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who says the left can't laugh? wonderful stuff from a marxist
list....enjoy...
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THE ELEPHANT AND CULTURAL STUDIES
8:00 - Coffee and Tea
THE ELEPHANT AS "PHYSICAL" OTHER:
Does the Elephant Exist? Zoological Hegemony vs. Cultural
Fabrication.
Pachyderm "Evolution": Eurochronicities and Eurocentric
Linearity in the Late (Post)Modern Zoological Script.
Tracking the Elephant Through Texts: Western Visuality vs.
Olfactory Perception.
9:30
THE ELEPHANT AS THEORETICAL OTHER:
Tusk and Text: Reading the Elephant.
Straddling Temporalitites: Evolving Feminist Theory and the
Grey female.
Elephant Positionalities: The (Re)articulation of Class, Race,
and Trunk Typology.
11:00
THE ELEPHANT IN PACHYDERMOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE:
Recuperating Subjectivities: Conversations With An Elephant.
The Mouse and the Elephant: The Ambiguities of Hegemonicity.
Crashing Through the Forest: Valorizing the Self among
Elephantine Others.
Voices and Trumpets: Heteroglossia and Polyphony.
12:30 - Lunch
THE ELEPHANT: INTERROGATING MULTI-CULTURAL RHETORICITIES:
The Elephant: Cyborg, Ethnicity, or "Species"?
(E)(L)(E)(P)(H)(A)(N)(T)? What's That?: Exploitation and the
Rhetorical Strategies of Denial in Thai Forestry Camps
Viceroy-on-Elephant or Elephant-on-Viceroy? Accidents and the
Uncertainties of Domination in some Durbars of the Late British Raj.
1:00
THE ELEPHANT AS EUROCENTRIC OBJECT:
The Elephant and the Lion: The Metaphoricity of Binarity in
Early Medieval Texts.
"Hunting the Beloved Other": The Elephant as Paradigmatic
Problematic of Conservationist Conversations in Theodore Roosevelt's
African Memoirs.
Garage Sales and Elephants: A Dialogue of Contested Spaces.
2:30
THE ELEPHANT AS (POST)MODERNIST CONSTRICTION:
Hong Kong Ivory Traders: An Enabling Proposition in Tusk
Commodification.
(Ele)phant and Pachy(derm): The Parenthetics of Typesetting
Axiomatics.
Reading the Elephant and Eating the Bible: Christianity and
the Post-Modernist Dilemma in Tropical Pachydermophagy.
4:00 Tea & Cookies
THE ELEPHANT AS LATE POSTMODERNIST CONSTRUCTION:
Post-Modern, (Post)Modern, or Postcontemporary Elephant?
Epistemic Privileging and Discursive Spaces in MLA Debates.
Wild Elephant, Tamed Elephant, Zoo-Confined Elephant, Extinct
Elephant:
Alternative Modernities for a Culturally-Constructed Ani(male).
Elephant Ears: Symbolic Excess in (Post)Nouvelle Pastry
Culture.
Situating the Paradigmatic Other: The Elephant in Weight-Loss
Discourse.
5:30
CONCLUSION - THE EXPISTEMIC MOMENT:
"Mon Dieu, Bourdieu!" "Foucault yourself!": Bad Temper and
Cultural Enunciations in Academic Career-construction.
8:00 Reception and Dance
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