Women's Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

LGBTS 9th Annual Lecture Series: Karen Tongson

Karen Tongson Assistant Professor, English & Gender Studies University of Southern California

From Weissnichtwo to Kalihi: The Accent in Queer Provincial Imaginaries

In this paper Tongson presents a theory of what she calls a “queer accent.” Building upon her work on nineteenth- century British literature—work that characterizes “the accent” as a species of formal literary excess that makes legible negotiations among spaces and temporalities separating “the city” from a “don’t know where”—this presentation on Filipino-American author R. Zamora Linmark’s 1995 novel Rolling the R’s poses a challenge to cosmopolitanist accounts of queer subjectivities and cultures in contemporary America.

Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:00 pm in 164 Royce Hall

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information contact the LGBT Studies Program at lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu or 310 206 0516.

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

A UCLA Teach-In: Defending Academic Freedom

Defending Academic Freedom

Date: Tuesday, January 31

Time: 5 - 7 p.m

Place: Dodd Hall, Room 147, UCLA

Some 30 UCLA faculty have been targeted for their political ideas by a small alumni group that is linked to a national radical conservative movement. Dubbed “the dirty thirty” by the alumni group, the faculty have renamed themselves “In Good Company.” Several will appear in a forum to discuss:

• What is academic freedom? Why is it under attack?

• What forces lie behind the anti-academic freedom movement?

• What is at stake for the university community — students, faculty, and staff?

• What is the role of the academic/intellectual in American society?

• How can students and faculty defend civil liberties?

Speakers include: Dr. Ellen DuBois, History Department

Dr. Saree Makdisi, English Department

Dr. Vinay Lal, History Department

Dr. Sondra Hale, Anthropology Department and Women’s Studies Program

Sponsors: In Good Company, University Council-AFT, Student Alliance for Freedom in Education, UCLA Departments of History, Women’s Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Comparative Literature

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

Jennifer Terry: Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinema Verité’

Jennifer Terry Associate Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Irvine

Governmentality, Sentimentality, and Imperial Erotics in ‘Extreme Cinema Verité’

Monday, May 22, 2006 4:00 pm 306 Royce Hall

This paper analyzes the mechanisms of governmentality, affect, and homoerotics that are evident in visual images of the US led war in Iraq produced in an amateur, do-it- yourself fashion by US soldiers. Circulating on the internet, they provide an unofficial genre of war coverage that tends to valorize male-bonding, aggressive militancy, technofetishism, and racism against Arabs. Terry explores the gender, race, nationalist, and erotic politics surrounding the making and circulation of these “extreme cinema verite” texts, and shows their uncanny connection to an ideologically opposite but formally similar kind of media production: a genre of DIY moving image productions grouped under the heading of “Jihad movies" and produced by opponents of the US occupation of Iraq.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women

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

Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series "Humanism in the Humanities" 2007-2008

-- submitted by Tara Contreras (tara@humanities.ucla.edu)

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

"Byzantine Icons Under Attack: How Religious Images Survived Iconoclasm"

-- submitted by Brett (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)