Conference Welcome Friday, 10 a.m. to noon, Krannert Center Center
Pertti Alasuutari, Association for Cultural Studies President, President’s welcome

Opening Reception 5:30-8 p.m. Helene Gateway

K1 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Conjunctural — Determinations/Possibilities/Responsibilities — of Cultural Studies Friday, 10 a.m. to noon Krannert Center
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study)

K2 Heroes: Geopolitics, Community and the Uses of Aesthetics Sunday, 5:30-7 p.m. Krannert Center
Chair: John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology

P3 Performing Pedagogies of Resistance Monday, 3-5 p.m. Krannert Center
Placement and Displacement of (Black) Identity: The Case of Migration Across Borders from Black Community to the Ivory Tower, Bryant K. Alexander, California State University, Los Angeles

002 Doing Cultural Studies Reflexively in Contemporary South Korea: History, Culture and Power Friday, 1-2:30 p.m. Levis Faculty Center CANCELLED

014 The Situatedness of Flows (I): Critically Theorizing Transnational Cultures 8-9:30 a.m. 314A Union CANCELLED

018 Exploring Reality TV: Laboring to Commodify the Self Through Spectacle and Surveillance 8-9:30 a.m. 407 Union
Discussant: James Hay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

026 African Cultural Studies in a Global World 10-11:30 a.m. 210 Union
Language Choice on Zimbabwean Screens, Katrina Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

045 Governing Femininity: Health, Media and the Body Proper-ty Saturday, 1-2:30 p.m. 404 Union
The Incarcerated Body: Gendered Identity in Transition Maureen Ebben, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX
Fear, Infertilty and Behavior: The 'Protect Your Fertility' Campaign Sara Connell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

048 Contested Sporting Bodies (I) 1-2:30 p.m. 407 Union
The Rot Beneath the Sporting Glitter: Problematizing Baltimore's 'Renaissance', Michael Friedman, David L. Andrews, Michael L. Silk, all U. of  Maryland, College Park
Not in Our Name!: Contested Patriotism(s) & Sporting Activism(s) in Bush's America/Our America, Michael Giardina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

054 The Complex Role of Cultural and Subcultural Capital in Progressive Political Activism Saturday, 3-4:30 p.m. Union Room C
Subcultural Capital and Grassroots Activism: Defining ‘Success’ and Cooptation, Kyeann Sayer, Claremont Graduate University

064 Framing Terror Saturday, 3-4:30 p.m. 211 Union
Discourse Theory, War and Media Representations, Nico Carpentier, Catholic University of Brussels (KUB) & Free University of Brussels (VUB)

067 Roundtable: Institutionalizing Cultural Studies Sunday, 8-9:30 a.m. Union Room A
Participants Added: Dr. Herman Wasserman, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Journalism, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Dr. Keyan Tomaselli, Professor and Director, Culture, Communication and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

083 Talking Education Through Identity and Power: Methodologies That Speak to a Way of Knowing Sunday, 10-11:30 a.m. 209 Union
Media Matters: Saving the Selves of the Hip Hop Generation, William Patterson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kimberlie Kranich, producer/director, WILL AM-FM-TV

084 Decolonialism: Finding Ways to Deconstruct Colonial Ideology 10-11:30 a.m. 210 Union
Citizenship, Racial Violence and Social Cohesion in the French and Australian School History, Alexandra Sauvage, University of Paris IV

095 Repression and Oppression in Times of ‘Terrorism’ 1-2:30 p.m. Union Room B
Identity, Visuality and Pedagogy in Terrorist Times, Julie Matthews, University of Sunshine Coast, Australia

