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UT Austin - POSTCOLONIAL ACTUALITIES: PAST AND PRESENT

2009-10-13T08:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-30T07:33:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-23T21:41:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-01T20:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-11T10:34:00.001-07:00

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

2009-02-27T13:47:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-18T00:57:00.000-08:00

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

2009-02-18T00:56:00.001-08:00

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

2009-02-18T00:53:00.000-08:00

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

2008-07-07T20:35:00.001-07:00

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).

2008 East of California Conference: A Movement to Look Back to

2008-07-07T20:34:00.003-07:00

2008 East of California Conference: A Movement to Look Back to

2008 East of California Conference: A Movement to Look Back To
October 31, 2008 - November 1, 2008
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

In 1993, the East of California Conference was hosted by the recently formed Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Fifteen years later, the EOC conference returns to UConn. As the Asian American Studies Institute celebrates its fifteenth anniversary, the field of Asian American Studies also celebrates a significant moment in 2008. The title for this year's conference, "A Movement to Look Back To," signals the fortieth anniversary of the San Francisco State strike, which facilitated the emergence of Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies on the higher education landscape. The nature and tenor of Asian American Studies has altered dramatically, and the field is increasingly marked by multidisciplinary methodologies and interdisciplinary collaborations between ! Ethnic Studies programs and departments.

Mindful that Asian American Studies emerged out of an atmosphere of social justice and founded on both theory and practice, the conference organizers encourage individual papers, panel submissions and roundtable proposals that acknowledge the extent to which the field continues to grow and expand, both within and outside the institution of the academy and particularly East of California. Concomitantly, given the variegated nature of Asian American Studies, the conference organizers welcome proposals that actively engage contemporary considerations of Asian American cultural production, identity formation, aesthetics, and politics. The conference will be hosted by the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and will take place October 31 - November 1, 2008.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism
* Demographic Shifts
* Border studies
* Cross-ethnic/racial collaborations and coalitions
* Multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary collaborations and coalitions
* Scholar-activist work, within and outside the academy
* Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, before and after 9/11
* Teaching in the 21st century
* The state of "Asian America"
* Asian American methodologies and epistemologies
* Asian American visual cultures
* The Asian American archive: what is it and where is it?

Requirements for Submission:

* Roundtable: 1 page curriculum vitae; 1 page outline for 5-7 minute remarks
* Panel: 1 page curriculum vitae per participant; 1 page panel abstract
(500 words) * Individual paper: 1 page curriculum vitae; 1 page panel abstract (250 words)

Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Cathy Schlund-Vials (schlundvials@gmail.com) and Jennifer Ho (hojennifer@earthlink.net) by May 1, 2008.

DIWA: Illuminating Pilipina Voices

2008-07-07T20:34:00.001-07:00

CALLING OUT TO ALL WRITERS, ARTISTS, PROFESSIONALS

AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE COMMUNITY!

DIWA: Illuminating Pilipina Voices

would like your contributions!

Diwa [Tagalog]: "essence," or intrinsic nature of things; "soul," or cause of inspiration and energy; "spirit" or a human being's moral, religious or emotional nature; "thread" or main thought that connects different parts; "sense"; "consciousness"; "gist"; "meaning"; "idea". (Leo James English, Tagalog-English Dictionary)

Through the written word, artistic endeavors, and scholarly research, Diwa: Illuminating Pilipina Voices is a multidisciplinary publication that aims to augment the visibility of the Pilipina by providing an avenue to explore diversity amongst Filipino women; highlight Pilipina achievements in the community; create dialogues on Pinayism or Pilipina feminist paradigms; educate and provoke critical thought and discussion; bridge issues about the Pilipina in the Philippines, the U.S., and the larger global scene; and bring awareness about the Pilipina community to youth and adults within general and professional audiences.

Issue #1: "INVISIBILITY"

DEADLINE: August 4, 2008

Filipinos have long been known as the "invisible minority" within the Asian/Pacific Islander community as well as the greater community at large. Diwa's first issue will explore any aspect of the Filipino woman's experiences regarding this "invisible" status. We strongly encourage contributors to think beyond cultural representation and also highlight subpopulations, issues, and people or artists in the community that have been stigmatized and/or given little exposure. Some topics could explore issues pertaining to older Pilipina adults, "mail-order brides," domestic violence between Pinays and Pinoys, the LGBT community and definitions of femininity/masculinity, experiences of Filipino women overseas, indigenous forms of spirituality, Filipino women who are biracial, etc.

Although the subject of Diwa focuses on Filipino women, we welcome contributions from any individual regardless of race, ethnic or national origin, gender, or religious affiliation.

Written Submissions (Word.doc files only)

* Academic articles that are written for both general and professional audiences (1000-1800 words)
* Interviews (800-1000 words)
* Reporting on events in the community (800-1000 words)
* Book, movie, music reviews (800-1000 words)
* Personal stories, short fiction, opinions (800-1000 words)
* Poetry (500-800 words)
* Email submissions/questions to: dp_writtensubmissions@yahoo.com

Artistic Submissions (JPG, JPEG files only)

* Paintings, illustration, photography
* Collages, multi-media
* Email submissions/questions to: dp_artsubmissions@yahoo.com

Advertising (FREE for first issue!!)

* Services (ie. independent practice)
* Events in the community (ie. cultural conferences, festivals)
* Specify if you would like a quarter-, half-, or full page to display your ad
* First priority given to services/events emphasizing the Filipina population and/or their issues (ie. lawyers specializing in immigration, events geared towards the general API community)
* Email submissions/questions to: dp_adsubmissions@yahoo.com

What information to include with submission(s):

· Name you would like to appear in publication (ie. pseudonym, penname)

· Best way to contact you (for our information, will not published)

· Brief author bio, 30 words max

· References for professional articles, 6 max (if there are more, we will list them on website and refer readers to the appropriate webpage)

· Optional: Your professional website, blog (inform us if websites require mature audiences)

IMPORTANT:

Informed Consent: Diwa Publications requires that all contributors accompany their submissions with a brief informed consent form read and signed by any individual(s) who actively participated as the main subject of the contributor's submission(s) (ie. interviewees, people who participate in surveys, models/subjects for photography). We will not accept or print any submissions that are not accompanied by this form. Email the appropriate subcommittee for the form if your submission requires it. For more information, please email questions to diwapublications@yahoo.com

Quotations: For written submissions, free-standing quotations from another author are limited to 40 words. For quotations over 40 words in length, indent the whole block. Always provide author, year, and page citation (APA Publication Manual, 5th Edition, 2003).

