This event brings together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of scholars, artists, and activists (opens in a new tab) to consider the impact of capitalist globalization on diverse spaces and peoples and the transformative futures envisioned from those spaces.
A workshop, led by directors of Global South centers, will be dedicated to the discussion of program building, curriculum, and the advancement of the field of Global South Studies.
This event is funded through the Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation (opens in a new tab) and Page-Barbour Workshops (opens in a new tab)and with generous support from UVa Library (opens in a new tab); Americas Center (opens in a new tab); McIntire Department of Art (opens in a new tab); Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese (opens in a new tab); Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures (opens in a new tab); Global Studies (opens in a new tab); and Department of Anthropology (opens in a new tab).
Schedule
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019
ROTUNDA, LOWER WEST OVAL ROOM
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Remarks, Anne Garland Mahler (opens in a new tab), Spanish, University of Virginia
9:15-10:45 SOUTH-SOUTH DIPLOMACY & SOLIDARITY
Moderator: Tessa Farmer (opens in a new tab), Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, Global Studies, University of Virginia
Adhira Mangalagiri (opens in a new tab), “Beyond Friendship in 20th Century China-India Literary Relations”
Magid Shihade (opens in a new tab), “Asabiyya-Solidarity in the Age of Barbarism: An Afro/Arab/Asian Alternative”
Hala Halim (opens in a new tab), “Egyptian Engagements with the Global South”
Jenn Bair (opens in a new tab), “Development by other Means?”
11-12:30 SOUTHERN BORDERS
Moderator: Lorena Ochoa Campo (opens in a new tab), Spanish, University of Virginia
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (opens in a new tab), “Returns of the Post-Global: Migration, Circulation, and the Dislocations of Literature”
Leigh Anne Duck (opens in a new tab), “Neoliberal Frontiers: The Case of Hollywood South”
Sinah Kloss (opens in a new tab), “Sensory Histories of Tattoo: A Transcultural Perspective from the Guyanese-Surinamese Border Region”
Samhita Sunya (opens in a new tab), “Fraught in Translation: South-South Circuits of Cinematic Comedies”
12:30-13:45 Lunch
14:00- 15:30 DEVELOPMENT, EXTRACTION, CLIMATE JUSTICE
Moderator: George Mentore (opens in a new tab), Anthropology, University of Virginia
Macarena Gómez-Barris (opens in a new tab), “The Occupied Forest”
Tracey Osborne (opens in a new tab), “Carbon Counter-mapping and Indigenous Knowledge: A Public Political Ecology for Climate Justice”
Marlea Clarke (opens in a new tab), “Facilitating Development and ‘Decent work’ in Africa? Effects of Expanding South-South Trade and Production Networks in the Garment Industry”
Mathilda Shepard (opens in a new tab), “Weaving Networks of Dissent: Displacement, Justice and Afro-diasporic Memory in the Community Quilts of Mampuján.”
15:45-17:00 ART & ACTIVISM
Moderator: Pablo José López Oro, The Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia
Federico Cuatlacuatl (opens in a new tab), “Atemporality of Immigration and Rasquachismo Advances”
A.D. Carson (opens in a new tab), “On Rhymes and Revolutions”
Melanie Cervantes (opens in a new tab), “Dignidad Rebelde: Signs of Solidarity”
17:00 RECEPTION, Multipurpose Room
SATURDAY, MARCH 30 2019
HOTEL A
9:00-10:30 SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FROM SOUTH TO SOUTH
Moderator: John Edwin Mason (opens in a new tab), History, University of Virginia
Mark Sanders (opens in a new tab), “Time, and Time Again: Thando Mgqolozana’s Unimportance and University Fees Protests in South Africa”
Nicole Hirschfelder (opens in a new tab), “It’s (not) just Emotions: On the Precarity of the Black Freedom Struggle Today”
Anne Garland Mahler (opens in a new tab), “South-South Visions from the Hemisphere to the Globe”
Jalane Schmidt, “Anti-Racist Organizing in the Trump Era: Media, ‘Civility,’ and #Charlottesville”
10:45-12:30 GLOBAL SOUTH STUDIES WORKSHOP
Moderator: Anne Garland Mahler
Marlea Clarke, Global South Group, University of Victoria
Leigh Anne Duck, editor, The Global South
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Global South Center, Pratt Institute
Hala Halim and Mark Sanders, Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South advanced graduate certificate, New York University
Nicole Hirschfelder, Literary Cultures of the Global South, Universität Tübingen
Sinah Kloss, Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne
Speakers
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Comparative Literature, Penn State University (opens in a new tab)
Jennifer Bair, Sociology, University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
A.D. Carson, Music, University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde (opens in a new tab)
Marlea Clarke, Director, Global Development Studies, University of Victoria (opens in a new tab)
Federico Cuatlacuatl, Art, University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
Leigh Anne Duck, English, University of Mississippi; Editor, The Global South (opens in a new tab)
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Director, Global South Center, Pratt Institute (opens in a new tab)
Hala Halim, Comparative Literature, New York University (opens in a new tab)
Nicole Hirschfelder, Literary Cultures of the Global South Research Network, University of Tübingen (opens in a new tab)
Sinah Kloss, Global South Studies Center, Cologne (opens in a new tab)
Anne Garland Mahler, Spanish, University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
Adhira Mangalagiri, Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London (opens in a new tab)
Tracey Osborne, Geography and Development, University of Arizona (opens in a new tab)
Mark Sanders, Comparative Literature and English, New York University (opens in a new tab)
Jalane Schmidt, Religious Studies, University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
Mathilda Shepard, Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese, University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
Magid Shihade, International Studies, Birzeit University (opens in a new tab)
Samhita Sunya, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Virginia
Roberto Zurbano Torres, Casa de las Américas (opens in a new tab)