Pachyderm Pomo

hep ingham hingham at igc.apc.org
Tue Apr 11 16:00:42 PDT 2000


Forwarded from somewhere:

THE ELEPHANT AND CULTURAL STUDIES

8:00 - Coffee and Tea

THE ELEPHANT AS "PHYSICAL" OTHER:

Does the Elephant Exist? Zoological Hegemony vs. Cultural Fabrication.

Pachyderm "Evolution": Eurochronicities and Eurocentric Linearity in the Late (Post)Modern Zoological Script.

Tracking the Elephant Through Texts: Western Visuality vs. Olfactory Perception.

9:30

THE ELEPHANT AS THEORETICAL OTHER:

Tusk and Text: Reading the Elephant.

Straddling Temporalitites: Evolving Feminist Theory and the Grey female.

Elephant Positionalities: The (Re)articulation of Class, Race, and Trunk Typology.

11:00

THE ELEPHANT IN PACHYDERMOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE:

Recuperating Subjectivities: Conversations With An Elephant.

The Mouse and the Elephant: The Ambiguities of Hegemonicity.

Crashing Through the Forest: Valorizing the Self among Elephantine Others.

Voices and Trumpets: Heteroglossia and Polyphony.

12:30 - Lunch

THE ELEPHANT: INTERROGATING MULTI-CULTURAL RHETORICITIES:

The Elephant: Cyborg, Ethnicity, or "Species"?

(E)(L)(E)(P)(H)(A)(N)(T)? What's That?: Exploitation and the Rhetorical Strategies of Denial in Thai Forestry Camps

Viceroy-on-Elephant or Elephant-on-Viceroy? Accidents and the Uncertainties of Domination in some Durbars of the Late British Raj.

1:00

THE ELEPHANT AS EUROCENTRIC OBJECT:

The Elephant and the Lion: The Metaphoricity of Binarity in Early Medieval Texts.

"Hunting the Beloved Other": The Elephant as Paradigmatic Problematic of Conservationist Conversations in Theodore Roosevelt's African Memoirs.

Garage Sales and Elephants: A Dialogue of Contested Spaces.

2:30

THE ELEPHANT AS (POST)MODERNIST CONSTRICTION:

Hong Kong Ivory Traders: An Enabling Proposition in Tusk Commodification.

(Ele)phant and Pachy(derm): The Parenthetics of Typesetting Axiomatics.

Reading the Elephant and Eating the Bible: Christianity and the Post-Modernist Dilemma in Tropical Pachydermophagy.

4:00 Tea & Cookies

THE ELEPHANT AS LATE POSTMODERNIST CONSTRUCTION:

Post-Modern, (Post)Modern, or Postcontemporary Elephant? Epistemic Privileging and Discursive Spaces in MLA Debates.

Wild Elephant, Tamed Elephant, Zoo-Confined Elephant, Extinct Elephant:

Alternative Modernities for a Culturally-Constructed Ani(male).

Elephant Ears: Symbolic Excess in (Post)Nouvelle Pastry Culture.

Situating the Paradigmatic Other: The Elephant in Weight-Loss Discourse.

5:30

CONCLUSION - THE EXPISTEMIC MOMENT:

"Mon Dieu, Bourdieu!" "Foucault yourself!": Bad Temper and Cultural Enunciations in Academic Career-construction.

8:00 Reception and Dance



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