This event brings together an interdisciplinary and multinational group of scholars, artists, and activists 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 and Page-Barbour Workshops and with generous support from UVa Library; Americas Center; McIntire Department of Art; Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese; Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures; Global Studies; and Department of Anthropology.
Schedule
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019
ROTUNDA, LOWER WEST OVAL ROOM
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Opening Remarks, Anne Garland Mahler, Spanish, University of Virginia
9:15-10:45 SOUTH-SOUTH DIPLOMACY & SOLIDARITY
Moderator: Tessa Farmer, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, Global Studies, University of Virginia
Adhira Mangalagiri, “Beyond Friendship in 20th Century China-India Literary Relations”
Magid Shihade, “Asabiyya-Solidarity in the Age of Barbarism: An Afro/Arab/Asian Alternative”
Hala Halim, “Egyptian Engagements with the Global South”
Jenn Bair, “Development by other Means?”
11-12:30 SOUTHERN BORDERS
Moderator: Lorena Ochoa Campo, Spanish, University of Virginia
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, “Returns of the Post-Global: Migration, Circulation, and the Dislocations of Literature”
Leigh Anne Duck, “Neoliberal Frontiers: The Case of Hollywood South”
Sinah Kloss, “Sensory Histories of Tattoo: A Transcultural Perspective from the Guyanese-Surinamese Border Region”
Samhita Sunya, “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, Anthropology, University of Virginia
Macarena Gómez-Barris, “The Occupied Forest”
Tracey Osborne, “Carbon Counter-mapping and Indigenous Knowledge: A Public Political Ecology for Climate Justice”
Marlea Clarke, “Facilitating Development and ‘Decent work’ in Africa? Effects of Expanding South-South Trade and Production Networks in the Garment Industry”
Mathilda Shepard, “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, “Atemporality of Immigration and Rasquachismo Advances”
A.D. Carson, “On Rhymes and Revolutions”
Melanie Cervantes, “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, History, University of Virginia
Mark Sanders, “Time, and Time Again: Thando Mgqolozana’s Unimportance and University Fees Protests in South Africa”
Nicole Hirschfelder, “It’s (not) just Emotions: On the Precarity of the Black Freedom Struggle Today”
Anne Garland Mahler, “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
Jennifer Bair, Sociology, University of Virginia
A.D. Carson, Music, University of Virginia
Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde
Marlea Clarke, Director, Global Development Studies, University of Victoria
Federico Cuatlacuatl, Art, University of Virginia
Leigh Anne Duck, English, University of Mississippi; Editor, The Global South
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Director, Global South Center, Pratt Institute
Hala Halim, Comparative Literature, New York University
Nicole Hirschfelder, Literary Cultures of the Global South Research Network, University of Tübingen
Sinah Kloss, Global South Studies Center, Cologne
Anne Garland Mahler, Spanish, University of Virginia
Adhira Mangalagiri, Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
Tracey Osborne, Geography and Development, University of Arizona
Mark Sanders, Comparative Literature and English, New York University
Jalane Schmidt, Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Mathilda Shepard, Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese, University of Virginia
Magid Shihade, International Studies, Birzeit University
Samhita Sunya, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Virginia
Roberto Zurbano Torres, Casa de las Américas