2012-2013 SEMINARS

October 24, 2012: Eric Hayot

“Mastering the Demon, Fear; and other advice for academic writers in the humanities”

Seminar and discussion by Professor Eric Hayot, Penn State University
Seminar and discussion are based on an excerpt from a book in progress which is available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 12:00 pm


October 24, 2012: Eric Hayot

“Literary Worlds and World Literary History”

Public Lecture by Professor Eric Hayot, Penn State University
Co-sponsored by the Department of English
Location: Royce 314
Time: 4:30 pm
Lecture followed by Mellon Welcome Reception


November 19, 2012: Jennifer Crewe

“What Does a Publisher Want? Ten Tips for Submitting Your Manuscript”

Public Lecture by Jennifer Crewe, Editorial Director, Columbia University Press
Location: Royce 306
Time: 4:30 pm


November 28, 2012: JoAnne Ruvoli

“Performing the Folktale in Don DeLillo’s Underworld”

by JoAnne Ruvoli, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar based on an article by JoAnne Ruvoli, available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 pm


December 3, 2012: Ken Wissoker

“Smart Publishing in a Time of Media Transformation”

Public Lecture by Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director, Duke University Press
Location: Royce 306
Time: 4:30 pm


January 29, 2013: Chase Smith

“Shows and Showmen of the Wild West in Hawaii”

by Chase Smith, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar based on a paper by Chase Smith, available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 pm


February 19, 2013: Alvin Wong

“Queer Theory and Chinese Modernity”

by Alvin Wong, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar based on a paper by Alvin Wong, available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 5:00 pm


February 25, 2013: David Eng

“Genealogies of Political and Psychic Reparation”

by Professor David Eng, University of Pennsylvania
Seminar based on two papers by Prof. David Eng:
“The Prospect of Kinship: Transnational Adoption and Racial Reparation” (available here)
“Introduction: Reparations and the Human” (available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu)
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 pm


March 5, 2013: Anita Wheeler

“Rumor, Race and the Standards of Truth in Sino-Kenyan Labor Relations”

by Anita Wheeler, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Paper available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 5:00 pm


March 12, 2013: Jerome Camal

“Gwoka from Revolution to Relation: Musical Paths to a Creole Postnationalism”

by Jerome Camal, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Paper available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 5:00 pm


May 14, 2013: Tzu-hui Celina Hung

“Documenting Taiwan in the Lens of New Immigrants”

by Tzu-hui Celina Hung, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Paper available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 pm


May 22, 2013: Neferti Tadiar

“Remaindered Life”

by Prof. Neferti Tadiar, Barnard CollegeS
Seminar discussion based on three papers by Prof. Tadiar, available by email to evelinsky@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Bunche 10383
Time: 5:00pm