MCLC: China and the Human conference

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: shuang shen (sxs1075 at psu.edu)
Subject: China and the Human conference
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China and the Human
 
Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 12:00-6:00pm
The Graduate Center | City University of New York | 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St
The Center for the Humanities | Room C201-202
 

Featuring: Ackbar Abbas, Tani Barlow, Michael Dutton, Brent Edwards, David
L. Eng, David Harvey, Eric Hayot, Peter Hitchcock, Petrus Liu, Camille
Robcis, Teemu Ruskola, Haun Saussy, Shuang Shen, Shu-mei Shih, and Mei Zhan
 
       
 
China is everywhere in the news‹for its astounding economic development
and its equally astonishing human rights abuses. Beginning with this
curiously inverse correlation between economic success and political
rights and freedom, the relationship of China and the human begs to be
explored. Bringing together editors (David L. Eng, Teemu Ruskola, and
Shuang Shen) and contributors to the newly published double issue of
Social Text on ³China and the Human,² this interdisciplinary symposium
seeks to question the self-evident nature of both ³China² and ³human² by
examining the long career of the human in Western as well as Chinese
culture and thought, reaching back to ancient traditions and exploring its
radical transformations under Maoism and in the current
socialist-capitalist era. Join us for a series of panel discussions and
conversations.
 

 
 
Sponsored by the Halle Institute and The Law School, Emory University; the
Mellon Committee on the Study of Globalization and Social Change and the
Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center of the City
University of New York; the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia
University; the Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State
University, and Social Text.
 

China and the Human
 
Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 12:00-6:00pm
The Graduate Center | City University of New York | 365 Fifth Ave @ 34th St
The Center for the Humanities | Room C201-202
 

 
Schedule
 

12:00-12:30pm              Opening Remarks

Teemu Ruskola (Emory), Social Text, and The Center for the Humanities
 
 

12:30-2:15pm               Panel 1

Chair                                       Shuang Shen (Penn State
University)
Ackbar Abbas (University of California at Irvine), ³China and the Human: A
Visual Dossier²
Michael Dutton (Goldsmiths), ³Fragments of the Political, or How We
Dispose of Wonder²
Camille Robcis (Cornell), ³ŒChina in Our Heads¹: Althusser, Maoism, and
Structuralism²
Mei Zhan (University of California at Irvine), ³Worlding Oneness: Daoism,
Heidegger, and Possibilities for Treating the Human²

Commentator                          Peter Hitchcock (Graduate Center CUNY)
                   
 

2:45-4:30pm                 Panel 2

Chair                                       David L. Eng (University of
Pennsylvania)

Eric Hayot (Penn State University), ³Cosmologies, Globalization, and Their
Humans²
Petrus Liu (Cornell), ³Queer Human Rights in and against China: Marxism
and the Figuration of the Human²
Shu-mei Shih (University of California at Los Angeles), ³Is the Post- in
Postsocialism the Post- in Posthumanism?²

Commentator                         Brent Edwards (Columbia)
 
 

5:00-6:00                      Roundtable Discussion

Chair                                       Teemu Ruskola (Emory)

Tani Barlow (Rice)
David Harvey (Graduate Center CUNY)
Haun Saussy (Chicago)