New Majorities, Shifting Priorities
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Mar 04, 2011 from 08:30 AM to 06:00 PM |
| Where | Royce 314, UCLA |
| Contact Name | Emily Walker |
| Contact Phone | 310 825 0590 |
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New Majorities, Shifting Priorities
A One-Day Conference on Difference and Demographics in the 21st Century Academy
Date: March 4, 2011
Time: 9 am to 5 pm
Place: Royce 314
We are no longer taking RSVPs.
Email us for information on space availability: cswpubs@csw.ucla.edu
Roundtable #1: Curriculum and Research in Gender, Sexuality, LGBT, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Postcolonial Studies
Panelists: Lisa Duggan, Rod Ferguson, Inderpal Grewal, Laura Kang, Sarita See, and Sandra Soto
9:30 to 1 pm
Roundtable #2: Academic Departments and Research Centers
Panelists: Kathleen McHugh, Laura Briggs, Angela Riley, Jenny Sharpe, and Kathryn Stockton
2:30 to 4 pm
Lisa Duggan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Her research interests include modern US social, cultural, and political history; history of gender and sexuality; and lesbian and gay studies. Her latest book is titled Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy(Beacon Press, 2004).
Rod Ferguson is Chair and Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Minnesota. He specializes in African-American Literature; queer theory and queer studies; African-American intellectual history; sociology of race and ethnic relations; and black cultural theory. His book, In Black: Toward a Queer Color Critique (U of Minnesota Press), was published in 2004.
Inderpal Grewal is Chair and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include transnational feminist theory; gender and globalization; human rights; NGOs and theories of civil society; theories of travel and mobility; South Asian cultural studies; and postcolonial feminism. She is the author of An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill, 2001 and 2005).
Laura Kang is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UC Irvine. Her research interests include the politics of knowledge production; feminist epistemologies; critical race studies; and cultural studies. She published Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women (Duke University Press) in 2002.
Sarita Echavez See is Associate Professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include Asian American literary and visual culture, Filipino/a American cultural critique, postcolonial and empire studies, and narrative theory. She is the author of The Decolonized Eye: Fillipino American Art and Performance (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Sandra Soto is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Her teaching and research interests include Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies; feminist theories; transnational feminism; critical race studies; US Third World feminism; and queer theory. She recently published Reading Chican@like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (University of Texas Press, 2010).
Laura Briggs is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include comparative studies of race; transnationalism and the US empire; sexuality, gender, and reproduction; 20th century US history; adoption; eugenics; and education and technology. She is the author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2002).
Kathleen McHugh is Professor of English, Cinema, and Media Studies at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her research interests include domesticity; feminism; melodrama; the avant-garde; and autobiography. Her most recent book is Jane Campion (University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University, where she also directs NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Update as of February 11: Prof Pellegrini will not be attending.
Angela Riley is Professor of Law at UCLA and Director of of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. She teaches and writes in the area of indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. Her work has been published in the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Washington Law Review.
Jenny Sharpe is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Her research interests include colonial/postcolonial studies; Caribbean literature; critical theory; gender studies; and novel. She is the author of Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archeology of Slave Women's Lives (University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
Kathryn B. Stockton is Director of Gender Studies and Professor of English at the University of Utah. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century British literature; 20th- and 21st-century queer studies; African American studies; American literature and culture; feminist theory; religion and literature. Her most recent book is titled The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press, 2009).
Cosponsors: University of California Humanities Research Institute, UCLA Division of the Social Sciences, UCLA Division of the Humanities, UCLA Department of Women's Studies, UCLA LGBT Studies Program, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, UCLA César Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCLA Afro-American Studies Program, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA American Indian Studies Program, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and UCLA Department of Asian American Studies.
