Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents: the Seventh Annual Student-Organized Global Affairs Conference. This year, the annual conference takes the form of a summit, asking participants to engage critically with the material and be heavily involved in the discussions that take place. Scholars of bordering from various fields will come together to speak on bordering in terms of colonial and neocolonial states. The purpose of the summit is to explore the mechanisms by which borders are enforced, as well as to question how these borders affect populations across the globe.

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

8:30 a.m. Breakfast provided

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Session 6: The Power to Police: Biopolitics and contemporary empire
• Resistance and the Info-sphere: Salah Khan, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Strangers in Their Own Flesh: An intimate story about Trump and Modi: Kristin Bright, Middlebury College
• Mechanisms of Empire’s Reproduction: An analysis of crisis pregnancy centers: Carly Thomsen, Middlebury College

11:00 a.m. Lunch provided

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

11:00 a.m. Lunch provided

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Session 7: Conference Summary

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

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