February 2010

17 Feb

India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame

Saloni Mathur (Art History, University of California, Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 17 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Professor Mathur’s lecture revisited the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the cosmopolitan helm of modern Indian art, by focusing on...

16:00 / IHC Research Focus Groups

17 Feb

Facs of Life

Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson Wednesday, February 17 / 6:00 PM Isla Vista Theater II Click here for more info about Facs of Life Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are the co-directors of Facs of Life, a feature documentary on Deleuze. Inspired by, and making creative use of, the...

15:04 / Upcoming Events

17 Feb

Oil, Water, and the Sacred: Super/Natural Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Fiction

Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington) Wednesday, February 17, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone...

13:00 / Oil+Water / Upcoming Events / IHC Series