2002-03 Calendar of Events

(see bottom of page regarding event registration)

October 25-26, 2002:

Selling Race: The Limits and Liberties of Markets, a conference

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November 18:

Manthia Diawara, New York University
Bamako Sigi Kan, film screening and lecture
314 Royce Hall

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November 20 :

Madhu Dubey, Brown University
Postmodernism and Racial Difference
4:30 pm, 314 Royce Hall

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Sponsored by the Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group

March 10, 2003:   * CANCELLED *

Doris Sommer, Harvard University
Bilingual Games
314 Royce Hall

April 4 (date was changed from April 7):

Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University
Democracy, Constitutionalism, and the National Security State
5:00pm, 1301 Rolfe Hall (location changed from 314 Royce)

This is the first of two talks on The Question of the Foreigner: Immigration, Refugees, and Hospitality. The second lecture in this series will take place on May 19th.

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Sponsored by the UC Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group and co-sponsored by the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies.

April 11-12:

Transnational Cultures Across Generations
Our second annual UC Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group Graduate Student Conference

Friday evening, April 11 - performances in Northwest Complex Auditorium, Covel Commons

Saturday, April 12 - conference in 314 Royce Hall

(Further program details will be available soon)

April 16:

Achille Mbembe, Time and Event in New Francophone African Narratives
4:30pm, 306 Royce Hall
(location changed from 314 Royce)

Achille Mbembe is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published extensively in various academic journals, written several works in French, and has recently published On the Postcolony (University of California Press, 2001).

Co-Sponsored by the Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group, the Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.

April 28:

Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
3rd Annual Kanner Lecture
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness

5:00pm - Reception
6:00pm - Lecture
California Room, Faculty Center

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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 will be the third lecture in this series.

May 9-10:

The Case of Wagner: A Reconsideration, a conference
314 Royce Hall

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May 14:

Ellen Rooney, Brown University
Semiprivate Communication: Spivak's History of the Vanishing Present
4:30pm, 314 Royce Hall

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Sponsored by the UC Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group

May 19:

Mireille Rosello, Northwestern University
Invisible Frontiers Around French banlieues: Stepping Stones or Stumbling Blocks?
5:00pm, 306 Royce Hall

This is the second lecture in the series The Question of the Foreigner: Immigration, Refugees, and Hospitality. The first lecture will take place on April 4th (see above for details).

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Sponsored by the UC Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Multicampus Research Group and co-sponsored by the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies.

 

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