The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 1999-2000
Fall 1999
Thursday, 7 October 1999
Gillian Hart, Geography, UC Berkeley
“Disabling Discourses of Globalization”
Thursday, 21 October 1999
Chris Connery, Geography, UC Santa Cruz
“Ideologies of Land & Sea: Alfred Thayer Martin, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements”
Thursday, 28 October 1999
Suzana Sawyer, Anthropology, UC Davis
“Refining the Crude: Neoliberalism, Oil Exploitation, and the Production of Subjects in Contemporary Ecuador”
Thursday, 4 November 1999
Allan Sekula, California Institute of the Arts
“Globalism’s Discontents and the Return of the Sea”
Co-Sponsored by the Cultural Studies Cluster of the UC Davis Humanities Institute and the Department of Art
Thursday, 11 November 1999
Roger Rouse, Anthropology, UC Davis
“Entertaining Threats: Family, Technology, and Cultural Restructuring in Hollywood Narratives of Global Danger and Salvation”
Thursday, 18 November 1999
Blake Stimson, Art History, UC Davis
“Picturing Degree Zero: The Globalization of Aesthetic Address in The Family of Man”
Thursday, 2 December 1999
Susan Roberts, Geography, University of Kentucky
“Pocket-Sized Worlds and Other Spatialities of Capital”
Co-sponsored by the Cultural Studies Cluster of the UC Davis Humanities Institute and the Center for History, Society, and Culture
Winter 2000
Tuesday, 11 January 2000
Carole Joffe. Sociology, UC Davis
“The Pro-Family Movement of the 1970s: The Origins of the Right-Wing Mobilization Around Family Values”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Thursday, 20 January 2000
Judith Stacey, Sociology and Gender Studies, USC
“Heteronormativity, Tinkerbell, and the Fairy Dust Theory of Queer Sexuality: The Politics of Research on Parental Sexual Orientation”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Thursday, 3 February 2000
David Roman, English and American Studies, USC
“Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Thursday, 17 February 2000
Dorothy Roberts, Northwestern School of Law
“Race and the New Politics of the Child”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Thursday, 24 February 2000
Janet Momsen, Human and Community Development, UC Davis
“Globalizing Motherhood”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Thursday, 2 March 2000
Lauren E. Berlant, English, University of Chicago
“Remembering Lover, Forgetting Everything Else: Now Voyager”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Wednesday, 8 March 2000
Pat Zavella, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
“Reconfiguring Mexican Families: Gender, Generation, Migration”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, the Consortium for Women & Research, the Women’s Resources & Research Center, English, School of Law, and Chicano/a Studies
Thursday, 9 March 2000
Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Development Studies Programme, Roskilde University, Denmark
“Transnational and Pan-African-Black Popular Culture”
Spring 2000
Wednesday, 5 April 2000
Marcy Damovsky
"The Case Against Designer Babies: The Politics of Genetic Enhancement"
Friday, 21 April 2000
Bruno Latour, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris
"Objectivity in Science and Law: An Exercise in Comparative Ethnography"
Co-sponsored with the Center for History, Society, and Culture (HSC) Distinguished Lecture Series, and the Science and Technology Studies Program (STS)
Wednesday, 3 May 2000
Benjamin Bratton, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
“Software and Habitus: Information Architecture as World Building”
Co-sponsored by Science & Society; Center for History, Society, & Culture; and Science & Technology Studies
Wednesday, 10 May 2000
Caren Kaplan, Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
"Precision Targets: Discourses of Location and the Marketing of Global Positioning Systems"
Wednesday, 17 May 2000
Roddey Reid, Literature, UC San Diego
"Discipline of Little Discipline: Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine as Space of Engaged Experimentation."
Wednesday, 24 May 2000
M.A. Jaimes Guerrero, Women's Studies, San Francisco State University
"Isolates of Historic Interest: The Case for Biocolonialism and Biopiracy as an Indigenous Response to Human Genome Diversity Project (s) Agenda."
Wednesday, 31 May 2000
Cultural Studies Panel: Genetically Modified Foods: Interdisciplinary and Multi-Ethnic Perspectives
Co-sponsored by the California Food and Fibers Futures (CF3) Project and Science and Society