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Conference Program

Thursday, September 23rd

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4/F 20 Cooper Square

6:00pm          Opening Remarks
6:30pm          Documentary Screening: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
8:00pm          Discussion with filmmaker Zach Niles and Mohammed
                              Naseehu Ali, writer and musician


Friday, September 24th

Institute for Public Knowledge, 5/F 20 Cooper Square

9:00am         Breakfast
9:30am         Panel I:  Zones of Indistinction, The Production of Crisis
                       Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "Camp Cities: Material, Space,
                               and Architecture"
                       April Shemak, "Refugee Cartographies: Mapping the Zone of
                               Indistinction in Post-Earthquake Haiti"
                       Anne Cubilié, "Impossible Ethics: Justice, Protection and
                               Operational Practice"
                       Moderator: Jini Watson, English, NYU
11:00am       Break 
11:30am       Panel II: Pictures, Stories, Voices: Representations of
                      and by Refugees I
                       Louisa Schein, "Contested Images of Refugeehood
                                in Hmong American Cultural Production"
                       Sara Green, documentary screening and discussion about
                                Art for Refugees in Transition's programs
                       Moderator: Sangeeta Ray, English and Comparative Literature,
                                U Maryland
1:00pm          Lunch Break
2:30pm          Panel III: Maneuvering at the Margins of Refugeehood
                        Zenia Kish, "'A Devil's Bargain': Haitian Rice, Agricultural
                                Agricultural Restructuring and Hunger Refugees"
                        Susan Bibler Coutin, "Falling Outside: Excavating the
                                History of Central American Asylum Seekers"
                        Celina Su, "Between Migrant and Refugee, Evading
                                Categories: Pragmatic Lessons from Shan Burmese
                                Refugees in Thailand"
                        Moderator: Margaret Satterthwaite, Law, NYU
4:00pm          Break

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 4/F 20 Cooper Square

4:30pm          Keynote Lecture: Thomas Keenan
                       "'After Every War Someone Has to Tidy Up':
                        Some Thoughts on the Politics of Neutrality"
6 - 7:30pm     Reception

Saturday, September 25th

Institute for Public Knowledge, 5/F 20 Cooper Square

9:00am          Breakfast
9:30am          Panel IV: Pictures, Stories, Voices: Representations of
                       and by Refugees II
                       Nina Ha, "'Our Mothers and Their Lives of Suffer':
                                Examining Refugee Women's Lives Through
                                Literature"                    
                       David Campbell, "Humanity in Motion: A Critical
                                Reading of Multimedia Stories from the Congo"
                       Miriam Ticktin, "Reading Refugee Claims: The
                                Politics of Biology and Fiction"
                       Moderator: Joseph Slaughter, English and Comparative Lit,
                                Columbia University
11:00am        Break
11:30am        Panel V: Naming Practices: Consolidating Nations and 
                       Borders
                       Eliot Borenstein, "Running in Place: Borders, Migrants, and the
                               Symbolic Geography of Post-Soviet Russia"
                       Jana Lipman, "'Give us a Ship': The Vietnamese Repatriate
                               Movement on Guam, 1975"
                       Ilana Feldman, "The Challenge of Eligibility: UNRWA and
                               the Definition of a 'Palestine Refugee'"
                       Moderator: Renato Rosaldo, Anthropology, NYU

Refugee All Stars Concert: Brooklyn, Sept. 11