Thursday, January 23 / 6:00 PM Feminist Studies Seminar Room, South Hall The HumAnimality RFG will host a discussion of Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. We will consider how Chen draws on queer, critical race and affect theory to contribute to and push...
Tamara Lea Spira (Women's Studies, University of Oregon) Thursday, January 23 / 1:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631A South Hall This talk theorizes the relationship between 1970s U.S. Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. Dr....
Barbara Mann (The Jewish Theological Seminary) Thursday, January 23 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event has been cancelled due to illness. Jews have historically been considered “the people of the book,” a rootless, diasporic collection of communities whose true “place” is...
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Anthropology, Oxford University) Thursday, January 23 / 2:30 PM SSMS 3145 Drawing on her recently published monograph (Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal), this presentation traces the development of the performing arts in Dakar, Senegal, from the 1930s to the contemporary...