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“Rethinking Regional Connections / Reconfiguring Area Studies”
Friday-Saturday, April 6 and 7, 2001
Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS)
Emory University - Atlanta, Georgia
International scholarship and education are slowly but surely moving
beyond the oppositional debate between globalization and area studies,
which fails to take into consideration differences among disciplines as
diverse as history and political science and the changing definitions of geographical regions themselves. “Rethinking Regional Connections /
Reconfiguring Area Studies,” the inaugural symposium of the Institute for Comparative and International Studies at Emory University, will map the emerging contours of comparative and international scholarship and
education in a more nuanced and critical fashion than has often been done. We hope you can join us, in person or online, for this exciting event, to be held on Friday and Saturday April 6 and 7, 2001 in the Joseph W. Jones Room of the Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Featured speakers will include:
Alice Amsden (Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT)
Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council
Dipesh Chakrabarty (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Ivan Karp (Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and Institute of African Studies, Emory University)
Bruce Knauft (Department of Anthropology, Emory University)
Neil Lazarus (English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of
Warwick)
Jeffrey Lesser (Department of History, Emory University)
Deepika Petraglia-Bahri (Department of English, Emory University)
Roland Robertson (Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen)
Steven Sanderson (Dean of Emory College, Emory University)
John Tomlinson (Center for Research in International Communications and
Culture, Nottingham Trent University)
Anna Tsing (Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
Christopher Waterman (Culture and Performance Studies, UCLA)
Michael Watts (Department of Geography, UC Berkeley)
Symposium sessions will be free and open to the public.
As we plan to broadcast this event on the web, we ask that individuals who plan to "attend" online register for the event. This record will enable our speakers to have a sense of their global audience and to
speak to key issues and concerns relating to “rethinking regional
connections” and “reconfiguring area studies.”
Registration is free. Contact information received will be used only by
ICIS to notify you about program updates, session schedules, and general instructions for "tuning in" to the symposium. ICIS will not share specific names and contact information with any third party.
To register for “Rethinking Regional Connections / Reconfiguring Area
Studies," please complete the following information and return it at your convenience to: icis-symposium@emory.edu
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For more information about the Institute for Comparative and International
Studies (ICIS)
please visit: http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ICIS/
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