Transnationalism, Travel, and Desire:
The 21st Burdick-Vary Symposium

February 6-7, 1998
State Historical Society
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, February 6

9:30-12:00
Morning Session
Opening Remarks: Susan Stanford Friedman

9:30-10:30
Rudy Koshar , History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Nation Travels: Tourism in Nazi Germany"
Kirin Narayan , Anthropoly, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Flirting Across Borders: Anthropologists and Fiction"

10:45-12:00
Inderpal Grewal , Women's Studies, San Francisco State University
"Women's Rights as Human Rights: Feminist Practices and Human Rights Regimes in Transnationality"

1:30-4:15
Afternoon Session

1:30-2:45
Joseph A. Boone , English, University of Southern California
"Acting Out in Alexandria: Travel Notes From Egypt"

3:00-4:15
Neil L. Whitehead , Anthropolgy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Mayden America and Manlie Europe--Sexuality and Colonial Discovery in the New World"
James S. Moy, Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"'Fierce Desires': Mapping Anglo-American Constructions of Asian Sexuality"

Saturday, February 7

9:30-11:30
Workshop Session
A Student-Organized Discussion with the Conference Speakers
Open to Everyone

6:30
Conference Potluck
At the home of Susan and Ed Friedman

Featured Speakers

Joseph A. Boone is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Known for his work in narrative theory, the history of the novel in Englihs, feminist and gender criticism, and queer theory, Professor Boone is the author of Tradition-Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction (1987), Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism (1997), and the co-editor of Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism (1990). He is at work on a book entitled The Homoerotics of Orientalism: Mappings of Male Desire in Near East Narrative , from which his paper for this conference will be drawn.

Inderpal Grewal is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at San Francisco State University. A leader in feminist transnational theory and cultural studies, she has written on British and Indian travel writing in the colonial period. Professor Grewal in the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan) of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (1994) and the author of Home and Harem: Nastion, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Trave l (1996). She is at work on an interdisciplinary text in women's studies in transnational context.

Sponsored by The Border Studies Research Circle, with funding from the Burdick/Vary Trust, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the International Institute.