LIMITATIONS: We can only accept 3 submissions per contributor. Depending on the number of submissions we get, we will not be able to print every submission. However, these submissions may have the opportunity to be featured in future issues.

If you have any other ideas for submissions or have general questions, please email diwapublications@yahoo.com.

UCLA EthnoCommunications Screening

2008-06-08T17:37:00.001-07:00

The Center for EthnoCommunications is happy to announce its Spring film screening! Please join us for the premier of current student films, new works by Ethno alumni, food, and fun!

With special screenings and presentations by our beloved AASGSArs, Mark Villegas and Preeti Sharma!

"EthnoCommunications: Past, Present & Future"

Thursday, June 12
5:00- 7:00 pm
Young Research Library
1st floor presentation room

Reception to follow

Synopses:

ETHNO ALUMNI FILMS

Home of the Immigrant

Jason Yap

Dir.: Marta Amaya, Wendy Diaz, Michael Gavidia, Ana Hernandez, and Ivette Martinez,

A look at housing issues that effect immigrants in Los Angeles. Seen from the perspective of organizers who went through the process of attaining housing as immigrants and a landlord who offers housing for immigrants.

Legend

Dir./Wtr.: Mark Villegas

LEGEND highlights the DJ career of Isaiah Dacio (aka DJ Icy Ice), from his beginnings as a member of the legendary DJ crew The World famous Beat Junkies through his recent notoriety as proprietor of his DJ business Stacks Records. Navigating through cultural history of Filipino youth in Los Angeles during the 1980s and '90s, Ice tells the story of a rich Filipino youth expression that continues to this day.

Status... Pending

Preeti Sharma

Dir.: Sameen Haque & Sumana Tumpa, South Asian Network

"Status... Pending" is an exploration about what people in the Bangladeshi Koreatown community think about citizenship, as seen by Bangladeshi youth. As a young community, with some coming as early as 1970s, some as recent as last year, there are over 10,000 Bangladeshis living in K-town and Los Angeles. Given the anti-immigrant sentiment on people of color, youth first found it important to ask people in the community "what citizenship means to you?" After many interviews, however, the youth began to realize that there is no easy question to ask when thinking about a heavy topic like "citizenship" as the experiences by community members challenge the very idea of being a citizen.

STUDENT FILMS

Troqueros: The Life of an L.A. Port Driver

Directed by: Dan Aquino, Gloria Chou, Jessica Chou, Joanna Steele

Troqueros offers a glimpse into the daily life and struggles of the Latino immigrant truck drivers who work the port of Los Angeles. Experience their world through the eyes of Lorenzo Modesto, a seasoned trucker and active member of the community.

Jeremiah Lim

Directed by: Julie Kang

This is the story of a 20-year-old Korean American living with a white family as a result of his broken biological family

Inside

Directed by: Richard Manirath

Inside wants to bring awareness to human trafficking in our own backyard of Los Angeles. This film follows Rotchana Sussman, a survivor of human trafficking in El Monte, as she shares her experiences with the audience. Gloria Chou, co-director of the Polaris project at UCLA, and Chancee Martorell, founder of the Thai Community Development Center in Los Angeles, provide their insight to the case and human trafficking.

Reverse Discri-mission

Directed by: Christina Aujean Lee

Reverse Discri-mission explores the question of race and religion through the eyes of Chris Spearman, a Caucasian pastor at a local Korean American church.

UCLA: TransNations, 5/30-31 2008

2008-05-26T17:57:00.001-07:00

TransNations

May 30-31, 2008

UCLA

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities “Cultures in Transnational Perspective”

Second Annual Conference

Thursday, May 29, 2008, Royce Hall 314

6:30 pm Opening Reception

7:00 pm Introduction, Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

7:05 pm Reading by Nuruddin Farah

8:00 pm Audience Q&A

Nuruddin Farah, one of the world’s most eminent writers, has been exiled from his native Somalia since 1976. His works have investigated questions of social justice, subalternity, racism, neo-imperialistic power, gender relations and the subjugation of women in patriarchal society. A prolific author, he has lived in various nations across many continents, remaining faithful to his lifelong literary project: keeping his country alive by writing about it. The recipient of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, his latest novel, Knots, was published in 2007.

Friday, May 30, 2008, Royce Hall 306

9:00 am Welcome, Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, Co-directors, UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

9:15 am Introduction, Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

9:30 am to 12:00 pm — PANEL I: Translating Blackness

Robin Kelley, (USC)

“The African Invasion: Musical Encounters in the Age of Decolonization”

Fatima El-Tayeb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“Black Europe: Queering the Diaspora from the Margins?”

Alessandra Di Maio, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“Global Somali Literature”

Discussant: Dominic Thomas (UCLA, Departments of French and Italian)

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch break

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm — PANEL II: Vernacularism and Colonial Modernity

Dilip Gaonkar, (Northwestern University)

"The Rushdie Apology: Six Texts in Search of a Character"

Kris Manjapra, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“Crossroads of Crisis: Bengali and German discourses of secular redemption in the 1920s”

Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“ ‘Who was that masked woman?’ ”: Modernist tropes of female agency in G.P. Pawar’s Gallant Hearts and Shyam Agarwal’s Fall of Slavery”

Discussant: Aamir Mufti (UCLA, Department of Comparative Literature)

4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Coffee Break

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm: Keynote Speech, Royce Hall 306

Nuruddin Farah, “Catching up with Tomorrow”

Introduction: Alessandra Di Maio

Saturday, May 31, 2008, Royce Hall 306

9:30 am to 12:00 pm — PANEL III: Transnational Feminisms

Inderpal Grewal, (UC Irvine)

“Culture, Nations, Transnations”

Elsa Chen, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“Transnational Feminist Relations in Contemporary Art: Global Feminisms Considered”

Eulàlia Moles, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

"Histories of Gendered Colonized Women Subjectivities in a Transnational Perspective"

Discussant: Grace Hong (UCLA, Departments of Asian American Studies and Women’s Studies)

12:00 pm -1:30 pm Lunch break

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm — PANEL IV: Translation, Migration, and the Avant-Garde

Jeffrey Sacks, (UC Riverside)

"Idioms in Translation: Literature, Language, and the Colonial Situation"

Sarah Valentine, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“Unlikely Lineage: Translation and Recognition in Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetry”

Sonali Pahwa, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (UCLA)

“Claiming Recognition: Translation and Feminist Narrative in Egypt’s Avant-Garde Theatre”

Discussant: Ali Behdad (UCLA, Departments of English and Comparative Literature)

