Spring Quarter 2010

April 1: Florence Hsia, Personae Gratae
April 5: Keith McNeal, Religion and the Alter-Nationalist Politics of Diaspora in an Era of Postcolonial Multiculturalism: Case Studies from Trinidad and Tobago
April 7: Barbara Epstein, Belorussians, the State, and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union:  Perspectives of Minsk Ghetto Survivors
April 14: Brian Catlos, The Paradoxes of Pluralism: Mediterranean Conflict and Collaboration in the Age of Holy War
April 21: Robert Meister, After Evil: The Intertemporal Grammar of Human Rights
April 22: Juan Flores, The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning
April 22: Miriam Jiménez Román & Juan Flores, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History & Culture in the U.S.
April 28: Charles Hirschkind, The Contemporary Afterlife of Moorish Spain
April 28: Charles Hirschkind, Workshop on Ethics & Politics
May 5: Jody Greene, I ♥ George Herbert
May 12: Gail Hershatter, Rural Women and China's Collective Past
May 13: Charis Thompson, Stem Cells & Social Justice
May 14-15: Conference: The Task of the Curator
May 20: CANCELLED: The Science Studies Creative Writing Workshop
May 21: Ann Pellegrini, The Trouble with Sex: Bodily Vulnerability, Religionized Anxiety, and the Psychic Life of Tolerance
May 26: Mercy Romero, Still Life: Black Radical Movement and Courtroom Drawings, 1971 [Note date change for Mercy Romero's talk; was scheduled for May 19; now May 26-- LOCATION: Humanities 202]
May 26: CANCELLED: Vilashini Cooppan, Disciplining World Literature: History, Memory, and the Work of Worlding
May 28-29: Embodying Theory, Theorizing Embodiment: A Graduate Student Conference
June 2: Christine Hong, Dead and Red: Post-Socialism and the 'Anachronism' of War Commemoration in North Korea and Viet Nam

Winter Quarter 2010

January 13: Wlad Godzich, Towards an Epistemics of Knowledge and Capital
January 14: Ananya Roy, Slumdog Cities: The Politics of Subaltern Urbanism
January 20: S. Lochlann Jain, The Morality Effect
January 27: Deborah Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS
February 3: Sylvia Chan-Malik, A Part of Islam: Recovering Race and Gender in Muslim America
February 4: Neil Brenner, Approaching Globalized Urbanization: Epistemological and Conceptual Challenges
February 10: Nathaniel Deutsch, The Right to Remain: Jewish Geographies in Imperial Russia
February 16: Carolina Ponce de Leon, Cultural Representation and Intercultural Relations through Curatorial Practice
February 17: Christine Hong, Dead and Red: Post-Socialism and the "Anachronism" of War Commemoration in North Korea and Viet Nam
February 19: CANCELLED: Susan Buck-Morss, From Hegel and Haiti to Islam and Beyond
February 19: CANCELLED: Susan Buck-Morss, Apocalypse at Santa Cruz
February 24: Hunter Bivens, "The Great Archaic Utopian Composition": Labor and Culture in Post-Socialist Germany
February 26: Craig Santos Perez, Militarism, Tourism, and Oceanic Voices
February 27: Spatial Imaginaries and Critical Geographies Across the Pacific: A Graduate Student Conference
March 3: Stefan Gandler, Towards a Non-Eurocentric Critical Theory
March 8: Kelly Dennis, Internet Art and the Economies of Porn
March 10: Danilyn Rutherford, Affect and the Empirical in the Making of Stone Age New Guinea
March 12-13: Reimagining the Poet-Critic: Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics: Poetry & Politics Conference

Fall Quarter 2009

October 7: Soraya Murray, “Analytic Borderlands: Visualizations of Globality and the Body Becoming"
October 14: Matthew Wolf-Meyer, “Nonstop”
October 15 Chandan Reddy, “From Marriage to Milk: Race and the Political Economy of Sexuality"
October 21: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, “Expressive Processing"
October 28: Stefania Pandolfo, “Maladies of the Soul, Islam, and the Affirmative Imagination”
October 31 - November 1, "Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making"
November 4: Juana María Rodríguez, “Queer Domesticity and the Political Imaginary”
November 5: Griselda Pollock, “Curating in the Freudian Space of Memory and Migration”
November 18: Robin Archer, “American Exceptionalism and Labor Politics”
November 20: “Experiments in STS (Science and Technology Studies)”
December 1: Shine Louise Houston & Syd Blakovic, “Queer Feminist Pornography: A Look at the Products and Politics of Pink & White Productions”
December 2: Miriam Greenberg, "Progressive Branding?  An Examination of Marketing on (and of) the Left"

