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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