Some material not by John Wilkins
and some is not by Clark Dorman
The Elephant and Cultural Studies Conference
1996 Program
The Elephant as “Physical” Other
Does the Elephant Exist? Zoological Hegemony vs. Cultural Fabrication.
Pachyderm “Evolution”: Eurochronocities and Eurocentric Linearity in
the late (post)modern zoological script.
Tracking the elephant through texts: Western Visuality and
Olfactory Perception
The Elephant: Interrogating Multi-Cultural Rhetoricities:
The elephant: Cyborg, Ethnicity, or “Species”?
(E) (L) (E) (P) (H) (A) (N) (T)? What’s That”: Exploitation and
the Rhetorical Stategies of Denial in Thai Forestry Camps.
Viceroy-on-Elephant or Elephant-on-Viceroy? Accidents and the
Uncertainties of Domination in some Durbars of the Late
British Raj.
The Elephant As Eurocentric Object:
The elephant and the Lion: the Metaphoricity of Binarity in Early
Medieval Texts.
“Hunting the Beloved Other”: The elephant as Paradigmatic
Problematic of Conservationist Conversations in Theodore
Roosevelt’s African memoirs.
Garage Sales and elephants: A Dialogue of Contested Spaces.
The Elephant As (Post)Modernist Construction
Post-Modern, (Post)Modern, or Postcontemporary Elephant? Epistemic
Privileging and Discursive Spaces in MLA Debates.
Wild Elephant, Tamed elephant, Zoo-Confined Elephant, Extinct Elephant:
Alternative Modernities for a Culturally-Constructed Ani(Male).
Elephant Ears: Symbolic Excess in (Post)Nouvelle Pastry Culture.
Situating the Paradigmatic other: The Elephant in Weight-Loss Discourse.
Conference Schedule
Friday, August 6:
Walker Wing of Cavalier Hall
5:00-7:00 Reception and Registration
7:00-8:00 Keynote Address (TBA)
Saturday, August 7
Loxodonta Auditorium in Hanna Hall
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-10:00 Session 1: *The Elephant as "Physical" Other*
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Discussion and Panel
Moderator: Martin Finklesteen, Kuznetsov University
10:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session II: *The Elephant: Interrogating
Multi-Cultural Rhetoricities:*
2:15-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Discussion and Panel
Moderator: Jurgen Blaanjord, Adelaide University
3:45-4:15 Break
4:15-5:30 Oversight Committee and Board of Directors Meeting
Sunday, August 8:
August Auditorium in Hanna Hall
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-10:00 Session III: *The Elephant As Eurocentric Object:*
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Discussion and Panel
Moderator: TBA
10:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session IV: *The Elephant As (Post)Modernist Construction*
2:15-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45 Discussion and Panel
Moderator: Alan Lakos
3:45 Conference Close
For more information, contact Richard Allgood ([email protected]),
Philosophy Department, Center
for Applied Theographics, Dunzkapp University.
or visit the conference web page.
