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Seventh Annual International Social Theory Conference Theorizing Power post 9/11
hosted by the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech
The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Roanoke, Virginia May 18-21, 2006

Thursday, May 18
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Registration
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Plenary
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Wolfgang Natter* Virginia Tech	Aims and Aspirations for the Conference and the Consortium
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 1
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Expertise	Joe Pitt, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Charles* *Gattone* University of Florida	The Public Role of the Social Scientist
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Garrett Graddy* University of Kentucky	Place-based Economic and Ecological Expertise in a Global Market Strategy
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Stephen* *Turner* University of South Florida	High Politics of Expertise
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Resistance, Dissent and Radical Pluralism	Betty Fine, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Marcy Schnitzer* Virginia Tech	Radical Pluralism, Homo Sacer, and the Subaltern: Reconstituting the Field of Democracy
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Susan* *Brophy* York University	Theorizing Dissent
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Robin Taylor* Virginia Tech	French Resistance to GMOs: A Battle on Many Fronts
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Exile, Piety and Romanticisms post 9/11	Scott Nelson, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Brent* *Adkins* Roanoke College	Now more than ever: The intensification of piety and cynicism after 9/11
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Jim Klagge* Virginia Tech	The Metaphor of Exile
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Isis* *I. Leslie* The George Washington University	Two Romanticisms
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Break
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 2
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Poverty, Gender, Health	Peter Schmitthenner, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Bijoy Krishna Banik* The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague	Does the government's Policy on HIV/AIDS address the real issue in Bangladesh?
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Suchitra Samanta* Virginia Tech	Understanding "dowry violence" in the context of impoverished women's lives in India
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Globalization and Neo-liberalism	Charles Gattone, Chair University of Florida
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Alex Teodorescu* Virginia Tech	Neoliberalism and Democracy: A modest Case for Nationalism
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Courtney Powell Thomas* Virginia Tech	Politicization, Deadlock, and Dispute: the Impacts and Implications of Post-1995 Linkages Between the Codex and the World Trade Organization
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Xi Chen* Virginia Tech	The Effects of Globalization on Media Practices in the PRC
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Where is the locus of power in the state and nationalism?	Tom Ewing, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Scott Nelson* Virginia Tech	Bio-Political Nationalism
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Jason* *Weidner* Florida International University	Globalization, the State, and the Locus of Power
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Wayne D. Moore* Virginia Tech	Partial Constitutional Authority in the Post-9/11 World
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Reception
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Welcoming Remarks	*Dr. Jerry Niles* Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Dinner
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Friday, May 19
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 3
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Civil Society, Citizenship, and Autonomy	Ellsworth Fuhrman, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Larry* *Erickson* University of Kentucky	Pathologies of Invulnerability and Autonomy: A Stoic View of Globalization
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Sue W. Farquhar* Virginia Tech	A 'Politics of Civility': Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*George* *Gondo* University of Tennessee	Civil Society: A Theoretical and Historical Approach
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Stephen* *Poulson* James Madison University	Opportunities and Constraints Created by Iranian Reform Activists during the Civil Society Debate (1997-2005)
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Rachel Scott* Virginia Tech	'Contextual' citizenship in Modern Islamic Thought
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Im/migration and Imagined National Communities	Richard Shingles, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Barbara Ellen Smith* Virginia Tech	The Market Never Sleeps: Immigration, Flexible Labor and Social Reproduction
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Piyasuda* *Pangsapa* SUNY-Buffalo	Economic Development and the Politics of Cross-Border Immigration Policy in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Jamie* *L. Winders* Syracuse University	Bringing Back the (B)order: Post-9/11 Politics of Race, Belonging, and Immigration in the Contemporary U.S. South
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Framing Empire	Troy Paddock, Chair Southern Connecticut
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Bradley* *Bauerly* Boston College	Power Legitimization and Imperialist Accumulation: The Contradictions of United States Empire
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Benjamin* *Lozano* University of California, Santa Cruz	Carl Schmitt in a Post-9/11 World
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Robert* *Reuschlein* University of the Air, Radio for Peace International	Exploiting the Midwest to Further Empire
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Break
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 4
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Disciplining Education	Wolfgang Natter, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Lisa* *Hennon* Arcadia University	An examination of the National Landscape of Public
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Ruoling* *Zheng* Xiamen University, China	The Political Function of Imperial Examination in Ancient China
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Erwin* *V. Johanningmeier* University of South Florida	The Federal Government and Education Science: What is Privileged and What is Disadvantaged
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Critical Approaches to Justice and Representation	Brent Adkins, Chair Roanoke College
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Steve Daskal* Virginia Tech	A Contextual Approach to Questions of Justice
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Colm* *Kelly* St. Thomas University	The Animal, the Gene, the Machine: Meeting the Futu re, with Derrida
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Warren Lubline* University of Minnesota	The Call of History: The Return of Experience in Contemporary Thought
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Embodying Power	Janell Watson, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Chris* *Blackden* University of Kentucky	Embodying Abstraction: the Sovereign in all of Us
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Eugene* *Halton* University of Notre Dame	Shut Up!
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Democracy and Democratic Theory	Herbert Reid, Chair University of Kentucky
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*George* *V. Davis* Marshall University	Rethinking the Democratic Life: John Dewey and the Possibility of Freedom in Late-Capitalist Modernity
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Betsy Taylor* The Johns Hopkins University	Terrains of justice and geographies of solidarity: place and space in the imagination of environmental action
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Herbert G. Reid* University of Kentucky	Transtopian Political Theory, Critical Ecology, and Merleau-Ponty's Path to and from the 'Site of Ontological Constitution’
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Lunch
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 5
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	The Politics of Memory	Tim Luke, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Jon* *D. Bohland* Hollins University	Contesting the Lost Cause: Spaces and Memories of Unionist Resistance in the Great Valley of Virginia
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Euan* *Hague* DePaul University	Nationalizing Confederate Memory: The United Daughters of the American Revolution and the Jefferson Davis Highway, 1913-1944
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Amy Scarfone* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Striking it Poor: Inverting the Bourgeois Spectacle through Artistic Intervention
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Postcolonial Agencies	Sallie Marston, Chair University of Arizona
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Elizabeth* *Fine* Virginia Tech	Rasta, Repatriation and a New World Ethos in a Post-9/11 World
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Nikitah* *Imani* James Madison University	Globalization as Euro-Liquid Neo-Colonialism
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	The Role of Education in Social and Political Theory	Kathleen Jones, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Brett* *A. Fulkerson-Smith* University of Kentucky	Realizing Capability-Equality through a Kantian Conception of Education
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*J. Michael Tilley* University of Kentucky	Hegel, Bayer, and The Role of Education in the Formation of Political Community
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Ethnicity, 'Deliberate' Racism and Contrapuntal Geography	Daniel Thorp, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Ross* *Perigoe* Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec	Deliberative" Racism: Use of Columns in Newspapers to Sustain and Heighten Racist Ideology Concerning Muslims after 9/11
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Janell Watson* Virginia Tech	The Face of Evil Rethinking Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Break
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 6
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Empowerment, Resistance, and Development	Wolfgang Natter, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*John Paul Jones, III* University of Arizona	When Participation Meets Empowerment:
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*James* *Klepek* University of Arizona	Alternative Developments and Alternatives to Development: Civil Society Mobilization in the Creation of the Plan Puebla Panamá
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Petra* *Purkarthofer* Virginia Tech	Resistance and Autonomy in Chiapas
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Social Justice and Global Development in the post 9/11 World	Rachel Scott, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Fuad* *Aliyev* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Public Policy Implications of the Concept of Social Justice in Islam
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Lucia Gloria de la Sierra de la Vega* University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Human Development for Social Justice: Mexican Social Strategy in the 21st Century
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Images, Territoriality, and Precarious Life	Stefanie Hofer, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Francois* *Debrix* Florida International University	Tabloid Geopolitics and the Erasure of Precarious Life
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Sean* *Dummitt* University of Kentucky	Postmodern Politics and Memory: The Power of Images after 9/11 and Abu Ghraib
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Steve Larocco* Southern Connecticut State University	Globalization, Bin Laden and the Fantasy Logic of Lynching
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Reception
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Welcoming Remarks	*Dr. Karen P. DePauw* Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean, Graduate School Virginia Tech
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Saturday, May 20
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 7
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Biographies, Autobiographies, and Power	Steve Turner, Chair University of South Florida
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*James* *Chriss* Cleveland State	Beyond Marx?: Lester Ward's Concept of the Sociocracy
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*John Galliher/ Kate McGonigal* Missouri /Fort Hays State University	Mabel Agnes Elliott: The Outsider Within
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Larry* *Nichols* University of West Virginia	Power and Biography in Local Academic Context: Three Cases from Harvard Sociology
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Alan* *Sica* Penn State	Can Biography Help in Understanding Theory
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Theorizing Philanthropy as a Social Relation	Erwin Johanningmeier, Chair University of South Florida
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Teresa* *Richardson* Ball State University	The Architecture of Power John d. Rockefeller Jr. and Labor Relations, 1917-1940:
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Angela Eikenberry* Virginia Tech	Philanthropy and Fast Capitalism: Money as Ideology in Global Civil Society
