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Monthly Mellon Seminars 2009-10June 7, 2010Maya Boutaghou, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Location TBA 4:30 pm May 24, 2010 Travis Workman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Location TBA 4:30 pm May 10, 2010: David Palumbo-Liu, Professor, Comparative Literature, Stanford University Royce Hall 306 4:30 pm April 19, 2010 Joseph Bauerkemper, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Location TBA 4:30 pm April 5, 2010: Marcela Fuentes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Location TBA 4:30 pm March 15, 2010: Jeannine Murray-Roman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Location TBA 4:30 pm March 1, 2010: Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Location TBA 12:00 pm January 11, 2010: Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, Co-directors, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities "The Creolization of Theory" Location TBA 4:30 pm Co-sponsored by the Faculty Colloquium Series organized by the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Committee (CLGSC) December 8, 2009: Greg Cohen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Royce Hall 236 4:30 pm November 16, 2009: Sandra Harding "Postcolonial and Feminist Science Studies: Convergences and Conflicts" by Sandra Harding, Professor, Social Sciences and Education, UCLA Seminar and discussion based on the following: "Postcolonial and Feminist Philosophies of Science and Technology: Convergences and Dissonances" available by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it "Rethinking Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: What is 'Strong Objectivity'?" from The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader, ed. Sandra Harding Faculty Center Hacienda Room 4:30 pm November 3, 2009: Zrinka Stahuljak "Minor Empires: Translation Studies and Postcolonial Critique" by Zrinka Stahuljak, Associate Professor, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA Seminar and discussion based on the following: "Minor Empires: Translation, Conflict, and Postcolonial Critique" available by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Background reading for the seminar: "War, Translation, Transnationalism" Royce Hall 236 4:30 pm Charles Mills, Northwestern University, and Carole Pateman, UCLA "Between Racial and Sexual Contracts: A Dialogue Between Charles Mills and Carole Pateman" October 30, 2009 Royce Hall 306 4:30 pm October 30, 2009: Charles Mills "De-Racializing Liberalism, De-Racializing Rawls" by Charles Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University Seminar and discussion based on: "Racial Liberalism" Introduction and Chapter 1 of The Racial Contract Royce Hall 236 12:00 pm October 6, 2009: Sze-wei Ang, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "The Ethics of Race and Religion as Literary Frame" Royce Hall 236 3:00 pm Monthly Mellon Seminars 2008-09June 1, 2009: Sonali Pahwa, Mellon Postdoctoral FellowIntroduction to Theatres of Translation: Performing Transnational Modernity in Neoliberal Egypt Royce Hall 236 4:30 pm May 18 - Fatima El-Tayeb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Royce Hall 236 Introduction to Queering Ethnicity. Minority Activism in Postnational Europe 4:30 pm April 27, 2009: Travis Workman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Introduction to Culture, Time, and Form in the Japanese Empire (1919-1945) Royce Hall 236 4:30 pm April 20, 2009: Obioma Nnaemeka Seminar and discussion by Obioma Nnaemeka, Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African American Studies, Indiana University Seminar and discussion based on the following articles: "Reimagining the Diaspora: History, Responsibility, and Commitment in an Age of Globalization" "Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa's Way" Royce Hall 306 4:30 pm March 30, 2009: Greg Cohen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "CINEMA and SPATIAL THOUGHT at the ENDS of MODERNITY: ARGENTINA and BRAZIL in the SIXTIES" Royce Hall 236 4:30 pm March 2, 2009: Maya Boutaghou, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "Emergent Female Voices: An Introduction" Royce Hall 236 4:30 pm February 23, 2009: Étienne Balibar "Strangeness: from anthropology to politics" by Étienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, and Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy, Université de Paris X, Nanterre Seminar and discussion based on the following articles: "Difference, Otherness, Exclusion" "Strangers as Enemies" Royce Hall 306 4:30 pm January 5, 2009: Sze-wei Ang, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "Reading Race, Reading Ethnicity" Royce Hall 243 4:30 pm December 8, 2008: Marcela Fuentes, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "Being There. Performance and Event" Royce Hall 236 5:00 pm November 14, 2008: Sneja Gunew, Elizabeth Marchant, Françoise Lionnet, and Shu-mei Shih "Comparative Postcolonial Studies: Anglophone, Lusophone, Francophone, Sinophone" Royce Hall 306 3:00 pm Workshop based on: "Corporeal choreographies of transnational English" from Haunted Nations: the Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms by Sneja Gunew "Introduction" and "Conclusion" from Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific by Shu-mei Shih "Cultivating Mere Gardens? Comparative Francophonies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms" by Françoise Lionnet "Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identity" by Boaventura de Sousa Santos November 3, 2008: Sarah Valentine, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow "Ethics of Difference: The Poetics of Gennady Aygi" Royce Hall 236 5:00 pm Ernesto Laclau Seminar and discussion by Ernesto Laclau, Professor of Government, University of Essex Seminar and discussion based on the following articles from On Populist Reason: "The ‘People' and the Discursive Production of Emptiness" "Floating Signifiers and Social Heterogeneity" Monthly Mellon Seminars 2007-08
May 12, 2008: Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Monthly Mellon Seminars 2006-07
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