Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Irvine Lecture in Critical Theory by Prof. Alexander Gelley

by

Alexander Gelley Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine

Language of Order(s): Jenny Holzer in the Public Sphere

Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:00-5:00 pm Humanities Instructional Building - Room 135

If you need special accommodation for a disability, please call Ron Blosser at 824-7494.

-- submitted by Lisa Ness (lness@uci.edu)

For more information, contact lness@uci.edu

Efi Hatzimanolis, "More Multicultural Suxess Stories: Surveillance and Incommensurability in Minority Australian Film"

Efi Hatzimanolis is Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at The University of Wollongong, Australia where she teaches and researches on questions of Cultural Differences and Technologies of the Body. She has published widely in the areas of Multicultural Identity Politics, Cultural Differences and Representation in Australian Immigrant Writing and Feminist Critical Theory.

This event is free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez, ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu (cgoodloe@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/events.html

Luisa Passerini - Europe and Love: A Research Project

Luisa Passerini is Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the European University in Florence. Her writings include (in English translation) Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) and Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968 (Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996), both of which make innovative use of oral history. She has also written extensively on Italian feminism and liberation movements in Africa. Her most recent book is Europe in Love, Love in Europe. Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars (Tauris: London 1998), yet another challenging experiment in the writing of history.

-- submitted by Kelly O'Donnell (kellyo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Irvine Lecture in Critical Theory by Prof. Alexander Gelley

by

Alexander Gelley Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine

Language of Order(s): Jenny Holzer in the Public Sphere

Wednesday, October 17, 2001 3:00-5:00 pm Humanities Instructional Building - Room 135

For additional information, call Lisa Ness at (949)824-5583. If you need special accommodation for a disability, please call Ron Blosser at 824-7494.

-- submitted by Lisa Ness (lness@uci.edu)

For more information, contact lness@uci.edu

A Symposium on Jacques Rancière's "10 THESES ON POLITICS"

Response by: Jacques Rancière, Department of Philosophy, University of Paris, VIII

Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of politics and aesthetics at the University of Paris VIII, (St. Denis). He is the author of numerous books, among them The Nights of Labor: the workers' dream in 19th-century France (1989), The Ignorant Schoolmaster (1991), The Names of History (1994), On the Shores of Politics (1995), Dis-agreement: politics and philosophy (1999), La parole muette, essai sur les contradictions de la littérature (1998); and Le partage du sensible, Esthétique et politique (2000).

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Please see our website for further details.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez, ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu (cgoodloe@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/events.html

"Towards a Prosaics of Processual Literature"

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lowenste@mail.law.ucla.edu

MOLLY McGARRY - "Ghosts of Futures Past"

MOLLY MCGARRY
Assistant Professor of History, UC Riverside

"GHOSTS OF FUTURES PAST: SPECTRAL SEXUALITIES IN 19th- CENTURY AMERICA"

This talk conjures the uncanny, spectral sexualities that haunt our queer past. Tracking a 19th-century history of apparitional manifestations from the spirit world, Professor McGarry explores the ways in which these subjects are and are not legible given current theorization of same- sex/queer/trans history in all its entanglements. In seances and through trance speaking, male mediums channeled female spirits, and female Spiritualists reembodied themselves as men. How can we theorize and historicize these subjects? Other scholars have unearthed a nineteenth- century queer past by digging into the records of courts and prisons to find sodomites, delved into diaries and letters for traces of lost relationships and the communities built around them, and turned to the case r1ecords of sexologists to find the invert, the pervert, and the deviant. In this vein, this talk explores how Spiritualism may have been a marker for an incipient, not yet materialized sexuality, a sexual dissidence outside the medico-juridical matrix, but also beyond the expected spaces of subculture.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

This talk is free & open to the public.

