The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2008-2009
Fall 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Juana Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, UC Berkeley
“Queer Kinship and Quandaries of Domestic Affection”
Co-sponsors: Women and Gender Studies, Queer Studies Research Cluster, Women's Resources and Research Center
Thursday, 2 October 2008
Philip Deloria, Professor, Department of History, Program in American Culture, and Program in Native American Studies, University of Michigan. President, American Studies Association
“Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to American Studies Futures”
Presented by the American Studies Program. Co-sponsors: Cultural Studies, English, and Native American Studies
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Gada Mahrouse, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Montreal
“Disembodied and De-historicized Encounters?: White Solidarity Activists Traveling to 'Do Good'”
Co-sponsors: Women and Gender Studies, Traveling Debates in Postcolonial Studies Research Cluster, Women.s Resources and Research Center
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Arlene Davila, Professor, Cultural Anthropology, New York University
“Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race”
Presented by DHI/CHSC Public Intellectuals Forum
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Jordan Crandall, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
“From Apparatus to Assemblage”
Co-sponsors: Technoscience, Culture, and the Arts Research Cluster; the Science and Technology Studies Program
Winter 2009
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Naomi Schneider, Executive Editor, UC Press
Irvin Muchnick, Writer
“Getting Published: Writing for Academic and Trade Publications”
Co-sponsors: Consortium for Women and Research and the Davis Humanities Institute
Friday, 30 January 2009
Eric Smoodin, Professor, American Studies
Blake Stimson, Professor, Art History
“Virtual Cultures: Exploring Media Resources for the Humanities”
Sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute in collaboration with the Shields Library Humanities Subject Specialists and the Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Toby Beauchamp, Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
Abigail Boggs, Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
Catherine Hannabach, Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
Caren Kaplan, Professor, Women and Gender Studies< br/>
Sarah McCullough, Ph.D. Student, Cultural Studies
“Digital Technologies: New Tools for Research and Writing”
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Jennifer Langdon, Associate Director, Davis Humanities Institute
“Dollars for Dissertations: Grant Writing Strategies for Graduate Students”
Sponsored by the Consortium for Women and Research in collaboration with Cultural Studies and the Davis Humanities Institute
Spring 2009
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Tim Choy, Assistant Professor, Anthropology/Science and Technologies Studies, UC Davis
“Ecologies of Comparison”
Co-sponsors: Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and the John Muir Institute for the Environment
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Sima Shakhsari, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Stanford University
“Cybergovernmentality and the Politics of Rightful Killing in Times of War: Iranian Diasporic Bloggers as Soldiers of Freedom”
Co-sponsors: Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and the Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media Studies, Brown University
“Postcolonial Visibilities: Foucault, Deleuze, and the New Media Technologies ”
Co-sponsors: Davis Humanities Institute, Consortium for Women and Research, English, Traveling Debates in Postcolonial Studies Research Cluster, American Studies, East Asian Languages and Culture, Comparative Literature, Film Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Art History, Asian Pacific American Cultural Politics Research Group, Technocultural Studies, and the Queer Studies Research Cluster
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Dawn-Elissa Fischer, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, SFSU
“Moment or Movement?: Hiphop's Race and Gender Politics”
Presented by African American and African Studies, American Studies, Consortium for Women and Research, and Women and Gender Studies