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Patricia* *Nickel* University of Texas at Arlington	Philanthropy and Fast Capitalism: Money as Ideology in Global Civil Society
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Terror, Security and Terrorism Studies	JoAnn Oravec, Chair University of Wisconsin—Whitewater
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Lauren Martin/ Stephanie Simon* University of Kentucky	Famine, Flu, and Terror, Oh My!: Delimiting the Topographies of post-9/11 Security
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo Virginia Tech	Terrorism: An Excursus
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Break
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 8
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Theorizing Globalization : Economics of Information, Representation, and Social Development	Wolfgang Natter and Carolyn Rude, Chairs Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Sallie* *A. Marston* University of Arizona	Ontologies of Globalization
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Scott* *Schaffer* Millersville University	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Development
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Patrick* *Imbert* University of Ottawa	Business culture and the production of multiple significations in commercials, newspapers and literature: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile and the United States.
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Religion as a Force in Politics and for Social Justice I	Jerome Copulsky, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Ayla* *Kilic* Okanagan College	Construction of Religio-Civilizational Identity
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Mariusz Wegrzyn* Social Theory/ Poland	Religion as a Power
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Lunch
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 9
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Exception, Trauma and Recovery	Barbara Ellen Smith, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Bülent* *Diken* Lancaster University	The State of Exception in the Context of Terror and the War Against Terror
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Esther* *Pun* University of California, Davis	Literacy Practices in Classrooms with Students of Trauma
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*John W. Dickey* Virginia Tech	Exploration of Strategy Search Procedures in Confounding Situations: An Example with Hurricane Katrina Relief and Recovery
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Technologies of post 9/11 Power	Warren Lubline, Chair University of Minnesota
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Chad* *V. Harris* University of California, San Diego	Surveillance, Transparency, and Control: The Role of Aerial and Satellite Imagery in Gulf War Command and Control Systems
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Tim Luke* Virginia Tech	Technocritique: the Politics of Technologies in Embedded, Imagined, and Engineered Communities
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Jo Ann Oravec* University of Wisconsin-Whitewater	Participatory and Covert Surveillance in the US: Implications for Power
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Religion as a Force in Politics and for Social Justice II	Scott Schaffer, Chair Millersville University of Pennsylvania
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Brian Britt* Virginia Tech	After Secularization: A Model of Displacement for Religious Change
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Diane* *Johnson* Kutztown University	Rituals of Civil Religion: Beyond Durkheim
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Sandra Via* Virginia Tech	Striking Back at Neoliberalism and Globalization: Building Social Solidarity through Liberation Theology
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Break
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 10
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Power, Totality, Violence	Colm Kelly, Chair St. Thomas University
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Irina* *Boca* Carleton University, Ottawa	The Question of Power: Going Full Circle
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*David* *Toews* Michigan State University	Power and the Radical Totality of the Contemporary: Deleuze Contra Badiou
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Christiana Cooley* Virginia Tech	Violence in the State of Exception
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Repressive Regimes and Transformational Agendas: Toward a Progressive Psycho-Politics	Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Jim* *Block* DePaul University	Marcuse and a Psycho-Politics of Transformation
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Arnold* *Farr* St. Joseph's University	Restricted Eros and One-dimensional Morality: A Marcusean Reading of Contemporary Politics
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Philip* *Walsh* York University	Marcuse, Fromm and the Politics of Well-Being: Critical Theory and the New Anti-Consumerism
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Sunday, May 21
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Session 11
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Time, Place, and Political Action: Ecological Hermeneutics and the Global Justice Movement Roundtable	Featured paper for discussion: "Memory, Mourning and the Politics of Place: Questioning Academic Cosmopolitanism and 'Global Citizenship'" Herbert Reid University of Kentucky
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Discussants:
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->		*Betsy Taylor* The Johns Hopkins University
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->		*Glen* *Perusek* Albion College
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->		*Mary Hufford* University of Pennsylvania
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	Theorizing Belief and Other Non-rational Experience	Rodrigo Losada, Chair Universidad Javeriana, Bogatá
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Brian C. Alston* Argosy University-Sarasota	Power and Beliefs - Perspectives from the New Discipline Neurotheology
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	International Order, Unjust Justice, and Neo-Orientalism	Wolfgang Natter, Chair Virginia Tech
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Ioannis Stivachtis* Virginia Tech	Hannah Arendt and Spaciality of Power: Associative Power and International Order
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Lauren MacKinnon* Graduate Theological Union	The Unjust Justice Frameworks of the EU: a Peoples Alternative
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Tugrul* *Keskin* Radford University	Neo-Orientalism or Colonialization of Islam
<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->	*Harry* *F. Dahms* University of Tennessee	Schumpeter and Globalization: Toward a Theory of Dynamic Capitalism
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	Organizational Wrap-Up	<!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-->

