3-0875 LOCAL PRODUCTION, GLOBAL CONSUMPTION

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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Organizers: Matthew Spigelman (New York University) and Pilar K Rau (New York University)

Chairs: Pilar K Rau (New York University) and Matthew Spigelman (New York University)

Discussants: W Warner Wood (University of Texas at El Paso), Anita Say Chan (CUNY Graduate Center) and Michael O Sugerman PhD (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

13:45

Introduction

14:00

At Home and Abroad: Cypriot Ceramic Production for Local Use and Foreign Trade In the Bronze Age

Matthew Spigelman (New York University)

14:15

Reading Circles and Conference Rooms: New Spaces for the Production of Islamic Religious Knowledge

Nur Amali Ibrahim (Harvard University)

14:30

Risky Business? Gender, Complementarities and the Production of Locality In a ‘Globalized’ Eurasian Iron Age

James A Johnson (University of Pittsburgh)

14:45

Wrapping the ‘Over There’ In the ‘Right Here’: Conundrums In the Native Northwest Coast Giftware Industry

Solen Roth (University of British Columbia)

15:00

Discussant

Anita Say Chan (CUNY Graduate Center)

15:15

Discussant

Michael O Sugerman PhD (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

15:30

Break

15:45

The Mysteries of Moieties and Upward Mobility: Tourist Art Patriarchs In Highland Peru

Pilar K Rau (New York University)

16:00

Conscientious Consumerism and the Fairtrade Flower Industry: United States Consumption and Ecuadorian Production

Malena V Rousseau (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

16:15

Land, Water, Crops, and Beasts: How the Spanish Colonial Textile Market Affected Local Irrigation In San Andrés, Chimborazo, Ecuador

Guy Stephen Duke (University of Toronto)

16:30

China’s Construction Middlemen: Mediating Global Capital and Rural Labor to Make New Urban Space

William B Thomson (New York University)

16:45

Discussant

W Warner Wood (University of Texas at El Paso)

17:00

Discussion

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