Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Film stars are worshiped in India, and even temples are dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star Rajinikanth publicly...
Wednesday, May 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Annual Graduate Student Presentations Nation-State or State-Nation? Myths of Nationhood and Support for State Sovereignty in Belarus Francois Zdanowicz (Political Science , UCSB) Brawls, Armed Robbery and Kidnapping: Imperial Russia’s Adjudication in the South Caucasus until the...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Drawing upon three years of intensive ethnographic research in both atypical and typical strip clubs in California and Oregon, Hidalgo discusses how embodied labor is negotiated in these clubs. Further, she...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Film stars are worshiped in India and even temples have been dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star, Rajinikanth have been publicly ritualizing his film...
Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel explores emergent possibilities from using a spatial approach to examine, understand, and talk about race relations on college campuses. A spatial lens locates larger racial meanings and ideologies in...