The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: 2009-2010
Fall 2009
Friday, 25 September 2009
Carolyn de la Pena, Associate Professor, American Studies, UC Davis
Director, Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis
“Making More out of Less: Entrepreneurs, Identity, and Consumer Citizenship in Early Artificial Sweetener Promotion”
Co-sponsors: American Studies, Consortium for Women and Research, Critical Studies in Food and Culture Research Cluster, Women and Gender Studies
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Diana Taylor, Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish, New York University
“Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi”
Co-sponsors: Department of Spanish, MRG in International Performance and Culture, Department of Theater and Dance, Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, Latin@American Cultural Studies Research Cluster
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis
“Taking Indigenous Politics on its Own Terms Requires an Analysis Beyond 'Politics'”
Co-sponsors: Latin@American Cultural Studies Research Cluster
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Joe Dumit, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis
Director, Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis
“True Demons of Cognition: When Computers were Glad, Sad, and Mad yet Logical; or, a Brief History of Experimental Epistemology at the End of Cognitive Science”
Co-sponsors: Anthropology; Technoscience, Culture, and the Arts Research Cluster; the Science and Technology Studies Program