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MELUS Reception and Award Ceremony at MLA
Please join us at the reception as we present this year’s MELUS Lifetime
Achievement Award to Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
Time: at 8:00PM
December 28, 2009
Place: Wenying Xu's suite, Courtyard Philadelphia Downtown, 21 Juniper
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, 215-496-3200
Dr. Lim is an internationally recognized scholar who is currently Professor
of English at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Lim has published widely in the areas of literary criticism, Asian
American studies, poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her most recent publications
include Princess Shawl (Maya Press: Kuala Lumpur, 2008); Listening to the
Singer: New and Selected Malaysian Poems (Maya Press: Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, 2007); and Sister Swing, A Novel (Singapore/London: Marshall
Cavendish, 2006). Dr. Lim’s wide-ranging and deeply influential
contributions to scholarship and teaching have frequently been acknowledged
with numerous grants, prizes, awards, and honors such as NEH and American
Book Award. |
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"Torture and the Future: Perspectives from the Humanities"
Visit the website that has been established regarding the 2006-2007 Critical Issues in American Programming.
http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture/events.html
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|  Sister
Swing
By Shirley Geok-lin Lim
paper 9812612270 $12.00
 Buy
This Book!
Karen Yamashita,
author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
"... [set] against [a] wild cultural backdrop...
the story unfolds to reveal the strong and intimate ties
and responsibilities of sisterhood."
Shawn Wong, author
of American Knees
"... a richly textured understanding of a family
rooted in a rigid patriarchy ... and their new identity
molded in [1980s'] America."
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Richard
Lim, The Straits Times
"As in her first novel "Joss and Gold",
Shirley... has infused the work with her poetic sensibility.
A compelling read."
Book Description
"Sister Swing" chronicles the growing up years
of three sisters. It follows their transplant from a relatively
sheltered life in Malaysia to the raw realities of the
United States. It illuminates the complex relationships
between the sisters, and gently but firmly explores the
morals, values and mindsets of growing up Asian in a Western
world. |
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America and the Reshaping of
a New World Order: Normative Implications, Cultural Constraints |
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The American
Cultures and Global Contexts Center in the Department
of English, together with UC Santa Barbara's Global and
International Studies Program and the Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center, are co-sponsoring a year-long, campus-wide
project on the subject of "America and the Reshaping
of a New World Order: Normative Implications, Cultural
Constraints." Funded by an annual grant devoted to
"Critical Issues in America" and administered
by the Office of the Provost in the College of Letters
and Science, this project will include a sequence of special
programs, from a distinguished speaker series, and a major
academic conference, to a UC system-wide Faculty Roundtable,
and a film series, and it will be coordinated with a variety
of graduate and undergraduate courses.
Series of Events
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Imagination and the Nation:
In, Between, and Beyond States
ACGC Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 8th, 9am - 6:30pm, 2004
Centennial House, UCSB In recent
years, the processes, flows, forces, and trends which
could be called "globalisms" or "globalization,"
as well as theories surrounding these developments, have
contributed to renewed interest in the connections within
and among America, the Americas, and the rest of the world.
With this in mind,
this conference brings
together student scholars from various disciplines around
the central theme of the national imaginary and how it
relates to the global imaginary.
Up and coming scholars from various humanities
and fine arts departments in the UC system and across
the nation are presenting papers on topics as divers as
Philipino-American spoken word performance, female Indonesian
dancers, and American literature survey courses. A faculty
panel will hold a rountable discussion on the topic as
well: Susan Koshy (Asian American Studies), Jacqueline
Stevens(Law and Society), Chris Newfield (English) and,
tentatively, Kumkum Bhavnani (Sociology) will hash out
issues of the national imaginary. English Department doctoral
candidate Emily Davis will moderate the discussion. In
addition, artists from our university community will show
selected works in Centennial House that day. |
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World Order and Documentary: Davis
Guggenheim and Elizabeth Shue Celebrate the work of Charles
A. Guggenheim
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
7:30-9:30 p.m., Girvetz 1004
Hollywood writer, producer, and director
Davis Guggenheim (of such films as “Gossip”
and the new HBO series “Deadwood”) and Academy
Award nominee for best actress (“Leaving Las Vegas”)
Elizabeth Shue discuss the legacy of world renowned documentary
film-maker Charles A. Guggenheim. Nominated for ten Academy
Awards and winner of three for such films as “Nine
from Little Rock” (1964) and “Robert Kennedy
Remembered” (1968), Charles Guggenheim is also remembered
as well for such classics as “Klan: A Legacy of
Hate in America” (1982), “Monument to the
Dream” (1967), “The Johnstown Flood”
(1989), “D-Day Remembered” (1994), “A
Time for Justice” (1994) and “Berga: Soldiers
of Another War” (2003).
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Conference on America and the Reshaping of a New World
Order: Normative Implications, Cultural Constraints
April 23-24, 2004, Corwin Pavillion,
UCSB
This
conference will feature keynote addresses by
Ronald Steel and Richard Falk, an evening exhibition of
performance art (and walk-through, participatory diaorama
on the global) by world famous performance artist Guillermo
Gomez-Peña, and papers by, among others, Myra Jehlen,
Rutgers, Lisa Lowe, UCSD, Eileen Boris, Mark Juergensmeyer,
Lisa Parks, Clark Roof, and Juan Campo, UCSB, Carolyn Porter,
UCB, Donald Pease, Dartmouth, David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford,
Helmut Anheier, UCLA, and Berndt Ostendorf, University of
Munich. With the exception of the plenary talks, papers
will be kept to 20 minutes in length in order to reserve
a maximum amount of time in each session for discussion
among the panelists and well as with the audience.
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Homi
Babha
"A Global Measure: Writing, Rights, and Responsibilities"
April 15, 2004, 4pm, UCSB Corwin Pavilion
"The Global and the Postcolonial:
A Conversation with Homi Bhaba"
April 16, 2004, Lobero Room in the UCEN
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature
at Harvard Univerisity, Professor Bhabha is
author of The Location of Culture and the forthcoming
A Measure of Dwelling and editor of Nation
and Narration. His interests are extraordinarily
wide-ranging and extend to colonial and post-colonial
theory, cosmopolitanism, 19th- and 20th- Century British
and other English-language literatures, semiotics, theories
of ethics, psychoanalysis, and questions of culture and
globalization. His more recent essays include "Americanization:
Imaging the American Century" (1999); "Anxiety
in the Midst of Difference" (1998); "The White
Stuff" (1998); "On the Irremovable Strangeness
of Being Different" (1998); and "Day by Day
. . . with Frantz Fanon" (1998). |
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ACGC
Colloquium:
New Directions in American Literary and Cultural Studies
Laura Szanto and Jacob Berman
Friday March 5, 3:30-5:00
ACGC Seminar Room, South Hall 2617
Laura Szanto and Jacob Berman will discuss
aspects of their research at
the ACGC Colloquium: New Directions in American Literary
and Cultural
Studies this Friday, March 5 from 3:30-5:00 PM in the
ACGC seminar room
(SH 2716). Jacob's research is focused on the influence
of the image of the Arab
on Ante Bellum American identity formation, and Laura's
research
examines the impact of the urban experience on contemporary
Native
American literature.
To be sure we have enough goodies, please
RSVP to Elizabeth Freudenthal
at freuden@umail.ucsb.edu by Wednesday if you plan to
come. |
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