Spring Quarter 2009

April 1: Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, Ethics of Exposure in the Time of Extinctions
April 8: Derek C. Murray, Some Politically Incorrect Thoughts on the Reception and Contemplation of African-American Art
April 9: Peter Hulme, Living in the Tropics: The Colonial Space of Guantánamo Bay
April 10: Peter Hulme, Our Man in Havana: Graham Greene and Cuba
April 13: Karen Z. Ho, The Re-emergence of Crisis Capitalism:  Wall Street Investment Bankers and the Global
April 14: Karen Z. Ho, Lifelines of the Powerful
April 15: Karen Bassi, Writing on the Wall
April 17: Michael Davidson, Pregnant Men: Modernism, Reproduction, and Eugenic Futurity; Poetry Reading
April 22: Catherine Ramirez, What a Chica Wants: Articulating the Post-Feminist and Post-Racial in New “Latina” Literature
April 24: Simon Critchley, Mystical Anarchism
April 28: Chris Carlsson, Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!
April 29: Neda Atanasoski, Imagining Ancient Hatreds through New Media: Humanitarianism and the Discourse on Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans Since 1990
April 30: Janaki Nair, Indian Historiography after Feminism: Crisis or Business as Usual?
May 1: Anthony Freeman, Negotiating the Stereotype: Gay Men, Online Sexual Cultures and Racialized Representations of Masculinity
May 5: Dominic Pettman, After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life
May 6: Colin Koopman, Contingency plus Universality: How to Overcome the Foucault-Habermas Impasse
May 11: Lorraine Daston, Time, Observation, and the Scientific Self
May 12: Lorraine Daston, The Persistent Dream of the Blank Screen
May 13: Antonis Balasopoulos, Political Animals: Critical Reflections on Sovereignty and Bare Life
May 15: Gayle Rubin, Perspectives from the 'Sex Wars'
May 18: Jane Guyer, Hard and Soft Currencies: Cash in Everyday Life
May 19: Jame Guyer, The Materiality of Value
May 20: Shoshana Magnet, Imagining Security: Biometrics and Identity at the US-Canada Border
May 21: Chandan Reddy, From Marriage to Milk: Race and the Political Economy of Sexuality
May 22: Transmaterialities: Relating across Difference (a conference presented by the Science Studies Research Cluster; view the Call for Papers.)
May 27: Margaret Brose, From Figure to Fetish: Petrarch's Veil
May 27: Technoscience and Social Change (Panel Discussion featuring Caroline Bassett, Fred Turner, Warren Sack, and Kate O'Riordan)
May 27: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Gender and Performance in Ancient Christian Ritual
May 28: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Making Sense of Scents in Ancient Christianity
June 3: Mayanthi Fernando, Neither Whores Nor Doormats: The Commensurable Difference of Secular Muslim Women in France
June 4: Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, No Exit?  Lacan and Agamben on Law and Language
June 10: A Remembrance for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Winter Quarter 2009

January 7: Christian Frankel, Markets, Brands, Politics
January 14: Gopal Balakrishnan, Repetition and Renewal in Machiavelli’s Conception of History
January 15: Sheila Rowbotham, A Very Modern Victorian: Edward Carpenter 1844-1929
January 16: Ars Synthetica: The Anthropology of the Contemporary
January 17: CONFERENCE - Alternative Teleologies: The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s)
January 21: Sharon Daniel, What Do We Hold Against the Drug Addict? New Media and Social Art Practice
January 23: K. Silem Mohammad, SEMINAR - Bad Form
January 26: Silvia Federici, LECTURE - Feminism and the Politics of the Commons in an Era of Primitive Accumulation
January 27: Silvia Federici, SEMINAR - The Crisis of Social Reproduction and Feminist Struggle
January 28: Kirsten Gruesz, Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons; Or, How to Write a History of Language
Ideologies
January 29: Linda Gregerson, Violence and the Word: Ben Jonson on Stage
January 30: Linda Gregerson, POETRY READING
February 4: Kate O'Riordan, The Genome Incorporated: Materialization and Reality Genres
February 11: Kevin Cahill, The Self of Epistemology
February 17: Intimacies, A Conversation
February 18: Didier Eribon, Frames of Memory: A Political Theory of the Subject
February 18: Charles Shepherdson, Institutions of Emotion: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the “Catharsis of Pity and Fear” in Aristotle and Tragedy
February 21: APARC Graduate Student Conference, Mobility in Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific
February 24: Bethany Moreton, SEMINAR - The Soul of Neoliberalism: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise
February 25: Adriana Craciun, The Franklin Relics in the Arctic Archive
February 27: Linda Williams, The Forcible Frame: Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure
March 4: Cecilia Rivas, “We Will Export Voices”: Bilingual Call Centers in Post-War El Salvador
March 5: Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, LECTURE - Amerindians Thinking Globally: Catholic Narratives and Indigenous Ethnic Identities in Colonial Spanish America
March 6: Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, SEMINAR - Puritan Conquistadors

Fall Quarter 2008

October 8: Warren Sack, Software Studies
October 10: Mark Peterson, SEMINAR - “God Deliver Me and Mine from the Government of Soldiers”: The Militarization of Boston’s Atlantic World, 1740-1775
October 15: Caetlin Benson-Allott, Ancillary Exploitation: or, How Grindhouse Looks Back at the Future of Film
October 21: Carla Freccero and Donna Haraway, SEMINAR - When Species Meet and Merge: Explorations in Material Figures of Human-Dog Becomings
October 22: Gail Hershatter and James Clifford, Open Source: Histories That Won’t Sit Still
October 23: Christopher Connery and Rob Wilson, Worlding Space, Worlding Time: On the Making of The Worlding Project
October 29: Susan Gillman, Richard Terdiman, and Georges Van Den Abbeele, Humanities in the Age of Digital Reproducibility
November 5: Dana Takagi, “I like your nationalism better than mine”: The Cultural Politics of the Everyday in Hawai’i
November 12: Jan Söffner, What Does the Poem Feel?
November 14: Ann Taves, SEMINAR - Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and other Special Things
November 15: WORKSHOP - Re-thinking World Cinema
November 19: Tyrus Miller, The Culture of People’s Democracy: György Lukács’ Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948
November 21: A. Katie Harris, “Res sacrosanctae, extra commercium hominum”: Relic Collecting in the Early Modern Mediterranean
November 26: S. Eben Kirksey, Entangled Worlds at War
December 3: Ulla Haselstein, Rucksicht auf Darstellbarkeit: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated

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