2006 – 2007 Seminars

April 30, 2007

“‘Art as Transport Station of Trauma:’: Reading the Aesthetic Transformations of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan”

by Elsa Chen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4:00 pm


April 23, 2007

“‘Translatinidad’ as a Decolonial Map Linking and Locating Chicana/os and Catalans in International Histories of Empires”

by Eulàlia Moles, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce 236
4 pm


March 12, 2007

“Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa”

by Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce 236
4 pm


February 2, 2007

“Global Modernity and the Global South”

by Arif Dirlik, Knight Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oregon
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“Global South: Predicament and Promise”
“Conceptual Field(s) of Globality”
Royce Hall 236
4 pm


December 11, 2006

“Re-articulating Citizenship”

by Aihwa Ong, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“Mutations in Citizenship”
“Please Stay: Pied-a-Terre Subjects in the Megacity”
Royce Hall 306
4 pm


November 13, 2006

“Empire Films and the Dissemination of Americanism”

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by Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 306
4 pm


October 4, 2006
Presentation and seminar by UC Berkeley professor Judith Butler on

“Precarious Life”

Bunche Hall 10383
12 pm

For more information, please contact Dacia Imakura via e-mail at  dacia@humnet.ucla.edu .