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UPCOMING LECTURES & TALKS
May 7, 2008
Green Room, FA 121
A seminar with Mary Pat Brady (English Department and Latino Studies Program, Cornell University)
"N+1"
11AM-1PM(Panel 1); 2:30 - 4:30PM(Panel 2)
Dr. Brady is the author of the award-winning text, Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Duke University Press 2002). In this seminar, she invites discussions on iteration and the relationship between homophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States.
This seminar consists of two panels. In the first panel, Dr. Brady presents her most recent research to initiate the conversation. In the afternoon panel, members of CPIC workshops continue this dialogue by engaging Brady's scholarship in relation to their current concerns and interests.
April 29, 2008
A seminar with Lisa Yun (English Department and Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University)
"Diasporic and Liberatory Intersections of Color in the Americas"
1:30-3:30PM, LT 1310
Dr. Lisa Yun's work includes her book The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indenture and African Slavery of Cuba (Temple University Press), which makes radical interventions into understandings of race, freedom and slavery. Her articles appear in journals of cultural politics, and more recently in the volume Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans eds. Fred Ho and Bill Mullen (Duke University Press). Forthcoming is work in Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line eds. Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones (Palgrave Macmillan), and an article for the Afro Hispanic Review, entitled "Signifying Asian in Afro-cultural Poetics," for which she conducts an in-depth and experimental conversation with five writers, artists, and scholars of Caribbean and Latin America.
April 11, 2008
Workshop on Nondisciplinary Philosophy: Points of Demarcation and Mobility.
This is a three-roundtable conference. The topics and schedules of the three roundtables are:
9:30-12:00 philosophy, or other disciplines, and sciences.
12:00-1:30 Lunch break.
1:30-3:30 epistemology, or aesthetics, and literature.
3:30-5:30 ethics, or politics.
All the roundtables will take place in West Lounge, Old University Union. All sessions are open to the public.
In Fall 2008 we will continue the exploration of Asian diasporas in the Americas, following the conversations with Dr. Gopinath and Dr. Yun in this semester. We also plan to invite scholars for a conference on the topic of coloniality and de-coloniality of power. More indormation shall follow.
You can read the Research Working Group's current and long-term agenda by clicking here.
The Grant Writing Committee has met regularly during fall 2006. Several folders with important information about Grant possibilities have been put together. Those Workshops' participants who are interested in reviewing the folders, please contact the Center's secretary.
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