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Event Date and Time:

May 22, 2008 – May 24, 2008
9am - 8pm each day

Location:

Registration at:
721 Broadway - lower level
New York, NY 10003

The Department of Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU will be hosting the 6th Annual Cultural Studies Association (U.S) Conference from May 22nd-24th on the NYU campus. The CSA conference will provide a forum for scholars of Cultural Studies, in all its diverse manifestations, to exchange their work and ideas across disciplinary lines and institutional locations. This event is FREE to the NYU Community. There will be over 130 panels, seminars, plenaries and nearly 600 presenters. The conference runs each day from 9am-8pm. More detailed information is available at the CSA website (www.csaus.pitt.edu) and the exact locations of each of the panels and seminars will be listed in the program which will be available at the registration desk.



Registration for this conference starts each morning at 8am and runs through the day. Registration will take place at 721 Broadway on the lower level. Please bring your NYU ID card with you.



This conference has been generously sponsored by Department of Art and Public Policy, DeanU+2019s Office, Tisch School of the Arts U+2013Faculty Development Grant, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Department of Performance Studies, Humanities Initiative- NYU ProvostU+2019s Office, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, and University of Maryland U+2013 Program in American Cultures.



Some of the events include (for a full list visit www.csaus.pitt.edu or pick up a program at the registration table):



Thursday Plenary:

New York Creative Economies



Chair: Andrew Ross - Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University



Arlene Davila - New York University
Andrea Fraser - UCLA
Neil Smith - Graduate Center, CUNY


Performance:

U+201CIMPULSE to SUCK: The performance of the apology and the separation between sex and stateU+201D

A Performance by Karen Finley

Thursday, 8:00pm



About the Performance:

Karen Finley was in Albany, New York on March 10 in the Capital for a conference waiting to hear a speech from Governor Eliot Spitzer on Reproductive Health. Instead later that day, Spitzer performed an apology with his supportive, devastated wife standing next to him. Finley will speak about the performance of the apology, the erotic transference of the mediaU+2019s fixation on SpitzerU+2019s frown and the emotional starring role for Silda. Finley will perform her latest spoken word text which examines the confession, the apology, the imagining of the sexual encounter, the travel of the escort, the compulsion, the immigrant fatherU+2019s plan for his son to succeed , and to the couples imagined therapy sessions. Looking at the psychodrama in the intimacy of our political leaders, Finley poses to see the agony of the sonU+2019s need for approval from the father and the ancient wrestling of the feminine archetypes of mother and whore.



Friday Plenary:

Law and Global Minorities



Chair: May Joseph - Pratt Institute



Tayyab Mahmud - School of Law, Seattle University
Rosemary Coombe - York University, Toronto
Percy Hintzen - University of California, Berkeley


Saturday Plenary:

Political Action: Gender, Culture and Politics



Chairs: Miranda Joseph University of Arizona

Patricia Clough Graduate Center, CUNY



Janet Jacobsen - Columbia University
Jasbir Puar - Rutgers University
Sharon Holland - University of Illinois, Chicago