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CHASS Lightning Rod event and The Fifth Annual Research Symposium of the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media

Rethinking Globalization and the Question of Scale: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Social Sciences

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  2. Thursday, April 24  Registration table outside the Senate Chamber Room (4140 Talley)

    3:00-3:15  Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks
    • Symposium Welcome : James Mulholland, Assistant Professor of English, N.C. State University
    • Rebecca Walsh, Assistant Professor of English, N.C. State University
    • and Chelsea Hampton, Ph.D. student, Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)
    • Remarks: Jason Swarts, Director of the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)  
    • Remarks: Jeff Braden, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences
    3:15-4:45 Featured Speakers
    • Alan Latham, Senior Lecturer in Geography at University College, London:
    • "Thinking through some Mundane Globalizations: Topologies, Networks and Scale"
    • Paul Adams, Associate Professor of Geography at UT-Austin:
    • "Sustainability, Justice, and the Hybrid Spaces of New Media"
    4:45-5:00 Break
    5:00-6:15 Featured Speaker
      • Rey Chow, Anne Firror Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University:
      •  “Scales and Remains: Some Preliminary Thoughts”

    1. Friday, April 25

      9:00-9:15 Coffee                                                            9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks
      • Opening Remarks: Ken Zagacki, Head, Department of Communication
      • and Tom Birkland, Associate Dean for Research, Engagement, Extension, and Economic Development
      9:30-10:45 Roundtable 1 :  Eurasia
      • Ernest Zitser, Librarian, Department of International and Area Studies, Duke University
      • Nora Fisher Onar, Visiting Fellow, National Humanities Center, and Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Bahcesehir University
      • Mustafa Tuna, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies. Duke University
      • Tom Cinq-Mars, Ph.D. student, Department of History, Duke University
      10:45-11:00 Coffee break
      11:00-12:30 Featured Speakers
      • Kathleen Wilson, Professor of History and Cultural Analysis and Theory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Acting Director and Director-Designate of the Humanities Institute; and President-elect of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies:
      • "The Tyrannies and Temporalities of Distance: or, Rowe's Fair Penitent as Global History"
      • Sarah Sharma, Associate Professor of Communication Studies:
      •  “The Wait of the World: A Critical Temporality”
      12:30-1:45 Lunch (on your own)
      1:45-3:15 Roundtable 2 : Technologies
      • Rouli Manalu, Ph.D. student, CRDM Ph.D. Program, N.C. State University, “The Issue of Globalization in the Study of the Politics of Indonesian Telecommunication Infrastructures”
      • Chelsea Hampton, Ph.D. student, CRDM Ph.D. Program, N.C. State University, “The Visible Monarch: Globalization, Digitization, and the Image of Thailand’s King”
      • Markos Hadjioannou, Assistant Professor, Program in Literature, Duke University, “Change and the Digital”
      • Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, N.C. State University, and Héctor Rendón, Ph.D. student, CRDM Ph.D. Program, N.C. State University, “Visualizing Social Space in the Context of Globalization”
      • Brad Mehlenbacher, Associate Professor, Distance Learning (LPAHE), Program Coordinator, Workforce & Human Resource Education (WHRE), N.C. State University, “Corporate Virtual Co-Locational Technologies and Their Implications for Globally-Distributed Educational Spaces”
      3:15-3:30 Coffee break
      3:30-4:45 Roundtable 3 :  Localities
      • Hélène Ducros, Lecturer, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, N.C. State University, “Movable scales in place-based development”
      • Calvin Hui, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of William and Mary, “Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Jia Zhangke's Documentary Useless (2007)”
      • Rebecca Walsh, Assistant Professor, Department of English, N.C. State University
      • James Mulholland, Assistant Professor, Department of English, N.C. State University, "The Temporality of Globalization in the Eighteenth-Century British World"
      4:45-5:00 Break
      5:00-6:00 Featured Speaker
      • Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University:
      • “Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy”
      6:00-7:30 Reception, Room 4280 Talley

    2. Saturday, April 26

      9:15-9:30 Coffee                                                   9:30-10:45 Roundtable 4 : Economies
      • Joseph Palis, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, N.C. State University, “Film Festivals, Global Networks, and the New Forms of Cinephilia”   
      • Kevin Sobel-Read, Assistant Professor, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle (Australia ), “The Context is Crucial: Positioning the Scales of Corporate Power in the Parallel Processes of Global Value Chains and Sovereignty”  
      • Frans C. Verhagen, M. Div., M.I.A., Ph.D., Sustainability Sociologist, International Institute for Monetary Transformation, Chapel Hill, “Rethinking Monetary Globalization and the Question of Scale”
      • Meghan O’Neil, Ph.D. student, Department of English, Duke University, "Global Court(yard): African Society v. World Bank in Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako"
      10:45-11:00 Coffee break
      11:00-12:30 Featured Speakers
      • Hsuan Hsu, Associate Professor of English, UC-Davis:
      •  “Literary Topographies and the Scales of Environmental Justice”
      • Neel Ahuja, Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill:
      • "Atmospheres of Extinction"
      12:30-1:30 Lunch (on your own)
      1:30-2:45 Roundtable 5 :  Borders
      • Allison Schlobohm, Ph.D. student, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Viral Discourse”
      • Jason Buel, Ph.D. student, CRDM Ph.D. Program, N.C. State University, “Globalizing Protest: Scales of Resistance in the Maidan Movement”
      • Sophie Smith, Ph.D. student, Program in Literature, Duke University,  “Governance at the US-Mexico Border Zone: Three Spatial Provocations”
      • Josh Smicker, Ph.D., Department of Communication Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Drone Space and Atmospheric Militarization: Rescaling Military Spatialities"
      • J.J. Sylvia IV, Ph.D. student, CRDM Ph.D. Program, N.C. State University, “Scaling Data for Local Resistance”
      2:45-3:00 Closing Remarks
      • James Mulholland, Rebecca Walsh, Steve Wiley