2-0720 PROBLEMATIC LEGACIES AND OPPOSITIONAL HISTORIES: CONTENTIOUS USES OF AND ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE PAST

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-20:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Ian R Wilson (Syracuse University)

Chairs: Irene M Silverblatt (Duke University) and Ian R Wilson (Syracuse University)

18:00

Ghosts and Ancestors In Viet Nam’s Post-Conflict Cosmological Landscape

Marina Marouda (SOAS, University of London)

18:15

Enacting the Never-Was: Constituting the Past, Present, and Future In Steampunk

Suzanne M Barber (Indiana University) and Matthew L Hale (Indiana University )

18:30

Confronting Nationalisms In Western Ukraine: Politics of Memory and Future Politics In Chernivtsi

Irene M Silverblatt (Duke University)

18:45

Hong Kong’s Floating Identity: Cultural Politics, History, and Science During the 2009 Pandemic

Theresa MacPhail (New York University)

19:00

Ten Percent of What It Used to Be: The Past and Creativity In a Musical Religious Community

Jeff M Piatt (University of California, Berkley)

19:15

Yoga In Our Blood, Yoga In Our Land: Making Globalized Yoga Indian

Laurah E Klepinger-Mathew (Syracuse University)

19:30

Development and the Making of Competing Hindu and Buddhist Histories In Bodhgaya, India

Jason A Rodriguez (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

19:45

Celebrating History and Its Lack: National History and Local Memory of the Kingdom of Bharatpur In the Rethinking of the Jat Community

Ian R Wilson (Syracuse University)

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