2007 – 2008 Seminars

May 12, 2008: Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

“Transnational Voices from Minor Italy Postcolonial Intersections”

Location: Royce Hall 236 
Time: 4:30 pm


March 10, 2008: Sonali Pahwa, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

“Specular Citizens: Youth and Satellite Television in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre”

Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm


March 3, 2008: Kris Manjapra, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

“The Play of Time: Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Critique of Postcolonialism”

Location: Royce Hall 334C
Time: 4:30 pm


February 11, 2008: Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

“‘Misrepresentations and Misunderstandings’: Transnational Media Flows in the age of Imperialism”

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Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm


February 4, 2008: Beverly Diamond

“Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations”

by Beverly Diamond, Canadian Research Chair in Traditional Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Seminar and discussion based on the following article “Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations
Location: Royce Hall 306
Time: 4:30 pm


January 28, 2008: Wendy Brown

Seminar and discussion by Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:

“Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy”

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“American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-democratization”

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Location: Royce Hall 306
Time: 4:30 pm


January 14, 2008: Fatima El-Tayeb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

“‘A Secret Art’. Racialization and Diaspora in Europe”

Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm


December 3, 2007: Alessandro Dal Lago

“The Globalization of War”

by Alessandro Dal Lago, Visiting Professor, UCLA Department of Italian and Professor of Sociology, University of Genoa
Seminar and discussion based on the following article:
“The Global State of War”
Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm


November 26, 2007: Walter Mignolo

“Global Futures and the Decolonial Option “

by Walter Mignolo, Professor of Literature and William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Cultural Anthropology; Spanish of Romance Studies, Duke University
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:

“The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference”

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“From Central Asia to the Caucasus and Anatolia: transcultural subjectivity and de-colonial thinking”

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Location: Royce Hall 306
Time: 4:30 pm


October 29, 2007: Sarah Valentine, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

“Art Amidst Atheism: Spirituality, Ethnicity and Social Organization in the Late-Soviet Moscow Avant-Garde”

Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4 pm