Winter Quarter 1999

January 13: Elisabetta Villari, On Some Motifs in Walter Benjamin
January 20: Catherine Soussloff, After Aesthetics: Visual Representation, Jewish Identity, and Cultural Studies
January 21: Hazel Carby, Race Men: Black Male Scholars and Academic Discourses on Race
January 22-23: Conference, Civizational Thinking
January 27: David Turnbull, Travelling, Mapping, and Narrating: Aboriginal, Maori, Pacific Islander and Western Ways of Knowledge and Place-making
January 28, Ann Stoler, Seminar: Castings for the Colonial: On Memory-Work in Contemporary Java
January 29, Ann Stoler, Lecture: Racist Visions for the21st century: On the Cultural Politics of the French Radical Right
February 3: Sandria Freitag, Acts of Seeing: Mass-Produced Visual Images in the Creation of Modern India
February 4: Linda Williams, Melodrama in Black and White
February 8: James Rubin, Performing Nature: Gustave Courbet & Music
February 10: Laurence Rickels, Resistance in Theory
Feburary 17: Manu Goswami, Rethinking Modularity: Beyond Objectivist and Subjectivist Aproaches to Nationalism
February 18: Gina Dent, Highs and Lows of Black Popular Culture
February 20: Mini-Conference, Acts, Identities, and Alterities in Pre-and Early Modernity
February 22, Carlo Severi, Masks & Chimeras in Ritual Action~A New Perspective in the Anthropology of Art
February 24: Emily Honig, Sexing the Cultural Revolution
February 26-27: Conference, Latino/Latin American/Chicano Studies and the Rethinking of Area Studies
March 3: Samantha Frost, Faking It: Madness, Morals, and Hobbe's "Thinking Bodies"
March 4: Eduardo Cadava, Mourning America: Emerson and the Guano of History
March 11: Donald Pease, The Return of Alexis de Tocqueville: Americanisms after the Nation-State


Winter Lecture/Seminar Series:
Winter Colloquium Series

Spring Quarter 1999


Spring Colloquium Series

April 8: Ruby Rich, Film After Gender (?)
April 19: Annette Richards, Clouds, Blots and the Lesbian Tragelaph: CPE Bach's Performed Fantasy
April 20: Alice Bullard, Seminar: Constellations of Savagery and Civilization: Paris and New Caledonia in the Age of Imperialism
April 22:David Palumbo-Liu Interdisciplinary Formations of Asian America
April 26: Tani Barlow, Reflections on Critical Asian Studies
April 30: A Curricular Workshop: Civilizational Thinking
May 3: Nancy Cott, Marriage Fraud and Citizenship in U.S. Immigration Policy in the Early Twentieth Century
May 5: Judy Gobert, Colonialism Through Biopiracy: Genetic Research in Native Communities
May 20: Regina Bendix, Heredity, Hybridity and Heritage from one Fin-de-Siecle to the Next
May 22: Mini-Conference: After 1898/1998: What Hemispheric Cultural Studies?
May 28: Luana Ross and Stormy Ogden, The Prisonification of Indigenous Women

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