-- submitted by Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Studies Program (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/mcgarry.htm

Myung Mi Kim, "Provisional Languages and Times"

Myung Mi Kim is an award-winning poet and the author of four books of poetry, Under Flag (1991), The Bounty (1996), DURA (1998) and Commons (forthcoming in 2002 from the University of California Press). She has published in major poetry journals and her work has been anthologized widely. She is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry and several awards from the Fund for Poetry, among others. She is currently a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.

Shu-mei Shih holds a joint appointment in Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China (2001), and a forthcoming book entitled Visuality and Identity.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the seminar.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact modcon@humnet.ucla.edu

"The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi"

This symposium will review his scientific contributions and teaching legacy, and at the same time look at how Fermi and other scientists responded to the extraordinary political and social upheaval in which they found themselves.

This program is free and open to the public. Please see our website for a complete program schedule:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact modcon@humnet.ucla.edu

Lisa Duggan talk - THE NEW HOMONORMATIVTY - this Thursday

Andrew Sullivan and his cohort of "mainstream" gay writers (collected on the website of the Independent Gay Forum) do not constitute simply a single issue, assimilationist lobby at the conservative end of the spectrum of lgbt/q politics. These writers provide sexual equality rhetoric for the antiegalitarian, undemocratic project of neoliberalism. They are collectively producing a New Homonormativity that is seriously at odds with any and all progressive political agendas. This lecture examines the gender, economic, racial and nationalist arguments and antics of this cohort of influential writers.

This Thursday (Jan 10) 4pm in Kinsey 355 Free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/duggan.htm

Call for Papers: "Diaspora, Descent and Dissent"

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation

"Immigration Restriction, Racial Nationalism, and the Making of Modern America"

Gary Gerstle is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of "American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century" (2001) and "Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960" (1989). His many articles include "Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism," Journal of American History, 1999; "Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans," Journal of American History, 1997; and "The Protean Character of American History," American Historical Review, 1994.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu

Tuition Fellowship - SCT Summer Session

The session runs from June 16 to July 25, 2002. UCLA is part of a "preferred participant" fellowship program of the SCT, in which UCLA will provide the tuition for any graduate student or faculty member designated as a "preferred participant" by the university. In turn, that person will be guaranteed admission to the SCT session. Specific information regarding seminar themes and dates can be obtained from Kathy Sanchez (see address below), or the SCT's website: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/sct/index.html

To Apply: Please submit a CV and one-page description of your current scholarly interests and plans, including their relevance to this year's session. Please note which seminar(s) you would like to attend. Applications should be sent to:

Kathy Sanchez UCLA Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies 310 Royce Hall, Box 951461 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1461

The application deadline is February 4, 2002. Interviews of candidates will take place between February 11-15, 2002. Further inquiries can be directed to Kathy Sanchez at the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies, at ext. 59581 or email ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu

JENNIFER BRODY - Bodies, Boundaries & Frames

JENNIFER BRODY, Associate Professor of English & African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

BODIES,BOUNDARIES & FRAMES: "Queer" Readings in New Times

This lecture draws from Brody's current work-in-progress, The Style of Elements: Politically Performing Punctuation. She will discuss the ways in which different graphic/performance artists represent or "style" elements of punctuation such as the "dot." More specifically, the lecture will focus on selected texts by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, produced during her decade- long sojourn in 1960's New York. The lecture seeks to connect disparate artists (literary as well as visual) who work with concepts related to sexuality and punctuation.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBTS Program (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/brody.htm

Professor Martha Nussbaum, "Shame, Stigma, and the Law"

Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, with appointments in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School. She is an Associate in the Classics Department, an Affiliate of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board member of the Center for Gender Studies. Her most recent books are Women and Human Development (2000) and Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (2001). She is the winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Education for 2002.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

Professor Traise Yamamoto, "An Apology to Althea Connor: Private Memory, Public Racialization and Making a Language"

Traise Yamamoto is Associate Professor of English at the University of Calfornia, Riverside. She is the author of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body (University of California Press, 1999). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry. She is one of the subjects in a forthcoming documentary on Asian American women poets, "Between the Lines." She is currently working on a manuscript of short fiction, as well as a scholarly study on pleasure and the problematic subject in Asian American literature.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

