Conference Schedule:
Note: all conference events will be held in Haskell Hall on the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus.Friday, April 25th, 2008
18:00-18:30
18:00-18:30
Opening Reception
Haskell Hall Mezzanine18:30-19:45
Keynote Address
Haskell
Hall 315
Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis
Joseph Masco
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis
Joseph Masco
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
08:30-09:00
Light Breakfast
Haskell Hall
Mezzanine
09:00-11:30
09:00-11:30
Session I: Categories of Conflict and Coercion:
The Blue, the Green, and the Other
Haskell Hall 315
Introduction: Beatrice Jauregui
The Blue-in-Green: Countering Insurgency by Civil-izing Security
Beatrice Jauregui
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Blue Helmets, Black Masks: Policing and Provisionality in Haiti, 2004-2006
Greg Beckett
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence:
A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict
Paola Castaño
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Small Wars and Counterinsurgency
James L. Hevia
Director, International Studies, University of Chicago
The Moral Economy of War: Galula Fetishism and its Consequences for Pax Americana
John D. Kelly
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
11:30-11:45
Introduction: Beatrice Jauregui
The Blue-in-Green: Countering Insurgency by Civil-izing Security
Beatrice Jauregui
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Blue Helmets, Black Masks: Policing and Provisionality in Haiti, 2004-2006
Greg Beckett
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence:
A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict
Paola Castaño
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Small Wars and Counterinsurgency
James L. Hevia
Director, International Studies, University of Chicago
The Moral Economy of War: Galula Fetishism and its Consequences for Pax Americana
John D. Kelly
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
11:30-11:45
Break
11:45-13:45
Session
II: Ethnographic Experiences of American Power in the Age of the
“War on Terror”
Haskell Hall 315
Introduction: Jeremy Walton
Paranoid Styles of Nationalism After the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon
Sean T. Mitchell
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Inclement Storms, Hungry Wolves: Consuming the War on Terror in Contemporary Turkey
Jeremy Walton
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time in Southern California
Mihir Pandya
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Passports, News, & Weapons:
The Intimacy of U.S. Power in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank
Amahl Bishara
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
13:45-14:45
Introduction: Jeremy Walton
Paranoid Styles of Nationalism After the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon
Sean T. Mitchell
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Inclement Storms, Hungry Wolves: Consuming the War on Terror in Contemporary Turkey
Jeremy Walton
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time in Southern California
Mihir Pandya
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Passports, News, & Weapons:
The Intimacy of U.S. Power in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank
Amahl Bishara
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
13:45-14:45
Lunch
Haskell Hall
Mezzanine
14:45-15:45
14:45-15:45
Plenary Address
Haskell Hall 315
Soft Power, Hard Power and the Anthropological “Leveraging” of Cultural “Assets”:
Distilling the Theory, Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency
David Price
Department of Anthropology, Saint Martin's University
15:45-16:00
Soft Power, Hard Power and the Anthropological “Leveraging” of Cultural “Assets”:
Distilling the Theory, Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency
David Price
Department of Anthropology, Saint Martin's University
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-18:30
Session
III (Part 1): Destructions and Constructions of Conscience:
Counterinsurgency and the Study of Culture
Haskell Hall 315
Introduction: John D. Kelly
Anthropology for the (Military) Masses: Observations of an Intellectual Insurgent
Brian R. Selmeski
Air Force Culture & Language Center / Air University
Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: US Military in Iraq
Rochelle Davis
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
Christopher T. Nelson
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier
Kevin Caffrey
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Commentary on Engagements With the Military
Kerry Fosher
Command Social Scientist, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
Introduction: John D. Kelly
Anthropology for the (Military) Masses: Observations of an Intellectual Insurgent
Brian R. Selmeski
Air Force Culture & Language Center / Air University
Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: US Military in Iraq
Rochelle Davis
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
Christopher T. Nelson
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier
Kevin Caffrey
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Commentary on Engagements With the Military
Kerry Fosher
Command Social Scientist, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
Sunday, April 27th
08:30-09:00
Light
Breakfast
Haskell Hall
Mezzanine
09:00-12:00
09:00-12:00
Session
III (Part 2): Destructions and Constructions of Conscience:
Counterinsurgency and the Study of Culture
Haskell Hall 315
Chair: Marshall Sahlins
Repetition Compulsion?: Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam
Kurt Jacobsen
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror
Hugh Gusterson
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, George Mason University
"Human Terrain" and Indirect Rule: Theoretical, Practical, and Ethical Concerns
Roberto J. Gonzalez
Department of Anthropology, San Jose State University
The 'Bad' Kill or Another Predictable Tragedy in Iraq?
Jeff Bennett
Department of Anthropology and Religious Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City
The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age
Dustin M. Wax
Department of Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
12:00-12:15
12:15-13:00
Chair: Marshall Sahlins
Repetition Compulsion?: Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam
Kurt Jacobsen
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror
Hugh Gusterson
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, George Mason University
"Human Terrain" and Indirect Rule: Theoretical, Practical, and Ethical Concerns
Roberto J. Gonzalez
Department of Anthropology, San Jose State University
The 'Bad' Kill or Another Predictable Tragedy in Iraq?
Jeff Bennett
Department of Anthropology and Religious Studies, University of Missouri, Kansas City
The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age
Dustin M. Wax
Department of Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
12:00-12:15
Break
12:15-13:00
Final Session (with lunch): Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency:
an
Open Discussion
Haskell Hall 315
Moderator: Sean T. Mitchell
Moderator: Sean T. Mitchell
For more information, contact: seantmitch at gmail dot com