| A conference Hosted by the Program in American Studies, New York University and co-sponsored by the departments of Africana Studies, Anthropology, Asian/Pacific/ American Studies, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in the Humanities and Social Thought, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, History, Metropolitan Studies, and Sociology |
| Plenary: 6:00pm-8:15pm Somerville Theater Main 703 Plenary Moderator: Arlene Davila (American Studies and Dept. of Anthropology, NYU) Donna Gaines (Author, Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids, dgaines310@aol.com): "Cross-Addicted: My Life as a Post-Academic Ethnographer" Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Dept. of Geography, UC Berkeley): "The Politics of Recognition: State Terror, Social Activism, and the Public Ethnography Imperative" Allen Feldman (Services for the Underserved, and the Program in the Anthropology of Everyday Life, Institute of the Humanities, Ljubljana): "Philoctetes Revisited: White Public Space and the Political Geography of Public Safety" George Marcus (Dept. of Anthropology, Rice U): "Thickening the Inevitable Thinness of Contemporary Multi-Sited Ethnography: Collaborations, Routes, and the Demise of 'Being There'" Reception: 8:30-10pm Kimball Lounge (corner of Waverly and Greene; follow signs) |
Program Off the Grid: Urban Ethnography and Radical Politics New York University March 30-31, 2001 |
| All conference events will be held on the 7th Floor of NYU's Main Building, Corner of Waverly Place and Washington Square East. Click here for directions to NYU and click here for the location of Main Building. If you require accommodation, click here for some information on local hotels. |
| Friday March 30th |
| Session #1: 10:00am-12:00pm Panel: Global Ethnography Main 714 Moderator: Neil Smith (Dept. of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Director , Center for Place, Culture, and Politics) Neil Smith (Dept. of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Director , Center for Place, Culture, and Politics): "Beyond Global/Local" Anahi Viladrich (Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia U): "Urban Ethnography and Hidden Minorities: The Case of Argentinean Immigrants Living in New York City" Matthew Hill (Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, U Chicago): "Conducting Urban Research in a Heritage Development Site: The Struggle Over Place in Old Havana" Sarah Hill (Dept. of Anthropology, Temple U): "Environmental Sexuality on the U.S.-Mexico Border" Paul Amar (Dept. of Politics, NYU): "Policing Seduction: A Multi-Site Urban Ethnography of Tourist Hustlers in Cairo, Rio and New York" Panel: Contested Spaces Main 711 Moderator: Bill Leap (Dept. of Anthropology, American U) Bill Leap (Dept. of Anthropology, American U): "Faggots in the Growth Machine: Rethinking the Obligations of Gay Urban Ethnography" Damien Thompson (Dept. of Anthropology, American U): "Negotiating 'Race' in an African-American Community Undergoing Gentrification: Rethinking the Obligations of African American Urban Ethnography" Ivelisse Rivera-Bonilla (Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, UCSC): "Can Ethnography Effect Public Policy? The Case of Gated Communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico" Daniel Makagon (Dept. of Communication, U of South Florida): "Unstable Forum: Fantasy and Disruption in Times Square" Lunch Break: 12:00pm-1:00pm Session #2: 1:00pm-3:00pm Panel: New Sites, New Methods Main 714 Moderators: Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry (ConjunctionArts) Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry (ConjunctionArts): "Witness: Private Voices in Public Space" Juan Negron-Ayala (Medical Anthropology, U of Pennsylvania): "Man, I thought you was [sic] white: The Role of the 'Native' Anthropologist in Community-based Interventions" Janet Rose (American Studies, U of Kansas): "Radical Practices, Radical Fieldwork? Some Ethnographic Problems of Trendy, Urban Spaces" Renee Blake (Depts. of Linguistics and Africana Studies, NYU): "The Changing Faces of Race, Ethnicity, and Ethnography: The Autobiographies of the Urban Classroom as Ethnographic Practice" Elizabeth Chin (Dept. of Anthropology, Occidental C): "Guerrilla Research in the Urban Jungle" Panel: Work, New Industries, and Informal Economies Main 711 Moderator: Pablo Vila (Social and Policy Sciences, UT San Antonio) Pablo Vila (Social and Policy Sciences, UT San Antonio): "The Problematic Construction of Working Class Identities: Some Illustrations from the U.S.-Mexican Border" Richard Lloyd (Dept. of Sociology, U Chicago): "Making the Scene: Artists as Service Workers" Andrew Ross (American Studies, NYU): "The Hedonistic Workplace and the Labor Aristocracy of the Internet" Barbara Garson (Author, Money Makes the World Go Around) [Title TBA] Hyun Lee (CAAAV/Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence: Organizing Asian Communities): [Title TBA] Session #3: 3:30pm-5:30pm Panel: Public Policy, Activism, and Ethnography Somerville Theater Main 703 Moderator: Ida Susser (Dept. of Anthropology, CUNY Hunter College) Ida Susser (Dept. of Anthropology, CUNY Hunter College): "Moving Critical Ethnography toward Public Policy: Challenges in an Era of Neo-Liberalism" Adrienne Falcon (Dept. of Sociology, U Chicago): "Lessons from the Field: What Community Organizing and Ethnography Can Learn from Each Other" Jacalyn Harden (Dept. of Society, Justice, and Culture, Seattle U): "Give Me Five on the Black Man's Side: Fifty years of Japanese Amercian Activism in Chicago" David Vine (Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, CUNY): "Radical How? Radical for Whom? Gentrification and Writing Public Urban Ethnography" Jeff Maskovsky (Dept. of Anthropology, Temple U): "Dilemmas of Place and Space: Traversing the Divide Between Neighborhood Activism and 'Globalization from Below' in Philadelphia" Performance: 5:30pm Somerville Theater Main 703 Carmelita Tropicana: [TITLE TBA] Reception: 6:00pm Location TBA |
| Saturday, March 31st |
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| FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -- NO REGISTRATION OR FEES REQUIRED |
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Please sign in at room 701 upon your arrival at the conference on Saturday morning |