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Transmissions:
Globalization, Technology, Media
April 25-27, 2002
Hefter
Conference Center
(unless otherwise
indicated)
3271 N. Lake Drive
Milwaukee, WI 53211
[Map & Directions to All Sites]
Thu,
April 25 | Fri, April 26 |
Sat, April 27, 2002
April 25, 2002
6:00-7:30 | Electronic Art
Rejane Spitz, PUC Rio University, Brazil,
"Techknowledge - its high time we incorporate experience and
diversity into those chips" (Curtin Hall 175 - 3243 N. Downer Ave)
7:30-9:00
| Reception (inova
- 3245 N. Downer Ave)

April 26, 2002
8:00-8:45 | Breakfast (UWM Hefter Center - 3271 N. Lake Drive)
8:45-9:15 |
Introduction: Patrice Petro and Tasha Oren
9:15-10:45
| Cultural Policy and Globalization
Toby Miller, New York University,
"The New International Division of Cultural Labor"
Ben Goldsmith, Australian Key Centre,
"Cultural Diversity and Globalization: New Challenges for Cultural Policy"
10:45-11:00
| Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
| Cultural Control, Cultural Evasion
Leonard Foner, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, "Crypto Regs, Copyright Grabs, and Computational Monocultures:
Fear, Greed and Destruction of the Digital Commons"
Roger Sugden, University of Birmingham,
UK, "Economic Network Governance"
12:30-1:30
| Lunch
1:30-3:00 |
Television Flows
Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame,
"Negotiating the Future: Local Media Markets in a Transnational Enviroment"
Jerome Bourdon, Tel Aviv
University, "Is Television a Global Medium? A Historical View"
3:00-3:15 |
Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 |
Free Exchange?
Brian Larkin, Columbia University,
"Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Materiality of Media Transmission"
Sandra Braman, University of
Alabama, "Globalization of the Law: Digital Information Technologies and the Post-Law
Era"
4:45-7:30 |
Dinner Break
7:30-9:00 | Pengachu
to the People!
Rehmi Post, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, "Computer Hardware and the Future of Globalization"
9:00-10:30
| Reception

April 27, 2002
8:15-9:15 |
Breakfast
9:15-10:45
| Internet Activism and Minority Publics
Annabelle Sreberny, University of
Leicester, UK , "Unsuitable Coverage
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Anna Everett, University of
California-Santa Barbara, "The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Afrocentricity and the
Digital Public Sphere"
10:45-11:00
| Coffee Beak
11:00-12:30
| Global Appropriations
Mark Poster, University of
California-Irvine, "Cultural Transmissions: The Case of Bert Laden"
Timothy Taylor, Columbia
University, "Collecting, Consumption, and Curatorship in the Music of Bill
Laswell"
12:30-1:30
| Lunch
1:30-3:00 |
Living Online
Peter Sands, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "Hybridity"
Steve Jones, University of
Illinois-Chicago, "@henryparkesmotel.com"
3:00- 3:15
| Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 |
Genres and the Transnational Economy
Patricia Mellencamp, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, "Economies of Fear: Death and the Market"
Anne Ciecko, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, "Muscles, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence: The New
Asian Movie Star in a Global Economy of Masculine Images"
Locations & Directions
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Sponsored by the UWM Center for International Education, in
co-sponsorship with inova
and the Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, the conference is organized by Tasha Oren and Patrice Petro at cie@csd.uwm.edu,
414-299-3757. Transmissions site pages designed by Ikeda.
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