The Subaltern-Popular 2
Conference Program
October 21 & 22, 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara
Organizers: Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture,
and Bhaskar Sarkar, Film Studies
Sponsors: The Subaltern-Popular Workshop -- a UC Multi-campus
Research Group, funded by the UC Office of the President,
and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UC, Santa
Barbara; UC Humanities Research Institute; Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center; College of Letters and Sciences, Division
of Humanities and Fine Arts, Division of Social Sciences,
UC Santa Barbara
Friday Oct 21
Venue: MCC Theater
8:40 am - Introduction
8:50 - Welcome by Chancellor Henry Yang, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Panel 1 - Moderator: TBA
9:05 - Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University
‘The De-colonial Shift: Colonial Differences and Differences
in
Subalternity”
9:45 - Anjali Arondekar, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Seeing Things: On Sexuality and Subaltern Studies”
10:25 - Tea
10:40 - Akhil Gupta, Stanford University
“Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy”
11:20 - José Rabasa, University of California, Berkeley
“Without History”
12:00 - Discussion
1:00 pm - Lunch
Panel 2 - Moderator: TBA
Venue: McCune Conference Room, HSSB
2:15 - M. Madhava Prasad, Center for the Study of Foreign
Languages, Hyderabad, “Subaltern Sovereignty North and
South: Govinda and Rajnikanth”
2:55 - Parama Roy, San Francisco State/University of California,
Riverside “Bodies that Matter? Brahmins, Untouchables,
and the Gendered Crisis of
Embodiment in Sujata”
3:35 - Tea
3:50 - Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis
“Ghosts of Godhra: Iconography of the Burning Train
and the Gujarat
Massacres of 2002”
4:30 - Discussion
5:30 - Reception
Saturday Oct 22
Venue: MCC Theater
Panel 3 - Moderator: Maurizia Boscagli, University
of California, Santa Barbara
9:00 am - Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University
"Exploring the Subalternity of the Subaltern Citizen"
9:40 - Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine
“A Popular Peasant in Colonial India: Remembering Daduram's
Politics”
10:20 - Tea
10:35 - David Lloyd, University of Southern California
“The Subaltern in Representation”
11:15 - Michael Taussig, Columbia University
“Redeeming Indigo”
11:55 - Discussion
1:00 - Lunch
2:15 - Roundtable Discussion with all participants
Moderator: Dick Hebdige, University of California, Santa Barbara
Venue: McCune Conference Room, HSSB
3:00 - Tea
Roundtable cont. until 5:15
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