Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

This is part of the RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

12:00 Lunch provided

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Session 3: Subjects of Empire and Occupation
• Gibraltar and the Making and Re-making of Europe: Jason Dittmer, University College London
• Imperial Crisis and Racialized Militarization: Reconceptualizing the invasion and occupation of Iraq: Yousef Baker, California State University, Long Beach

This is part of the RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

2:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Session 4: Staging Empire, Visualizing Otherness
• Cinema’s Hegemony: Imperial and cinematic futures at the start of the Asian century: Maria Bose, Clemson University
• Race and Migrant Bodies in Contemporary African Poetry: Tosin Gbogi, Marquette University

This is part of the RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

10:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Epistemology and Imperial Reproduction
• The Populist West: Critical subjectivity and the politics of counter-terrorism in Nigeria: Temitope Ogungbemi, McPherson University, Nigeria
• Examining the Co-production of the “Imperial” University in Lahore and New York City: Mariam Durrani, Hamilton College
• Empire’s Anxiety and Indigeneity: Recent American studies critiques of U.S. empire: Max Clayton, Yale University

This is part of the RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Session 5: Migration Divides: Race, religion, and othering
• The Prince and the Governors: The anxious locations of race and religion in South Asian American immigrant histories: Arun Chaudhuri, York University, Canada
• Islam, Anti-Racism, and the Anxieties of French Diversity Politics: Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College

This is part of the RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

4:30-4:45 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Tamar Mayer and Daniel Silva, Middlebury College

4:45-6:45 p.m.
Session 1: Borders and Narratives of Imperial Power
• Borders and Anxieties of Empire: Yumna Siddiqi, Middlebury College
• The Muslim Ban and the Imperial Anxieties of Colorblindness and Uneven Mobilities: Maryam Griffin, University of Washington, Bothell

Dinner for RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

Complete schedule is at http://www.middlebury.edu/international/rohatyn/international-conference/2020-annual-international-conference/conference-schedule