Monthly Mellon Seminars 2008-09
November 7, 2008
"The State of the Fields: Anglophone, Francophone, Sinophone" a conversation with Sneja Gunew, Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia, and Mellon Program Co-directors Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
February 23, 2009
Etienne Balibar
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
Monthly Mellon Seminars 2007-08
October 29, 2007: Sarah Valentine
"Art Amidst Atheism: Spirituality, Ethnicity and Social Organization in the Late-Soviet Moscow Avant-Garde" by Sarah Valentine, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4 pm
November 26, 2007: Walter Mignolo
"Global Futures and the Decolonial Option " by Walter Mignolo, Professor of Literature and William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies; Professor of Cultural Anthropology; Spanish of Romance Studies, Duke University
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference”
“From Central Asia to the Caucasus and Anatolia: transcultural subjectivity and de-colonial thinking”
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
December 3, 2007: Alessandro Dal Lago
“The Globalization of War” by Alessandro Dal Lago, Visiting Professor, UCLA Department of Italian and Professor of Sociology, University of Genoa
Seminar and discussion based on the following article:
“The Global State of War"
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
January 14, 2008: Fatima El-Tayeb
“‘A Secret Art’. Racialization and Diaspora in Europe” by Fatima El-Tayeb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
January 28, 2008: Wendy Brown
Seminar and discussion by Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
“Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy”
“American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-democratization”
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
February 4, 2008: Beverly Diamond
“Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations” by Beverly Diamond, Canadian Research Chair in Traditional Music, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Seminar and discussion based on the following article “Music and Historical Encounter: The Wabenaki and Other Eastern Algonquian Nations”
Royce Hall 306
4:30 pm
February 11, 2008: Babli Sinha
“ ‘Misrepresentations and Misunderstandings’: Transnational Media Flows in the age of Imperialism” by Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
March 3, 2008: Kris Manjapra
"The Play of Time: Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Critique of Postcolonialism" by Kris Manjapra, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 334C
4:30 pm
March 10, 2008: Sonali Pahwa
“Specular Citizens: Youth and Satellite Television in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre” by Sonali Pahwa, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
May 5, 2008 (POSTPONED)
Seminar and discussion by Eulàlia Moles, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
May 12 , 2008: Alessandra Di Maio
Seminar and discussion by Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4:30 pm
Monthly Mellon Seminars 2006-07
October 4, 2006Presentation and seminar by UC Berkeley professor Judith Butler on Precarious Life
Bunche Hall 10383
12 pm November 13, 2006
"Empire Films and the Dissemination of Americanism" by Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 306
4 pm December 11, 2006
"Re-articulating Citizenship" by Aihwa Ong, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
"Mutations in Citizenship"
"Please Stay: Pied-a-Terre Subjects in the Megacity"
Royce Hall 306
4 pm February 2, 2007
"Global Modernity and the Global South" by Arif Dirlik, Knight Professor of History and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oregon
Seminar and discussion based on the following articles:
"Global South: Predicament and Promise"
"Conceptual Field(s) of Globality"
Royce Hall 236
4 pm March 12, 2007
"Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa" by Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce 236
4 pm April 23, 2007
“‘Translatinidad’ as a Decolonial Map Linking and Locating Chicana/os and Catalans in International Histories of Empires” by Eulŕlia Moles, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce 236
4 pm April 30, 2007
“‘Art as Transport Station of Trauma:’: Reading the Aesthetic Transformations of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan” by Elsa Chen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Royce Hall 236
4:00 pm May 17-18, 2007
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Annual Conference
Please see the Annual Mellon Conference link for further information
For more information, please contact Laura Clennon via e-mail at clennon@humnet.ucla.edu.