The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2003-2004
Fall 2003
Thursday, 9 October 2003
Carolyn de la Peña, American Studies, UC Davis
“Ready to Wear Globalism: Decoding the Prada GPS”
Thursday, 16 October 2003
Donald Donham, Anthropology, UC Davis
“On the Cultural Study of Violence: Representational and Methodological Issues”
Thursday, 23 October 2003
Cultural Studies Panel: Sexuality Studies
Jeffrey Sweat, Sociology, UCD: "Identity or Post-identity: Putting the Straight in Gay- Straight Alliances"; Santiago Castellanos, Cultural Studies, UCD: "The Racial Stereotype as Fetish: 'Latino' Racial Fetishism in the Gay Cultural Imagination of the U.S"; Kara Thompson, English, UCD: "Doing Trashy History: Gay Historiography and Critical/Counter Memory[ials]"
Thursday, 30 October 2003
Cultural Studies Panel: “Techno-Visual Fashions: The Cultural Politics of Flexibility”
Participants: Susan Kaiser, Textiles & Clothing and Women & Gender Studies, UC Davis; and Karyl Ketchum, Graduate Student, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
Thursday, 6 November 2003
Cultural Studies Panel: “Navigating Qualifying Exams: Questions and Strategies”
Moderator, Carolyn de la Peña, American Studies, UC Davis
Participants: Jay Mechling, American Studies; Laura Grindstaff, Sociology; Scott Schönfeldt-Aultman, Cultural Studies Ph.D. Candidate; Leslie Madsen, Cultural Studies Student; Yvonne Cardenas, Cultural Studies Student
Thursday, 13 November 2003
Cultural Studies Panel: “Doing Art History”
Participants: Katherine Burnett, Art History, UC Davis; Blake Stimson, Art History, UC Davis
Thursday, 20 November 2003
Cultural Studies Workshop: Q and A
Anna Kuhn: Women and Gender Studies, Chair and Major Adviser, Cultural Studies, UCD; Susan Kaiser: Textiles and Women and Gender Studies, UCD; and Judith Newton: Women and Gender Studies, UCD
Thursday, 11 December 2003
Fran Dyson, TechnoCultural Studies, UC Davis
“Ephemeral Epistemologies: Shifting Tropes in New Media Theory and Cyber Discourse”
Winter 2004
Thursday, 15 January 2004
Felicity Schaeffer-Gabriel, Latin American/Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
“PlanetLove.com: Cyber-brides and Transnational Masculinity Between the U.S. and Mexico”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies
Thursday, 22 January 2004
Adria Imada, U.C. President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Appointment with UCLA History Department and UCLA Asian American Studies Center
"The Naughty Girls from Honolulu Do the Naughty Hula Dance": Hawai`i on Display in the U.S. Empire"
Thursday, 29 January 2004
“Cultural Studies Q and A”
Caren Kaplan, Chair Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Anna Kuhn, Adviser, Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 5 February 2004
Mishuana Goeman, U. C. President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
"Unraveling the Map of Indian Curios and Criminals in the Work of E. Pauline Johnson"
Co-sponsored by Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, 12 February 2004
Chris Breward, Historical and Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion
“From the New Edwardian to the Teddy Boy: Class and Sexuality in 1950s London”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies and Textiles & Clothing
Thursday, 19 February 2004
Camencita “Chie” Abad, Activist, Former Garment Worker and Union Organizer in Saipan
“Sweatshop Labor in the Garment Industry and the Stop Sweatshops Campaign”
Co-sponsored by Women & Gender Studies, Textiles & Clothing, and the Undergraduate Research Program in Transnational Production and Consumption
Thursday, 26 February 2005
“Doing Anthropology"
Bettina Ngweno, African and African American Studies, UCD
Susana Sawyer, Anthropology, UCD
Thursday, 4 March 2004
Riché Richardson, English, UC Davis
“Black Southern Masculinities”
Thursday, 18 March 2005, 3:30 - 6:00
Cultural Studies Mini-Conference: The students from CST 250 will present papers based on their work for the seminar.
3:30 Introductions, Caren Kaplan, Chair, Cultural Studies Graduate Group
3:45 - 4:45 Panel One
Sandy Gomez, "The 'Princess' in Patriarchy: Crafting Selves and Renegotiating Power for Mexican Women in Southern California"; Amanda L. Morales, "Incorporating Frida: Buying and Selling a Mexican Icon"; and Mari Cortez, "Hungry Ghosts: Eating and Excreting in Miyazaki Hayao's 'Sprited Away'"
4:45 - 5:45 Panel Two
Jee-Eun R. Song, "The Display of Displacement: Re-presenting American Asianness in Genthe's Chinatown"; Barbara Ceptus, "The Uses of Haiti in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Tell My Horse'"; and Tracy L. Smith, "Digital Diasporas and Virtual Moriscos: Experiencing Cyber-Anthropology"
Spring 2004
Thursday, 1 April 2004
Connie Koog, BS Education and Training Officer Office of Human Research Protection UC, Davis
Professional Development: "Overview of Research Ethics and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) for Cultural Studies"
Thursday, 8 April 2004
“Cultural Studies Q and A”
Caren Kaplan, Chair, Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Anna Kuhn, Graduate Adviser, Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 15 April 2004
Tim Cresswell, Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales
“What Kind of Place Is an Airport?”
Thursday, 29 April 2004
Muraleedharan Tharayil, Visiting Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU; English Literature, St. Aloyius College, Trichur, Affiliated to the University of Calcutta
“Locating the Queer: Interrogating Desire and Pleasure in Regional Indian Cinemas”
Thursday, 6 May 2004
Micha X. Peled, Award winning Filmmaker
“Making Social Issue Documentaries for Mainstream TV: The Art, THE CRAFT, and The Pitfalls of Generating Public Debate”
Co-sponsored by TechnoCultural Studies and The Presidential Chair Undergraduate Research Program in the Production and Consumption of Fashion
Thursday, 27 May 2004
Cultural Studies Panel: “Professional Development: Writing a Cultural Studies Dissertation”
Panelists: Caren Kaplan, Chair, Cultural Studies Graduate Group; Mimi Nguyen, Ph.D., 2004, UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Vernadette Gonzalez, Ph.D., 2004, UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies
Thursday, 3 June 2004
Cultural Studies Panel: “Doing Film Studies”
Panelists: Eric Smoodin, American Studies, UCD; Nicole Fleetwood, American Studies, UCD; Gayatri Gopinath, Women and Gender Studies, UCD; and Scott Simmon, English, UCD
Thursday, 10 June 2004
Clarence E. Walker, History, UC Davis
“ Mongrel Nation: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings and the Racial Origins of the United States”