, 1995); Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (Indiana, 1994); Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (Routledge, 1990); and Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists (Unwin and Hyman, 1989). Most recently she has published Nick Of Time: Politics, Evolution, And The Untimely (Duke University Press, 2005) and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) (Duke University Press, 2005). Clare Hemmings (Seminar Leader) is Director of the Gender Institute and Reader in Feminist Theory at the London School of Economics. Her teaching and research interests reflect her interdisciplinary background and are focused in three main areas: sexuality and space; feminist historiography: and feminist epistemology and methodology. Her writings include Bisexual Spaces: a Geography of Sexuality and Gender (Routledge, 2002); The Feminist Seventies (Raw Nerve Books, 2003); and her co-edited collection The Bisexual Imaginary (Cassell, 1997). Her new book Telling Feminist Stories, critiques dominant progress narratives within Western English-speaking feminist theory, arguing for a more nuanced engagement with the recent feminist past. Ongoing work coming out of this project concerns 'The Work That Gender Does' in carrying or deflecting other inequalities. Her interest here is in the limits of existing epistemological frames - such as intersectionality - for understanding the global movements of gender discourse. Ranjana Khanna (Chair - Roundtable) is the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies and professor of English, Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University. Her research interests include Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. She has published numerous articles on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, autobiography, postcolonial agency, multiculturalism in an international context, postcolonial Joyce, area studies and women's studies, and Algerian film. She is the author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism (2003) and Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present (2008). her current book projects in progress are "Asylum: The Concept and the Practice" and "Technologies of the Unbelonging." Wahneema Lubiano (Roundtable) is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. Before coming to Duke she taught at Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin, and Williams College. Her essays and articles have been published in a variety of interdisciplinary venues, including Social Text, Cultural Critique, boundary 2, American Literary History, Callaloo, and New England Quarterly. She is the editor of The House That Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain (1996) and author of the forthcoming books, Messing With the Machine: Politics, Form and African-American Fiction and Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: "Deep Cover" and Other "Black" Fictions. Her current research interests include race studies, critical theory, African-American literature, African-American popular culture and film, feminist theory, and black intellectual history. Catherine Mills (Keynote and Seminar Leader) is a lecturer in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney in Australia. Mills focuses on issues in bioethics, particularly relating to reproductive and genetic technologies, along with aspects of contemporary European philosophy and feminist theory. She has published work on the concept of biopolitics, particularly in the work of Agamben and Foucault, as well as on concepts of responsibility and embodiment in relation to technology. Mills is currently completing a manuscript on bioethics, biopolitics and responsibility, tentatively entitled Futures of Reproduction, for publication with Springer. This book draws on contemporary continental philosophy and feminist theory (especially the work of Foucault, Derrida, Butler and Cornell) to address issues in bioethical debates around reproductive technologies and genetics. She is also the author of The Philosophy of Agamben (2008) in addition to numerous articles and book chapters. Jackie Stacey (seminar leader) is currently Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. She was previously Professor and Co-Director of Women?s Studies at Lancaster University. Her interests primarily concern issues in feminist cultural theory, including visuality, embodiment and subjectivity. Her publications include: Star Gazing: Female Spectators and Hollywood Cinema (1994) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997) and (as co-author with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury) Global Nature, Global Culture (2000). She has also co-edited a number of books, including Romance Revisited with Lynne Pearce (1995), Screen Histories: A Screen Reader with Annette Kuhn (1998), Thinking Through the Skin with Sara Ahmed (2001) and Queer Screens with Sarah Street (2007). She has just completed a new book for Duke University Press entitled The Cinematic Life of the Gene (forthcoming, March 2010). She is also an editor of Screen and Feminist Theory. She is currently a coordinator of the Manchester Feminist Theory Network and an organiser of the annual Sexuality Summer School at the University of Manchester run by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) in collaboration with the International Arts Festival, Queer Up North. Ara Wilson (Seminar Leader) is associate professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the program in the study of sexualities at Duke University. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in global modernity, transnational feminists, uban Southeast Asia and the cultural logics of global capital. Her book The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Labies in The Global City was published in 2004. Her research combines attention to political economy, critical studies of culture, and post-colonial critiques of Eurocentrism. She is currently engaged in two ongoing research projects, the first one on medical tourism to Thailand and Singapore. The second, part of a book project in progress provisionally entitled "Sexual Latitudes." is based on her engagement with such international processes as the 1995 Beijing UN Conference on Women and the World Social Forum. Robyn Wiegman (Keynote) is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University, where she directed the Women's Studies program from 2001-07. She has published American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (Duke 1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (Illinois 1995), Feminism Beside Itself (Routledge 1995), AIDS and the National Body (Duke 1997), The Futures of American Studies (Duke 2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (Duke 2002). From 1998-2004 she was co-director with Donald Pease of the Dartmouth Institute on the Futures of American Studies. She has recently finished Object Lessons (Duke, 2011), a collection of essays on U.S. identity knowledges, and is now working on Being in Time with Feminism. SCHEDULE Friday, March 19, 2010 REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN AT 1:00 PM AT THE SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY 2:00 pm ..........Ranjana Khanna, Opening Remarks 2:30 pm...........1st Keynote, Robyn Wiegman 4:00 pm............Reception 5:30 pm............2nd Keynote, Catherine Mills Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:00 am ........ 3rd Keynote, Coco Fusco: Invasion of Space by a Female: Sex as a Weapon in the War on Terror 11:30 am..........Lunch 1:00 pm ...........4th Keynote, Rey Chow: Foucault, Deleuze, and Postcolonial Visibilities 2:30 pm............Break 2:45 ................Seminar 4:45.................Break 5:00 ................Closing Roundtable LOGISTICS: Duke University Interactive Map West Campus Map and Location of the Sanford School of Public Policy (printable) A peek inside the Sanford School of Public Policy Sanford School of Public Policy Interactive Map Sanford School of Public Policy Directions and Parking Additional University Parking Information (all lots will be open on Saturday) and a Map. We are unable to provide parking on Friday, March 19th. You can park in the Parking deck behind the Bryan Center and if you are traveling from East Campus on Friday you can take Bus C-3 and get off at the 2nd stop on Towerview before the turn onto Science Drive. The schedule and a map of the route are available here. On Saturday, March 20, parking will be available in the Sanford parking lot where a parking monitor will be available to provide access. Local Hotels (pdf) Local Restaurants (Word) SPONSORS: Many thanks to our sponsors including the following Duke University Departments: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The Duke University Center for International Studies, The English Department, The Literature Program, and The Office of the Dean of Faculty *Institutional Co-Sponsors:* The Department of Women's Studies at Emory University; The Women's Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio; The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania; The Women's and Gender Studies Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; The Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University