Winter 2019

January 23
Massimiliano Tomba, UC-Santa Cruz
“Insurgent Universality. An Alternative Legacy of Modernity” 

January 30 
Leta Hong Fincher, author, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China“The Feminist Awakening in China” 

February 6
Desmond Jagmohan, Princeton
“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”

February 13 
Laurie Palmer, UC-Santa Cruz
“Public Sun”

February 20 
Jerry Zee, UC-Santa Cruz
“Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases”

March 6 
Camilla Hawthorne, UC-Santa Cruz
“On Diasporic Ethics: Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles”

March 13
Dai Jinhua, Peking University
“The Specter of Post-Revolution”

Chris Connery, Dai Jinhua, and Lisa Rofel during Dai Jinhua's colloquium talk Colloquium audience members Camilla Hawthorne during her colloquium talk Audience members during Laurie Palmer's colloquium Cultural Studies Colloquium Jerry Zee speaking from the podium Marc Matera addresses the colloquium audience Laurie Palmer speaking from a podium An audience member asks a question Max Tomba giving a colloquium talk