"I Used to Call Myself Elvis"

I just received the email below about a talk next Thursday on Indian call centers. Thought some of you might be interested. Jesse, this could relate to some of your investigations regarding work environment. In this case, the employees are required to wear a mask...


International Programs and the South Asian Studies Program
Present a free public lecture:

“I Used to Call Myself 'Elvis’:
The Politics of Experience in Indian Call Centers”

Aimee Carrillo Rowe
Associate Professor of Rhetoric, POROI (Project on the Rhetoric
Of Inquiry), and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies

Indian call center agents become estranged from their immediate surroundings
as they stretch their imaginations and identities to meet American customers
in the virtual space of the telephone call. Drawing on interviews with fifty
call center workers, this presentation considers the implications of the
particular demands of their transnational labor for agents’ sense of
embodied being.

Thursday, Nov. 19, 4:00 PM
1117 University Capitol Center
Chai and snacks will be served.

For more information on this presentation or for special accommodations to
attend, please contact Heidi Vekemans, Events Coordinator, UI International
Programs, at (319) 335-3862 or heidi-vekemans@uiowa.edu