Kroeber Anthropological Society
University of California, Berkeley
Translocalities: Borders, Boundaries, and the Making of Sites
April 4th-5th, 2003
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
Friday, April 4th
10:15-10:30 Introduction and Welcome
10:30-12:00 Invited Speaker: Gastón Gordillo,
Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada.
"Inscribing History in the Forests that Once
Were Grasslands: The Making of Nature on the
Argentinean-Paraguayan Border”
Discussant: Michael Watts, Geography and Institute
of International Studies, University of
California, Berkeley.
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Dynamics of Space: Embodiment,
Intersubjectivity, and Reappropriation
Robin Balliger, Social and Cultural Anthropology,
Stanford University.
“Word, Sound, and Power: Reterritorializing
Urban Space in Trinidad”
Timothy Webmoor, Archeology Center, Stanford
University.
“Mediational Technologies and Conceptual
Frameworks in Archeology: Bounding Space at Teotihucán,
Mexico”
Vincent Miller, Sociology, University of
Lancaster, UK.
“The Unmappable: Vague Enclaves and
Urban Experience”
Discussant: TBA
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Invited Speaker:
Patricia Baquedano-López, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture,
Graduate
School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
“Liminal Space and the Discourse of Imagination:
Rehearsal and Religious Ceremony in Catholic Education
Classes (doctrina) for Mexican Children”
Discussant: Laura Nader, Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley.
5:00-6:00 Reception
“Exploring Scenes of Representation” –
photographs of Johan Goeteyn
Saturday, April 5th
11:00-12:30 Emerging Sites: Utopias, Boundary Regimes,
and Site as Process
Kregg Hetherington, Anthropology, University
of California, Davis.
“Building Utopia on a Moving Landscape:
Questions for an Anthropology of the Paraguayan Frontier”
George Gavrilis, Political Science, Columbia
University.
“Border Guards, Bandits, and Diplomats:
The Making of the Ottoman-Greek Boundary Regime”
Timoteo Rodríguez, Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley.
“Conjunctures in the Making of an Ancient
Maya Archeological Site”
Discussant: Rosemary Joyce, Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley.
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Invited Speaker:
John DuBois, Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Self Other Boundary: The Dialogic Moment
in the Rhetoric of Stance"
Discussant: William F. Hanks, Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley.
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 Earthquakes in a Stable
Landscape: Mobile Populations and Shifting Identities
John Ertl, Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley.
“Making Japan Multicultural: Shifting
Narrative Constructions of Japaneseness”
Heather Hindman, Center for the Study of
Politics, History, and Culture, University of Chicago.
“Stability in Motion: Expatriate Topographies”
Patricia Taber, Anthropology, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
“Breaching Borders: Middle-Class Women Entrepreneurs
and the Deterritorialization of Gender in a South
Indian Society”
Discussant: Aihwa Ong, Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley.