UT Austin - POSTCOLONIAL ACTUALITIES: PAST AND PRESENT

University of Texas, Austin - Department of Comparative Literature

POSTCOLONIAL ACTUALITIES: PAST AND PRESENT

All panels will be at the Texas Union

Registration and Breakfast: Eastwood Room

Panels A: Governors’ Room

Panels B: Sinclair Room

Panels C: Lone Star Room

Friday 16 October

8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 Panels

A1: Literature and American Roots

Moderator: Dr. Matt Cohen

1. Nancy El-Gendy (University of Oklahoma):

From Separateness to Inclusiveness: Appropriation as a Mode of Healing in Silko’s Ceremony and Hakki’s The Lamp of Umm Hashim

2. Courtney Shultz (Ohio University):

Leslie Marmon Silko's Re-Appropriation of Indigenous Cultural Identity through Hybrid Cultural Texts in Almanac of the Dead

3. Claire Cothren (Texas A&M University):

Erna Brodber’s Louisiana and the Queering of Diasporic Identity Construction

B1: The Embodiment of Shifting Spaces: The Convulsive Landscape in Latin America

Moderator: Dr. Cesar Salgado

1. Maria Zambrano (UT Austin):

A New Imperial Design? Juan León Mera and José de Alencar

2. Rocio del Aguila (UT Austin):

Bodies and Borders: Re-shaping the Space and the Subjects of the Nation

3. Karla Gonzalez (UT Austin):

Drifting Frontiers, Migrations and New Identities in Early Mexican-American Literature.

C1: Urban City-Scapes

Moderator: Dr. Karen Grumberg

1. Nancy Demerdash (Princeton University):

Mapping Myths of the Medina: Repackaged Colonial Legacies, Oriental Brandscapes, and the Politics of Tourism in Marrakech.

2. Phillip Webb (DePaul University):

From Colonial City to Metropole: Forming the Postcolonial Metropolis

3. Frank Eckardt (Institute for European Urban Studies, Weimar, Germany):

Postcolonial Urbanism: German Cities Entering a New Phase of Recognition

10:10 – 12:00 Panels

A2: Africa: Memory and New Media

Moderator: Dr. Fehintola Mosadomi

1. Okuyade Ogaga (College of Education Warri, Delta State, Nigeria):

The Globality of God or Western Triumphalism? Filmic Battles and the (Re)colonisation of Africa

2. Agatha Ukata (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa):

Breaking the Ice of National Ties Beyond the Boundaries of the Postcolonial Cities through Film: Nollywood Videos Speak

3. Kristen Anthony (UC Irvine):

Abyssinian Chronicles: Isegawa’s Call to Re-Imagine the Nation

B2: Literary Horizons

Moderator: Dr. Karen Pagani

1. Kate Caccavaio (Michigan State University):

Creating the English: Race and Class in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore

2. Cheryl Duffus (Gardner-Webb University):

The Sister Who Immigrates and the Sister Who Stays: Negotiating Cultural and Gender Identity in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

3. Anna Morlan (Pace University):

I Think of You: A Eulogy for Cultural Identity Lost in the Process of Self-translation

4. Célia Sadai (Sorbonne University, Paris, France):

Focus on the New Generation of African Writers. The Global Citizen's Emergence: Figure, Myth or Concept?

C2: Theoretical Investigations

Moderator: Dr. Michael Johnson

1. Paul Nadal (UC Berkeley):

The Work of Time: Development, Comparison, and Postcolonial Critique

2. Jason Mohaghegh (Northeastern Illinois University):

Postcoloniality and Posthumanism: Explorations of the Outsider Identity

3. Deniz Daser (Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey):

Ideology in Diasporic Identity Formation: The Case of Turkish and Kurdish Political Refugees in Switzerland

4. Szu-Ping Huang:

Where Have All the Human Clones Gone? Empire and the Multitude in Never Let Me Go

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:30 Panels

A3: European Hybridity

Moderator: Dr. Alexandra Wettlaufer

1. Ashfaque Hossain (University of Nottingham, UK):

The Counter Flow of Globalization and the ‘Sylheti (Bengali) Diaspora' in Britain

2. Elsa Peralta (Lisbon Technical University, Portugal):

Postcolonial Aesthetics in the “Heart of the Empire”: Or, Translating Colonial Legacies into Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism

3. Aliza Wong (Texas Tech University):

Making (the New) Italians: Race, Diaspora, and the New Southern Question

B3: Genre and Political Thought

Moderator: Dr. Tarek El-Ariss

1. Mahyar Entezari (UT Austin):

The Ta'ziyeh Topoi of Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi's Drama: A Study of Syncretism

between Shi'ism and Secular Littérature Engagée in Pre-Revolutionary Iran

2. Jennifer Rickel (Rice University):

Once Upon a Global City: Neoliberal Fantasies and Literary Reflections

3. Lauren Shababb (George Washington University):

Colonizing Poetry: History, Poetry, and Imperialism in Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi

C3: Poetry Reading: Postcolonial Issues

Moderator: Dr. Marjorie C. Woods

1. K. Gandhar Chakravarty will be reading and discussing some poems out of his recent publication Kolkata Dreams

http://www.8thhousepublishing.com/kolkata-dreams.html.

2. Roger Reeves (Michener Center) will read some of his poems dealing with postcolonial issues.

14:40 – 16:30 Panels

A4: Global Citizenship in the Wake of Neoliberalism

Moderator: Dr. Dana Cloud

1. Dana Cloud (UT Austin):

Global Capitalism and Its Expression in Postcolonial Culture and Politics

2. Kathleen E. Feyh (UT Austin):

Race, Oppression, and Authenticity in Russian Hip Hop Culture

3. Diana Martinez (UT Austin):

Imaging Postcolonialism: A Comparison of Anzaldua’s Archive and Iconic Images of Immigration

4. Tiara Naputi (UT Austin):

Guerra del Gas: Subaltern Counterpublics and Bolivian Responses to Neoliberalism

B4: Mafarka at 100

Moderator: Christopher Micklethwait

1. Carlos Amador (UT Austin):

Mafarka’s Ethics

2. Christopher Micklethwait (UT Austin):

Marinetti’s Orientalist Modernism

3. Dafydd Wood (UT Austin):

Mafarkan Poetics

4. Martino Lovato (UT Austin):

Mafarka’s Dynamic Epic

C4: India: Literary Partitions

Moderator: Dr. Snehal Shingavi

1. Ammar Naji (University of Wisconsin-Madison):

“I Am Like the Catholicized Cordoba Mosque, I Experimented”: The Postcolonial Hybrid and Rushdie’s Visual Aesthetics in The Moor’s Last Sigh

2. Joy Barber (Western Washington University):

Imagining Ourselves in the Cage: Critiques of Positivist Cosmopolitanism in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

3. Debjani Chakravarty (Arizona State University):

Phantasmagoric Kolkata and Bona Fide Boston: The Urban Imaginary in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction

4. Natasha Raheja (UT Austin):

Creating Difference: Language Manipulation as Identity Building in the Sindhi Diaspora

17:00 Plenary Address by Dr. Emily Apter (NYU) – Avaya Auditorium

Reception to follow

Saturday 17 October

8:00 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:00 Panels

A5: Women Studies and India

Moderator: Dr. Hélène Tissières

1. Bhavya Tiwari (UT Austin):

Gender and Nationalism in Dalit Writings

2. Rituparna Mitra (Michigan State University):

River Churning: The (Il)Legibility of Gendered Violence and Belonging in the Postcolonial City

3. Debra Veira (York University, Toronto, Canada):

Cross-Border Penetration: The Female Body, Nation, and Acculturation in Londonstani and The Reluctant Fundamentalist

B5: Literary Contagions

Moderator: Dr. Hannah Wojciehowski

1. Robert Weeks (UT Austin):

Migration des textes: Canonical Counter-Discourse and Emigration in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy (1990)

2. Sarah Townsend (UC Berkeley):

The Playboy of the Western World (2007) and the Politics of Recognition

3. Shadi Neimneh (University of Oklahoma):

Transgressive Texts/Bodies: J. M. Coetzee’s “Postmodern” Corpus

C5: Caribbean Connections

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer M. Wilks

1. Christopher Garland (University of Florida):

Haiti’s Ghosts: Discourses of the Postcolonial and the Failed State in Asger Leth's Documentary, The Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006)

2. Emmett McKenna (Saint Louis University):

Postcolonial Harlem: The Postcolonial Identities of Afro-Caribbean Radicals

3. Senayon Olaoluwa (Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria):

Mother Country: or Contested Space? Empire and the Anxiety of Colored Cosmopolitanism in Andrea Levy’s Small Island

10:10 – 12:00 Panels

A6: Domesticity and Women

Moderator: Dr. Pascale Bos

1. Gaelle Raphael (UC Irvine):

Subversive Submission: Patriarchy, Neocolonialism, and the Domestic Space in Three Postcolonial African Novels

2. Jennifer Cho (George Washington University):

"Come almost home": Post/Neo-colonial Memory and Displacement in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life

3. Cynthia Francica (UT Austin):

Queer Female Sexuality and Opacity in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

4. Christina McCoy (UT Austin):

Writing the Nation: Memory and Gender in Maldito Amor by Rosario Ferré

B6: Social Practices

Moderator: Dr. Barbara Harlow

1. Christine James (Valdosta State University):

Revisiting Mark Twain in the Age of Bioinformatics: From Dawson’s

Landing to New Halliburton

2. K. Gandhar Chakravarty (University of Montreal, Canada):

Ibandla lamaNazaretha: Liminal-Hybridic and Symbolic-Spiritual Resistance in Colonial South Africa

3. Jackie Zahn (UT Austin):

“Re-Lusifying” Brazil: The First Congress of the Portuguese in Brazil (1931)

4. Aimee Roundtree (University of Houston-Downtown):

“Urgent Response”: Cyberscam Emails as a Virtual Construction of Postcolonial Identity

C6: Citizenship, Art, and Media

Moderator: Dr. Janet K. Swaffar

1. Ariel Evans:

The Amrita Project: Modern India, Curatorial Practice, and the Past in the Present

2. Meheli Sen (DePaul University):

The Dandy in Bombay City: Dev Anand, Masculinity and Stardom in Nehru’s India

3. Jairo Salazar (University of North Texas):

Fragments of Colombia Brought to the Tate Modern: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth and the Buried Memories of Catastrophe

4. Benzi Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong):

The Actuality of Citizenship in Chinese Diaspora Literature: A Postcolonial Perspective

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:50 Panels

A7: Mapping Materialism: Materialist Paradigms and Postcolonial Understandings of Empire in Popular Culture

Moderator: Dr. Thomas Garza

1. Megan Sibbett (UT San Antonio):

Disidentifying Materiality in Humor, Rage and Terror: Wanda Sykes and the 20th Hijacker

2. Patricia Portales (UT San Antonio):

She's Shifted Her Position: Chicana Women's Changing Agency in WWII

3. Lawrence Schwegler (UT San Antonio):

Towards Subsistence Materialism: Explaining Exotic Spice from Solomon to Spice Girls

4. Nicole Provencher (UT San Antonio):

To Prove A Point: Woman as an Object and Fetish in The Killing Joke

B7: Instances of Eco-Criticism

Moderator: Naminata Diabate

1. Sola Ogunbayo (Redeemer’s University, Nigeria):

“Nature Methodized”: Hybridized Reality in Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist

2. Crystal Boson:

We Can Drown Here Too: Houston, Hurricanes and Black Dystopic Migration

3. Michael Velarde:

Can the Segundo Barrio Speak? Coloniality and Urban “Redevelopment” in El Paso, TX

C7: Roundtable on Professionalization and the Job Market

15:00 End of Conference

16:00 Happy Hour at The Dog and Duck Pub.

Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the 19th Century Philippines

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
presents a
LECTURE & BOOK EVENT

with John Blanco
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UC San Diego

who will discuss his new book, "Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the 19th Century Philippines", published this year by UC Press.

"Frontier Constitutions" is a path-breaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born mestizos and indigenous subjects in the colonial Philippines. Blanco argues that modernity at this time should not be understood as an imperfect version of a European model but as a unique set of expressions emerging out of the precariousness of Spanish rule. His examination shows how artists and writers struggled to synthesize various contradictions as they secured the colonial order or, conversely, pursued Philippine independence.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing after the event.

Monday, October 5, 2009
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor
2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge), Berkeley CA

This event is free and open to the public.

9/24 UC WALKOUT SCHEDULE

EVENTS OVERVIEW:

UPTE Strike All day - (more info below)
UC Walkout All day
11:30AM Grad students meet at Memorial Glade
12:00-2:00PM Rally at Sproul Plaza
2:00PM-3:00PM Campus March (from Sproul Plaza)
3:00-4:00 AFSCME Picket line on Bancroft and Telegraph
4:00-5:50 PM Toward a Utopia of Reality: The Tactics of Direct Action with Roberto Mezzina with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
ARF – Anthropology Annex
(Directly across from Kroeber Hall, to the left of Boalt Hall)
Room 101
6pm: General assembly to discuss how the movement continues. Location to be announced, the proposal so far is to gather at Sproul.

_______________________________
UPTE STRIKE INFO:

5:30 A.M. start
Main construction sites around campus

7:15 A.M. - 11:15 A.M.
Oxford/Center (Westgate)
Hearst/Euclid (Eastgate)
1111 Franklin Street, Oakland (UCOP)

7:15 A.M. - end of day:
Bancroft/Telegraph (Sproul)
East Gate (campus delivery entrance)
Richmond Field Station
3-5PM @ Sproul AFSCME workers join
the picket lines

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TEACH-INS:

This is surely only a partial list, keep your eyes and ears peeled for other teach-outs happening on campus.


The Berkeley Biology Transform
From wholism to atomism, from public to private, from
sustainable to financiable. The place of the New Biology in
the New World Order.
Ignacio Chapela (Ecosystem Sciences)
Meet 8 am East side of Mulford Hall.
Walk at 8:15 from GPB Lawn to East side of California Hall
via the lower footbridge over North Fork of Strawberry
Creek and Memorial Glade.

The Importance of Education for
Global Citizenship
Jerry Sanders (Peace and Conflict Studies) &
Ashoka Finley (Students for Global Citizenship)
9 am, Steps of VLSB

The Free Speech Movement Was Just the Start
Forgotten Histories of UC Berkeley Campus Movements
and What We Can Learn From Them.
Eddie Yuen (Urban Studies at SF Art Institute, co-editor
of “The Battle of Seattle”)
9:30 am, West side of California Hall

How do we picture the university we want?
What are the obstacles to this vision and how might we try
to overcome them?
Ann Smock (French)
10 am, Steps of VLSB
followed by a discussion facilitated by Meaghan Clifford,
Chris Lin and Minji Kim

Confronting the Crisis
Gillian Hart (Geography)
10:30 am, Outdoor section of Free Speech Movement Cafe
followed by a discussion facilitated by Alex Cole-Weiss,
Taking it Forward; Solidarity and Next Steps
Protecting the Public University
Sebastian Groot & Chris Hebdon (Anthropolgy)
10:30 am, West side of California Hall

Republic of Dunces
Why and Who Is Dismantling California’s Public
Educational System, With A Sidelong Glance At How
The New Deal Built It During The Last Great Depression.
Gray Brechin (Geography)
11 am, West side of California Hall
followed by a discussion facilitated by Christina Oatfield

Sixth Annual Comparative Literature Conference, UT Austin

Postcolonial Actualities: Past and Present, UT Austin 16-17 October 2009

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/complit/Conferences1/Sixth-Annual.php

The age of globalism that shapes the world today is both a cause and effect of postcolonial actualities: effect because of the cultural influences (imposed or transmitted) of colonial powers on colonized lands through the centuries; cause because the supposed end of the colonialist era started world events of migration, hybridity, multiculturalism and relocation in the urban centers of former colonial powers. Several critics have already shaped the postcolonial discourse—such as from Said to Bhabha, from Achebe to Rushdie, from the Subaltern Studies Group to Anzaldúa—and the reality of our world today continues to offer numerous possibilities for discussion on postcolonial issues.

The interdisciplinary conference Postcolonial Actualities: Past and Present at the University of Texas at Austin, which will be interlaced with a three-day conference celebrating the intellectual legacy of Professor Elizabeth (BJ) Fernea, will focus on how the immigrant flux of colonized populations between urban spaces of former colonizing countries and colonies has reformed the politics of literature, sociology, art, and culture in the cities of former colonial powers. The conference aims to create discussions investigating how major cities of former empires and colonies have become the stage of hybridity, multiculturalism, and new social dynamics. The joint effort with the event celebrating the life and work of Professor Fernea expands the horizons of the conference to specific areas such as: women’s studies, Middle Eastern literature, the art and practice of film making and a commitment to the social and political changes in the Middle Eastern and North African region.

The plenary keynote speaker for both events will be Dr. Emily Apter, Professor of Comparative Literature and French at New York University. Her presence is of extreme value because of her work on French Critical Theory, the History and Theory of Comparative Literature, the problem of "Francophonie," translation studies, French feminism, and nineteenth-and twentieth-century French literature.

Field of Mirrors: A New Anthology of Philippine American Writers

In Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Ethnic Studies Department

"Field of Mirrors: A New Anthology of Philippine American Writers" - Readings by contributors to this new anthology of Philippine-American writing

March 12
6:00 -7:30 p.m.
UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall

Speakers: Tony Robles; Rick Barot; Barbara Jane Reyes; Benjamin Pimentel; Janet Stickmon; Oscar Penaranda; Evangeline Canonizado Buell; Anthem Salgado
Moderator: Edwin Lozada

Derrida and the Time of the Political

University Press Books & Duke University Press invite you to join

Pheng Cheah, Suzanne Guerlac, & Martin Jay

for a discussion of the new book

Derrida and the Time of the Political


THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2009, 6:00 - 7:30 PM

An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher's political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread among American critics since Derrida's work became widely available in English in the late 1970s. While Derrida expounded political and ethical themes from the late 1980s on, there has been relatively little Anglo-American analysis of that later work or its relation to the philosopher's entire corpus. Filling a critical gap, this volume provides multiple perspectives on the political turn in Derrida's work, showing how deconstruction bears on political theory and real-world politics. The contributors include distinguished scholars of deconstruction whose thinking developed in close proximity to Derrida's, as well as leading political theorists and philosophers who engage Derrida's thought from further afield.


Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.
Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson and Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton, co-winner of the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize.
Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought and, as co-editor, The Weimar Sourcebook.

UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS
2430 BANCROFT WAY (between Telegraph & Dana), BERKELEY
www.universitypressbooks.com

UC BERKELEY: QUEERBONDS SYMPOSIUM

QUEER BONDS: A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability

Thursday, Friday, Saturday

February 19-21, 2009

Berkeley Art Museum

U.C. Berkeley

Jacqueline Asher, U.C. Berkeley, LGBT Studies

Leo Bersani, U. C. Berkeley, French, Emeritus

Daniel Boyarin, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies

Judith Butler, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature

Terry Castle, Stanford University, English

Mel Y. Chen, U.C. Berkeley, Gender and Women's Studies

Whitney Davis, U.C. Berkeley, History of Art

Tim Dean, SUNY Buffalo, English

Didier Eribon, Philosopher, Paris

Elizabeth Freeman, U.C. Davis, English

Teresa de Lauretis, U. C. Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness, Emeritus

