Events

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November 2008

5 Jonathan Brown Islam and Sexuality: Beyond the Headlines

6 Su Yun Kim The Empire of Intimacy: Discourses on Intermarriage in Korea under the Japanese Colonial Rule Visual Praxis Collective First Bimonthly Meeting Mike Davis Who Will Build the Ark? The Architectural Imagination in an Age of Catastrophic Convergence

7 Eric Hershberg The International Context and Development Strategies of the Latin American Lefts Shannon Dudley Music, Culture, and Community Mike Davis Mike Davis on His New Research: A Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium Steven Ungar REGISTRATION OPEN Making Waves: French Postwar Documentary, 1945-1967

8 Public Art Tour: "Paragon"

10 Munir Nurettin Beken "I Am a Corpse": The Creation of a Concerto

12 Toby Miller Green Cultural Citizenship: A Future for Cultural Studies Paul Bannick "The Owl and the Woodpecker" Christine Ingebritsen The Power of Scandinavia

13 (dis)Orienting Asian American Studies Roundtable on Asian American Studies Benson Harer French Scholars on the Nile: The Genesis of the Description de l'Egypte

14 Christoph Bode Discursive Constructions of Identity in British Romanticism: Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" Patricia Shehan Campbell Born to Groove: Music in the Lives of Children Félix Viscarret An Afternoon with Spanish Film Director Félix Viscarret

17 Leah Middlebrook Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds

18 James Braxton Peterson Epistle Pac: Reflections on the Letters of Tupac Shakur Takashi Fujitani Race for Empire: Japanese as Americans and Koreans as Japanese in World War II Cynthea J. Bogel Importing and Localizing Ritual Paintings in Ninth-Century Japan

19 John S. Werner Aging Through the Eyes of Monet Michael Shapiro A Fire Pot of Tongues: Asian Languages in a New Global Environment

20 Achille Mbembe Seminar with Achille Mbembe: “At the Edge of the World” Revisited Farnaz Arbabi Staging Migration and Post-National Identities: The Performance of Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Europe Yoon Sun Yang The (Un)Making of the New Home: Yi Injik’s "Tears of Blood" (1906) and the Rise of Korean New Fiction Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Information Session Marc Perlman The Emergence of the Concepts of Chord Root and Inversion: Patterns of Discovery from Zarlino (1517-1590) to Diz (1917-1993) Achille Mbembe Rethinking the Future in a Neo-Liberal Age Eve Sussman Eve Sussman: Division of Art/Henry Art Gallery Visiting Artist Lecture Marc Perlman An Iron Cage for Culture? Traditional Music between Exploitation and Regulation

21 Frederick Burwick Coleridge's Translation of Goethe's Faust Sarah Nuttall Notes from Johannesburg, Elusive Metropolis: Keynote Lecture Workshop Workings of Culture in Africa and its Diaspora

24 Eugene Thacker After Life

25 David William Foster An Agenda for Queer Hispanic Studies Today

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