Fwd: CLAIMING THE STONES / NAMING THE BONES Conference
Melissa Ponder (mponder@edcc.edu)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:04:34 -0800
Forwarded by Melissa Ponder <mponder@edcc.edu>
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> CLAIMING THE STONES / NAMING THE BONES:
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> Cultural Property and the Negotiation of
> National and Ethnic Identity In the American and British Experience
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> A Conference Sponsored by the Drue Heinz Center for American Literature
> Oxford University and the Getty Research Institute,
> Los Angeles, California
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> Co-organisers:
> Elazar Barkan, Claremont Graduate University
> Ron Bush, Oxford University
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> April 19-21, St. John's College, Oxford
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> Admission: Free.
> Inquiries: tel: 01865-277343; email: ron.bush@ell.ox.ac.uk
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> AGENDA
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>Recent claims to cultural property in the international legal world have
>rippled through legal and art heritage circles. Out of what notions of
>group legitimacy do such claims arise? How should incommensurable claims
>be adjudicated? How seriously should cries for repatriation of artistic
>patrimony or censorship of group representations be taken? How are such
>claims reinforced by the politics of national and ethnic identity, and how
>do the controversies shape those identities in their turn? Speakers will
>consider legal quarrels over marketable artefacts, but also how such
>controversies parallel quarrels about less material kinds of cultural
>property, such as sacred remains, folk traditions and ethnic experience.
>What should we make of ethnic groups who claim the right to control the
>representation of cultural property through licensing or censorship?
>Should aboriginal or native American populations have the right to license
>the reproduction of folk art? Should American black or Jewish groups have
>the right to control or censor literature affiliated with folk or ethnic
>subject matter? Should writers such as Philip Roth (or in Ireland, William
>Butler Yeats) who have fiercely disputed such claims be honoured? How does
>the success of either side affect the changing identity of national or
>ethnic groups? And what happens when control is contested not just between
>groups and individuals but by different national or ethnic groups whose
>identities seem to hinge on the outcome? (Huckleberry Finn, for example,
>helped found a central tradition of American literature but also
>perpetuated a pernicious stereotype of African-American life.)
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> PROGRAM
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>Sunday April 19, 1998
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>9.00 AM. Welcome And General Introduction.
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>9.30 - 11 AM - I. History, Justice, and Culture: Framing Issues and
> Dilemmas
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> 1. "Amending Historical Injustices: The Case of Cultural Property"
> - Elazar Barkan, Claremont Graduate School. (History)
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> 2. "Cultural Identity and Its Proprietary Attachments"
> - Rosemary Coombe, University of Toronto. (Law)
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> Respondent: Michael Spence, Oxford University. (Law)
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>11.30 AM - 1 PM - II. Antiquities and National Identity
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> 1. "Appropriating the Stones: Greek Marbles and English National Taste"
> - Timothy Webb, University of Bristol. (English)
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> 2. "Latin America or Native America?"
> - Clemency Coggins, Boston University. (Archaeology)
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> Respondent: Claire Lyons, Getty Research Institute (Art)
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>2.30 - 4.00 PM - III. The Kennewick Skeleton: Native American Relic or
> the Remains of North American Man?
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> 1. "Scientific Discovery versus NAGPRA: The Case of Kennewick Man"
> - Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz,
> National Museum Of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
> (Anthropology)
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> 2. "Cultural Significance and the Kennewick Skeleton: Some Thoughts
> on the Resolution of Cultural Heritage Disputes"
> - Patty Gerstenblith, De Paul University. (Law)
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> Respondent: To Be Announced
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>5.30-7.30 PM: The Balfour Building, 60 Banbury Road. Ethnomusicology
> Performance-Reception Arranged by Hlne La Rue, Lecturer /
> Curator of the Bate Collection and of the Musical
> Collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
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>Monday, April 20, 1998
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>10.30 AM - 12.00 PM - V. Cultural Property and Triangulated Identity:
>The Case of the Maori
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> 1. "Ta Moko: More Than Skin Deep: Issues of Appropriation and
> Identity in Maori Tattoo."
> - Ngahuia Te Awekotuko, University of Wellington, New Zealand.
> (Ethnography)
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> 2. "Maori Traditional and Contemporary Identities"
> - Linda Waimarie Nakora. University of Waikato, New Zealand
> (Psychology)
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> Respondent: To Be Announced
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>2.00 - 4.00 PM - VI. Cultural Property and Folk Traditions
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> 1. "Selling Grandma: Commodification of the Sacred through
> Intellectual Property Rights"
> - Darrell Posey, Oxford University. (Centre for the
> Environment, Ethics, and Society)
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> 2. " Unsound Sounds': Ethnomusicology and Cultural Property"
> - Hlne La Rue, Oxford University. (Ethnomusicology)
> - Janet Topp-Sargion, British Library National Sound Archive.
> (Ethnomusicology)
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> Respondent: Robert Dawidoff, Clarmont Graduate University. (History)
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>5.30 - 7.30 P.M. The Pitt Rivers Museum (The University of Oxford, Museum
> of Anthropology and Archaeology) Paper Followed by Reception:
> "Ethnographic Museums and Cultural Property"
> - Jeremy Coote, Elizabeth Edwards, Christopher Gosden Oxford
> University (Ethnography)
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>Tuesday, April 21, 1998
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>9.00 - 10.30 AM. Literary Property: Whose Identity, Whose
> Culture? Group Claims and Representation
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>VII. The Appropriation of Group Identities: Literature, Culture and Race
> in Britain and America.
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> 1. "The New Negro Displayed: Self-Ownership, Proprietary
> Sites/Sights, and the Bonds/Bounds of Race"
> - Marlon Ross, University of Michigan. (English)
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> 2. "Cultural Property and Identity Politics in Britain"
> - Robert Young, Oxford University. (English)
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> Respondent: Ruvani Ranasinha, Oxford University (English).
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>11.00 AM - 1.00 PM
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>VIII. Competing Claims on Literary Representation and the Production of
> Group Identity.
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> 1.The Birth of Whose Nation?: The competing claims of National and
> Ethnic Identity and the "Banning" of Huckleberry Finn.
> - Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh. (English)
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> 2. "Yeats, Group Claims, and Irishry"
> - Roy Foster, Oxford University. (Irish History)
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> 3. Philip Roth, James Joyce, Closing Thoughts
> - Ron Bush, Oxford University. (English)
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