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April 1, 2005

4:30 – 6:30 Opening Roundtable Discussion: The Possibilities and Limits of Analyzing “Family Values”

Roundtable Discussants: Leora Auslander (University of Chicago), Jennifer Brier (University of Illinois, Chicago). Debbie Nelson (University of Chicago), Holly Shissler (University of Chicago), Ken Warren (University of Chicago)

Comments and Questions: The Audience

April 2, 2005

9:30 – 11:30 Bourgeois Family Values in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Fairy Godmothers and Other Ghosts in the Victorian Imperial Family Machine
Neville Hoad (University of Texas, Austin)

Good Wives: The Marriage Market and the Feminine Ideal in Colonial Bengal
Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago)

Statistical Fact, Feminist Fiction, Imperial Experience: Arguments over Marriage and Divorce at the Union for Truth, Paris, 1909
Jean Pederson (University of Rochester)

Comments and Questions: The Audience

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch break

12:30 – 2:30 Family Values In Flux: The Cold War and Welfare State Eras

East is West: Sexuality, Temporality and the Indian Penal Code
Anjali Arondekar (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Female Narcissism and the Event of Woman in the Clash Over Early 20 th-Century Chinese Family Values
Tani Barlow (University of Washington)

The Gender of Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism
Mary Nolan (New York University)

Comments and Questions: The Audience

2:30 – 2:45 Coffee break

2:45 – 4:45 Whither Family Values?: Analyzing The Present

“Domestic Community” in the Post-Apartheid Moment
Hylton White (University of Chicago)

Transnational Family Values
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (University of California, Davis)

“Family Values,” the New Right, and the Fissioning American Public Sphere
Micaella di Leonardo (Northwestern University)

Comments and Questions: The Audience

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