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Spring Quarter 2004
Friday Afternoons
/ 1:30PM - 4:30PM / Oakes 109
Gramsci Today: Reading Workshop with
Research Reports
April 2: Indian
Gaming in the 21st Century: Is Cultural Integrity at Stake?
April 7: George Lipsitz,
Popular Culture and Digital Capitalism: Detournement and Retournement
April 14: Ivaylo Ditchev,
The City as Stage of the New Life
April 16: Aihwa Ong, Figures of the
New Economy in China
April 17: Poetry in a Time of Crisis
- Is Poetry Enough?
April 21: Peregrine Horden,
Mediterranean Excuses: Historiography of a Region Since Braudel
April 28: Carla Freccero,
Queer Spectrality
May 1: CONFERENCE - Translating
History: Knowledges, Practices, Powers
May 5: Ruth Frankenberg,
Living Spirit, Living Practice: Poetics, Politics, and Epistemology
May 6: Joseph Buttigieg,
The Prison Notebooks: Gramsci's Workshop
May 7: Americas Studies: The
New, Newest Thing - A Roundtable Discussion
May 12: David Cope, Experiments
in Musical Intelligence
May 17: Matt Wray, Culture, Differentiation,
and Inequalities: Symbolic Boundaries and the Case of "Poor White Trash"
May 19: Elizabeth Castle,
Behind the Scenes at the Big House: The Politics of Race Politics at
President Clinton’s Initiative on Race
May 24: Joseph Dumit, Managing Mind
and Mood through Media and Medications
May 26: Ben Carson,
Compositional Economy and Self-Identical Bodies in New Music
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Winter Quarter 2004
January 14: Donna
Haraway, Companion Species & Other Messmates: Canine Insight
on Acquiring Genomes in Technoculture
January 15: Open Discussion, New Comparative Formations in U.S.
Studies
January 16: Georgine Clarsen, Movement
in a Minor Register: Early Women Motorists and the
Discourse Of Speed
January 21: Manuela Ribeiro
Sanches, Where is the Post-Colonial?: In-Betweenness, Identity and
"Lusophonia" in Trans/National Contexts
January 23: Robert Pogue Harrison,
Seminar on The Dominion of the Dead
January 28: Megan Thomas,
Authority, Authenticity, and the Native Voice: Ethnographies of and
by Filipinos in the Late 19th Century
February 4: Deborah Whaley,
Disciplining Women, Respectable Pledges, and the Meaning of a "Soror":
Reconstituting the Cultural Politics of Violence in a Predominantly
Black Sorority
February 11: Peter Limbrick,
Cinema’s Imperial Mode: British Empire Films and their Transnational
Contexts
February 18: Scott Barclay,
Cause Lawyers as Legal Innovators for the State: The Case of Civil Unions
in Vermont and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel
February 20: Panel Discussion, Queer
Interdisciplinary Studies I
February 21: CONFERENCE, Other Globalizations:
Histories,
Trans-regionalisms, and Cultural Formations
February 25: Earl Jackson,
Is Gone Better? Existence as Practice and Theory in Korean Cinema
February 25: Margaret Cohen, The Craft
of the Sea
March 3: Anna Tsing,
Engaged Universals
March 4: Open Discussion,
New Comparative Formations in U.S. Studies
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Fall Quarter 2003
October 1:
Teresa de Lauretis,
Damned and Carefully Public: Djuna Barnes and Nightwood
October 8: Alain-Marc Rieu,
Modernization Theory Today
October 15: Lisa Rofel,
Legislating Desire: Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and
Consumer Fraud in Post-Socialist China
October 15: Luis Francia &
Angel Velasco Shaw, Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War
& the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999
October 22: Jeremy
Prestholdt, On Consumerism and Peripheral Visions of Globalization
October 23: Panel Discussion: Comparative
Conceptions
October 25: CONFERENCE, The
U.S. Left, After
October 29: L.S. Kim,
Maid in Color: The Figure of the Racialized Domestic in American Television
November 5: Herman Gray,
Sight and Sound: Recognition, Visibility, and Black Cultural Politics
November 6: Norman
Klein, Mapping the Unfindable: New Narrative Strategies in the Age
of Electronic Baroque
November 12: Elizabeth
DeLoughrey, Gardening in the Tropics: Excavating the Roots of Island
Transplantations
November 13: Film Screening of "The
Men in the Tree", and discussion with the Director Lalit Vachani
November 19: Rosa Linda
Fregoso, meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on
the Borderlands
November 20: Open Discussion & Dialogue: Comparative
Futures in the Study of the U.S.
December 2: Clayton Eshleman,
Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of
the Underworld
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