Spring Quarter 2008

April 2: Alberto Toscano and Nina Power, The Philosophy of the Restoration: Badiou on Revisionists, Reactionaries, & Renegades
April 3: Peggy Kamuf, Thinking with Literature
April 5: Filipino American Studies at the Crossroads: Art, Activism and Scholarship in Response to Philippine State Violence
April 9: Giuseppe Martella, Science, Culture, Media
April 16: Miriam Leonard, Socrates and the Jews
April 18: Ann Simonton, Feminism and Pornography Seminar Series
April 23: Mark Pettigrew, Peacock Angel, Devil, King: Heterodoxy and the Play of Meaning in a Medieval Islamic Grimoire
April 24: Juliana Spahr, The 90s
May 2: Annie Sprinkle and Carol Leigh, Feminism and Pornography Seminar Series
May 7: Mel Chen, Yellow Scares, Queer Animalities, and Contemporary Panics
May 8: Jorge Cocom Pech, Literature Indigena, sin una Poetica? (Indigenous Literature, Without a Poetics?)
May 13: Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the New Asian Age
May 14: Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti, Mediterranean Crossings: Interrupting Modernity
May 15: Rey Chow, LECTURE - Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence)
May 16: Rey Chow, SEMINAR - Sentimentalism in Contemporary Chinese Cinema & Beyond
May 16: Susie Bright, Feminism and Pornography Seminar Series
May 21: Jennifer A. González , The Face and The Public: Race, Secrecy, and Digital Art Practice
May 24: Writing/Imaging Postmodern Oceania
May 28: Juan Poblete, U.S. Latino Studies in a Global Context: Social Imagination and the Production of In/visibility
May 30: Diana Russell, Feminism and Pornography Seminar Series
May 30: Kathryn Stockton, Theorizing the Queer Child: Broad Problems, Telling Details
June 4: Carla Freccero and Donna Haraway, SEMINAR - When Species Meet and Merge: Explorations in Material Figures of Human Canine Becomings

Winter Quarter 2008

January 16: B. Ruby Rich, From ID to IQ: Looking Back at the New Queer Cinema Movement
January 23: Roland Greene, Piracy and Early Modern Globalization: Limahong in Luzon, 1574
January 24: Hortense Spillers, The Idea of Black Culture 1
January 25: Hortense Spillers, The Idea of Black Culture 2
January 30: Wendy Brown, Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy
February 2, CONFERENCE: Uprooting Area Studies
February 6: Jelani Mahiri, Of Oxen, Slaves, Cowboys and Indians: Analyzing the Legend of Bumba-meuboi, a Brazilian Musical Drama
February 8: Elizabeth Povinelli, The Obligations of Bodies: Carnality, Corporeality, & Neoliberal Governance
February 13, Ian Hacking, Will You Be Known by Your Genes or The Company You Keep?
February 20, Sarika Chandra, From Fictional Capital to Capital as Fiction: Globalization and the Intellectual Convergence of Business and the Humanities
February 21, Joshua Clover, Is Poetry Historical?
February 27, Eric Porter, Race Music and Reconstruction in Post-Katrina New Orleans
February 29, Fredric Jameson, The Three Names of the Dialectic
March 1-2: CONFERENCE: Foucault Across the Disciplines
March 5: Chris Connery, Political Tourism in a Problem Country: Teaching Moby Dick in Cyprus
March 6: Joan Copjec, Iran, Close-up: The View from Kiarostami
March 7: Joan Copjec, Sex is Difference
March 11: Experiments in Fiction: A Reading with Nicola Griffith
March 12: Sara Ahmed, Happiness: A Cultural Study
March 13: Sarah Franklin, Transparent Biology: A Cultural Account
March 14: Sarah Franklin, After Dolly

Fall Quarter 2007

October 5: Experiments in Preparation
October 10: Susan Gillman, Otra Caliban/Encore Caliban: Adaptation, Translation, and Americas Studies
October 11: Kara Keeling, Looking for Marquise: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibility, and Poetry from the Future
October 17: Lisa Rofel, The Traffic in Money Boys: Neoliberalism, Desire, and Normativity in China
October 18: David Eng, LECTURE, The Art of Waiting: Queer Diasporas and The Book of Salt
October 19: David Eng, SEMNAR, Transnational Adoption, Racial Melancholia, and Racial Reparation
October 24: Barbara Spackman, Hygiene in the Harem
October 31: Susan Harding, Get Religion
November 7: Paul Roth, The Disappearance of the Empirical
November 14: Renee Tajima-Peña, Calavera Highway: Haunted Landscapes,
Contested Memory, and How to Cope with 3,000 Miles of In-laws and Learn to Love it
November 15: Pornography Production, Distribution & Markets
November 16: Lyn Hejinian, Poetry and Poetics
November 20: Hugh Raffles, Introducing the Insectopedia: 2 out of 26
November 21: Harry Berger Jr., On the Perverse Henrification of George Bush, or, Why Praising Bush as Shakespeare’s Henry V is Really Dumb
November 28: Angela Davis, The Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy?
December 5: Cary Wolfe, "Animal Studies,” Disciplinarity, and the Posthumanities

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