4:00 pm Closing Reception

Old Routes, New Exchanges

2008-05-20T22:37:00.001-07:00

Old Routes, New Exchanges:
Symposium on Alternative Practices in Arts Organizing and Arts International Exchange from the U.S. to the Philippines
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
3232 Campbell Hall
UCLA campus
Old Routes, New Exchanges brings together arts organizers, multi-media visual artists, and scholars, thereby providing multi-disciplinary perspectives on topics such as arts organizing in a transnational context; alternative models for international arts exchange; and space, development, and globalization. The roundtable participants' diverse experience organizing in Filipino, Filipino-American, and Southeast Asian arts and culture will ground this particular conversation on "exchange in the era of globalization. "

Roundtable participants include:
• Jenifer Wofford, Galleon Trade Arts Exchange organizer and multi-media artist
• Dr. Eric Reyes, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, Cal State Fullerton
• Reanne Estrada, Los Angeles-based multi-media artist
• Eloisa Borah, UCLA historian/librarian
• event organizer Dr. Lucy Burns, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, UCLA

***Light refreshments will be available at the event.

Generous funding provided by a UCOP Pacific Rim Mini-Grant.
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies.
Web announcement here.

Postfeminism and the Future(s) of Feminist Film and Media Studies

2008-05-20T22:36:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers

Postfeminism and the Future(s) of Feminist Film and Media Studies
40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency-Boston, Massachusetts


Session Description Information:


Postfeminism (approximately 1981-present) is increasingly visible as
a theoretical platform. Recent scholarship has been devoted to
the influence of postfeminism upon popular culture, film and media
studies, such as Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra’s Interrogating
Postfeminism (2007). In a recent issue of Cinema Journal (vol. 44, no. 2,

winter 2005), Tasker and Negra ask, “how do we address and make sense
of
a postfeminist media culture that repeatedly and loudly insists
that feminism is no longer relevant because it has somehow succeeded?
Second, how might our scholarship be updated so as to retain the
strength and political commitment associated with earlier traditions of 
feminist writing and filmmaking?” (Tasker and Negra, “In Focus:
Postfeminism and Contemporary Media Studies,” p. 108)
This panel, in the Women’s Studies and Film sections of the 2009
NeMLA convention, seeks to address these as well as other questions
raised
by the advent of postfeminism for film and media studies.
Does postfeminism
ring the death knell of feminist film and media theory, especially since
according to Tasker and Negra, “we find ourselves at a moment
when?conventional feminist critiques are in real danger of irrelevance”

(109)? Does postfeminist film and media undo, deny and/or further
feminist
film and media theory? This panel welcomes papers about all aspects of
postfeminism in film and media studies (including cinema, television,
visual art, gaming, blogging, popular culture studies, new media, etc.)
as
well as literature. We are especially interested in papers that engage
the
feminist/postfeminist debate and attempt to bridge that divide.


Possible topics include but are not limited to:
-performances of gender and/or race in recent postfeminist film
(i.e. “The
Hot Chick”; “White Chicks”)
-postfeminist directors, writers, artists, bloggers, etc.
-postfeminist representations of “career” women
-postfeminist “retreatism” (to cite Tasker and Negra’s term, p. 109)

in film, literature, television (i.e. “Knocked Up”; “13 Going on
30”)-postfeminism and “slacker” culture
-postfeminist portrayals of female adolescents/young adults (i.e.
“Mean Girls”; “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”; “Juno”;
“The
Virgin Suicides”; “Uptown Girls”; “Gossip Girl”; “Veronica
Mars”)
-postfeminism and pop culture
-postfeminism and “third wave” feminism
-postfeminism and cultural studies
- postfeminist costume/historical drama
-postfeminism and reality television (i.e. “The Real Housewives of
Orange County”; “The Real Housewives of New York City”; “The
Millionaire Matchmaker”; “America’s Next Top Model”;
“America’s Next Prom
Queen”; “The Simple Life”; “Bridezillas”; “The Hills”;
“The Bachelorette”)
-postfeminism and spectatorship studies (i.e. the “guilty” and/or
“girly” pleasures produced by postfeminist film, television, etc.)
-postfeminist horror, sci-fi, and thrillers
-postfeminist representations of female police officers/lawyers,
particularly on television (i.e. “The Closer”; “Saving Grace”;
“Damages”; “Ally McBeal”)
-postfeminist blogs/blogging
-postfeminist literature (i.e. fiction; self-help; advice)


Please send 250-500 word abstracts (with a brief CV) by September
15, 2008,
to Marcelline Block, mblock@princeton.edu.

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Brief (1 page) CV
Email Address
Postal Address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 media fee)


The complete call for papers for the 2009 convention will be posted
in June: www.nemla.org
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one
NeMLA panel;
however, panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants
may
present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative
session or participate in a roundtable.

Marcelline Block
Princeton University
Department of French and Italian
305 East Pyne Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540
mblock@princeton.edu

CFP: Cornell 11th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Conference

2008-05-04T16:16:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers
Cornell University 11th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference

This year this annual event will be held at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on October 24-26, 2008. We welcome submissions from graduate students at any stage engaged in original research related to Southeast Asia. Graduate students working in the following disciplines as well as other related fields that contribute to the understanding of Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply: history, literature, art history, sociology, musicology, religion, anthropology, archeology, architectural history, gender studies, political science, economics, linguistics and literature.

This year we are honored to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Benedict Anderson (Aaron L. Bienkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government and Asian Studies, Cornell University), the author of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism ([1983], rev. ed. 1991), The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World (1998), and Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination (2007). Papers related to Professor Anderson’s interests are strongly encouraged.

We ask that prospective presenters submit a one-page abstract and curriculum vitae by September 1, 2008 to: . Final papers will be due by October 10, 2008. Papers should be in English with a reading time of no more than 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes of discussion).

Please see http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/symposium/2008fall.asp for details on abstract format and submission, as well as further information and future updates. A limited number of modest travel grants are available. Please indicate in your email when you submit the abstract if you would like to apply for a travel grant.
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CFP: October 2008 SFSU Ethnic Studies Conference

2008-04-28T17:01:00.000-07:00

Consciousness, Community, Liberation: Fulfilling the Promise of ‘68

A 40th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1968 Student-led Strike

San Francisco State University

October 8 – 11, 2008

A CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The College of Ethnic Studies and the Educational Opportunity Program at San Francisco State University extend our invitation for the submission of proposals for activities commemorating the 1968 Student Strike. The forum for these activities will be a conference, having Consciousness, Community, Liberation: Fulfilling the Promise of ’68 as its theme.

