Framing the Global 2018 Conference

Framing the Global Conference 2018

Framing the Global hosted its second international conference 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.

View the recording at the Center for the Study of Global Change's Youtube page.

Complete Conference Information

Welcome, 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?

Panel Presentations

Friday, September 28 Morning panels

9:15-10:45 a.m.

Global Sustainability Models: Entrepreneurship, Ethics, and Ecology (IMU Oak Room)

"New Humanitarianismand 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 (IMU Persimmon Room)

"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

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Performing the Global (IMU Persimmon Room)

“The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization”

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

Global Misalignments: Regularities and Inequalities (IMU Oak Room)

“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

Friday, September 28 Afternoon panels

1:45-3:15 p.m.

Media Responsibility in a Globalized World (IMU Oak Room)

"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 (IMU Persimmon Room)

"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

3:30-5 p.m.

Terrains of Risk: Bodies, Vulnerability, and Politics (IMU Persimmon Room)

"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

Global Architectures of Art: Past, Present, and Place (IMU Oak Room)

"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

Saturday, September 29 Morning Panels

9:15-10:45 a.m.

Rethinking International Frameworks: Global Frameworks (IMU Oak Room)

“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 (IMU Persimmon Room)

"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

11 a.m.

Round table discussion (IMU Oak Room)

"New Directions in Global Studies"

(Lunch provided)

Framing the Global 2018 Conference

Framing the Global Conference 2018

Welcome, Keynote Address and Reception

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

Panel Presentations

Friday, September 28 Morning panels

9:15-10:45 a.m.

Global Sustainability Models: Entrepreneurship, Ethics, and Ecology (IMU Oak Room)

Global Technologies: Surveillance and Suppression (IMU Persimmon Room)

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Performing the Global (IMU Persimmon Room)

Global Misalignments: Regularities and Inequalities (IMU Oak Room)

Friday, September 28 Afternoon panels

1:45-3:15 p.m.

Media Responsibility in a Globalized World (IMU Oak Room)

Rethinking International Education: Frameworks for Learning (IMU Persimmon Room)

3:30-5 p.m.

Terrains of Risk: Bodies, Vulnerability, and Politics (IMU Persimmon Room)

Global Architectures of Art: Past, Present, and Place (IMU Oak Room)

Saturday, September 29 Morning Panels

9:15-10:45 a.m.

Rethinking International Frameworks: Global Frameworks (IMU Oak Room)

Global Ghosts: When Inequality Begins in the Realm of the Invisible (IMU Persimmon Room)

11 a.m.Round table discussion (IMU Oak Room)

Center for the Study of Global Change social media channels

Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Performing the Global (IMU Persimmon Room)

11 a.m.

Round table discussion (IMU Oak Room)