> Transnational Space and the Politics of Place > May 8-9, 2009 > UCLA Campus > > Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities "Cultures in > Transnational Perspective" > Third Annual Conference > > Featuring a Keynote Speech by Edward Soja > > Website: Annual Mellon Conference - UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral > Program in the Humanities > > The concept of space is central to reflecting on transnational > communities that share languages, media or texts rather than > physical terrain. Theories of transnational space are also > instrumental in order to account for those who have been expelled > from their land or remain on the margins of their new cities. How > are space and place conceptualized within these various communities > and their cultural productions? Artists and intellectuals sketch new > spatial imaginaries in their work by destabilizing prevailing > discourses on space and place, thus laying the groundwork for the > revision of those discourses. Through translation and mediation, > furthermore, the circulation of discourse transnationally generates > new spatial metaphors of encounter and dialogue. Yet the processes > by which these map onto particular histories are shaped, too, by > inequities of power. Consequently, transnational imaginaries are > sites of contention as well as recognition. This conference shall > take a closer look at both the politics of place and the circulation > of spatial knowledge in transnational context, in order to raise new > questions about the broader claims of transnational spatial > discourses today. > > > Friday, May 8, 2009, Royce Hall 306 > > 9:15 am > Welcome, Royce Hall 306 > Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, co-directors, UCLA Mellon > Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities > > 9:30 am to 12:00 pm > THE VISUAL, THE MOBILE, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL: ARCHITECTURES OF > SPATIAL THOUGHT > Moderator: Liz Constable, (University of California, Davis) > > Greg Cohen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA) > "City of the Planalto: The Filmic Brasília and the Nature of Late- > Modern Spatiality" > > Travis Workman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "Bilingual Writer as Architect: Intensive Space and Lyricism in Yi > Sang's Poetry" > > Tom Conley, (Harvard University) > "Space in Transit: On Geographies of Film Noir" > > 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm > Lunch Break > > 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm > NETWORKS, AND SPATIAL REGIMES: EMBEDDED POWER AND PERFORMANCE > INTERVENTION > Moderator: Shanna Lorenz, (Occidental College) > > Marcela Fuentes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "From Site-specific to Locative Arts: Placing Artistic Gestures in > Transnational Context" > > Sarah Valentine, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "Shifting Borders in End-of-the-Soviet-Era Film" > > Dorita Hannah, Professor of Spatial Design (Massey University) > "Black Wi(n)dow: Architectural Performativity and Spatial Cruelty" > > 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm > Coffee Break > > 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm: Keynote Speech, Royce Hall 314 > Edward Soja, (UCLA) > "Struggles Over Geography: On the Spatial Turn in the Human Sciences" > Introduction: Greg Cohen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > > Saturday, May 9, Royce Hall 306 > > 9:30 am to 12:00 pm - PANEL ONE: RACING RELIGION IN (POST)NATIONAL > SPACES > Moderator, Sondra Hale, (UCLA) > > Fatima El-Tayeb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "Cosmopolitanism and the Construction of Muslim Identity in > 'Postsecular' Europe" > > Sze wei Ang, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "Narritivizing Monotheism" > > Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, (Emory University) > "Identity and Self-Determination: Authority is in the Eyes of the > Beholder" > > 12:00 pm -1:30 pm > Lunch break > > 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm > GENDERED MODERNITY IN A TRANSNATIONAL ARAB WORLD > Moderator: Karina Eileraas, (UCLA) > > Maya Boutaghou, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "Translation in Desired Transnational Spaces: Mayy Ziyada in Cairo" > > Sonali Pahwa, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, (UCLA) > "Gendering Space in Transnational Media: Women's Talk Shows on Arab > Satellite Television." > > Ronald Judy, (University of Pittsburgh) > "Imagining an Arabization of Global English-language Literary Theory" > > 4:00 pm > Closing Reception > > Free and open to the public > Seating limited to first come, first served > All-day parking ($9) available at the parking kiosk on Sunset Blvd. > and Westwood Plaza.