101 The Situatedness of Flows (II): Critically Theorizing Transnational Cultures 1-2:30 p.m. 314B Union
Chair: Shu-ching Chen
(Trans)national Imagination and Tropical Melancholy in Jessica Hagedorn’s ‘Dogeaters,’ Shu-ching Chen, National Chung Hsing University
Lydia Minatoya’s Asia-Pacific Imagination of Japanese America, Shiu-chuan Lee, National Taiwan Normal University
On the Spectrality of Anti-Globalization, Chung-Shiung Lai, National Cheng Kung University
Till Death do us part? Death as transnational melodramatic imagination in Beautiful Life and Beautiful Days/ Endless Love, Lisa Leung, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, HK

125 Reflections on the 1990 Conference, ‘Cultural Studies: Now and in the Future’ 1:15-2:45 p.m. 210 Union
John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology

127 Permanent Innovation? 1:15-2:45 p.m. 314A Union
Myths of Cyberculture and Experiences of Activism: Transgender and the Internet, Kate O’Riordan, University of Sussex

 

Abstracts...

083 Talking Education Through Identity and Power: Methodologies That Speak to a Way of Knowing Sunday, 10-11:30 a.m. 209 Union
Media Matters: Saving the Selves of the Hip Hop Generation, William Patterson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kimberlie Kranich, producer/director, WILL AM-FM-TV

According to a study conducted by the Readership Institute of  Northwestern University in 2000, African Americans spend more time than any other group consuming media. Much of that time is spent watching television. African-American youth consume the most media and images of themselves often promote a "gangsta" and "thug" lifestyle and perpetuate the idea that "school is for fools." At the same time, the "achievement gap" between African American and Caucasian students is widening throughout the
nation's public schools.

"Media Matters: Saving the Selves of the Hip Hop Generation" will present examples of successful media-based learning projects that positively impacted African-American youth through the use of media tools, history, and collaborative partnerships.

098 Responding to Democracy: Media and Social Action in South Africa 1-2:30 p.m. 210 Union
Current Social Movements and Mass Media in South Africa: an Overview, Ron Krabill, University of Washington, Bothell, Mashilo Boloka, South African Broadcasting Corp., and Herman Wasserman, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

This paper analyses the roles of social movements in South Africa in the post-apartheid dispensation and how they use the media to advance their aims. It argued that since the collapse of apartheid, the nature and the roles of social movements have changed considerably. This change, the paper argues further, is also facilitated by the change of political landscape, ideology and access to different media platforms. The importance of the media to the operations of social movements as agents of change in post-apartheid South Africa, is contrasted with the authoritarian media policies under apartheid, which denied social movements access. In view of these changes, the paper also looks at the future of social movements and their key challenges in post-apartheid South Africa.

127 Permanent Innovation? 1:15-2:45 p.m. 314A Union
Myths of Cyberculture and Experiences of Activism: Transgender and the Internet, Kate O’Riordan, University of Sussex

The suggestion that the internet can facilitate an understanding of trans through a virtual ontology has been pursued in fictions such as Scheirl's (1998) Dandy Dust, and Bornstein’s (1996) Nearly Roadkill. The relationship between a virtual ontology and identity was also a theme of that which Silver has termed ‘second generation’ cybertheory, which includes some of Stone’s theoretical work (Silver, 2000). Online identity has historically been central to cybercultural studies. Earlier work in the 1990s brought with it the idea that identity could be disengaged from the body. This move appeared to have liberatory potential in the hands of some theorists, but ultimately has little to offer in terms of political identity, especially in the context of trans, which is often about sexed identity and embodiment.

So what is the conne ction bewteen trans and the internet? Transactivism, like other social movements, deploys alternative media forms to contest the images disseminated through multinational corporate ownership and to mobilise politically. The internet has become a set of central forms, both in terms of visual representation, and in organisational/individual networking and communication. Readings of some of this web-based media, including elements of visual culture such as the Brandon Exhibition and the work of individual artists, and local, national and international organisations highlights the diversity of discourses produced within transactivist media itself.

This paper illustrates the connections and disjuncture between tropes of cybercultural theory and contemporary uses of the internet as a form of alternative media.

Special thanks to...

Franne Davis, Illini Union Bookstore
Bradely Pace, Illini Union Bookstore