We invite proposals from community activists past and present, from public and private sectors, students, artists and scholars to (1) restate and examine the history of the past forty years of civic, social and cultural struggles; (2) assess the progress and current status of these movements, and (3) propose new models for community-university, interdisciplinary, intergenerational and multiethnic thought and action focused on local, national and global justice.

In keeping with the spirit of activism of 1968, we anticipate proposals from the full range of elements of The Movement (e.g. civil rights; ethnic or cultural empowerment; gender or sexuality empowerment; disability rights; environmental justice and sustainable societies; legal/political/economic equity; peace; liberation philosophy, theology and pedagogy; and social liberation movements) as well as special topics including, but not limited to, student leadership and activism, community organizing, educational access and achievement, alternatives to incarceration and news media. We also anticipate a range of presentation methodologies including but not limited to academic panels and presentations, performances, artistic displays, media workshops and teach-ins.

The conference is intended to reinvigorate dynamic conversation and action to promote social justice, strengthen university and community collaboration, and improve the conditions of all people in ways that affirm and empower them.

Only proposals that address the conference themes will be considered

Priority will be assigned to Proposals in the order of their receipt:

First submission deadline: April 21, 2008

Second submission deadline: May 19, 2008

Third submission deadline: 5pm (PST) June 16, 2008

24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

2008-04-25T06:28:00.001-07:00

24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Four venues in West Hollywood and Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles
For a complete program, see the website of Visual Communications http://www.vconline.org/.

Southeast Asia films include:

FRI, MAY 02 - 07:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2 (Program of four short films)
DANCE OF A MODERN MARRIAGE
(Singapore, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Ellery Ngiam, Video, 30 mins, Color, Narrative, English

SAT, MAY 03 - 12:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2
PHILIPPINE SCIENCE (PISAY)
(Philippines, 2007) Dir: Auraeus Solito; Scr.: Henry Grageda, Video, 118 min., Color, Narrative, Tagalog w/E.S.

SAT, MAY 03 - 01:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 3 (Program of six short films)
ALAGWA
(Philippines, 2007) Dirs: Pia Augustha G. Agetep, Preciouse Ann M. Tayag, Scr.: Precious Ann M. Tayag, Video, 28 mins, Color, Narrative, Tagalog w/E.S.

MAY 03 - 02:30 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2 (Double Feature)
OH, SAIGON
(United States/United Kingdom/Vietnam, 2007) Dir./Wtr.: Doan Hoang, Video, 58 mins, Color, Documentary, English and Vietnamese w/E.S.

PIERRE-PIERROT
(France/Laos, 2006) Dir./Wtr.: Nith Lacroix, Video, 27 mins, Color, Documentary, French and Lao w/E.S.

SAT, MAY 03 - 03:30 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 3 (Together with "Confessions of a Salesman")
THE MOMENTARY ENEMY
(USA, 2008) Dir./Wtr.: Angel Velasco Shaw, Video, 24 mins, Color, Documentary, English

SAT, MAY 03 - 07:00 PM | Laemmle's Sunset 5
SANTA MESA
(United States/Philippines, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Ron Morales, 35mm, 82 min., Color, Narrative, English and Tagalog w/E.S.

SAT, MAY 03 - 09:30 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 1
BANGKOK LOVE STORY
(Thailand, 2008) Dir/Wtr: Poj Arnon, Director:Poj Arnon, 110 min, Thai w/E.S.

MAY 03 - 10:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2 (Double Feature)
SLINGSHOT
(Philippines, 2007) Dir.: Brilliante Mendoza; Scr.: Ralston Joel Jover, Video, 86 mins, Color, Narrative, in Tagalog w/E.S.

CUT
(Philippines, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Nelson Florentino, Video, 2 mins, Color, Narrative, English

MAY 04 - 01:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 3
FLOWER IN THE POCKET
(Malaysia, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Liew Seng Tat, Video, 97 min., Color, Narrative, in Mandarin and Malay w/E.S.

MAY 04 - 02:30 PM | Laemmle's Sunset 5
FOSTER CHILD
(Philippines, 2007) Dir.: Brilliante Mendoza, Scr.: Ralston Jover, 35mm, 98 min., Color, Narrative, in Tagalog w/E.S.

MAY 04 - 05:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2
CHANTS OF LOTUS (PEREMPUAN PUNYA CERITA)
(Indonesia, 2008) Dirs.: Nia diNata, Upi, Lasja F. Susatyo, Fatimah Tobing Rony; Scrs.: Vivian Idris, Melissa Karim, 35mm, 109 min., Color, Narrative, in Indonesian, Javanese and Sun w/E.S.

SUN, MAY 04 - 06:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 3 (Total of six short films)
3 FOR A DOLLAR
(Singapore, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Ellery Ngiam, Video, 22 mins, Color, Narrative, English

GIVING CARE
(United States, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Clarissa De Los Reyes, Video, 11 mins, Color, Narrative, English

MAY 04 - 07:30 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2
QUICKIE EXPRESS
(Indonesia, 2007) Dir.: Dimas Djayadiningrat; Scr.: Joko Anwar, 35mm, 117 min., Color, Narrative, Narrative, in Indonesian w/E.S.

MAY 04 - 10:00 PM | Directors Guild of America, Theater 2
TRIBE
(Philippines, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Jim Libiran, Video, 90 min., Color, Narrative, in Tagalog w/E.S.

MON, MAY 05 - 07:00 PM | Imaginasian Center (Part of a Double Feature)
RIVAL SIBLINGS
(USA, 2007) Dir./Scr.: Justin Quizon, Video, 21 mins, Color, Narrative, English

MON, MAY 05 - 07:30 PM | Laemmle's Sunset 5
PLOY
(Thailand, 2007) Dir.: Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 35mm, 105 min., Color, Narrative, in Thai w/E.S.

MAY 06 - 07:30 PM | National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
YEARS WHEN I WAS A CHILD OUTSIDE (TAON NOONG AKO'Y ANAK SA LABAS)
(Philippines, 2008) Dir./Wtr.: John Torres, Video, 100 min., Color, Documentary, in Tagalog w/E.S.

WED, MAY 07 - 09:30 PM | Imaginasian Center (Program of eight short films)
ALLEN GINSBERG GIVES GREAT HEAD
(Singapore, 2007) Dir./Scr.: X’ Ho, Video, 12 mins, Color, Experimental, English

Philippine Book Booth at the 12th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA

2008-04-25T06:27:00.001-07:00

Saturday, April 26, 2008 and Sunday, April 27, 2008
Philippine Book Booth at the 12th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA

Saturday, April 26 • 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, April 27 • 10 am to 5 pm
Booth 427 - Philippine Expressions
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free and open to the public.
Festival of Books website here.

