ISS and Navigating a World in Transition
September 26, 2017ISS Annual Meeting (2018) – Program
January 9, 2018
We are complexly situated—across and within different domains and contexts–in globalized postmodernity, yet within the boundaries of the modern nation state. Through what politics and by what psycho-socio-logics and with what consequences are we in such situations today informed, managed, manipulated, oriented? Who are the authorized/appointed interpreters in/of this situation?
We shall make use of Zygmunt Bauman’s Legislators and Interpreters as common facilitating Seminar reader.
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
THURSDAY EVENING
FRIDAY
9:00 – 10:00am Opening Session
Welcome; Introductions; Orientation
Director’s Address
Moderator: Timothy Sandoval
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10:15am – 12:15pm Seminar Session #1:
INTERPRETERS:
WHO ARE THEY? HOW/BY WHAT AUTHORITY/AGENCY ARE THEY CONSTRUCTED? WHAT ARE THEIR CONTEXTS/DOMAINS?
12:15 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:30pm Seminar Session #2:
WHAT ARE THEIR PRACTICES, PERFORMANCES, RITUALS/RITES?
3:30 – 3:45 pm Break
3:45 – 5:45pm Seminar Session #3:
WHAT ARE THEIR INTERESTS, AGENDA, POLITICS? THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OFFICES?
5:45 – 8:00pm Dinner on Your Own
Evening Session
8:00 – 9:30pm Special Session #4
EMBODIMENT: PERFORMANCE, INTERACTIONS & CONVERSATION
SATURDAY
10:00am – 12:00noon Special Session #5
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT
INTRODUCTION & FIRST SESSION
12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm Special Session #6
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT
(CONTINUATION)
3:15 – 4:00 Business Meeting
4:00 – 6:00PM BREAK
6:00 – 7:15pm Plenary: Special Session:
INTERVIEW/CONVERSATION:
Tommy J. Curry, Texas A& M University, Philosophy, Africana Studies & V. L. Wimbush
7:30pm – 9:00pm CLOSING DINNER
