Conference

Framing the Global Conference

Global studies emerged in the 1980s as scholars, policymakers, and the general public began to take note of the increasingly transnational flows of people, ideas, and goods that have come to be identified under the rubric of globalization. Interest in global phenomena has since spread to every discipline in the social sciences and humanities, to become an intellectual touchstone in the academy and beyond. Despite increasing popular and scholarly attention to global issues, no clear consensus has emerged regarding the most fundamental definitions of terms or appropriate empirical methods for studying the global.

This conference will explore emerging directions and methodologies for global research. The scholars in the Mellon Foundation-funded Framing the Global project have been addressing this question collaboratively and through their own work, which is characterized by interdisciplinarity, empirical grounding, and a concern with tracing the links between the transnational and the local in a variety of lived, political, discursive, cultural, and social domains. The conference will extend that conversation to include other scholars and practitioners with similar concerns.

Framing the Global is a five-year collaboration between the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University and Indiana University Press funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Framing the Global Conference 2018

Framing the Global hosted its second international conference on September 27 - September 29, 2018, on the IUB campus. The conference explored new analytical frameworks for global studies as well as innovative pedagogy for the field.

Our keynote speaker was Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and co-director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University. Many of our fellows and other scholars also presented.

Download the conference handbook from the link on the right. View the recording of conference section from the link below.

Complete Conference Information

Panels of Framing the Global Conference 2018

Keynote Address and Reception

Thursday, September 27, 5 pm

Shreve Auditorium (GA0001), Global and International Studies Building

"Deconstructing and Reconstructing: Embracing Alternative Ways of Knowing, Representing, and Providing Social Welfare in a Global World"

By Peggy Levitt

Wellesley College and Harvard University

Levitt argued that knowledge production needs to be fundamentally reconsidered and reorganized. Intellectual and cultural inequality are part and parcel of socioeconomic inequality. How can we create a better world if we are not clear about the premises behind the knowledge that we have about that world and how it is produced? We need to look carefully at what is obscured, hiding in plain sight, or given center stage by the categories currently used to produce, organize, and disseminate knowledge, including efforts to make art and literary canons more inclusive as well as the authors and artists that they bring into view. Emerging forms of educational, health, and labor rights institutions and policies that cross borders may create transnational social protection for people outside the framework of the nation-state. But who are the new winners and losers?

Global Sustainability Models: Entrepreneurship, Ethics, and Ecology

Friday, September 28, IMU Oak Room

Morning panels, 9:15-10:45 am

"New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity: Good Intentions on the Road to Help"

Michael Mascarenhas, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California – Berkeley

“On Global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality”

Deirdre McKay, Reader in Social Geography and Environmental Politics, Keele University

"Policy Entrepreneurs for a Return to Infrastructure: A California Case Study of the Global Desalination Industry"

Brian O'Neill, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Global Technologies: Surveillance and Suppression

Friday, September 28, IMU Persimmon Room

Morning panels, 9:15-10:45 am

"Turning Big Brother Upside Down: Some Lessons from the Global South"

Jose Ragas, Assistant Professor, Yale University & Catholic University of Chile

"The #MeToo Movement and Its Lack in China"

Hongmei Li, Associate Professor, Miami University

"The Travels of a Global Television Format: The Undercover Boss Blues"

Ilana Gershon, Ruth N. Hall Professor, Indiana University

Global Misalignments: Regularities and Inequalities

Friday, September 28, IMU Oak Room

Morning panels, 11 am - 12:30 pm

“Rules Without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy”

Tim Bartley, Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis

"Problematizing Images of Global Finance and Hyperglobal Framings: An Analytical Approach"

Rachel Harvey, Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University

"Materiality and identity: Food, Waste and the New Right Wing in Europe"

ZsuZsa Gille, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Performing the Global

Friday, September 28, IMU Persimmon Room

Morning panels, 11 am - 12:30 pm

The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization1;

Sean Metzger, Associate Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA

I tend to borrow from the culture, but in the end, I'm sort of enriching both cultures: Considerations by Young Moroccan Storytellers when Culturally Translating Hikayat Stories"

Erin Gould, PhD Candidate. University of California, Riverside

"Global China Without China? Rhizome of Sinaphone Studies"

Chun-Yu Lu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, William Mary

Media Responsibility in a Globalized World

Friday, September 28,IMU Oak Room

Afternoon panels, 1:45 - 3:15 pm

"Where is the “global” in global communication?"

Rosemary Pennington , Assistant Professor, Miami University

"Responsibility, vulnerability, and climate change: Toward a model of influences on climate journalism in developing countries"

Suzannah Evans Comfort, Assistant Professor, Indiana University

"Surveying the place of public opinion in the Arab Gulf States"

Russell Lucas, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Rethinking International Education: Frameworks for Learning

Friday, September 28,IMU Persimmon Room

Afternoon panels, 1:45 - 3:15 pm

"Educating for Global Competency: Implications for Teaching and Research"

Meg Gardinier, Associate Professor of Global Leaderhip, Ph.D. Program in Global Leadership, Indiana Institute of Technology, Fort Wayne

"Youth Social Ontologies of Citizen Identity: Knowledge from Jordanian, Syrian, and Other Refugee Girls in Jordan’s Secondary Public Schools"

Patricia Kubow, Professor, Indiana University-Bloomington

"Critical Solidarity: Memory and Justice in Global Classrooms"

JesAlana Stewart, Doctoral Candidate, Indiana University

Global Architectures of Art: Past, Present, and Place

Friday, September 28,IMU Oak Room

Afternoon panels, 3:30 - 5:00 pm

"Staging the contemporary in the Global South: The art-architecture-archeology-heritage complex at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB)"

Manuela Ciotti, Associate Professor of Global Studies, Aarhus University

"What Can the Anthropology of Infrastructure Tell Us about Global Contemporary Art?"