FEMINISM CONFRONTS DISABILITY

Registration is required. For conference schedule and to register, please go to http://www.women.ucla.edu/csw/disability/

-- submitted by Peggy Lo (pplo@ucla.edu)

For more information, contact women@women.ucla.edu

Sexual States: A Colloquium and Graduate Workshop on German Sexuality Studies

Organized By: The Department Of Germanic Languages and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Studies Program

Co-Sponsored By: The Dean Of Humanities, The Center For The Study Of Women, The Department Of History, The Center For 17th And 18th Century Studies, The Center For European And Russian Studies, The Center For Modern And Contemporary Studies, and The Graduate Division

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002

MORNING SESSION

9:00-10:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Alice Kuzniar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Testcase Treut: Reevaluating the 90s Sexuality Debates

Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin “So wie diese deutschen Schwuchteln können wir nicht zusammenleben”: Examples of Queer Sexuality and Masculinity in Recent German Film and Novels

10:45-12:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jennifer M. Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: The German Patient: Metaphors of National Illness in Postwar Literature and Film Chapter: Guns, Germs, and Sex: Fascism and the Sexual Predator in Der Verlorene

Mary Beth Wetli, University of Pennsylvania We Ain’t Broke -– So Stop Trying to Fix Us

LUNCH 12:15—1:45

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:45-3:15 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Yvonne Ivory, San Diego State University The Urning and His Own: Self-Fashioning and the Fin-de- Siècle Invert

Robert Tobin, Whitman College Pederasty in Palestine: Arnold Zweig on Sexuality and Nationality

AFTERNOON BREAK 3:15—3:30 306 Royce Hall

3:30-5:00 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jared Poley, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Ant People and Voodoo Queens: Hanns Heinz Ewers, the Occupied Rhineland, and German Decolonization Chapter: Whipping

Nancy Thuleen, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dissertation: Stefan George: Homoeroticism as Catalyst and Synthesis Chapter: Homoeroticism in the Conflict Between Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2002

MORNING SESSION

10:00-11:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley Cultures of Arousal and the Control of the Imagination

Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Poetry of the Breast

LUNCH 11:30—1:00

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:00-2:30 Lectures 314 Royce Hall James Steakley, University of Wisconsin, Madison Homo Hitler Redux

Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University Holocaust Historiography and Lesbian Biography: Reading Aimee and Jaguar

AFTERNOON BREAK 2:30—2:45 306 Royce Hall

2:45-4:15 Workshop 306 Royce Hall Jill Suzanne Smith, Indiana University Dissertation: Reading the Red Light: The Literary and Historical “Zoning” of the Prostitute in Berlin, 1880-1933 Chapter: Dynamic Woman or Frozen Image? The Prostitute in Berlin

Britta McEwen, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: Model City, Moral Choices: Sexuality in Red Vienna, 1919-1934 Chapter: Creating More Perfect Unions: Clinic Culture in Interwar Vienna

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.germanic.ucla.edu/load.cfm?sexualstates.

Professor Werner Sollors, "The Rise of Ethnic Modernism in the US, 1910-1950"

The lecture explores this dramatic change and how ethnic artists participated in the development of an American literary modernism that would carry the day only after World War II.

Werner Sollors (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/sollors.shtml) teaches Afro-American Studies and English at Harvard University and is the author of Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Literature and Culture (1986) and Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature (pb. 1999). Recently, he edited Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America (1998), Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law (2000), The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans (expanded edition 2000), The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (co-ed. 2000), The Norton Critical Edition of Olaudah Equiano (2000), and Charles Chesnutt’s Novels, Short Stories, Essays for the Library of America (2002).

