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Identities & Global Crises: An Interdisciplinary Graduate
Student Conference
Saturday, May 14, 2005, 9 AM to 5:30 PM, Centennial House,
UCSB
The 2005 American Cultures and Global Contexts Graduate
Conference, an interdisciplinary forum at UCSB, will explore
the ways that identities in the U.S. and the Americas
shape and are shaped by global crises, whether they are
historical or contemporary. This year we are pleased
to host distinguished keynote speaker George Lipsitz (see
below). This one-day conference will explore the construction
of various identities in the Americas, including those
associated with, but not limited to, gender, race, ethnicity,
class, sexuality, politics, religion, and profession.
In particular, we seek to consider these identities in
the context of various kinds of global crisis, including
the exceptionally charged global environment of recent
years. Click here for more
information.
George
Lipsitz
"The Metaphor of Two Worlds: Abolition Democracy
and Global Justice"
Saturday, May 14, 2005, 1 PM, Centennial House, UCSB
George Lipsitz is professor and
chair of the Department of American Studies at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of American
Studies in a Moment of Danger, a provocative book
about the changes in culture, social movements, and the
state prompted by the increasing power of transnational
capital.
Click here
to download Lipsitz's recent article "Abolition Democracy
and Global Justice" from Comparative American
Studies.
19th
Century American Culture and Globalization: A Special
Symposium
Friday, April 29, 2005, 3-5 PM, English Dept. Seminar
Room, South Hall 2635
The Americas are and have always been "global."
This symposium situates the contexts of globalization
and the Americas from three different perspectives, presented
by UCSB scholars from a variety of backgrounds.
§ Stephanie
LeMenager, associate professor of English at UCSB, will
focus on the ways in which 19th Century American discourse
deals with and is influenced by enviromental issues.
§
Jacob
Berman, a Ph.D. candidate in English, will present on
mid 19th Century American representations of the lost
Nabatean city of Petra and the image of the Arab in
American writing.
§ Revell Carr, a Ph.D. candidate in
Ethnomusicology, will look at the role of music in the
globalized and globalizing space of whaling ships.
Laurie
Shannon
"Actaeon's Coat"
Friday, April 22, 2005, 2 PM, English Dept. Seminar Room,
South Hall 2635
Laurie Shannon is Associate Professor of English at Duke
University, where she specializes in English Renaissance
thought and writing. She is the author of Sovereign Amity:
Figures of Friendship in Shaespearean Contexts, and is
a graduate of Harvard Law School who uses her legal training
as one of her tools in the analysis of Elizabethean life.
Her talk will address the philosophical place of animals
as the underwriters of "Man" in the early modern
milieu, when Elizabetheans made surprisingly ambiguous
attempts to distinquish humans from animals.
A Bilingual Celebration
of Poetry Month (local poets reading in
Spanish and English)
Friday, April 22, 2005, 12-1 PM, Front Entrance, Santa
Barbara Museum of Art
Readers: Maria Herrera Sobek, Adrianne Davis, Osiris,
John Romo, Melinda
Palacio, Kelly Peinado.
Coordinated by Zia Isola, UCSB Department of English,
and Patsy Hicks, Santa
Barbara Art Museum. Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Poet
Laureate Project and SBMA
Janice Radway
ACGCC SEMINAR and LUNCH
Friday, April 22, 2005, 11:45 AM-1:30 PM, English Dept.
Seminar Room, South Hall 2635
Come for lunch provided by the ACGCC and lively discussion.
This open seminar will be of particular interest to
anyone interested in American Studies.
Janice
Radway
"What's the Matter with Reception Studies: On the
Origins, Persistence, and Limitations of a Paradigm"
Thursday, April 21, 2005, 1 pm, McCune Conference Room,
UCSB
Janice Radway is Professor and Chair of the Literature
Program at Duke University and past president of the American
Studies Association. She is the author of Reading the
Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature, a landmark
work of cultural studies and of the study of women's uses
of popular culture. She is also the author of A Feeling
for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste,
and Middle Class Desire, a major reconsideration of the
relations between practices of reading and the publishing
industry in the formation of the American middle class.
She is currently completing a history of the book in the
United States in the twentieth century. Her talk will
discuss the current status of one of the most important
methods of studying the effects of popular culture, one
that lies at the intersection of literary studies, American
studies, race studies, gender studies, and sociology.
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