I will be presenting at the upcoming transnational workshop. Timothy Mitchell, a prominent social theorist and political scientist will be the keynote.



MATERIALITIES OF DEMOCRACY
The 9th Transnational Sociology Workshop
April 12, 2008

Room 22 Education Building

9:00 Reception (Breakfast buffet and coffee)
9:30 Keynote by Professor Timothy Mitchell: "Carbon Democracy"
10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Technologies of Colonialism

Jamie McGowan (UIUC, Geography)
"Interpreting Conventional Signs & Imperial Designs: The Surveying and Mapping
of Colonial Ghana, 1874-1932"

Cheng-Heng Chang (UIUC, Sociology)
"Cultivating Hokkaidō: Environment, Modernity and Japan's Colonial Regime"

Discussant: Prof. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (UIUC, Sociology)


12:30 Lunch and coffee
1:30 Technologies of Justice

Sharif Islam (UIUC, Sociology)
"Problematizing Information and Communication Technology as Progress:
Assessing the Wider Social and Political Role of Free and Open Source
Movement"

Chandler Armstrong (UIUC, Sociology)
"Development with Appropriate Technology in the Information Age"

Discussant: Prof. Rayvon Fouché (UIUC, History)

3:15 Coffee and snack break

3:30 Transnational Metabolisms

Dan Lord (UIUC, Sociology)
"Building a Global Energy System: Remembering the Nineteenth-Century
"Origins" of Oil Capitalism"

Prof. Zsuzsa Gille (UIUC, Sociology)
"Materialities of State Socialism and Postsocialism"

Discussant: Prof. Diana Mincyte (UIUC, Advertising)


5:15 Break

5:30 Concluding Remarks by Professor Timothy Mitchell


Papers will be available on the Sociology Department's wepbage:
http://www.soc.uiuc.edu/