Carla Freccero, U.C. Santa Cruz, Literature, Feminist Studies, and History of Consciousness

Jonathan M. Hall, U. C. Irvine, Comparative Literature/ Film & Media Studies

David M. Halperin, University of Michigan, History and Theory of Sexuality

Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania, English

Michael Lucey, U.C. Berkeley, French

Dana Luciano, Georgetown University, English

David Marriott, U.C. Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Robert McRuer, George Washington University, English

Stefania Pandolfo, U.C. Berkeley, Anthropology

Adam Phillips, Psychoanalyst, London

Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University, Anthropology

Juana Rodriguez, U. C. Berkeley, Gender and Women's Studies

Darieck Scott, U.C. Berkeley, African American Studies

Kaja Silverman, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies

Linda Williams, U.C. Berkeley, Rhetoric and Film Studies

and special affiliated event with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell.

Queer Bonds is a three-day symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, dedicated to exploring the intersections between sexuality and sociability. While its genealogies are multiple, the field of queer studies has been shaped by two powerful trajectories: on the one hand, an attempt to account for the creative forms of social and sexual bonding that have existed around, outside of, or in the interstices of "normal" sociality; on the other, an insistence on queerness as a force of subversion, refusal, and antipathy towards the social. How do conditions in our world today make it imperative that queer theory comprehend both the adhesive and corrosive dimensions of our queer bonds?

The work we are canvassing asks in different ways how we can theorize sociability and relationality without either unilaterally embracing the positive existence of a queer social bond or insisting on its categorical refusal. Queer bonds must engage connections that span both moments of radical impersonality and of the all-too-personal. We invoke "bonds" in their multiple senses as deliberately redolent of the identity movements of the 1970s that provided much of the energy that served to define our field both academically and politically — alongside the denomination "queer" which suggests the enduring impact of the theories of subversion, resignification, and appropriation we associate with the art and theory of the 1980s and 1990s. We thus invite our speakers to pay heed to the rich traditions of queer culture, politics, and thought which have preceded our own, even as they reinvent them for the conditions of our world today.

For a full conference description and schedule details, go to www.queerbonds.com.

All events are free of charge and open to the public.

We encourage you to bring your class to this event! If you would like to do so, or have any other questions, please contact conference organizers Damon Young (damonyoung@berkeley.edu) or Josh Weiner (joshuajweiner@gmail.com) for more information.

Presented by the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at U.C. Berkeley, with generous support from: the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, John F. Hotchkis Chair, Division of Arts & Humanities, Graduate Division, Arts Research Center, Student Opportunity Fund, Maxine Elliot Chair, Film Studies, Disability Studies, Graduate Assembly, Graduate Film Working Group, Beatrice Bain Research Group, and the Departments of English, Comparative Literature, French, Rhetoric, Theater Dance & Performance Studies, Italian Studies, and Gender & Women's Studies. Symposium Organizers: Damon Young (co-chair), Joshua Weiner (co-chair), Robert Alford, Chris Atwood, Michelle Baron, Zach Blas, Katie Horowitz, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Anastasia Kaylatos, Munira Lokhandwala, Jennifer Malkowski, Rosa Martinez, Paul Nadal, Rielle Navitski, K-Sue Park, Simon Porzak, Marques Redd, Marcelo Sousa, Joel Street, Joanne Taylor, Kris Trujillo, Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Greg Youmans

UCLA: Pilipino Scholar's Day

UCLA's Pilipino Graduate Students Association (PAGASA), Samahang
Pilipino's Campaign for Pilipino Studies (CPS) and Pilipino Alumni
Association (PAA) would like to invite you to...

PILIPINO SCHOLARS DAY 2009:
"The State of Pilipino Studies"

Thursday, April 2, 2009
12:30 to 9:00pm
James West Alumni Center
University of California Los Angeles

==EVENTS====
1:00pm to 3:00pm: Critical Pilipino Studies Plenary
3:30pm to 6:00pm: Panel Discussion/Dialogue on Pilipino Studies
6:00pm to 9:00pm: Pilipino Scholar's Celebration Mixer

==MAP & DIRECTIONS====
For maps and directions to UCLA James west Alumni Center, please click
on this link: http://www.uclalumni.net/About/JWAC/directions_info.cfm

==DETAILED EVENTS INFORMATION====

Critical Pilipino Studies Plenary (1:00pm to 3:00pm):
The Critical Pilipino Studies Collective will hold a plenary session
to discuss the formation of a collective group that will engage in an
examination of the diverse issues that touch Pilipinos ans Pilipino
Americans, inclusing Pilipino Studies. Anyone interested in joining
or finding out more about the group is invited.

Panel Discussion/Dialogue on Pilipino Studies (3:30pm to 6:00pm):
The Panel Discussion/Dialogue on Pilipino Studies will focus on the
current state of Pilipino Studies. It will examine models from other
universities, the possible fields of studies within Pilipino Studies,
the value of Pilipino studies within the working world as well as look
at the current and historical campaign for Pilipino Studies at UCLA.
Panels will include representatives from faculty, outside community,
undergraduates, and graduate students; more information about specific
panelists will be released as the date approaches. Professor Victor
Viscarra will moderate the panel and Professor Joy Barios will seerve
as keynote speaker. The panel will also launch the vision statement
for the Samahang Pilipino's Campaign for Pilipino Studies.

Pilipino Scholars' Celebration Mixer: (6:00pm to 9:00pm)
The famed annual mixer is an opportunity for Pilipino scholars in
academia and the community to engage in conversation and fun! Dinner
provided, entertainment expected! Food, music, culture and frivolity
will be had.

==MORE INFORMATION====
You are invited to attend any or all parts of Pilipino Scholars' Day.
Special invitations are extended to community members, faculty
members, undergradautes and gradaute groups, UCLA Pilipino Alumni, and
support staff. Admission is FREE.

For more information, please contact John U. Aquino (john@uclapaa.net
or alumni@uclapaa.net) or visit www.uclapaa.net.
Please RSVP by e-mail or EVITE. More information will follow..

Raquel A.G. Reyes, Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement

The Institute of East Asian Studies and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
present a book discussion and book signing,

with Dr. Raquel A.G. Reyes
on her new book, "Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892"

This book is an intimate account of the lives and experiences of the renowned group of Filipino patriots whose propaganda campaign was a catalyst for the country's revolt against Spain in the late nineteenth century. Dr. Reyes uses paintings, photographs, novels and letters to show the moral contradictions inherent in their actions and philosophy, and their struggle to come to terms with the relative sexual freedom of European women, as contrasted with sexual mores of the Philippines at that time. Provoked by racism and allegations of effeminacy, the young men asserted their manliness and urbanity through fashionable European dress, careful grooming and refined deportment, and demonstrated their virility through fencing, pistol shooting and dueling.

The talk will be introduced by Prof. Penny Edwards, Chair, Center for Southeast Asia Studies.

Dr. Reyes is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
5:00 p.m.
IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor
2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA

This event is free and open to the public.
It is part of the regular IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on Asia.

BETERANO: A Tribute to our WWII Heroes

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Photo Exhibit Launch "BETERANO: A Tribute to our WWII Heroes"

6:00 PM
Rizal Hall, Philippine Consulate General
3600 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90010
R.S.V.P. to (213) 637-3031 or .

Join us for the unveiling of the memorable collection of images of Filipino World War II veterans to bring awareness and the urgency for support of the passage of the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill (S.B.1315) now in the U.S. House of Representatives. The exhibit will run from 8 to 11 July 2008.

Sponsored by the Consulate General of the Philippines and The Filipino American Services Group, Inc. (FASGI).