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Colloquium Series Spring 2002
Levis Faculty Center, Monday 8:00 pm |
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| 28 January |
Adrian Burgos |
History: "Entering Cuba's (Other) Playing Field: Afro-Cubans and the 'Choice' between Baseball, Race, and Nation" |
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Respondents: |
C L Cole, Kinesiology and Women's Studies
Angharad Valdivia, Communications Research |
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Background Reading: |
Alejandro de la Fuente, "Race, National Discourse, and Politics in Cuba"
Louis A. Pérez, "Between Baseball and Bullfighting: The Quest for National Identity in Cuba, 1868-1898" |
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| 25 February |
Cameron McCarthy |
Communications Research: "Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: C. L. R. James and the Radical Postcolonial Imagination" |
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Respondents: |
Fazal Rizvi, Educational Policy Studies
David Roediger, History |
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Background Reading: |
G. Farred, "'Victorian with the Rebel Seed': C. L. R. James, Postcolonial Intellectual"
S. Hall, "Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation"
C. L. R. James, "Popular Arts and Modern Society"
C. McCarthy and G. Dimitriadis, "Art and the Postcolonial Imagination: Rethinking the Institutionalization of Third World Aesthetics and Theory" |
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| 25 March |
Jed Esty |
English: "Unseasonable Youth: Colonial Modernity and the Case of the Missing Bildungsroman" |
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Respondents: |
Lauren Goodlad, English
Carl Niekerk, German |
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Background Reading: |
M. M. Bakhtin, "The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism"
Franco Moretti, "The Bildungsroman as Symbolic Form" |
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| 25-28 April |
Conference |
"Postcolonial Studies and Beyond" |
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