Comparative Conceptions
PANEL DISCUSSION

Thursday, October 23 / 2:30 PM / Oakes Mural Room

WHAT DOES COMPARATIVE MEAN? What are some of the limits and possibilities in the use of land, ocean, and other spatial and geographical metaphors, histories, concepts and categories, particularly in conceptions of new transnational spaces (Triangle Trade, Atlantic World, Black Atlantic, Circum-Caribbean, Globalization, Pacific Rim, etc.)? How do we see these categories in relation to such broad comparative concepts as borders and diasporas? What are the most useful terms around which to build comparative models? What are the specific advantages/disadvantages of these categories in relation to a comparative U.S. Studies approach? How can we develop/sustain both "domestic" and transnational models of comparative scholarship in U.S. Studies? How might we collectively imagine other comparative models and new comparative formations?

PRESENTERS:
JOSÉ DAVID SALDÍVAR, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
José Saldívar’s books include The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke, 1991) and Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (California, 1997). He is currently working on a study of the War of 1898 and U.S. empire.

RHACEL SALAZAR PARRENAS, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Davis
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas is the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work (Stanford, 2001), as well as numerous articles on gender and globalization, women’s migration, and the politics of reproductive labor. She is currently at work on a book about the experiences of children in Filipino transnational families.

DISCUSSANT: CHRISTOPHER CONNERY, Associate Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
CHAIR: SUSAN GILLMAN, Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz

 

Comparative Futures in the Study of the U.S.
OPEN DISCUSSION & DIALOGUE
Thursday, November 20 / 2:30 PM / Oakes Mural Room

 

Sponsored by the New Comparative Formations in U.S. Studies Research Cluster

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