Thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation, Susannah Heschel will convene a conference at Dartmouth on The Gaze and the Veil: Surveillance and the Legacies of Orientalism, February 29 to March 2, 2008. The conference will examine three sets of issues, all of which are intertwined: contemporary manifestations of surveillance, in political, cultural, and religious terms; veiling and related manifestations of concealment and the gaze, with special attention to gender and sexuality; and the legacies of orientalist discourse that shape contemporary political culture and public policy.
Friday, February 29
1-2:45pm
Haldeman 41
WELCOME
Susannah Heschel, Religion, Dartmouth College
Adrian Randolph, Art History and Director, Alan and Fannie Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College
Alison Bernstein, Vice President, The Ford Foundation
SESSION 1: Political Theologies of Surveillance
Moderator: Patricia McKee, English, Dartmouth College
Kathleen Biddick, History, Temple University, The Political Theology of the Panopticon
J. Kameron Carter, Religion, Duke University, Language and Surveillance: José de Acosta and the Production of the Amerindian as Religious Object
2:45-3pm Coffee
3-4:45pm SESSION 2: Surveillance, America, and Islam
Haldeman 41
Moderator: Nancy Frankenberry, Religion, Dartmouth College
Ali Behdad, UCLA, Neo-Orientalism
Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, Muslim Immigrants and the Micropolitics of State Vigilantism
4:45-5pm Coffee
5-6pm SESSION 3: Guantanamo Prison and the Military Tribunals
Haldeman 41
Moderator: Gene Garthwaite, History, Dartmouth College
Steve Vladeck, American University Law School, Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld: The Separation of Powers and the Marginalization of Individual Rights
6pm Reception: Russo Gallery, Haldeman Hall
(sponsored by Leslie Humanities Center)
SATURDAY, March 1
9-12pm SESSION 4: The Oriental Gaze
Haldeman 41
Moderator: Angela Rosenthal, Art History, Dartmouth College
Bettina Mathes, Comparative Literature, Penn State University, Ex Occidente Looks: Iconophilia, Surveillance and the Politics of Defloration
Kecia Ali, Religion, Boston University, Closed Curtains and Locked Doors: Privacy and the Presumption of Intercourse in Early Islamic Texts
Meyda Yegenoglu, Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Veiled Threats: Religion, Visibility and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance
12-1pm Lunch
1-3pm SESSION 5: Veiled and Unveiled
Haldeman 41
Moderator: Txetxu Aguado, Spanish, Dartmouth College
Judith Halberstam, English, UC San Diego, Unveiled: Transgender Film and Performance
Lynn Higgins, French, Dartmouth College, 'Comment peut-on être français?' Figures of the Hidden in Michael Haneke's Film, Caché
3-6pm SESSION 6: Shifting Gazes
Haldeman 41
Moderator: Ned Lebow, Government, Dartmouth College
Richard Gottlieb, Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Looking and Being Looked at: Mutual Surveillance in Psychoanalysis
Anat Biletzki, Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Moral Surveillance as Political Action: The Case of Checkpoint Watch
Barbara Will, English, Dartmouth College, The Aesthetics of Surveillance
SUNDAY, March 2
8am-12pm SESSION 7: Afterlives of Orientalism
Haldeman 124
Moderator: Cecilia Gaposchkin, History, Dartmouth College
Commentator: Dale Eickelman, Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Adnan Husain, History, Queen's University, The Muslim Question: Mediterranean History and the Surveillance of Difference
Julie Kalman, School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Historicising Orientalism: The French, the Jews, and the Gaze
Charles Price, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Rastafari in the News: Surveillance and Acts of Ascribing a Stigmatized Identity
Jonathan Smolin, Middle East Languages, Dartmouth College, For Your Security: Policing and State Advertising in Contemporary Morocco