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

Tony Gleaton, Photographer: "(Re)Constructing Mestizaje: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central & South America"

The images I produce, most often, are ones in which people directly and openly look into the camera, yet the most important aspect of these portraits is that they give a narrative voice by visual means to people deemed invisible by the greater part of society ... and deliberately craft an 'alternative iconography' of what beauty and family and love and goodness might stand for — one that is inclusive, not exclusive." - Tony Gleaton

For more than 28 years, Tony Gleaton has pursued photography throughout North and South America. He began his career as a photographic assistant in New York, and eventually made his way to the American West, where he formed the core of his project "COWBOYS: Reconstructing an American Myth", a series of photographs and portraits of African-, Native-, Euro-, Mexican and Mexican-American Cowboys. For the next several years, he made extensive travels throughout Mexico, where he developed his most well known project, "Africa’s Legacy in Mexico", photographs of present day descendants of the black African slaves brought to New Spain from 1500 through the 1700s. This lecture is taken from Gleaton's project, "Tengo Casi 500 Años: Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central & South America", which is an expansion of the above work to include Central and South America. For more information, go to: http://www.artepublico.com.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

Call for Applications and Submissions

The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group, co-directed by Professors Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, will provide an RA mentorship (full scholarship with fees, non-resident fees excluded) for an exceptional graduate student working on comparative minority discourse. UCLA graduate students who are engaged in the studies of minority cultural, literary, social, political or other formations across the globe are encouraged to apply. Projects using comparative perspectives and critical methodologies will be particularly welcome. All applications must be received by March 1, 2002.

Applicants should arrange 2 letters of recommendation sent directly to the program coordinator, and send 5 copies of the following materials: - Cover page with personal information: name, project title, affiliation, year in school, Faculty Mentor's name, and e-mail address - 1-page research project description or statement of research interest - A writing sample: 15-20 page research paper (double-spaced) - Transcript

II. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION

Papers on a topic related to the Transnational and Transcolonial Studies MRG research objectives are being solicited for submission (see below). Submissions deadline is March 1, 2002. Papers should be between 20 to 30 pages, and 5 copies of the paper should be submitted. The winning paper will receive a prize of $1,000; the runner-up paper $500. The winning papers will be presented at the graduate student conference in Spring 2003. Other students interested in participating in this year's conference (to be held April 5, 2002) should contact the conference organizer, Karina Eilerass at mrgucla@hotmail.com. Please send applications and submissions to:

Kathy Sanchez, Program Coordinator UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies 310 Royce Hall, Mailcode: 146102 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1461 Phone: (310) 825-9581 Email: ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu

The Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group is an interdisciplinary community of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences from throughout the University of California system. The group collaborates on the study of minority discourse across national boundaries (transnationalism) with attention to colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial processes (transcolonialism). The core group of about thirty members meets regularly to hold workshops and conferences, the results of which are published. Other activities include a lecture series that brings prominent speakers in minority discourse from outside the UC system to interact with group members, the mentoring of graduate students through a fellowship program, a writing competition, and graduate student conferences. The Group also engages in outreach efforts to bring pedagogical innovation to secondary schools and universities. These research, publication, mentoring and outreach activities are meant to promote new theoretical perspectives and innovative research, as well as to bring about curricular changes designed to reflect the demographic diversity of California.

For more information, please visit the website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation/

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation

"Towards an Anthropological Humanism?" - a conference

Since the paroxysm of WWII, the most egregiously unequal institutions—colonialism, apartheid, de jure racial and sexual discrimination—have been sharply criticized, and in some cases successfully circumscribed. We now appear to be on the threshold of a “post-millennial” era where the moral imperative of human equality no longer dictates obvious solutions.

As citizens of the emerging global culture of this era, we need to account for both the phenomena of sacrifice and victimization that have dominated most of our history and the “categorical imperative” of moral reciprocity that defines us as human.

Our conference seeks to engage a dialogue between Generative Anthropology, which emphasizes the common humanity of our global culture, and Postcolonial Studies, which views this culture from the perspective of those whose place within it is the most problematic. The events of September 11 only make the necessity for this dialogue all the more apparent.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 5 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Wyton Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

"'Remember Lot's Wife' [Luke 17:32]: Scenes from a Failed Encounter in Post-Biblical Cultures"

"'Remember Lot's Wife' [Luke 17:32]: Scenes from a Failed Encounter in Post-Biblical Cultures"

as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Cosponsors: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures; Department of Germanic Languages; Center for European and Russian Studies; Department of English; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Translating the Nation in East Asia", a conference

As the nations of East Asia enter the new millennium, there has come an increased scholarly sensitivity to the limitations that ideas originally designed to discuss other peoples' histories have imposed on self-awareness. Long established Western paradigms have, in other words, begun to reveal the parochial interests obscured beneath their claims to universality. One result of this has been the emergence of a number of conferences and new journals devoted to intra-Asian historical, theoretical and cultural issues. Another consequence has been a new focus on the origins and histories of key ideas, along with close attention to the ways in which these ideas have circulated and achieved their positions of influence. Among the concepts that have come in for renewed scrutiny few have been more attended to than the constellation of notions that have underwritten the idea of the modern nation state.

This conference will examine a number of the ideas that grew out of the ongoing process of the development of the nation state, as well as try to work out a critical sense of the cost these ideas exacted on the study of the actual historical process in China, Japan and Korea, the three entities that have been tied together within the modern rubric of "East Asian Studies."

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. The parking fee is $6. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact Kathy Sanchez at ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

Professor Lipsitz researches the racialization of opportunities and life chances in 20th century U.S. society, the racialization of space, urban culture, collective memory, and movements for social change. His most recent book is American Studies in a Moment of Danger (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

This lecture will be held in Room 1439 of the Schoenberg Music Building at UCLA.

For more information, contact eleidal@ucla.edu

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact eleidal@ucla.edu

"Who is Toni Negri and Why Are They Saying All Those Terrible Things About Him? Elements of a Pre-History of Empire"

a LECTURE by TIM MURPHY (University of Oklahoma) entitled

"Who is Toni Negri and Why Are They Saying All Those Terrible Things About Him? Elements of a Pre-History of Empire"

to be given on Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 1301 Rolfe Hall. Please join us. Refreshments will be provided.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lizabeth Cohen, "Segmenting the Mass in Markets and Politics in Postwar America"

This seminar is free and open to the public, and is being presented by the Department of History and the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies. Professor Cohen's paper is available upon request for those planning to attend the seminar. Please contact the Center by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu, or call our office at 310-825-9581 to request a copy.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact modcon@humnet.ucla.edu

"Diaspora, Descent, and Dissent" - a Graduate Students Conference

co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center

Political crisis often sparks intense debate about national identity, cross-cultural exchange, and transnational labor. In the wake of September 11, this conference seeks to reassess the themes of home, exile, diaspora, and displacement that have persistently haunted the fields of postcolonial and ethnic studies. What does it mean to belong to a nation? How does the global flow of people, goods, and cultural forms alter conventional understandings of identity, affiliation or coalition, and resistance? What are the limits and possibilities of human rights discourse as a basis for political praxis? How has the role of the dissenting intellectual changed since September 11th, and what are the consequences for minority discourse? We hope to explore these and related issues in the contexts of popular culture, literature, media, politics, and performance.

Please see our website below for the list of speakers and topics.

Limited seating is available, however no reservations are required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu, or phone at (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/Diaspora.htm

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@humnet.ucla.edu

CIRA CALL FOR PROPOSALS - DEADLINE EXTENDED

A New Call for Research Proposals For Grant Period July 2002 - June 2004

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia (CIRA) at the International Studies and Overseas Programs invites research proposals from faculty and graduate students at UCLA to form research clusters to conduct innovative, collaborative, and publication-oriented research on Asia.

CIRA promotes publication-oriented research on Asia that bridges different areas, disciplines, and methodologies. Research projects that gather together scholars and/or students who work on different areas in Asia (comparative) or work on the same region from different disciplinary perspectives (interdisciplinary) will be considered for one of two grants, each lasting two years. During the first year, the project investigator(s) will organize reading group/research cluster meetings and/or small workshops with the aim to develop papers for the second year's conference and subsequent publication. During the second year, a formal conference will be held and papers will be readied for publication. For the first year of the grant period, a maximum of $4,000 will be available for reading sessions, workshops, or meetings. For the second year of the grant period, a maximum of $10,000 will be available for the conference. It is expected that by the close of the grant period, a solid set of papers will be available for publication either in the form of an edited volume published by the Asian Pacific Monograph Series at ISOP or another university press, or a special issue of an academic journal. The CIRA grant does not fund individual research or field trips, and is to be used primarily for on-campus activities to enhance research and exchange here.

Successful projects funded by the program will have the following characteristics:

(1) Innovative conception of a comparative or interdisciplinary research project that extends or challenges existing scholarship; (2) Clearly articulated publication plan; (3) Collaboration with other scholars and/or graduate students; (4) Clear timeline of project activities that will lead to publication; (5) A reasonable budget.

Application packets should include the following:

(1) Title sheet with name(s) of project investigators, title of project, and contact information; (2) 5-page description of the project; (3) List of participants and their affiliations; (4) Timeline of activities and plans for publication; (5) Budget; (6) Other supporting documents, if available (such as letters of commitment from participants, initial contact with presses, sources of supplementary funding, etc.).

Deadline: April 10, 2002 Funds will be available July 1st, 2002.

The grant period for the current competition is July 1st 2002 to June 30th, 2004.

Please send 7 copies of the application packet to:

Shu-mei Shih, Director 11387 Bunche Hall ISOP Campus mail 148703

For questions, please write to Mani Jad, mjad@isop.ucla.edu and/or Shu-mei Shih, shih@humnet.ucla.edu.

-- submitted by Shu-mei Shih (shih@humnet.ucla.edu)

Three Apples Fell From Heaven

-- submitted by Gayane Hagopian (hagopian)

For more information, contact hagopian@humnet.ucla.edu

"Religion and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire" - a conference

The conference will bring together a dynamic group of scholars whose research addresses pertinent aspects of the religion/culture/social change problem. They will be joined by members of the UCLA History Department from fields outside the Middle East whose work deals with issues similar to those confronting historians of the Middle East and who will comment on papers presented by the participants.

This program is being co-sponsored by The Center for Near Eastern Studies, The Department of History, The Division of Social Sciences, The Center for the Study of Religion, and The Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine.

Please see the website below for the full program schedule and online copies of papers. Hard copies of the papers are available upon request.

Limited seating is available, however no reservations required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu or by phone at (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/Ottoman.htm

"FROM BAPTISM TO INQUISITION, OR HOW THE CONVERSOS BECAME JEWISH"

"FROM BAPTISM TO INQUISITION, OR HOW THE CONVERSOS BECAME JEWISH"

by PROFESSOR DAVID NIRENBERG (Johns Hopkins University).

Please join us on Monday, April 22 at 3 PM in Royce 314. Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

"Jacques Derrida: The Last and Least of the Jews"

With Gil Anidjar (Columbia University.), Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto), Dana Hollander (Michigan State University), Moshe Idel (Hebrew University), Joshua Kates (St. Johns College), Eric Santner (University of Chicago), Elisabeth Weber (UC Santa Barbara), Samuel Weber (Northwestern University)

Sunday, April 28th, 2002, 2:30 - 7:30 Covel Commons: The Grand Horizon Room, Salon A UCLA

Jacques Derrida is one of the most famous and influential philosophers of our times. At the same time he is arguably a centrally Jewish philosopher, not only biographically, but as one whose ideas cannot be understood exclusively within a Greek framework of thinking. Derrida was born in El-Biar, Algeria in 1930 and grew up there with a strong sense both of being a Jew and of being persecuted for his Jewishness. He has referred to himself, somewhat cryptically, as "the last and the least of the Jews," and as a "Marrano." In an essay on the great Jewish Egyptian writer Edmond Jabès, Derrida comments on "the difficulty of being a Jew, which coincides with the difficulty of writing; for Judaism and writing are but the same waiting, the same hope, the same depletion."

