The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2000-2001

Winter 2001

Thursday, 18 January 2001
Kandice Chuh, English, University of Maryland, College Park
“Colliding Nationalisms and Interracial Collaborations: On Hawai’i and Asian America as Critical Signs of the U.S. Nation”

Thursday, 1 February 2001
Sylvia R. Lazos, School of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia
“LatCrit Scholarship and Historiography: Racial Formation, National Identity, and Citizenship, 1896-1900”

Thursday. 15 February 2001
John H. Stanfield II, Avalon Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Morehouse Institute, Morehouse College in Atlanta
“Moral Character in Racialized Hierarchy: Historical and Biographical Notes”
Co-sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute, the School of Law, Asian American Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Native American Studies, African American & African Studies, American Studies, and the Women’s Resources & Research Center

Tuesday, 20 February 2001
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Chicano/a Studies, UC Davis
“Conquest, Gender, and Power: Mexican Women and the American Conquest in Los Angeles, 1820s to the 1880s”
Co-sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute, the School of Law, Asian American Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Native American Studies, African American & African Studies, American Studies, and the Women’s Resources & Research Center

Tuesday, 27 February
Spencer Overton, School of Law, UC Davis
“Race and Campaign Finance”
Co-sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute, the School of Law, Asian American Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Native American Studies, African American & African Studies, American Studies, and the Women’s Resources & Research Center

Thursday, 8 March 2001
Elizabeth Freeman, English, UC Davis
“The Marital Civic/Some Wedded Publics”


Spring 2001

Thursday, 24 May 2001
David Kyle, Sociology, UC Davis
“Cross-Cultural Brokering: Historical Transformations and Contemporary Paradoxes”

Thursday, 7 June 2001
Kay Flavell, Critical Theory, UC Davis
“Walking Up to The New Pacific: Indigenous and Migrant Knowledges, University/Museum Networks and the Resisting of Cultural Practice”