May 16, 2011: Colleen Lye
“The Conditions of Knowledge of Asian/American Literature”
Seminar by Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“Racial Form”
“The Literary Case of Wen Ho Lee” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
May 10, 2011: Joseph Bauerkemper
“The Trans/National Terrain of Anishinaabe Law and Diplomacy”
by Joseph Bauerkemper, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“The Trans/National Terrain of Anishinaabe Law and Diplomacy” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
March 8, 2011: Ani Mukherji
“He will not be an aesthete”: Moscow’s ‘New Negro’ and the Interwar Circulations of Black Radicalism”
by S. Ani Mukherji, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“He will not be an aesthete”: Moscow’s ‘New Negro’ and the Interwar Circulations of Black Radicalism” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
March 1, 2011: Namrata Poddar
“For a Poetics of the Metroport: Insularity, Imperialism and Minor Transnationalism in Mauritian Fiction”
by Namrata Poddar, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“For a Poetics of the Metroport: Insularity, Imperialism and Minor Transnationalism in Mauritian Fiction” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
February 2, 2011: Claudia Hoffmann
“Postcolonial African Cinema in Transit: Nigerian Video Films and the Globalization of African Cultural Production”
by Claudia Hoffman, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Postcolonial African Cinema in Transit: Nigerian Video Films and the Globalization of African Cultural Production” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
January 13, 2011: Elleke Boehmer
“The Worlding of the Jingo Poem: Genre and Circulation at the Imperial Fin de Siècle”
Seminar by Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
Seminar and discussion based on “The Worlding of the Jingo Poem”
Paper abstract available here and full text available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Background reading for the seminar:
“A Postcolonial Aesthetic: Repeating Upon the Present” from Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millenium, ed. Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru, and Sarah Lawson Welsh
Introduction from The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader, ed. Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri
“Sorry, Sorrier, Sorriest: The Gendering of Contrition in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” from J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual, ed. Jane Poyner
“The Father Antenna” (short story) from Touch, ed. Karina M. Sczurek
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
January 12, 2011: Elleke Boehmer
“Gateway Suez: Indian Arrival in Britain and the Shock of the Familiar, 1870-1914”
Public Lecture by Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
Royce Hall 314
4:30 pm
November 15, 2010: Jeannine Murray-Román
“Introduction: Caribbean Performance and Its Textual Response”
by Jeannine Murray-Román, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Introduction: Caribbean Performance and Its Textual Response” available by email to clennon@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
October 29, 2010: Ania Loomba
“Race, Periodization, and Transnational Contact”
by Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles “Reorienting the Renaissance: Transnationalism and Periodization” and “Race and the Possibilities of Comparative Critique”
Faculty Center Sequoia Room
12:00 pm
October 28, 2010: Ania Loomba
“The Crooked Line: Memory, Communism and Feminism in India”
Public Lecture by Ania Loomba, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Center Sequoia Room
4:00 pm
Lecture followed by Mellon Welcome Reception
October 20, 2010: Firat Oruc
“Grounds of World Literature”
by Firat Oruc, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Grounds of World Literature: A Genealogical Essay”
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm