Comparative Literature Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Judith Stacey - Gay Male Intimacy & Kinship in LA

"FELLOW FAMILIES: STUDYING GAY MALE INTIMACY & KINSHIP IN L.A."

Friday, October 12, 2001. 279 Haines Hall. Noon - 1:30 PM

Professor Stacey will also participate in an ethnography lunch workshop with graduate students immediately following the talk (1:30 PM, 215 Haines Hall). Please RSVP (adenisse@ucla.edu) for the workshop.

Co-sponsored by Ethnographies, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program, and the Graduate Student Association.

-- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.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

Decolonizing Universality? The Ethics of Hybridity in Rabindranath Tagore's "World Literature"

Refreshments will be served

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

Decolonizing Universality? The Ethics of Hybridity in Rabindranath Tagore's "World Literature"

Refreshments will be served.

Future Lecturers include:

Bruce Cumings - January 2002 David Palumbo - March 1, 2002 Stephanie Donald - April 9, 2002 Arif Dirlik - May 8, 2002

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

DECOLONIZING UNIVERSALITY? THE ETHICS OF HYBRIDITY IN RADINDRANATH TAGORE'S "WORLD LITERATURE"

This talk will focus on questions prevalent to postcolonial models of resistance, subjectivity, and ethics. It examines whether the Subaltern Scholars' or Homi Bhabha's theories enable us to account for how new notions of cross-cultural justice arise from anti- imperialist movements.

-- submitted by Michael Cohen (mcohen@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

The Legacy of the Ten Commandments: Ancient Text & Modern Contexts

VI. DO NOT MURDER.

Speakers:

ROBERT WEXLER, President of the University of Judaism and Louis Colen Distinguished Lecturer in Bible.

KHALED ABOU EL FADL, The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law at UCLA.

The Ten Commandments: Universal ethics that all righteous people should uphold or the "Moral Majority's" attempt to impose its religious beliefs on the secular world? Come discover with us, on selected Thursday evenings during Winter quarter, the remarkable textual and historical complexity of these Commandments and their legacies in the modern world.

A public forum sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies with the generous assistance of the Jerry and Joy Monkarsh Family, this series costs $10 per person per evening ($5 for UCLA students with SID).

For further information or to receive a brochure, contact CJS at (310) 825-5387.

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

"The Politics of the Multitude: Globalization and Subjectivity"

Michael Hardt is Associate Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University. He is the co-author with Antonio Negri of "Empire" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), and author of "Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy" (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993) This lecture is a sequel to concerns addressed in "Empire".

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

"Working Memory and Christa Wolf's Second World"

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

"Mommie Queerest: Joan Crawford and Gay Male Subjectivity"

"MOMMIE QUEEREST: JOAN CRAWFORD AND GAY MALE SUBJECTIVITY".

The lecture will take place on Monday, January 28 at 4:00 pm in 236 Royce Hall. There will be a reception to follow.

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

"The Aesthetics of Cement: Mexico City 1920 - 1930"

Please join us for this lunch-time lecture. Light refreshments will be provided.

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

"Walter Benjamin's Friendships: A Biographical Exploration"

ALEX GELLEY (UCI)

Thursday, January 31, 2002 Royce Hall, Room 306, 4:00 PM

as part of the 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

-- submitted by spitzer (spitzer@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

"Permanent Immigration": The Remaking of Levantine Culture

"PERMANENT IMMIGRATION": THE REMAKING OF LEVANTINE CULTURE

a lecture by GIL ZEHEVA HOCHBERG, University of California, Berkeley.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 6, 2002 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall. Reception to follow.

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

Richard Meyer Reading at LAGLC

A reception will follow the reading & proceeds from the night's book sales will benefit The Rainbow Floor, the first gay & lesbian residence hall at USC.

Thursday, Feb 7, 2002
7-9pm
Call for info/RSVP (323)860-7300

Advocate Gallery The Village at Ed Gould Plaza 1125 N. McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA 90038 (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Blvd.)

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

East Asia Bound Up, Tied Up, and Buried: How Country Studies Balkanized an Intellectual Field

Professor Bruce Cumings, Univ. of Chicago Friday, February 15th 306 Royce Hall

The locus and placement of academic boundaries in the field of East Asian studies grew out of a complex history shaped by language barriers, Sinological tradition, imperialism and colonialism, the divisions of the Cold War, the demands of the U.S. Government, the rise of particular ways of doing social science and history, the interests of multinational corporations, and the inclinations of particular universities and scholars. As a result the field carries all the liabilities of "area studies," but reduces the "area" (namely East Asia) to country studies (and even half-country studies, as in Korea). Nonetheless the strengths of this field are many and the skills of its scholars formidable, yet all too few of them are recognized today by the major academic disciplines. The consequences for the field are many and in our contemporary world, dire; he will argue that for studies of modern East Asia, even though the scholarship has become much better, in the academy we are worse off than we were a generation ago--and there is blame enough to distribute nearly everywhere.

Bruce Cumings is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy at the University of Chicago. An American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow, Professor Cumings in the author of 13 published and forthcoming books, including the two-volume magnum opus, The Origins of the Korean War.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies.

For more information, please contact: Mani A. Jad mjad@isop.ucla.edu 310.206.4928

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

"Who Owns the Bible?: Copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls"

DAVID NIMMER

David Nimmer, currently Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA, is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP. The following is excerpted from Irell & Manella's website (http://www.irell.com/attorneys/ShowLawyer.asp?AID=118):

He is also a Distinguished Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. In 2000, he was elected to the American Law Institute.

Since 1985, Mr. Nimmer has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, first published in 1963 by his late father, Prof. Melville B. Nimmer. Besides also contributing to other treatises, Mr. Nimmer has authored numerous law review articles on domestic and international copyright issues. A selection includes the following:

A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 673 (2000)

Puzzles of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 46 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 401 (1999)

The Metamorphosis of Contract Into Expand, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 17 (1999)

Aus Der Neuen Welt, 93 Nw. U. L. Rev. 195 (1998)

Time and Space, 38 IDEA 501 (1998)

Adams and Bits: Of Jewish Kings and Copyrights, 71 S. Cal. L. Rev. 219 (1998)

An Odyssey Through Copyright’s Vicarious Defenses, 73 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 162 (1998)

A Tale of Two Treaties, 22 Colum.-VLA J.L. & Arts 1 (1997)

Are We Running Through the Jungle Now or Is the Old Man Still Stuck Down the Road? 39 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 65 (1997)

Brains and Other Paraphernalia of the Digital Age, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 1 (1996)

The End of Copyright, 48 Vand. L. Rev. 1385 (1995)

A Structured Approach to Analyzing the Substantial Similarity of Computer Software in Copyright Infringement Cases, 20 Ariz. St. L.J. 625 (1988)

"Nimmer on Copyright" is routinely cited by U.S. and foreign courts at all levels in copyright litigation. In addition, the courts have relied on many of the foregoing articles. For instance, the Eleventh Circuit in 1999 evaluated the constitutionality of GATT-inspired amendments to the Copyright Act by relying on The End of Copyright. In 1992, the Second Circuit adopted wholesale the test for copyright infringement of computer software proposed in A Structured Approach. In subsequent years, other courts have followed the Second Circuit’s lead, until today a plurality of circuits follow that test.

Mr. Nimmer lectures widely in the copyright arena. Besides in-house seminars (such as for the legal staffs of Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta and Times Mirror in New York and Los Angeles), he has lectured around the world — at MILIA in Cannes, ALAI in Tel Aviv, LUISS in Rome, IMPRIMATUR in London, the Copyright Society of Japan in Tokyo, and regularly to bar organizations in California and throughout the U.S.

In addition to writing and lecturing, Mr. Nimmer represents clients in the entertainment, publishing, and high- technology fields. He gave congressional testimony on behalf of the United States Telephone Association in 1997 and the National Association of Broadcasters in 1992, and Parliamentary testimony on behalf of the Combined Newspaper and Magazine Copyright Committee of Australia in Sydney in 1993.

Mr. Nimmer received an A.B. with distinction and honors in 1977 from Stanford University and his J.D. in 1980 from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal.

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

LECTURE POSTPONED! The Arabic 'Maqama' and the Rise of the Modern Novel

-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu)

REVISED ANNOUNCEMENT - TODAY - "Lyric Matters: The Question of Reference in César Vallejo's Trilce

LYRIC MATTERS: THE QUESTION OF REFERENCE IN CÉSAR VALLEJO'S TRILCE

to take place TODAY, FEBRUARY 21 at 12:30pm in 4302 Rolfe Hall. Light refershment will be provided.

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

"Are We All 'Ethnic' Now? Thoughts on Comparative Literature in the Late Twentieth Century"

"Are We All 'Ethnic' Now? Thoughts on Comparative Literature in the Late Twentieth Century"

to take place Tuesday February 26, 2002 at 5:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of "Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier" (Stanford University Press, 1999) and "The Poetics of Appropriation: Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian (1045-1105" (Stanford University Press, 1993). He is also the co- editor (with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht) of "Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies" (Stanford University Press, 1997).

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

JOSE MUNOZ - QUEER POTENTIALITIES

JOSE MUNOZ Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University Author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)

QUEER POTENTIALITIES: WARHOL, O'HARA & FUTURITY

Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:00 pm, 355 Kinsey Hall

This lecture examines the reception of the New York School of poetry and the Pop Art movement and argues that both movements' reception have been "degayed" and pitted against each other in a "good gay" v.s. "bad gay" binary. Focusing on Andy Warhol and Frank O'Hara as representatives of both movements, Muñoz identifies a queer utopian impulse in the work of both cultural workers. The writings of Frankfurt school scholar Ernst Bloch informs Muñoz's critical methodology and helps describe a notion of queer futurity that characterizes this work.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/munoz.html

"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)

A SEMINAR WITH ALAIN BADIOU

A Seminar With Alain Badiou: "The Desire for Philosophy and The Ethics of Truths"

on Monday April 8, 2002 at 5:00 pm in 314 Royce Hall.

A Reception will PRECEDE the seminar at 4:00 pm.

Copies of the readings are available at the Reception Desk in 212 Royce Hall.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo)

Three Apples Fell From Heaven

-- submitted by Gayane Hagopian (hagopian)

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

"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)

A Colloquium with Franco Moretti: World Literature at Large

FRANCO MORETTI

"World Literature At Large"

Monday April 29, 2002 12:00—3:00 pm Faculty Center, Sierra Room

Lunch Will Be Provided

Panel: Franco Moretti, Emily Apter, Aamir Mufti, Efrain Kristal, Carlo Ginzburg

Franco Moretti is Professor of English at Stanford University and Director of the Center for the Study of the Novel. He is one of the leading literary critics and historians of our time and has focused in his work in particular on the evolution of the novel as a form. His many books include, Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, and Atlas of the European Novel, 1800 - 1900.

A copy of Professor Moretti's article, "Conjectures on World Literature," is available at 212 Royce Hall.

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

PASSIONS OF THE REAL: SCIENCE, ART, POLITICS, a Lecture series with SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Schedule:

“Cynical Reason: A Discussion” – Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson on Monday, May 20, 2002, 4:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall, reception to follow.

“How does Cognitivism Affect Psychoanalysis?” Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 5:00 pm, 362 Royce Hall.

“Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle” Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 5:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall.

“Against Democracy: Towards a Politics of Subtraction” Friday, May 24, 2002, 4:00 pm, 314 Royce Hall.

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

New Light on the Egyptian Historian al-Jabarti (1753-1825) and His Work ‘Aja’ib al-Athar (1688-1821)

-- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)

MOIRA KENNEY - How Gay Is LA?

A Graduate of UCLA, Kenney is a Senior Planner and Policy Analyst for the San Francisco Children and Families Commission, and the author of Mapping Gay L.A. (2001)

Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:00 pm, Public Policy 2270

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Humanities Division, Social Sciences Division, and Department of English

-- submitted by LGBT Studies (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qla.html