Author booksignings:
Saturday, April 26, 2008:
11am-1pm Rico Reyes and Quintin Pastrana
1pm-3pm Dawn Mabalon and Theo Gonzalves
2pm-4pm Marivi Soliven Blanco
3pm-5pm Ed Lozada

Sunday, April 27, 2008:
11am-1pm Quintin Pastrana, Dr. Marietta Almazan, and James Daos
1pm-3pm Carina Monica Montoya; Rico Reyes, and Albert Mortiz

Filipino Authors Night And Booklaunching

2008-04-25T06:26:00.001-07:00

Friday, April 25, 2008
Filipino Authors Night And Booklaunching

5:30pm - 8:30pm
Rizal Hall, Philippine Consulate General
3600 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Free and open to the public. Seats are limited.
RSVP necessary. Tel (310) 514-9139 or email

THEODORE S. GONZALVES, Editor. Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists. Features musicians Eleanor Academia, Gabe Baltazar, Jr, kulintang artist Danongan Kalanduyan; bandleader and literary writer, Jessica Hagedorn; choreographers and dancers Joel Jacinto, Alleluia Panis and Pearl Ubungen; and theater artists Reme Grefalda, Allan Manalo and Ralph Peña. With foreword by musician-scholar Ricardo D. Trimillos.

EDWIN A. LOZADA, Editor of Field of Mirrors: An Anthology of Philippine American Writers, an anthology of writings by 79 writers from California and other parts of the U.S.

DAWN B. MABALON and RICO REYES, Authors. Filipinos in Stockton. Thru powerful images, some from archival collections, the book chronicles the rich history of Filipinos in Stockton and in San Joaquin County, from its earliest pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

CARINA MONICA MONTOYA, Author. Filipinos in Hollywood

QUINTIN JOSE V. PASTRANA, Co-author. Profiles Encourage: Ordinary Filipinos Making an Extraordinary Difference

MARIVI SOLIVEN BLANCO, Author. Spooky Mo: Horror Stories, a collection of nine imaginative, scary and unpredictable stories, woven around the Seven Deadly Sins of Pride, Envy, Anger, Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony and Lust.

Sponsored by the Philippine Consulate General and Philippine Expressions Bookshop.

Encuentro Filipino 2008 Conference UC Riverside

2008-04-25T06:25:00.000-07:00

Encuentro Filipino 2008

UC Riverside

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 1:00 PM

CONCERT OF FILIPINO ROMANTIC PIANO MUSIC
SALLY PINKAS, Piano

ARTS 157
Free and open to the public

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Dean’s Patio Concert Series at Noon
April 24, Thursday, noon Dean's Patio Concert Series:
UCR Philippine Rondalla Ensemble
Instrumental music and dance of the Philippines featuring the UCR Rondalla Ensemble directed by Tagumpay de Leon.
UCR Faculty and Staff Only
R.S.V.P. required: https://chassintranet.ucr.edu/rsvp/

Friday, April 25, 2008

Rediscovering a Hispanic Nation: The Fine and Performing Arts in the Philippine Islands before the Invasion of 1898

All Sessions will take place in INTS 1128 (Screening Room)
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

8:30 - 9:00 Refreshments

9:00 - 9:30 Introduction

Greeting and Welcome
Walter Clark, Chair, Music Department; Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music

Introduction to the Symposium
William Summers, Dartmouth College

9:30 - 12:30 Morning Sessions

9:30 Session 1

Chair: Sally Ness, Anthropology Department

Rev. Milan Ted Torralba
"Cultural Heritage Recovery: The Historic and Contemporary Struggle to Maintain 350 Years of a Legacy."

Elena Rivera Mirano
"Reconstructing the Music of Marcelo Adonay: A Case Study."

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Session 2

Chair: William Summers, Dartmouth College

Ma. Alexandra Iñigo Chua
"The Monasterio de Santa Clara Music Books: Women and Music at the Heart of 19th-century Manila."

Ma. Patricia Silvestre Brilliantes
"Reliving the Music in the Journeys of Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje."

Reglado Trota José
"Imaging Our Lady In 16th-Century Manila: Nuestra Señora del Rosario de la Naval."

12:30 Adjourn for Lunch

2:00 - 5:00 Afternoon Sessions

2:00 Session 3

Chair: Walter Clark

Ma. Patricia Silvestre Brilliantes
"Music in the Heart of Manila: Quiapo from the Colonial Period to Contemporary Times-Tradition, Change and Continuity."

Reglado Trota José
"In Search of Bell-Casters and Foundries in Spanish Colonial Philippines."

Rev. Milan Ted Torralba
"Making Cultural Heritage Alive in Contemporary Philippine Culture."

3:45 Coffee Break

4:00 Session 4

Chair: David Kendall, Music Department

Ma. Alexandra Iñigo Chua
"Reading Choirbooks and Translating Musical Traditions: Explorations on the Musical Montage of 19th-century Bohol, Philippines."

Elena Rivera Mirano
"Subli: On the use of Multidisciplinary Methods in Musicology."

5:30 Adjourn

CLOSING EVENT OF THE ENCUENTRO FILIPINO

THE LOBOC CHILDREN’S CHOIR
IN A CONCERT OF FILIPINO CHORAL MUSIC
April 25, 2008
8:00 p.m., University Theater

5th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC)

2008-04-19T17:45:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers
5th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC)

WHEN: November 27 – 29, 2008
WHERE: Manila, The Philippines

Major Themes:
-States of Independence
-New Media
-Southeast Asia and Europe

Other Possible Topics:
- Alternative funding/distribution channels and bodies
- Issues of identity and representation in independent film
- Interdisciplinary approaches in alternative media production
- Independent film and the mainstream
- Festivals and grant-giving bodies
- The Local and the Global
- Independent film in the Philippines

Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) of your proposed paper to one these members of the program committee of the confernce:
Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino:
Dr. Sophia Harvey:
Dr. Gaik Cheng Khoo:
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel:

DEADLINE: May 21, 2008

The conference will be accompanied by screenings of selected independent films from Southeast Asia from November 25 – 26 and on November 30, 2009. Web announcement here.

Nietzsche, Strauss, and Mann

2008-04-17T15:39:00.001-07:00

Nietzsche, Strauss, and Mann

The Encounter of Music and Philosophy

Duke University

204 Perkins Library (The Breedlove Room)

Thursday, April 24, 2008

12:00 Lunch (Breedlove Room)

1:00 Introduction: Gregson Davis, Dean of the Humanities

1:15 Tracy B. Strong, Ph.D.

Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Music, Language, and Politics in Nietzsche

2:45 Break

3:15 David Wellbery, Ph.D.

Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, IL

Function and Form of Tragedy According to Nietzsche

4:45 Reception

7:30 Dinner: Café Nikos

Friday, April 25, 2008

9:00 AM Bryan Gilliam, Ph.D.

Department of Music, Duke University, Durham, NC

Strauss and the Sexual Body:

The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion

10:30 Break

11:00 Charles Youmans, Ph.D.

School of Music, Penn State University, PA

Subjectivity and Sentimentality in the Late Works of Richard Strauss

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Hans Rudolf Vaget, Ph.D.

Department of German Studies, Smith College, MA

'Schicksalsgeist': Nietzsche, Music, Mann and Weimar Culture

7:00 Dinner: Home of Michael Gillespie and Nancy Henley

81 Beverly Dr., Durham NC 27707

"Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008"

2008-04-15T13:20:00.000-07:00

April 25-26, 2008
University of California, Berkeley

FRIDAY, April 25
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:50 a.m.
PANEL I: Social Movements, Labor and NGOs in Contemporary Indonesia

“NGOs, Unions and the Indonesian Labor Movement, 1998-2008”, Michele Ford, University of Sydney
“The Prince as the Merchant: The Rise of the NGO Industry in the Post-Suharto Era”, Benny Subianto, Institute for Multiparty Democracy
“New Order Hangover: Frameworks for Struggle and Political Power in Contemporary Indonesian Social Movements”, Vincent Boudreau, City College of New York
Discussant: Nancy Lee Peluso (UC Berkeley)

10:50– 11:10 a.m. Break

11:10 – 12:45 p.m.
PANEL II: Rural Communities and Social Change

“Rise of the Farmers: Democratization and Agricultural Politics in Indonesia”, Erick Danzer, University of Wisconsin
"Can We Get Hak Ulayat?": Land and Community in Pasir and Nunukan”, Laurens Bakker, Radboud University Nijmegen
“Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia”, Suraya Afiff, University of Indonesia (presenter); Nancy Peluso, UC Berkeley; Noer Fauzi, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Annette Clear (UC Santa Cruz)

12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:45 – 3:20 p.m.
PANEL III: Urban Movements, Politics and Change

“Racialized Dispossession and Entangled Justice in Medan”, Yen-ling Tsai, UC Santa Cruz
“The Use of Disasters: NGOs, Political Parties and Fires in Contemporary Jakarta”, Jérôme Tadié, Institut de recherches pour le developpement
“A Neighborhood Fight in Semarang: Land, Development and the Law”, Jamie Davidson, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Ria Hutabarat (UC Berkeley)

5:00 p.m.
SPECIAL FORUM ON POST-1998 INDONESIA WITH GUEST SPEAKERS:
Nursyahbani Katjasungkana (Legislator, DPR-RI; founder, Women’s Legal Aid Bureau/LBH-APIK)
&
Hilmar Farid (Indonesian Institute for Social History)
Location: MLK Jr. Student Union, Stephens Room, Sproul Plaza

8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
FILM SCREENINGS: New Documentaries on Indonesia
Location: 102 Moffitt Library

8:00 p.m.
“Promised Paradise” (2006) Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich
This controversial documentary follows puppeteer Agus Nur Amal as he looks for the traces of the terrorists who masterminded the 2002 Bali bombings. The film’s focus on Nur Amal’s methods to talk about the Bali bombings, Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. underscores the confusion and uncertainty of many Indonesians as they face the impact of home-grown radicalism and terrorism.

9:00 p.m.
“The Year of Living Vicariously” [“Ada Apa Dengan Indonesia?”] (2005) Directed by Amir Muhammad
In this entertaining and insightful film, Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad uses a split screen to explore the state of Indonesian culture and politics, while recording the making of Riri Riza’s film “Gie” in 2004, shortly before the country’s first direct presidential elections. The film features informal discussions with the film’s crew and cast and presents an intimate portrait of artistic people grappling with their new world, as they also remember and carry forward stories and traditions from Indonesia’s past.

SATURDAY, April 26
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
PANEL IV: New Appeals and Ways of Thinking

“Utuy Sontani and The 'Essence of Marxism'”, Scott Schlossberg, UC Berkeley
“Republik DIY: The Rise of Indonesia's 'Youth Independent' Movement”, Brent Luvaas, UCLA
“Sexuality and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Indonesia”, Gadis Arivia, Yayasan Jurnal Perempuan
“The Rise of Liberal Islam Network in Indonesia, 2001-2007”, Muhamad Ali, UC Riverside
Discussants: Shawn Callanan (UC Berkeley) & Jeffrey Hadler (UC Berkeley)

11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 – 12:50 p.m.
PANEL V: Trends in Post-Reformasi Government

“Bersatu Kita Teguh: Public Goods Transfers, Elections and National Unity”, Risa Toha, UCLA
“The New Regionalist Movements of Post-Authoritarian Indonesia”, Ehito Kimura, University of Hawaii
“In Whose Hands: Security Sector Reforms after Suharto”, Sylvia Tiwon, UC Berkeley (presenter) & Monica Tanuhandaru, International Organization of Migration-Jakarta
Discussant: Michael Malley (Naval Postgraduate School)

12:50 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:45 – 3:20 p.m.
PANEL VI: Reformasi and New Realities at the Regional Level

“Jemaah Islamiyah and a Weak State in Indonesia: The Case of Poso Violence”, Arianto Sangadji, University of Birmingham
“Kambali ka Nagara: The Revival of Regional Consciousness in West Sumatra”, Pam Allen, University of Tasmania
“Village Government in Aceh: After the Tsunami, the MoU, LOGA and the 2006-07 Election”, Craig Thorburn, Monash University
Discussants: TBA

3:20 – 3:40 p.m. Break

3:40 – 5:15 p.m.
PANEL VII: Changing Outlooks on Indonesian History

“Remembering the Madiun Affair: Political Change, Personal Accounts and Historiography (1949-2000)”, Akiko Sugiyama, Missouri State University
“Syarikat and the Move to Re-examine NU's Violent Past”, Katherine McGregor, University of Melbourne
“The Politics of Victimhood in Post-Suharto Indonesia”, John Roosa, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Rudolf Mrazek, University of Michigan

5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Closing remarks

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture

2008-04-15T13:19:00.000-07:00

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 5: Family and Work Space

Friday, April 25 – Saturday, April 26

In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08

Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.

