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Colloquium Series Spring 1993
Levis Faculty Center Monday 8.00 pm |
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| 1 February |
Smadar Levie |
Anthropology, UC Davis: "Silence and Violence in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Women Writing the Gender/Race CounterFormations of Zionism" |
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Respondents: |
Kal Alston Educational Policy Studies
William Kelleher Anthropology |
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Background Reading: |
Ella Shohat, "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims"
Chela Sandoval, "U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World" |
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| 1 March |
Carol Stabile |
Communications Research :
"The Mother of All Wars: Women and the Discourses of the Gulf War" |
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Respondents: |
Janet Lyon English and Women's Studies
Greg Wise Speech Communication |
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Background Reading: |
Douglas Kellner, The Persian Gulf TV War (selections)
Herbert I. Schiller, "Manipulating Hearts and Minds"
Christopher Norris: Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals, and the Gulf War (selections) |
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| 9-11 April |
Conference on |
"Higher Education in Crisis: Politics, Economics, and Post-disciplinary Knowledge" |
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| 3 May |
Jeff Nunokawa |
English, Princeton:
"Oscar Wilde and Japan: Aestheticism, Orientalism, and the Derealization of the Homoerotic" |
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Respondents: |
Amanda Anderson English and Women's Studies
Barry Faulk English |
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Background Reading: |
Judith Butler, "Imitation and Gender in Subordination"
Carol Ann Tylor, "Boys Will Be Girls: The Politics of Gay Drags"
Kobena Mercer, "Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary"
Richard Fung, "Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian and Gay Video Porn" |