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Date: September 1, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room E Introductions and Welcome |
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Date: September 22, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room F Crystal Bartolovich "Commons and the Limits of 'Biopolitical Production'." (Syracuse University, English) Crystal Bartolovich is associate professor of English at Syracuse University. She has published a number of essays in cultural studies and early modern studies, and edited (with Neil Lazarus) a collection of essays entitled Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies. Currently, she is working on two projects, one concerning the history and concept of the "commons," and the other examining the cost of the loss of so-called "progress" narratives of modernity. |
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Date: October 6, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room D Farha Ghannam "The Liminality of Mobility: Gender and Embodiment in Urban Egypt." (Swathmore, Anthropology) Farha Ghannam is associate professor of Anthropology at Swathmore College. She is the author of Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo and the co-editor (with Hania Sholkamy) of Health and Identity in Egypt. Her research interests include urban anthropology, globalization and transnationalism, and the Middle East and North Africa. |
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Date: October 20, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room E Student Papers Workshop: Nayantara Sheoran and Katy Razzano Papers will be pre-circulated for discussion. |
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Date: November 3, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room E Jenifer Petersen (Talk Title TBA) (UVA, Media Studies) Jenifer Petersen is assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her current research explores the way mediated discourses on sexuality, race, and geography determine legal practices and the shape and character of the public sphere. She is currently working on a book manuscript, titled Murder, Media, and the Politics of Public Feeling, that investigates the mediated responses to the murders of Matthew Shepard (Laramie, WY, 1998) and James Byrd Jr. (Jasper, TX, 1998), placing particular emphasis on the way emotion shaped the public discourse, political mobilization, and legislative actions that followed each murder. |
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Date: November 17, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room E Ralph Rodriguez "An Architectonics of the Self: Reflections on Culture and Identity." (Brown, American Civilization) Ralph Rodriguez is an associate professor in the Department of American Civilization and at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. He is the author of Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity. He has also published articles on a range of Latina/o authors, critical pedagogy, queer theory, detective fiction, and film. Latina/o literature and culture, graphic novels/comic books, queer theory, cultural theory, race, ethnicity, and feminism constitute his active research and teaching interests. |
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Date: December 1, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room E Dissertation Proposal Presentations: Jason Morris, Daniel Anderson, and Kristin Scott |
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Date: December 8, 2011 Time: 4:30pm EST Location: Johnson Center Room E Dissertation Proposal Presentations: Jessi Lang, Young Jung, Sangmin Kim, and Rebecca Forrest |
