Fall 2012 Schedule
Please check back. We will be updating this list of events.
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Monday, November 5 at 12-2 pm, 830 Clemens Hall (co-sponsored by the TransAmericas Research Workshop)
“Visible Encounters: Angela Davis and the Cuban Revolution”
Dr. Seidman will speak about her research on African American activists and their connections to the Cuban Revolution.
Monday, November 26 at 1 pm, 830 Clemens Hall – Presentations on dissertations in progress
Kritika Agarwal, PhD candidate in American Studies, “’Members of the National Family’: Indian Americans and Citizenship Loss in Twentieth-Century United States”
Billy Pritchard, PhD candidate in History, “‘Looking after the Interests of Liberia’: Imperial Designs, African Commerce, and the Economics of Racial Uplift in Post-Reconstruction Black New Orleans”
Theresa Warburton, PhD Candidate in Global Gender Studies, “Decolonizing Difference: the Role of Identity in Building Anarchist Solidarity Strategies Against Settler Colonialism”
Josh Cerretti, PhD Candidate in Global Gender Studies), “‘What About the Children?’: Protecting Heteronormative White Supremacy Through the Logic of ‘Protection'”
Thursday, November 29 at 5 pm, 1004 Clemens Hall – Book discussion of Sohail Daulatzai’s Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America
Monday, December 3 at 1 pm, 732 Clemens Hall – New Book Discussion featuring Cindy Wu, author of Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture, and Theresa Runstedtler, author of Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
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Past Events:
Monday, September 10 at 1 pm, 734 Clemens Hall– Opening Meeting
Thursday, September 13 at 5 pm, 1004 Clemens Hall – Jodi Byrd, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Joint event with the Haudenosaunee-Native American Studies Research Group)
Monday, October 29 at 4 pm, 509 O’Brian Hall (Baldy Center Conference Room) – Co-sponsored by the Departments of Transnational Studies, History, and Anthropology, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and the American Studies and Global Gender Studies Graduate Student Associations
“Queer Dwellings: Migrants, Precarity, and Ordinary Lives“
On undocumented immigrants in New York City
To dwell is to think and to reflect. To dwell is to build material and social architectures. To dwell is to confront and engage. To dwell is to live – however ordinary – a life upon which one ultimately establishes a way of being in the world.
Martin Heidegger in the early 20th century offered a framework for critically engaging with present day banality of survival among undocumented immigrants in the U.S. This presentation “builds” and reflects on the nuances of Heidegger’s notion of dwelling in these precarious times. Utilizing ethnographic fieldwork and deploying recent critical theories on affect and the senses and ideas about queer time and space, this presentation focuses on the exigencies and struggles of a group of undocumented immigrants in New York City.
Queer Dwellings is about the paradoxical, ambivalent, often incoherent messy daily arrangements and encounters between people living in the margins. I am interested in inter-subjective experiences and actions that fuel people lives, actions, and imaginings and
the creation of specific affective and sensory landscapes. . I focus on the bodily productions of selfhood and collectivity in the midst of squalor, exclusions, and isolation,particularly as these people deploy their sensorial and bodily techniques to worldly situations, My account is based on the quotidian dispositions of the immigrant queer body and how a politics of affect and the senses can provide a window into more
expansive ways of acting and being in the world. To put it another way, I am concerned with the ethics and aesthetics of habitation that hopefully, will give flesh to a politics that is responsive to some of the ways queer lives are lived now.
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