Events
2002-2003
November 20, 2002:
Madhu Dubey, Brown University
Postmodernism and Racial Difference
4:30 pm, 314 Royce Hall
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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)
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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.
April 11-12:
Transnational Cultures Across Generations, a conference
Our second annual Graduate Student Conference
Friday evening, April 11 - dance performance in Northwest Complex Auditorium, Covel Commons
Saturday, April 12 - conference in 314 Royce Hall
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April 16:
Achille Mbembe
Time and Event in New Francophone African Narratives
4:30pm, 306 Royce Hall (location was 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).
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of French and Francophone Studies and the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
MAY 6: (this lecture is being organized by the Center for the Study of Women)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
After 9/11: The Challenges of Anti-Imperialist Feminism
4:00pm, 355 Kinsey Hall
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor of Women’s Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and Core Faculty at the Union Institute Graduate School, Cincinnati, is the author of the newly released Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003). She is co-editor of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997), Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991) and author of the much anthologized Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses. Co-sponsored by the UC Transnational and Transcolonial Multicampus Research Group. Feminist Ethnographies Series & Engendering Transnational Cultures Series
May 14:
Ellen Rooney, Brown University
Semiprivate Communication: Spivak's History of the Vanishing Present
4:30pm, 314 Royce Hall
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May 19:
Mireille Rosello, Northwestern University
Invisible Frontiers Around French banlieues: Stepping Stones or Stumbling Blocks?
5:00pm, 306 Royce Hall
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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 4, 2003 (see above for details).
EVENT REGISTRATION
At most events, limited seating is available, but reservations are not required. Parking is available on the UCLA Campus for $7.00. Please see an attendant at any parking information kiosk to be directed to the available lot closest to the above venues.
For further information or questions, you may contact our office, in the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies, at (310) 825-9581.
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