Please join us for a discussion with Professor Derrida on the Jewish themes that have become ever more present in his work in recent years. This symposium is the first half of a two day conference on the Impact of Jewish Thought on European Culture, which will continue the following day with sessions on Franz Rosenzweig.

After initial Remarks by Professor Derrida, a group of his readers will present their Responses to the role of "the Jewish Question" in deconstruction and philosophy. This will be followed by an open discussion, focused on two of Derrida's recent essays on Jewish issues, "Avowing -- The Impossible" and "Abraham, the Other," which are attached here. Finally, the Symposium will end with a reception and screening of the recent film by Safaa Fathy, Derrida's Elsewhere, which takes up the role of religion and Jewish culture in his life and ideas. A schedule and parking information is below.

2:30 - 2:40 Kenneth Reinhard, Director UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Introductory Remarks

2:45 - 3:15 Jacques Derrida, Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, Remarks

3:15 - 5:45 Responses to Derrida's "Abraham, the Other" and "Avowing - The Impossible" and Comments by Professor Derrida

Gil Anidjar (Columbia University.), Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) Dana Hollander (Michigan State University), Moshe Idel (Hebrew University) Joshua Kates (St. Johns College), Eric Santner (University of Chicago) Elisabeth Weber (UC Santa Barbara), Samuel Weber (Northwestern University)

5:45 - 6:30 Reception

6:30 - 7:30 Screening of Derrida's Elsewhere (1999, 52 minutes)

PARKING DIRECTIONS

Parking permits may be purchased at Lot 4. Enter campus at Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd. and proceed straight ahead to the information kiosk in front of the underground parking structure. You may purchase your permit ($6) from the attendant, who can direct you to the Sunset Village parking structure, where parking for the conference will be.

Once parked in Sunset Village, take the elevator in the southwest corner of the parking garage to the Lobby (L) level. Once on the L Level, the Covel Commons building will be directly in front of you.

Turn RIGHT and walk along the outside of the Covel Commons building. Turn LEFT at the corner of the building and proceed to the entrance. There will be signs directing you to the Derrida symposium.

Here is a link to a map of campus that shows Covel Commons and the Sunset Village parking structure: http://www.ucla.edu/map/sectors/northwest.html

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

The Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society present Distinguished Lecture Series 2000-2001

-- submitted by Kate Goodyear (goodyear@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact lmusca@ucla.edu

Professor Sneja Gunew, "Transcultural Contexts: Affective Translations"

The paper draws on the interdisciplinary project “Transcultural Canada: Cultural Mingling Between, Among, Within Cultures” (http://transculturalisms.arts.ubc.ca), which attempts to produce new models for productively representing hybridity/métissage within a framework of transcultural translation. It is organised around the four themes: Ethnic and Indigenous relations; ‘Mixed race’ identities; Performing hybridity: new art forms; Globalization/Immigration/Citizenship.

Sneja Gunew has taught in England, Australia and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial and feminist critical theory and is currently Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She will be Director of the Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations (July 2002-7). She has edited (with Anna Yeatman) Feminism and the Politics of Difference and (with Fazal Rizvi) Culture, Difference and the Arts. Her most recent book is Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Studies, and Postcolonial Multiculturalisms: Bodies, Communities, Nations is forthcoming by Routledge. Her current work is in comparative multiculturalism and in diasporic literatures and their intersections with national and global cultural formations using theoretical frameworks deriving from feminist, postcolonial, and critical multicultural theory. She is one of six directors of the three-year Transculturalisms/Métissage project co-ordinated by the International Council for Canadian Studies.

