The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2005-2006
Fall 2005
Thursday, 29 September 2005
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 6 October 2005
Catherine Kudlick, History UCD
"Professor K. Goes to Washington"
Co-Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research, American Studies, History, Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, 20 October 2005
Julie Livingston, History, Rutgers University
"Global Rehabilitation and the Morality of Motherhood in Post-Colonial Botswana"
Co-Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research, African American and African Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Community Studies and Development, History
Thursday, 3 November 2005
Etel Adnan, internationally known designer
"Place, Movement, Memory: Etel Adnan Reads Her Work"
University Club Room
Organized by the Campus Book Project Event with the Middle Eastern/ Southeast Asian Studies Program.
Co-sponsors: Anthropology, Center for History, Society, Culture, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, English, Creative Writing, Humanities Center, Office of Campus Community Relations, Teaching Resources Center, University Writing Program, Women and Gender Studies, Women’s Resources and Research Center, Consortium for Women and Research
Thursday, 10 November 2005
Desiree Martín, English, UCD
"Border Studies, Bordered Saints."
Co-Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research, American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Spanish, English, Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, 1 December 2005
Roderick Ferguson, American Studies, Univ. of Minnesota
"Bureaucratizing Sexuality: Method, Domain, Periodization"
Co-Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research, American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Minor in Sexuality Studies
Thursday, 8 December 2005
Siobhan Somerville, English and Women & Gender Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
"Naturalization Law and the Queer Production of U.S. Citizenship"
Co-Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research, American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Minor in Sexuality Studies, UC Davis Center for History, Society and Culture
Winter 2006
Thursday, 5 January 2006
CST program Q & A
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 19 January 2006
Jon Lewis, English, Oregon State University
“The Business of Scholarship: Some Practical Advice on Academic Journal Publication”
Co-sponsors: UC Davis Graduate Studies and the UC Davis Humanities Institute
Thursday, 2 February 2006
Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director, Duke University Press
"Smart Publishing Decisions at a Challenging Time"
Co-sponsors: UC Davis Graduate Studies and the UC Davis Humanities Institute
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Gayatri Gopinath, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Juana Maria Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Eric Smoodin, Professor, American Studies and Film Studies
“QE and Dissertation Proposal Workshop”
Co-sponsors: UC Davis Humanities Institute
Thursday, 23 March 2006
The Feminist Theory Seminar
Organized by Women and Gedner Studies
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
“Transgender and the Spirit of Revolt: Psychoanalysis Reconsidered”
Co-sponsors: Letters and Sciences Deans' Office; Divisions of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies; the Consortium for Women and Research; the UC Davis Humanities Institute; English; Comparative Literature; Critical Theory; the Center for History, Society, and Culture; and the Women's Resources and Research Center
Thursday, 9 March 2006
Suad Joseph, Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies
“Proposal Writing for the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop”
Co-sponsor: UC Davis Humanities Institute
Spring 2006
Thursday, 30 March 2006
Q & A
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 20 April 2006
KIT Collaboration and Battery Operated S.P.I.R.A.W.L. project
“Sound as a Media Friendly Weapon”
Co-sponors: Film Studies and Technocultural Studies
Thursday, 4 May 2006
Cathy Jurca, English, California Institute of Technology
“What the Public Wanted: Hollywood in the 1930s”
Co-sponsor: Film Studies
Thursday, 11 May 2006
Brian Goldfarb, Communications, UC San Diego
“Global Tourette”
Co-sponsor: Technocultural Studies
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Josh Kun, English, UC Riverside
“The View from Tijuana: Bordering Cultural Studies”
Co-sponsor: Chicana/o Studies
Thursday, 1June 2006
Rhacel Parrenas, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
“Love, Sex, and Money: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Tokyo's Nightlife Industry”
Co-sponsors: Women and Gender Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Consortium for Women and Research
Thursday, 8 June 2006
End of the Year Reception
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group