Provost Lecture Series 2002: Collaborations Across Disciplines
Lydia Liu
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Women and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 4:00pm, Room 308, BTSU. Reception to follow.
How does gender, especially in its cross-cultural constructions, matter to the study of international relations and sovereign thinking? What can we learn about 19th century gender, religion, and empire by studying the 1894 gift of a New Testament by women missionaries to the Empress Dowager of China Cixi? This talk will focus on an interesting moment of gift exchange between China, Europe, and North America that provides us with fascinating insight into the relationships between gender, religion, and empire in the nineteenth century.
Lydia Liu has published widely on modern Chinese literature, gender studies, translation theory, and popular culture. Her books include Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity - China 1900-1937 (Stanford, 1995) and Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations (Duke, 2000). She is finishing a book called A Global Circuit of Words: Missionary Linguistic Enterprise in 19th Century China. Professor Liu currently teaches at UC Berkeley but will be taking a Distinguished Professorship at the University of Michigan in Fall 2002. |
Janice Radway
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Girls, Zines, and the Miscellaneous Production of Subjectivity in an Age of Unceasing Circulation
Saturday, February 9, 2002 at 7:30pm, Room 101, Olscamp Hall. Reception at 6:00pm.
How do girls' zines draw upon girls' other subcultural traditions, like writing and decorating? How can zine-production allow girls to resist and modify the identities offered them by corporate cultural producers?
Janice Radway is Francis Hill Fox Professor of Humanities and Professor of Literature at Duke. She is the author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Culture (North Carolina, 1985) and A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire (North Carolina, 1997). Professor Radway served as editor of the American Quarterly and was elected President of the American Studies Association for 1998-1999. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
Martin Manalansan IV
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Migrancy, Mobility, and Modernity: Traversing Queer Diasporic Intimacies
Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 7:00pm, Room 308, BTSU. Reception to follow.
How do diasporic peoples create intimate relationships within the contradictions and complications of bordered lives? This talk examnies embodied experiences in the private sphere among Filipino queer diasporic men, using ethnographic research in New York and Manila.
Martin F. Manalansan IV is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also teaches in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Asian American Studies Program. Among his publications are an edited volume, Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple, 2000) and a forthcoming book, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke, 2002). |
Lee Edelman
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Compassion's Compulsion: Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Hitchcock's North by Northwest
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 7:00pm, Room 308, BTSU. Reception to follow.
How do ideas of compassion and futurity presuppose a world view in which queerness must be disavowed? What does popular culture have to teach us about the fantasy structures within which meaning takes shape? This talk reads Hitchcock's film North by Northwest as a context for rethinking commonplace assumptions about social justice, identification with the other, and the realm of sexuality.
Lee Edelman, Professor of English at Tufts University, is author of Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (Stanford, 1987) and Homographesis: Essays on Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1993). A frequent writer on queer theory, modern poetry, psychoanalysis, and film, his two current book projects are a study of film entitled Hollywood's Anal Compulsion and a theoretical investigation of sexuality, cultural representations, and the concept of futurity, entitled No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. |
William Julius Wilson
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Welfare, Children, and Families: The Impact of Welfare in a Time of Recession
Thursday, April 18, 2002 at 12:30pm, Room 308, BTSU. Arts and Sciences Forum, Luncheon at 12:00.
William Julius Wilson is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is past President of the American Sociological Association and a MacArthur Prize Fellow. In June 1996, he was selected by Time as one of America's 25 Most Influential People.
Professor Wilson is the author of numerous publications, including Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (California, 1999), When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (Knopf, 1996), The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Chicago, 1987) and The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions (Chicago, 1978). He is considered by many to be the pre-eminent authority on teh subject of America's urban poor. |
Special thanks go to
The Office of the Provost, the Youth Culture Research Cluster and the Narrative and Culture Cluster (both supported by the Graduate College), the Ethnic Studies Department, the Theatre and Film Studies Department, the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
All Events are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society.
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