October 20, 2011: Rita Felski, Co-sponsered by the UCLA Dept. of English
“Context Stinks!”
Public Lecture by Rita Felski, University of Virginia, English
With Respondent Louise Hornby, Assistant Professor, UCLA Dept. of English
Location: Royce 306
Time: 4:30 pm
Lecture followed by Mellon Welcome Reception
October 21, 2011: Rita Felski
“Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion”
Seminar and discussion by Rita Felski, University of Virginia, English
Seminar and discussion based on:
“CRRRITIQUE!” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Background reading for the seminar:
Suspicious Minds” by Rita Felski
Location: Royce 236
Time: 12:00 pm
November 8, 2011: Celina Hung
“On Creolization and the Chinese among Others”
by Celina Hung, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Seminar and discussion based on:
“On Creolization and the Chinese among Others” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 306
Time: 4:30 p.m.
January 24, 2012: Namrata Poddar
“Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Island Tourism and a Geopoetics of the Beach”
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Island Tourism and a Geopoetics of the Beach” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu
Location: Royce 306
Time: 4:30 p.m.
February 7, 2012: Claudia Hoffmann
“The Cinematic Landscapes of Clandestine Migration – An Introduction”
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 p.m.
February 23, 2012: Susan Friedman
“Always Spatialize! Geographies of the New Modernist Studies in the Longue Durée.”
Public lecture by Professor Susan Friedman, University of Wisconsin
Location: Royce 314
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Friday, February 24, 2012: Susan Friedman
“Modernities, Continents, and Comparisons”
Seminar and discussion by Professor Susan Friedman, University of Wisconsin
Seminar and dicussion based on:
“Unthinking Manifest Destiny: Muslim Modernities on Three Continents.” In Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, eds. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. 62-100.
“Why Not Compare?” by Susan Friedman. PMLA 126.3 (2011): 753-62.
Location: Royce 236
Time: Noon
March 6, 2012: Maurice Samuels
“France’s Jewish Star: Rachel at the Comédie Française”
Public lecture by Professor Maurice Samuels, Yale University
Event Co-Sponsored with the UCLA French Department and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Location: Royce 314
Time: 4:30 p.m.
March 7, 2012: Maurice Samuels
“Metaphors of Modernity: Prostitutes, Bankers, and Other Jews in Balzac’s Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes”
Seminar by Professor Maurice Samuels, Yale University
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Metaphors of Modernity: Prostitutes, Bankers, and Other Jews in Balzac’s Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes”
Location: Royce 306
Time: 4:30 p.m.
May 8, 2012: Ani Mukherji
“The Anticolonial Imagination: Race, Migration, and the Exilic Productions of American Radicalism in Interwar Moscow, 1919-1939”
by Ani Mukherji, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 p.m.
May 15, 2012: Annette Damayanti Lienau
“Terms of Exchange: Language Ideology and Comparative Literary History in Senegal, Indonesia, & Egypt”
by Annette Damayanti Lienau, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor
Location: Royce 236
Time: 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact Dacia Imakura via e-mail at dacia@humnet.ucla.edu .
May 22th , 2012: JoAnne Ruvoli
“Juxtaposition of Time, Space, and Nation: the Narrative Frame in Italian American Literature”
Location: Royce 236
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Seminar and discussion based on:
“Juxtaposition of Time, Space, and Nation: the Narrative Frame in Italian American Literature” available by email to dacia@humnet.ucla.edu