The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2006-2007
Fall 2006
Thursday, 5 October 2006
Cultural Studies Q & A
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 19 October 2006
Marcia Ochoa, Assistant Professor, Community Studies, UC Santa Cruz
“Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela”
Co-sponsors: the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas; the Center for History, Society, and Culture; the Consortium for Women and Research; Anthropology; Community Development; Chicano/a Studies; and the Chicana/Latina Research Center
Thursday, 26 October 2006
Julie Wyman, Assistant Professor, Technocultural Studies, UC Davis
Vicki Funari and Sergio De La Torre, Directors
jesikah maria ross, Community Liaison
Film Screening and Discusssion: “Maquilopolis: City of Factories”
Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research
Thursday, 9 November 2005
Ann Cvetkovich, Professor, English, University of Texas at Austin
“Depression as Public Feeling”
Co-sponsors: English, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, the Consortium for Women and Research, and Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, 30 November 2006
Ari Y. Kelman, Assistant Professor, American Studies, UC Davis
“Sounds of the Spirit: Reflections on Worship and Acoustic Technologies”
Co-sponsors: American Studies, Religious Studies, and Technocultural Studies
Thursday, 7 December 2006
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Assistant Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis
“Male Youth, Race, and Science: The Uses and Abuses of Intelligence Testing at Whittier State School, 1890 to 1920”
Winter 2007
Thursday, 11 January 2007
CST program Q & A
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 25 January 2007
Ron Saufley, Associate Director, Davis Humanities Institute
“Grant Writing Workshop for Interdisciplinary Studies”
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Emilio Bejel, Professor and Chair, Spanish and Classics
Gayatri Gopinath, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Eric Smoodin, Professor, American Studies
"Demystifying the Journal Submission Process"
Thursday, 8 February 2007
Gary Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
“Toward a Black Pacific: On the Intersections of African Americans and Pacific Islanders”
Co-sponsors: Asian American Studies Graduate Student Group, Asian American Studies, APA Cultural Politics Research Group, Cultural Studies Graduate Group, History, African American and African Studies, Graduate Student Association
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Carolyn de la Pena, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Robert Irwin, Associate Professor, Spanish and Classics
Bettina Ng'weno, Assistant Professor, African American and African Studies
“Prospectus Writing: Understanding the Genre”
Thursday, 22 February 2007
Sunaina Maira, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
Liz Montegary, Third Year Student, Cultural Studies
Magali Rabasa, First Year Student, Cultural Studies
Juana Maria Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
“Teaching Matters: Conversations from the Field”
Spring 2007
Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Licia Fiol-Matta, Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies, CUNY--Lehman College
“The Politics of Violence: Gendered Figurations of Puerto Rican Music”
Co-sponsors: Center for History, Society, and Culture
Thursday, 12 April 2007
Q & A
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 19 April 2007
Louisa Schien, Anthropology and Women's Studies, Rutgers University
“Betrayed Brides, Haunted Hunters: Social Critiques in Hmong Diasporic Media”
Thursday, 3 May 2007
Mel Chen, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
“Queer Animality”
Thursday, 17 May 2007
Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Director of Gender Studies, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
“Muros y Muralitos: Right Stories and Visual Narration at the Borders”
Co-sponsors: Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Department of Spanish, Consortium for Women and Research, Chicano/a Studies, and the Chicana/Latina Research Center
Thursday, 7 June 2007
End of the Year Reception
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group