Other CTI Activities - Conferences

The following lists conferences and workshops organized by, or co-sponsored by, the CTI, in date order.

The Cultural Unconscious and the Post-Colonising Process.
A conference co-sponsored by the CTI, the Ashworth Program in Social Theory, U Melbourne, and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne.
Sept. 6, 7 and 8, 2003.
Co-organizers: Gabriele Schwab, John Cash

Derrida/Deleuze: Psychoanalysis, Territoriality, Politics
April 12 & 13, 2002
Organizer: Gabriele Schwab. Coordinators: Erin Ferris, Lisa Ness, Jay Haile

Reproductions: Literature, Theory, and Cultural Studies in Transformation
English & Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
May 12, 2001
Co-sponsored with the Department of English & Comparative Literature

International Conference on The Future of Literary Theory in China and the World
Co-sponsored with English Dept., Beijing Language and Culture U, Beijing
General Organizer: Wang Ning, Beijing
July 28 - August 1, 2000
Co-Organizer: Gabriele Schwab, UCI

Globalization, Culture and the Arts
CTI Mini-Conference featuring:
Etienne Balibar
(Philosophie, Politique et Morale, U. Paris-X, Nanterre)
Catherine David
(Chief Curator, Musées Nationaux de France, Artistic Director, Documenta X, 1997, Kassel)
Masao Miyoshi
(Literature, UC, San Diego)
January 20, 1999
Organizer: Gabriele Schwab. Co-sponsored with Art History

Charting Literary Anthropology: A Conference on the work of Wolfgang Iser
English & Comparative Literature Graduate Students Conference
May 21-22, 1999.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English & Comparative Literature, the Critical Theory Emphasis, and Humanities Center
Organizer: Graduate Students of English & Comparative Literature
Faculty Liaison: Alexander Gelley

House on Mango Street.
Taking its name from Cisneros' book, this was an Intersegmental Conference in preparation for “Bridging the Gaps,” 1996, exploring issues of voice, gender, narrative styles and metaphor, and critical perspectives in an effort to foster dialogue and enquiry and span both the segments of education and the boundaries of disciplines.
March 26, 1996
Organizer: John Carlos Rowe

Multiculturalism in the U.S. and Germany
Conference in relation to a German-American Collaborative Research Project, Multiculturalism, Transciplinarity, and Teaching in an Intercultural Perspective
June 1996

Multiculturalism and Public Policy
Conference at Center for European Studies at Georgetown U,
in relation to a German-American Collaborative Research Project
Multiculturalism, Transciplinarity, and Teaching in an Intercultural Perspective
October 1996

Cultural Studies and Public Polity in an International Context:
German and American Instances
Conference at Humboldt U,
in relation to a German-American Collaborative Research Project
Multiculturalism, Transciplinarity, and Teaching in an Intercultural Perspective

Critical Theory Emphasis Program and Philosophy Department
Panel Discussion featuring, Kevin Mulligan, David Smith, Martin
Schwab, Ermano Bencevenga, and Penelope Maddy
February 24, 1993

The Question of Practice Today
Graduate Student Conference
May 21, 1988
Co-sponsored with English and Comparative Literature