In part 5 of this year-long series, we seek to understand the influence on individual identities, of new family and kinship structures, or of emerging work and leisure practices represented in the configuration of the house (reading spaces, craftsman’s workshop, artist’s studio, cabinets of curiosities, material objects of culture, relation of space to memory and work, practices of hospitality, etc.).

Registration Deadline: April 18, 2008

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please visit:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#apr25

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, April 25

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Welcome

Session 1: The Scholar’s Workspace

Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

At the Study: Who Was With Early Modern Scholars When They Were Alone?

Gabriele Jancke, Free University of Berlin

Scholars’ Spaces – Households and the Practices of Hospitality

Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Scholar at Work: Habitus, Habitation, and the Identity of the “Learned” in Eighteenth-Century France

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2: The Philosopher Alone and in Public

Carole Martin, Texas State University

Framing the Philosopher’s Work Space: From Chardin’s Philosophe to Diderot’s Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre

Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University

The Philosopher's Studio

Carol Pal, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow

Ephemeral Academy: The Hague and the Republic of Letters in the 1630s

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, April 26

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Household and Social Space

Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach

The Familial and Working Spaces of a Tribade and Her Narrator in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Kimberley Skelton, Tufts University

A Socially Stratified Retreat: The 1650’s English Country House and Household

David Packwood, University of Warwick

Re-Negotiating Social Space in Poussin’s Louvre Self-Portrait of 1649-1650

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 4: Workshops

Sean Silver, UCLA

Visiting Strawberry Hill

Jorge Tárrago Mingo, University of Navarre

Diffuse Boundaries: The Theatrical Workshop

UP Film Institute Summer 2008 Workshops

2008-04-15T13:18:00.001-07:00

UPFI SUMMER 2008 MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOPS

The UP Film Institute (UPFI) announces the opening of its SUMMER 2008 Multimedia Workshops â€“ a series of short-term, specialized courses on the power of images and the various aspects of film and audiovisual production/exhibiti on.

The following courses will be offered.

1. ADVOCACY VIDEO : The Creative Process
Facilitator: Surf Reyes
Dates: 19-23 May 2008
Time: 10:00 am- 4:00 pm .
Venue: UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 5,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

2. BASIC SCRIPTWRITING for Beginners
Facilitator: Libay Linsangan Cantor
Dates: April 8, 11, 15, 18, 22
Time: 1:00 â€“ 5:00 p.m.
Venue: A 107 a
Fee: P 6,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

3. INTERMEDIATE SCRIPTWRITING
Facilitator: Libay Linsangan Cantor
Dates: May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Time: 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: A 107a
Fee: P 6,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

4. CINEMATOGRAPHY

Facilitator: Nap Jamir
Dates: Schedule tentative (please wait for further announcements)
Time: tentative
Venue: UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 18,000 inclusive of 16mm film, processing, equipment use, light snacks, & certificates.

5. BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
Facilitator: Vivian Limpin
Dates: April 28, 30, May 2, 5, 7, 9
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: A107b and Photolab
Fee: P 8,000, inclusive of B&W film, materials for developing, light snacks, & certificates.
Requirement: 35mm still camera

6. NON-LINEAR EDITING
Facilitator: Ramon Bautista
Dates: April 14- 16
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: UPFI Post-Facility (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 5,000 inclusive of use of equipment, light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

7. DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION
Facilitator: Milo Paz
Dates: 12-16 May 2008

Time: 10am- 5pm
Venue: UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 9,000 inclusive of use of equipment, light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

8. CURATING FOR CINEMA
Facilitator: Nonoy Lauzon
Dates: 21 May 2008 onwards (broken schedule, clas will decide when the next meeting will be)

Time: 2-5pm
Venue: UPFI Conference Room
Fee: P 4,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

9. EXPERIMENTAL FILM PRODUCTION

Facilitator: Sari Dalena

Dates: 21-25 April 2008

Time: 1pm-6pm

Venue: UPFI Post Facility

Fee: P 9,000.00 inclusive of use of equipment, light snacks, handouts and certificates

10. SEMINAR ON QUEER CINEMA

Facilitator: Lorna Israel

Dates: 01- 05 May 2008

Time: 1:00-5:00 pm

Venue: UPFI Conference Room

Fee: P 4,000.00 inclusive of light snack, handouts and certificates

11. WRITING ABOUT FILMS: Classical Film Theory and Criticism

Facilitator: Patrick Campos

Dates: 21-25 April 2008

Time: 10am- 5:00pm

Venue: UPFI Conference Room

Fee: P 4,000.00 inclusive of light snacks, handouts and certificates

12. WRITING ABOUT FILMS: Film Appreciation for the Young

Facilitator: Patrick Campos

Dates: 19-23 May 2008

Time: 10 am- 5:00 pm

Venue: A107b

Fee: P4,000.00 inclusive of light snacks, handouts and certificates

13. ANIMATION FOR CHILDREN

Facilitator: Bryan Quesada and Teta Tulay

Dates: 28 April â€“ 02 May 2008

Time: 10am- 5:00pm

Venue: UPFI Post facility

Fee: P 6,000.00 inclusive of use of materials, light snacks, handouts and certificates

14. ANIMATION

Facilitator: Roxlee and Teta Tulay

Dates: 05 May- 14 May 2008

Time: 10:00am â€“ 5:00 pm

Venue: UPFI Post Facility

Fee: P 9,000.00 inclusive of use of materials, light snacks, handouts and certificates

15. DIGITAL IMAGING (Digital Photography with Photo Manipulation)

Facilitator: Bryan Quesada

Dates: 19-23 May 2008

Time: 10am-5pm

Venue: UPFI Post Facility

Fee: P 6,000.00 inclusive of use of materials, light snacks, handouts and certificates

16. EXPERIMENTAL FILM MAKING

Facilitator: Kidlat Tahimik

Dates: 29 April â€“ 5 May 2008

Time:

Venue: Baguio City

Fee: P 8280.00 inclusive of transportation, food and lodging, handouts and certificates

17. DIRECTING

Facilitator: Carlitos Siguion Reyna

Dates: 5 â€“ 9 May, 2008

Time:

Venue:

Fee: P 10,000.00 inclusive of light snacks, handouts and certificates

All workshops will be held at the facilities of the UPFI Cine Adarna or the College of Mass Communication ( Annex Building ), starting APRIL. Participants who enroll in and finish any of the courses will be given certificates of participation.

