Media, Performance, and Identity in World Perspective
MPI Research Circle

Performing Identities: Global Media in Local Spaces
An International Workshop

November 20-22, 1998

5055 Vilas Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Please note: Copies of selected papers can be found online by clicking on hyperlinked paper titles in the program below.


Friday, November 20
8:45 AM Coffee and Donuts
9:05 AM Opening Remarks by R. Anderson Sutton, Co-director of the Media, Performance, and Identity Research Circle, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:15 - 11:45 AM

First Session: Media Theory and Media Policy: Local Takes on Globalization, Chair: Hemant Shah, UW-Madison

  • "Civilizing Mission? Satellite Television in Senegal." Jo Ellen Fair, Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • "Government Media Policy and Local Practice: A Perspective from West Africa." Abdou Latif Coulibaly, Institut Supérieur des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication, Dakar, Senegal.

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

  • "Pirate Modernity? Theorizing the New Media in Contemporary India." Ravi Sundaram, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
  • "The Market's Subject? The Identity of the Telecommunications Worker in the Context of Liberalization in India." Paula Chakravartty, Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1:30-4:00 PM

Second Session: Music, Media, and Local Agency, Chair: Al Gunther, UW-Madison

  • "From the Prehistory of Globalization: Orality and Literacy among 'the serbs.'" Toma Longinovi, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • "The Great Indian Psychoanalytic Show: Music, Television, and Global Youth Cultures in India." Shanti Kumar, Department of Radio, Television, and Film, University of North Texas, Denton.

2:30-2:45 Coffee Break


Saturday, November 21
9:00-11:30 AM

Third Session: Media, Space, and Gender Chair, Ksenija Bilbija, UW-Madison

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

  • "Fashion, Desire, and Dance in the City: The Vamp and Beyond." Ranjani Mazumdar, New York University.
  • "The Map and the Icon: Cassandra on the Battlefield." Branka Arsi, Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.
1:00-4:00 PM

Fourth Session: Roundtable Discussion on Examples of Mediated Performances Chair, Tomislav Longinovic, UW-Madison

  • ""Seung Hwa": Creating Asian American Dance," Video showing and discussion of original work by Peggy Myo-Young Choy, Dance Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Indian Film Excerpts, Video showing and discussion with Ranjani Mazumdar, New York University.
  • Indonesian Music Video Clips, Video showing and discussion with R. Anderson Sutton, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Open session for international participants to show media examples as stimulus for discussion.

Sunday, November 22
9:30-11:30 AM

Fifth Session: Open Discussion - Toward an International, Collaborative Agenda for Research on Media, Performance, and Identity

11:30 AM Closing Remarks by Hemant Shah, Co-director of the Media, Performance, and Identity Research Circle; Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, UW-Madison.

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