Karin Zitzewitz, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Michigan State

"Globalization, Fashion Scholarship, and Fashion Collections: The Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection at Indiana University”

Heather Akou, Associate Professor of Fashion Design, Indiana University

"Porcelain Reconsidered: Contemporary Blue and White”

Xingyi Qi, MA Student, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Terrains of Risk: Bodies, Vulnerability, and Politics

Friday, September 28,IMU Persimmon Room

Afternoon panels, 3:30 - 5:00 pm

"Delhi's Peripheries and the Scalar Politics of Toxic Air"

Rohit Negi, Associate Professor, Ambedkar University, Delhi

"Global Solution, Local Contestation: The Politics of HIV Testing in Taiwan"

Po-Chia Tseng, Doctoral student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Techno Politics: Framing the Globe as a Biometric State"

Matt Harker, Doctoral Student, Western University

Rethinking International Frameworks: Global Frameworks

Saturday, September 29, IMU Oak Room

Morning Panels, 9:15-10:45 am

On the Hot Seat: University Presidents and the Global 1968"

Deborah Cohen, Associate Professor of History/of American Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Lessie Jo Frazier, Associate Professor, Indiana University

"Grasping Terroir in the Fields of Global Studies: Lessons from Translation and Multi-Media Ethnography"

Jonathan Larson, Assoc. Director of Off-Campus Study and Instructor in Anthropology, Grinnell College

"Positioning International Islamic Universities Globally"

Derya Dogan, PhD Student, Indiana University

Global Ghosts: When Inequality Begins in the Realm of the Invisible

Saturday, September 29, IMU Persimmon Room

Morning Panels, 9:15-10:45 am

"A Ghost Competition in a Transylvanian Village, or Stories as Capital"

Emanuela Grama, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

"Ruinous Monumentality and Afro-Brazilian Fugitivity: Falling into Life in Salvador, Bahia's 'Black Rome"

John Collins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, CUNY

"Ghostly Hands: Visibility, Surveillance and Transparency in Christian Aid" <>Britt Halvorson, Faculty Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Colby College

Round Table Discussion

Saturday, September 29, IMU Oak Room

Lunch provided, 11:00 am

"New Directions in Global Studies"

Recording of Framing the Global Conference 2018

Keynote Address: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Keynote Address
Lecture 1 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Lecture 1 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018
Lecture 2 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Lecture 2 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018
Lecture 3 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Lecture 3 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018
Lecture 4 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Lecture 4 on Friday, Sept 28, 2018
Lecture 1 on Saturday, Sept 29, 2018: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Lecture 1 on Saturday, Sept 29, 2018
Lecture 2 on Saturday, Sept 29, 2018: Framing the Global 2018 Conference: Lecture 2 on Saturday, Sept 29, 2018

Framing the Global Conference 2013

In September 2013, Framing the Global hosted its three-day conference which brought together Framing Fellows with other scholars to discuss, and sometimes debate, approaches to studying and understanding the global.

Download the conference handbook from the link on the right. View the recording of the conference section from the link below.

Completed Conference Schedule

Speakers of Framing the Global Conference 2013

Arjun Appadurai

Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Professor at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary social-cultural anthropologist. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation, states, and globalization.

Gillian Hart

Professor of Geography, University of California Berkeley.

Professor of Geography and Co-Chair of Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Gillian Hart has worked in her native South Africa, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Malaysia on questions of agrarian change, labor, and gender. Her more recent work critically engages issues and debates of globalization, neoliberalism, nationalism, and the rise of new social movements. Her books include Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa (University of California Press and University of Natal Press, 2002); Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism, Hegemony (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013; forthcoming with University of Georgia Press) and a co-edited volume entitled Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Yasmina Zaidman

Director of Communications & Strategic Partnerships, Acumen Fund

As Director of Communications & Strategic Partnerships, Yasmina Zaidman works with diverse audiences and strategic partners in the international development, philanthropic, academic, and corporate sectors to share insights and replicable models from Acumen Fund's investment portfolio.

Recording of Framing the Global Conference 2013

Framing the Global: A Grounded Approach to Global Studies: Framing the Global: A Grounded Approach to Global Studies, Hilary E. Kahn and Framing the Global Fellows.
An Approach to Building Diverse Global Networks and Unlikely New Alliances in an Interconnected World: An Approach to Building Diverse Global Networks and Unlikely New Alliances in an Interconnected World, Yasmina Zaidman, Acumen Fund.
Closing Plenary: Closing Plenary, Gillian Hart, University of California-Berkeley.