Another early morning and muffins for breakfast. Not a bad way to start off the final day of the conference.
We started off with a movie Little Saigon: Forging Identity. It was an interesting film. It started off with the protests in Westminster a few years ago when the video store owner put up a picture of Ho Chi Minh in his store. It continued with interviews of various people in the community and a couple of people who were from Vietnam and their children who grew up in the US. They did not talk to the video store owner. I would have liked to have heard his side. Besides that it was very good.
The next session was about "Imperial Fantasies: Space, Time, and Place" which included The Fantasies of Empire: American Liberation and the Case of Guam and Unraveling Britishness: “Identity” and women’s spaces of sociality in postcolonial London. I thought Unraveling Britishness was very interesting and well done. This project had been in the works for about three years and Rosie Cox and Yasmmen Narayan of University of London interviewed many women, mostly from a middle class back ground with a few exceptions. Of course every one's identity and view is unique.
Lunch was followed up by a Plenary talk Pacman's Migration to a Post-Sensenbrenner California: Latino Youth Navigating Mazes and Eluding Ghosts I think the title is self explanatory. I thought it was interesting.
The final session was called "Imperialist Policies" this included Disemboweling William Wallace: Capital Punishment and Imperial Expansion in Late Medieval Britain and Revisiting Imperial Medicine: The 1851 International Sanitary Conference as a European imperial Project the first one was quite interesting. Until then I never heard of William Wallace and apparently beheading was quite common. Imagine if that was still the case...no need for prisons.
On to something a little more positive...than again maybe not, depending upon your view point. My friend and I were able to attend Palm Sunday mass after the conference, so that was a relief. After mass the part of the herd (as Dr. P called us) picked us up and we went to the mall. That trip reminded on why I afford the mall. Honestly, how do people spend hours there? I find it boring. Anyway, enough of my ramblings. We spent about an hour there (and yes I was bored). We went to dinner afterwards, it was a bit late but that was okay. Restaurants have gotten better at splitting a dish in two. It is the least they can do since their dishes are so big to begin with.
Once back at the hotel it was packing and to bed.
Peace! C-
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