4-0885 AFTER EXTINCTION: ECONOMIES OF END TIMES, ETHNOGRAPHIES OF EMERGENCE

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: John F Collins (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center) and Genese M Sodikoff (Rutgers University)

Chairs: Genese M Sodikoff (Rutgers University)

Discussants: J .Peter Brosius (University of Georgia) and Shannon L Dawdy (University of Chicago)

13:45

Bearing Witness to Bare Life: Counter-Geographies of the "Extinction" of the Sinixt Peoples

Sean Robertson (Simon Fraser University)

14:00

Two Rivers: A Comparison of Strategies to Save the Wild Salmon

Benedict J Colombi (University of Arizona) and Gro B Ween (University of Oslo)

14:15

Vital World: Life On the Line

Rosemary J Coombe (York University)

14:30

Seascape of Insecurity: Mediterranean Imaginaries In the Age of Ecocide

Tracey Heatherington (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)

14:45

Futures Entombed: Properly Historical Subjects, Living Human Treasure, and the Incorporation of History In Salvador, Brazil's World Heritage Center

John F Collins (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

15:00

Break

15:15

Discourse of Loss and Restitution, and the Politics of Language Revitalization

Miki Makihara (Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center)

15:30

Necessary Fantasies: Reproducing Extinction In Guaquería’s Theater of the Bizarre

Les Field (University of New Mexico)

15:45

On the Edge: Specters of Extinction and Visions of Return In Rural Alaska

Karen E Hebert (Yale University)

16:00

Zombie Ecology: Biodiversity Loss and Anachronism In Madagascar

Genese M Sodikoff (Rutgers University)

16:15

Discussant

J .Peter Brosius (University of Georgia)

16:30

Discussant

Shannon L Dawdy (University of Chicago)

16:45

Discussion

17:00

Discussion

17:15

Discussion

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