June 7, 2010: Maya Boutaghou
“Reflections on a Poetics of the Transcultural Subject”
by Maya Boutaghou, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Reflections on a Poetics of the Transcultural Subject” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
May 10, 2010: David Palumbo-Liu
“Reasoning; With the Other: Literature, Realism, Race.”
by David Palumbo-Liu, Professor, Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Seminar and discussion based on:
“When Otherness Overcomes Reason” and “Rationality and World-Systems Analysis: Fanon and the Impact of the Ethico-Historical”
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
April 19, 2010: Joseph Bauerkemper
“Indigneous Transnationalism: LeAnne Howe and Sovereign Interdependencies”
by Joseph Bauerkemper, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Indigenous Transnationalism: LeAnne Howe and Sovereign Interdependencies”
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
April 5, 2010: Marcela Fuentes
“Zooming in and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Context”
by Marcela Fuentes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Context”
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
March 15, 2010: Jeannine Murray-Román
“Performance and the Aesthetics of Comparative Caribbean Writing”
by Jeannine Murray-Román, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Island Time on the Blog: Zoé Valdés’s and Staceyann Chin’s Online Poetics”
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
March 1, 2010: Michael Rothberg
“Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization”
by Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Seminar and discussion based on:
Chapters 1-3 of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocause in the Age of Decolonization
Royce Hall 236
12:00 pm
January 11, 2010: Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih
“The Creolization of Theory”
by Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, Co-directors, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Faculty Colloquium Series organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Committee (CLGSC)
December 8, 2009: Greg Cohen
“The Spatial Unconscious: Remarks on (and Beyond) Film Discourse in the Latin American 1960s and 70s”
by Greg Cohen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Seminar and discussion based on:
“The End of Modernity, As Seen from the Air: Fernando Birri’s Throw a Dime and Jorge Bodanzky’s Iracema”
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
November 16, 2009: Sandra Harding
“Postcolonial and Feminist Science Studies: Convergences and Conflicts”
by Sandra Harding, Professor, Social Sciences and Education, UCLA
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances”
“Rethinking Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: What is ‘Strong Objectivity’?” from The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader, ed. Sandra Harding
Faculty Center Hacienda Room
4:30 pm
November 3, 2009: Zrinka Stahuljak
“Minor Empires: Translation Studies and Postcolonial Critique”
by Zrinka Stahuljak, Associate Professor, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Minor Empires: Translation, Conflict, and Postcolonial Critique”
Background reading for the seminar:
“War, Translation, Transnationalism”
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
Charles Mills, Northwestern University, and Carole Pateman, UCLA
“Between Racial and Sexual Contracts: A Dialogue Between Charles Mills and Carole Pateman”
October 30, 2009
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
October 30, 2009: Charles Mills
“De-Racializing Liberalism, De-Racializing Rawls”
by Charles Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Racial Liberalism”
Introduction and Chapter 1 of The Racial Contract
Royce Hall 236
12:00 pm
October 6, 2009: Sze-wei Ang
“The Ethics of Race and Religion as Literary Frame”
by Sze-wei Ang, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
3:00 pm