The Subaltern-Popular Workshop

9:00-9:30 Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State University

"Culture and the State: Silences that Our Voices Break"

9:30-10:30 Discussion

Respondent and Moderator: Anjali Arondekar, University of California, Santa Cruz

Reading: Ileana Rodriguez, "The Perverse Heterosexual", Reading in Disbelief: Illegitimacy and Criminality At the Heart of the Latin American Cultural Text (forthcoming)

10:30-10:45 Tea Break

10:45-1:00 ARCHIVE/LEGIBILITY- Roundtable discussion

Moderator: Adriana Johnson, University of California, Irvine

Readings:Veena Das, "The Signature of the State," in Veena Das and Deborah Poole (eds.), Anthropology in the Margins of the State (2004)

Gayatri Spivak, "Responsibility," Other Asias [first published in Boundary 2, 21:3 (Fall 1994)]

Suggested Reading: Deborah Poole, "Between Threat and Guarantee: Justice and Community in the margins of the Peruvian state," in Veena Das and Deborah Poole (eds.), Anthropology in the Margins of the State (2004).

1:00-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-2:30 Heather Laird, University College Cork

"'The Night of the Wisps': Signs, Dissemination and Insurgency in Nineteenth-Century Ireland"

2:30-3:30 Discussion

Respondent and Moderator: TBA

Reading: Heather Laird, "'Ride rough-shod': evictions, sheriffs' sales and the anti-hunting agitation," Subversive Law in Ireland (2005)

3:30-3:45 Tea Break

3:45-6:00 INSURGENCY -- Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Michael Provence, University of California,San Diego

Readings: Ranajit Guha, "Transmission", Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India.

Prathama Banerjee, "Rebellion: Act and Event," Politics of Time (2006)

Suggested Reading: Partha Chatterjee, “The Nation and its Peasants,” The Nation and its Fragments (1993)

Monday, September 29

9:00-9:30 Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University

"Democracy and Violence"

9:30-10:30 Discussion

Respondent and Moderator: Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara

Reading: Arjun Appadurai, "Fear of Small Numbers," Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (2006)

Talal Asad, "Suicide Terrorism," On Suicide Bombing

10:30-10:45 Tea Break

10:45-1:00pm VIOLENCE -- Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis

Reading: Faisal Devji, "Media and Martyrdom," Landscapes of the Jihad (2003)

Suggested Reading: Balakrishna Rajagopal, "Human Rights and the Third World", International Law from Below (2003)

Ernesto Laclau, "The People and the Discursive Production of Emptiness," On Populist Reason (2005)

1:00-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-4:15 POLITICAL SOCIETY -- Roundtable Discussion

Moderator: Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara

Reading: Partha Chatterjee, “Populations and Political Society,” Politics of the Governed (2003)

Suggested Reading: Arjun Appadurai, "The Capacity to Aspire," in Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (eds.) Culture and Public Action (2004)

4:15-4:30 Tea Break

4:30-5:30 Planning Meeting