The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2007-2008

Fall 2007

Thursday, 4 October 2007
Cultural Studies Q & A
An event open to graduate students and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group

Thursday, 18 October 2007
Lynne Sachs, Adjunct Lecturer, Film Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
“I am Not a War Photographer”
Co-sponsors: Davis Humanities Institute, Docs at UC Davis, Films Studies, Technocultural Studies, Women & Gender Studies

Thursday, 1 November 2007
Trevor Paglen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley
“Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecey, Disappeared Landscapes, and the Politics of Seeing”
Co-sponsors: American Studies, Davis Humanities Institute, and the Technoscience, Culture, & the Arts Research Cluster

Thursday, 29 November 2007
Colin Milburn, Assistant Professor, English, UC Davis
“Playtime on Nano Island: The Laboratory as Ludic Space”
Co-sponsors: Davis Humanities Institute and the Technoscience, Culture, & the Arts Research Cluster

Thursday, 6 December 2007
Michele White, Assistant Professor, Communications, Tulane University
“You can GET IT ON eBay: Selling Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes through the Interface”
Co-sponsors: American Studies, Consortium for Women & Research, Davis Humanities Institute, and Women & Gender Studies

Winter 2008

Thursday, 28 February 2008
Jennifer Langdon, Associate Director, Davis Humanities Institute
Caren Kaplan, Chair, Cultural Studies
Marisol Cortez, Cultural Studies Student
JeeEun Song, Cultural Studies Student
“Grant Writing Workshop”

Spring 2008

Thursday, 3 April 2008
David Serlin, Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies, UC San Diego
“Performing Disabled Masculinities from World War Two to the War in Iraq”
Co-sponsors: American Studies; the Consortium for Women and Research; Department of Theatre and Dance; The Center for History, Society and Culture; Women & Gender Studies

Thursday, 1 May 2008
Todd Presner, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies, UCLA
“DIgital Cultural Mapping: Benjamin, Google, and HyperCities”
Co-sponsors: Department of German; Jewish Studies; and the Technoscience, Culture, & the Arts Research Cluster

Thursday, 29 May 2008
Ryan Bishop, Associate Professor, English Literature and Language, National University of Singapore
John Phillips, Associate Professor, English Literature and Language, National University of Singapore
“Unhinging the Senses”
Co-sponsors: Davis Humanities Institute and the Technoscience, Culture, & the Arts Research Cluster