Fall
Quarter 2006
October 4: Robin Blackburn, The
Haitian Revolution as an Episode in the History of Philosophy
October 5: Robin Blackburn, Longevity,
the Birth Rate and Class Struggle
October 9: Adi Ophir, Space, Time,
and Violence in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
October 11: Sarah Jain, Life
in Prognosis
October 16: Antonis Balasopoulos, Ghosts
of the Future: Jameson, Derrida, and the Afterlife of Utopia
October 18:Donna Jones, “The
Rise of the Colored Masses”: The Place and Function of the Non-Western
World in Pessimistic Narratives of History
October 22: Film Screening of Tropical
Malady
October 23:: Benedict Anderson, Between
a Rock and a Hard Place: Nationalists between Cosmopolitans and the Sticks,
or, The Curious Reception in Thailand of Tropical Malady
October 24: Benedict Anderson, Early
Globalization and the Struggle against High Imperialism
October 24: John Ross, "ZAPATISTAS!" & "BOMBA!" -
Left Coast Tour
October 25: Yiman Wang, The
Goddess, Hollywood “Before” and Hong Kong “After”:
The Disappearing Mother, Modernity, and Coloniality in Triptych Melodrama
November 1: Mazyar Lotfalian, Aesthetics
and Politics in the Age of Islamism:
The Transnational Circulation of Visual Culture
November 3: Madeleine Yue Dong, When
the Chinese Modern Girl Marries
November 3: Poetry and Politics Cluster Poetry Reading
November 8: Noriko Aso, Reforming
or Deforming the Public in Japanese National Cultural Institutions
November 15: Martin Berger, Civil
Rights Photography and the Racial Prerogatives of Whites
November 18: The Multispecies
Salon
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Winter
Quarter 2007
January 17: Dana Frank, Local
Girl Makes History: Investigating the Politics of History in Northern
California
January 24: Wlad Godzich, Postmodern
Allegory Revisited
January 25: Wang Hui, "Modern China” and
the History of Chinese Thought
January 26: Wang Hui SEMINAR, Depoliticized
Politics, Multiple Components of Hegemony, and the Eclipse of the Sixties
January 27: Perry Anderson, “Renewals” Reconsidered:
Reflections on the Current Conjuncture
January 31: Melissa Caldwell, Gardening
for the Soul: Living Organically in the Russian Countryside
February 3: Intimate Politics: A ROUNDTABLE
February 7: Jeannette Mageo, Dreaming
Culture: U.S. Boyfriend and Girlfriend Dreams
February 14: Chiung-chi Chen, The
Mystery of Muted Singers: Ritual Opera in Contemporary Taiwan
February 21: Paul Bové, Poetry
Against Torture
February 23: CONFERENCE - BIO[X]: New Iterations
of Lively Bodies
February 24: CONFERENCE - Movement and
Space in the Making of the Pacific
February 28: Kimberly Jannarone, Antonin
Artaud and the Age of the Crowd
March 7: Jody Greene, Hostis Humani
Generis
March 9: Eric Mann, Katrina’s Legacy: Racism
in the Post-Civil Rights Era
March 13: Jared Sexton, Race, Nation, and Empire
in a Blackened World
March 16: The Unanswerable Questions
of Political Responsibility: A MULTI-MEDIA DIALOGUE
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Spring
Quarter 2007
April 4: Ruth Gilmore, The
Prison Industrial Complex After 25 Years
April 11: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Globalizing
the Enlightenment
April 18: James Buzard, Autoethnography,
Narrative, Interruption
April 25: Daniel Laforest, Rediscovering
America: The Secret Link Between Alan Lomax’s Writings and Quebec’s Cinéma
Direct Tradition
April 26: Ghassan Hage, Cultures
of Exterminability
May 2: Seth Moglen, Mourning
Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism
May 3: David Simpson, The Ghostliness
of Things: The Poetics of Commodity Form
May 9: Eugene Holland, Schizoanalysis,
Nomadology, Fascism: Just How Close Have We Come?
May 10: A Conversation with Jasbir
Puar
May 12: CONFERENCE - Historicism,
Homonormativity, and Queer Political Formations
May 16: Matthew O'Hara, Modernity
Via the Whip: Self and Collective in the Holy Schools of Christ, New Spain
May 17: Kara Keeling, Looking
for Marquise: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from
the Future
May 19: CONFERENCE - The Analytic Scene: Translations & Transferences
May 23: Kimberly Lau, Body
Language: Notes on Discourse, Ethnography, and Embodiment
May 30: María Puig de la Bellacasa Mejia, Matters
of Care
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