June 1, 2009: Sonali Pahwa, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Introduction to Theatres of Translation: Performing Transnational Modernity in Neoliberal Egypt
Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm
May 18 – Fatima El-Tayeb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Introduction to Queering Ethnicity. Minority Activism in Postnational Europe
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 pm
April 27, 2009: Travis Workman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Introduction to Culture, Time, and Form in the Japanese Empire (1919-1945)
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Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm
April 20, 2009: Obioma Nnaemeka
Seminar and discussion by Obioma Nnaemeka, Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies, Indiana University
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“Reimagining the Diaspora: History, Responsibility, and Commitment in an Age of Globalization”
“Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way”
Location: Royce Hall 306
Time: 4:30 pm
March 30, 2009: Greg Cohen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
“CINEMA and SPATIAL THOUGHT at the ENDS of MODERNITY: ARGENTINA and BRAZIL in the SIXTIES”
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Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm
March 2, 2009: Maya Boutaghou, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
“Emergent Female Voices: An Introduction”
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Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 4:30 pm
February 23, 2009: Étienne Balibar
“Strangeness: from anthropology to politics” by Étienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, and Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy, Université de Paris X, Nanterre
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“Difference, Otherness, Exclusion”
“Strangers as Enemies”
Location: Royce Hall 306
Time: 4:30 pm
January 5, 2009: Sze-wei Ang, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
“Reading Race, Reading Ethnicity”
Location: Royce Hall 243
Time: 4:30 pm
December 8, 2008: Marcela Fuentes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
“Being There. Performance and Event”
Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 5:00 pm
November 14, 2008: Sneja Gunew, Elizabeth Marchant, Françoise Lionnet, and Shu-mei Shih
“Comparative Postcolonial Studies: Anglophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Sinophone”
Location: Royce Hall 306
Time: 3:00 pm
Workshop based on:
“Corporeal choreographies of transnational English” from Haunted Nations: the Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms by Sneja Gunew
“Introduction” and “Conclusion” from Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific by Shu-mei Shih
“Cultivating Mere Gardens? Comparative Francophonies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms” by Françoise Lionnet
“Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identity” by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
November 3, 2008: Sarah Valentine, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
“Ethics of Difference: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi”
Location: Royce Hall 236
Time: 5:00 pm
Ernesto Laclau
Seminar and discussion by Ernesto Laclau, Professor of Government, University of Essex
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles from On Populist Reason: