Conference Co-Directors:
Cary Nederman and Manuel Martín-Rodríguez

"Calibrations" engaged a range of questions, including the following:

What is the calculus through which spaces may be configured into communities, both in geographic and in symbolic terms? How have and do subjects navigate communities, locally, regionally, nationally, and globally, as a means for forming and transforming identities and intervening in communal structures? What costs and opportunities do these navigations entail and how do they inform an understanding of community? How do communities take the measure of permissible and impermissible selves? How are spaces of all kinds scaled to the subjectivities that move through them?

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Rosi Braidotti, Faculty of Arts and Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies, Utrecht University

R. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, English, University of Texas at Austin

Robbie McCauley, Performing Arts and Teacher Education, Emerson College

Walter Benn Michaels, English, University of Illinois, Chicago

Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Women's Studies, Film, and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley

Michael Awkward, English and Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Curran, Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values, Southern Methodist University
Jorge Gracia, Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo
V. Spike Peterson, Political Science, University of Arizona
Marcus Rediker, History, University of Pittsburgh
Char Miller, History, Trinity University (Professor Char Miller's appearance was made possible in part by a grant from the Texas Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.)