| Epistemologies
of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites
The 5th Annual CLTC Graduate Student Conference
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 6th, 2007, Centennial House
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Conference Schedule
Thursday, April 5, 2007
4:00 - 6:00 PM - Panel on Latin American Drama (New Theater
and Dance Building, Room 2517)
6:00 - 7:30 PM - Staged
Reading: Griselda Gambaro, "Information for Foreigners"
(Humanities and Social Science Building 1143)
Friday, April 6, 2007
8:30 - 9:00 - Coffee and Pastries
9:00 -10:30 - Torture and Representation
Mac Oliver, "A Reckoning in a Little Room: Literary
Spooks" (English)
Allison Schifani, "Performing Torture: The Record
and the Voice in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden"
(Comparative Literature)
Chris Lee, "Torture and Technology"
(Comparative Literature)
Moderated by Karen Bishop (Comparative Literature)
10:30 -10:45 - Break
10:45-12:15 - Torture and Political Engagement
S. Jovian Radheshwar, "Torture, War Strategy and Democratic
Societies in the era of Hegemonic Politics and Global Intervention"
(Political Science)
Timothy O. Linehan, "The Right Not to Be Tortured
as an Absolute Human Right: Two Opposing Views From Distinct
Spheres of Inquiry" (Philosophy)
Ly Chong Thong Jalao, "Torture and Colonial Liberation
in Laos: Hmong Refugees and the Fiction of Truth" (English)
Moderated by Eric Martinsen (English)
12:15 - 1:45 - Lunch Break
1:45 - 3:15 - Torture and Spectacle
Hank Willenbrink, "Torturing Simulation in American
Hell House" (Dramatic Arts)
Stefka Hristova, "Consumption in Martha Rosler's photomontage
Election (Lynndie)" (Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
Eric L. Martinsen, "Reading Torture and Tortured Readings
in Barthelme’s “Indian Uprising” and Hagedorn's
Dogeaters" (English)
Moderated by Mac Test (English)
3:30 - 4:45 - Keynote
Speakers: Alicia Partnoy and Gail Wronsky
4:45 - 5:45 - Reception
This event is a part of the Critical Issues
in America series:
Torture
and the Future
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