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ISTC Conference Presentations

Seventh Annual International Social Theory Conference Theorizing Power post 9/11

hosted by the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech

The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center Roanoke, VirginiaMay 18-21, 2006

Thursday, May 18

Registration

Plenary

Session 1

Expertise

Joe Pitt, Chair Virginia Tech

Resistance, Dissent and Radical Pluralism

Betty Fine, Chair Virginia Tech

Exile, Piety and Romanticisms post 9/11

Scott Nelson, Chair Virginia Tech

Break

Session 2

Poverty, Gender, Health

Peter Schmitthenner, Chair Virginia Tech

Globalization and Neo-liberalism

Charles Gattone, Chair University of Florida

Where is the locus of power in the state and nationalism?

Tom Ewing, Chair Virginia Tech

Reception

Dinner

Friday, May 19

Session 3

Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Civil Society, Citizenship, and Autonomy

Ellsworth Fuhrman, Chair Virginia Tech

Im/migration and Imagined National Communities

Richard Shingles, Chair Virginia Tech

Framing Empire

Troy Paddock, Chair Southern Connecticut

Break

Session 4

Disciplining Education

Wolfgang Natter, Chair Virginia Tech

Critical Approaches to Justice and Representation

Brent Adkins, Chair Roanoke College

Embodying Power

Janell Watson, Chair Virginia Tech

Democracy and Democratic Theory

Herbert Reid, Chair University of Kentucky

Lunch

Session 5

The Politics of Memory

Tim Luke, Chair Virginia Tech

Postcolonial Agencies

Sallie Marston, Chair University of Arizona

The Role of Education in Social and Political Theory

Kathleen Jones, Chair Virginia Tech

Ethnicity, 'Deliberate' Racism and Contrapuntal Geography

Daniel Thorp, Chair Virginia Tech

Break

Session 6

Empowerment, Resistance, and Development

Wolfgang Natter, Chair Virginia Tech

Social Justice and Global Development in the post 9/11 World

Rachel Scott, Chair Virginia Tech

Images, Territoriality, and Precarious Life

Stefanie Hofer, Chair Virginia Tech

Reception

Saturday, May 20

Session 7

Biographies, Autobiographies, and Power

Steve Turner, Chair University of South Florida

Theorizing Philanthropy as a Social Relation

Erwin Johanningmeier, Chair University of South Florida

Terror, Security and Terrorism Studies

JoAnn Oravec, Chair University of Wisconsin—Whitewater

Break

Session 8

Theorizing Globalization : Economics of Information, Representation, and Social Development

Wolfgang Natter and Carolyn Rude, Chairs Virginia Tech

Religion as a Force in Politics and for Social Justice I

Jerome Copulsky, ChairVirginia Tech

Lunch

Session 9

Exception, Trauma and Recovery

Barbara Ellen Smith, Chair Virginia Tech

Seventh Annual International Social Theory Conference
Theorizing Power post 9/11

hosted by the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT)
in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech

The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center
Roanoke, Virginia
May 18-21, 2006

Joe Pitt, Chair
Virginia Tech

Betty Fine, Chair
Virginia Tech

Scott Nelson, Chair
Virginia Tech

Peter Schmitthenner, Chair
Virginia Tech

Charles Gattone, Chair
University of Florida

Tom Ewing, Chair
Virginia Tech

Ellsworth Fuhrman, Chair
Virginia Tech

Richard Shingles, Chair
Virginia Tech

Troy Paddock, Chair
Southern Connecticut

Wolfgang Natter, Chair
Virginia Tech

Brent Adkins, Chair
Roanoke College

Janell Watson, Chair
Virginia Tech

Herbert Reid, Chair
University of Kentucky

Tim Luke, Chair
Virginia Tech

Sallie Marston, Chair
University of Arizona

Kathleen Jones, Chair
Virginia Tech

Daniel Thorp, Chair
Virginia Tech

Wolfgang Natter, Chair
Virginia Tech

Rachel Scott, Chair
Virginia Tech

Stefanie Hofer, Chair
Virginia Tech

Steve Turner, Chair
University of South Florida

Erwin Johanningmeier, Chair
University of South Florida

JoAnn Oravec, Chair
University of Wisconsin—Whitewater

Wolfgang Natter and Carolyn Rude, Chairs
Virginia Tech

Jerome Copulsky, Chair
Virginia Tech

Barbara Ellen Smith, Chair
Virginia Tech

Warren Lubline, Chair
University of Minnesota

Scott Schaffer, Chair
Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Colm Kelly, Chair
St. Thomas University

Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo, Chair
Virginia Tech

Featured paper for discussion:
"Memory, Mourning and the Politics of Place: Questioning Academic Cosmopolitanism and 'Global Citizenship'"
Herbert Reid
University of Kentucky

Rodrigo Losada, Chair
Universidad Javeriana, Bogatá

Wolfgang Natter, Chair
Virginia Tech