[antiwar-van] Wars at home, wars abroad: imperialism in everday life

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

The Wars at Home, The Wars Abroad: Imperialism in Everyday Life
February 25-27, 2005, victoria
                                                                                                                                               Friday,
February
25
Location: Fairfield Community Centre, 1330 Fairfield Rd., Gary Oakes Room
(entrance on Thurlow Road. – one block north of Fairfield)

6:00 -- 7:00 Dinner
7:00 -- 9:00 Speakers
Introductions: James Tully
Prayer Ceremony and Welcome to the Territory
Keynote Speaker: Steven Flusty, "The Banality of Neo-Imperialism "


Saturday, February 26
Location: Graduate Students' Centre
3800 Finnerty Road
University of Victoria, BC
V8W 3P3

8:30 -- 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 -- 10:30 Roundtable Discussion: Defining Imperialism(s)
* Arthur Manuel, Skwelkwek'welt Protection Centre
* Harsha Walia, No One Is Illegal, Vancouver
* Anthony Fenton, Canadian Intervention into Haiti, Vancouver

10:30 -- 10:45 Break
10:45 -- 12:30 Panel 1
* Stephen Cody Bentley , "Global Food Sovereignty: A Diversity of
Resistance to the Agrarian Empire”
* Robert Huish , "World Social Forum: A Network of Dreams and
Disappointments: Reflections from Porto Alegre"
* Dina Khorasanee : "New Sociabilties in Argentina: The MTD Solano"

12:30 -- 1:30 Lunch
1:30 -- 3:30 Plenary Session
* A Dialogue Between Richard Day and GlenCoulthard,
"10,000 Red Rivers: Anarcho-Indigenism Today”

3:30 -- 3:45 Break
3:45 -- 5:30 Panel 2
* Jennifer Delisle , "Indigenization and Gender in Contemporary
Newfoundland Literature"
* Alice Ridout : "All This Water Imagery Must Mean Something: Sarah Hall's
Haweswater and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water"


Sunday, February 27
Graduate Students' Centre
3800 Finnerty Road
University of Victoria, BC
V8W 3P3

9:00 -- 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 -- 11:15 Panel 3

* Katie Kulla , “The Burka and the Odalisque: Post 9/11 American
Relationships with and Constructions of the Arab Woman”
* Dalia Eltayeb , “Gendered Nationalism: The Case of Fanon’s Algeria”
* Kurt Heinrich , “A Barrel of Rotten Apples: American Imperialism in
Okinawa”

11:15 -- 11:30 Break
11:30 -- 12:30 Workshops (Simultaneous)
* Jessie Sutherland , Worldviewing Strategies: Skill Training
* Naava Smolesh , Anti-Imperial Media: Screenings and Discussion

12:30 -- 1:30 Lunch

1:30 -- 3:00 Panel 4
* Stefanie Fishel , “The Laughing Corpse: Is Empire Animating Spirit of
Humanitarianism?”
* Chris Hurl , "Anti-Imperialism, Diversity of Tactics, and the
Anti-Hegemonic Hegemony"

3:00 -- 3:15 Break
3:15 -- 5:00 Concluding Panel and Discussion