in 'Crossing Borders' conference
A new faculty member will make his first major address to the Yale community at the "Crossing Borders Conference," to be held Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1-2.
Arjun Appadurai, who came to campus in July as the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of International Studies, will be the keynote speaker at the conference.
For the past three years, the Crossing Borders Initiative at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) has brought together faculty from diverse disciplines to rethink traditional area studies and to develop new forms of scholarship and pedagogy that emphasize transborder approaches to such issues as mobility, modernity, development and identity in an age of globalization. The conference is a summation of that work.
The event will be held in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., and is free and open to the public.
Appadurai's keynote address, "War, Terror and Identity: The Future of Disciplinary Sovereignty," will take place at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. An expert on globalization in the context of urbanization in developing countries, Appadurai is the first incumbent of the interdisciplinary professorship, which was created by Yale at YCIAS. He has a primary appointment in the Department of Anthropology and secondary appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Political Science. He heads a YCIAS initiative on "Global Cities" and is helping to further strengthen South Asian studies at the center.
The conference also includes three panel discussions: "Environment and Development: Dilemmas of Power and Place" at 2 p.m. on Friday; "Migration and Globalization: Dilemmas of Sovereignty and National Belonging" at 9 a.m. on Saturday; and "Language and Culture: Translating the Globe" at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday.
The Yale faculty convening the conference are: Arun Agrawal, associate professor of political science; Vilashini Cooppan, assistant professor of comparative literature; Michael Holquist, professor and chair of comparative literature and professor of Slavic languages and literature; Patricia Pessar, associate professor of American studies, anthropology and African-American studies, and director of the Global Migration Project at YCIAS; and Eric Worby, assistant professor of anthropology.
Funding for the Crossing Borders Initiative is provided by the Ford Foundation and YCIAS.
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