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

Professor Arif Dirlik, "Literature/Identity: Transnationalism, Narrative and Representation"

A discussion of the relationship between literature and history in the representation/construction of identity. The questions raised by this relationship pertain most importantly to the politics of literature, and its implications for issues of the public and the private. The ethnicization of literature undermines the autonomy of the author but also, contradictorily, negates the public significance of ethnic literature by imprisoning it in an ethnic cultural space. History is important in restoring a sense of the public in ethnicized literature.

Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science at the University of Oregon, and Professor of History and Anthropology. His most recent book-length works are "Postmodernity's Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project", and two edited volumes, "Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization" (with Roxann Prazniak), and "Chinese on the American Frontier".

Limited seating available, no reservations required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

"Haunts of Assimilation: The Work of New York Artist David Deutsch"

LAWRENCE RICKELS (UC Santa Barbara)

on "HAUNTS OF ASSIMILATION: THE WORK OF NEW YORK ARTIST DAVID DEUTSCH" as part of our ongoing Seminar on Jewish Hermeneutics and Philosophy.

Professor Rickels, author of numerous books, including Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume I: Only Psychoanalysis Won the War; Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume II:Crypto-Fetishism; Nazi Psychoanalysis, Volume III: Psy Fi; The Vampire Lectures; The Case of California; and Acting Out in Groups, will discuss David Deutsch's surveillance photographs and explore them in the context of contest between Old Testament and New Testament media, with special attention awarded the Golem legend.

Co-sponsored by:

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department of Germanic Languages Department of English Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center for European and Russian Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Professor Ian Hacking, "Body Parts: Large and Small"

7:00 PM - Lecture

New technologies are radically changing our relationships to our bodies. On the large scale, we have organ transplants. The purchase and sale of body parts. A new meaning for death – brain death. Sex change. Intense new desires: an obsessive need to have a healthy limb amputated. On the small scale we have genetic medicine, the Icelandic sale, or at any rate lease, of genetic codes and genealogies of the entire population. In the realm of fantasy, large and small, we have cyborgs. These topics are much discussed one by one. This lecture takes them as instances of major changes in how we conceive of our bodies. It links them to some traditional philosophy, for example Kant. And it concludes that in an era when philosophers say we have finally got away from Cartesian theories of knowledge, we are implicitly restoring a Cartesian vision of mind and body.

Ian Hacking holds the chair of philosophy and history of scientific concepts, Collège de France, and is a University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was born and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. His doctoral work was completed at Cambridge University. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, Cambridge University and Stanford University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Science, and the British Academy, and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written several books, including Historical Ontology (2002); Probability and Inductive Logic (2001); The Social Construction of What? (1999); Le plus pur nominalisme (1993); The Taming of Chance (1990); and Why does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975).

The Kanner Lectures are funded by a generous endowment created by Penny Kanner, Ph.D. These lectures are devoted to the relationship of new science and technologies to public welfare and cultural life in the 21st century. This is the second lecture in this series.

This program is free and open to the public. Limited seating is available; however no reservations are required. Parking is available for $6 in Lot 2 of the UCLA Campus. The kiosk entrance is at Hilgard and Westholme Avenues. For further information, please visit our website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs or contact our office at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

Rebellion, Repression and Terrorism From Elio Petri to Toni Negri In Italy in the 1970's

ALESSANDRO STILLE

"Rebellion, Repression and Terrorism From Elio Petri to Toni Negri In Italy in the 1970's"

Thursday, May 16, 2002 at 2pm 147 Dodd Hall

-- submitted by Cyndia Soloway (soloway@humnet.ucla.edu)

Madhu Dubey, "Counter-Modernism in U.S. Ethnic Literatures"

-- submitted by Kathy Sanchez (ksanchez@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science).

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative.

-- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)

University of California in Berkeley for the 2003 Narrative Conference

We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science).

Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Conference participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative.

For more information visit www.vanderbilt.edu/narrative

-- submitted by Nancy Giganti (nancyg@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact narcon03@socrates.berkeley.edu