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Empire, Imperial Discourses, and Global Hegemonies

Chair: Nerissa Balce, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

 

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Bill Robinson, Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

“The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking on It”                                        

 

Vijay Prashad, International Relations, Trinity College.   

“The Assassination of the Third World”

                                

Joan Cocks, Political Science, Mount Holyoke College.

“Beyond Empire & the Nation State: Said & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”

 

Santiago Slabdosky, Religious Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

“Re/Dis-Placing Evil and the project of Modern Re-Colonization of Spiritualities from Immanuel Kant to George W. Bush”

 

Khaldoun Samman, Sociology, Macalester College.

“Identities in Times of Systemic Crisis: Orientalizing the Self in the Middle East”