The UPFI is the country's first and only degree-granting film school, and it is the home of the first and longest-running production workshop series in the Philippines . The UPFI is a member of the International Association Schools of Film & Television (CILECT).

For inquiries, you may call us at the UPFI Cine Adarna, telephone numbers 9263640 / 92627222 (telefax), or mobile number 09156960875, e-mail us at <upfi_workshops@ yahoo.com. ph >, or visit our website <http://www.upd. edu.ph/~film_ institute/ workshop. html >.

University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools)

For workshop inquiries:
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and OsmeÃ±a Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
E-mail: upfi_workshops@ yahoo.com. ph>
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Website: http://www.upd. edu.ph/~film_ institute/ workshop. htm

To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute e-group:

Allan Punzalan Isaac

2008-04-10T12:13:00.001-07:00

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Film Discussion: The Byuti and Danger of Performing Transgender and Transnational Belonging

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free and open to the public.
Web announcement here.

A colloquium with Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University, analyzing the film "Paper Dolls" ("Bubot Niyar," Israel 2006) by Tomer Heymann.

After the second intifada in 2000 Israel closed its borders and expelled Palestinians who were no longer welcome as service labor in Israel. 300,000 foreign workers were brought in to do jobs Israeli’s could not or did not want to perform including giving care to the elderly in Orthodox neighborhood. This paper focuses on a recent documentary, Paper Dolls (2006), which provides a painfully moving account of the lives of Filipino transgender caregiver-drag performers in Tel Aviv.

Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, specializes in ethnic American and Asian American aspects of American literary and cultural studies. His book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award.

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics.

SubVerses 2008

2008-04-01T18:25:00.000-07:00

UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association presents

SubVerses 2008

"Asian American Popular Culture"

Support the 8th Annual SubVerses, a campus-wide event addressing Asian American community issues and providing a forum of expression for a collection of voices.

Please join us for a panel discussion featuring Daniel Lee (UCLA Faculty), Jeff Liu (Visual Communications), Eric Nakamura (Giant Robot), and Phil Yu (Angry Asian Man).

Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008

Time: 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.

Place: UCLA-MOORE HALL Room 100

405 Hilgard Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.ucla.edu/map/driving.html

FREE ADMISSION

JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN AND REDRESS

2008-04-01T09:59:00.001-07:00

UCLA'S ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER PROGRAM, 'NEGLECTED LEGACIES:

JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN AND REDRESS @ JANM, Saturday, April 5, 2008, 2 pm



LOS ANGELES.-The second of a three-part series examining the role of
Japanese American women and the redress movement, organized by Lane
Hirabayashi, "George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese
American Internment, Redress & Community," Asian American Studies
Center at UCLA, is set for Saturday, April 5, beginning at 2 p.m. at
the Japanese American National Museum.



The series, "Neglected Legacies: Japanese American Women and
Redress", is a collaboration between UCLA's Asian American Studies
Center and the Japanese American National Museum commemorating the
20th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.



This Saturday's program, "Organizing the Community", features three
Nisei women activists: Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Lillian Nakano and
Chizu Omori.  The program will begin with each woman's first-hand
reflections on organizing the R/R movement.  Their statements will be
followed by Q&A and discussion.



Hirabayashi will introduce the moderator, Susan Nakaoka, who wrote
her masters thesis at UCLA's Asian American Studies Department after
interviewing five Nisei women across the country who were involved in
the redress movement.



This program is free and open to the public. To make reservations or
for more information on this series, special events and other
programs, call the Japanese Americ

Queer Text(ures) April 4th, 2008

2008-04-01T08:23:00.001-07:00

Library and Archive OUTreach is pleased to announce the 2008 Symposium:
Queer Text(ures): Reading and Writing LGBT Community History.

10:00 am - 4:00 pm
April 4th, 2008 at the University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Room 111


The focus of this symposium is on how community history is written
through literacy and publication, and how we as information
professionals can contribute to its commemoration.

Our hope is that this will be a forum of diverse voices from a variety
of backgrounds, engaged in dialogue about the strands of history and
identity that tie us together in community.


Guest Speakers:

Poet and Visual Artist: Imani Tolliver (http://www.imanitolliver.com/)

Writer, Performing Artist and Community Activist: Noel Alumit
(http://thelastnoel.blogspot.com/)

Writer and Lecturer at USC: Chris Freeman
(http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1010317.html)

Novelist, Writer, Co-Founder of the Violet Quill, SeaHorse Press, and
the Gay Presses of New York: Felice Picano
(http://homepage.mac.com/capocom/felicepicano.com/Education38.html)

Queer Awareness Days April 14-25, 2008: Enlightening the Cal Community about LGBTQQIA Issues and Diversity

2008-03-31T11:56:00.001-07:00

Monday, April 14, 2008 à

BBQ Kick Off and Music Festival @ Lower Sproul 5PM-7PM

The kick off event for the Queer Awareness Days and building of momentum for two great weeks of LGBTQQIA events and activities! This event will feature three performances from Minipop (http://www.myspace.com/minipop), French Disco (http://www.myspace.com/frenchdiscospace), and Mud (http://www.myspace.com/mudtheband) performing live for the audience. A brief introduction into Queer Awareness Days and food will be sold, vegan friendly, for a very low cost. The event is sponsored by QARC and SUPERB! All funds will be donated to the Queer Alliance and Resource Center to fund the following QAD events! *Open to public

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10339193316

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 à

Julia Serano- Acting the Part: Exploring Gender Identity in Performance @ Naia Lounger on Lower Sproul 6PM-8PM.

Performances by trans-activist Julia Serano and local drag kings and queens followed by a Q&A panel. This event is sponsored by Gender Equity Center and QARC. *Open to the public

Young Queers United for Empowerment! (YQUE!) Movie Screening and Discussion @ 305 Eshleman Hall 6:15PM-8PM

YQUE!, a queer student group on campus, will be screening a movie and then holding an open discussion on the topic.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 à

Cal Queer & Asian Event @ 305 Eshleman Hall 730PM-9PM

Come join, Cal Q&A, the queer and Asian queer student group, "API Equality is committed to working in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community in California and nationally for equal marriage rights, fair treatment, and overall acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Working in collaboration with our local partners, API Equality-LA and API Equality-SF, we engage in public education, community organizing, and legal and legislative advocacy to achieve our goals."

Thursday, April 17, 2008 à

Take Back the Night @ Upper Sproul 5PM-8PM

Coalitions of students, who aim to shatter the silence surrounding sexual violence, domestic violence, rape, and hate crimes. We aim to empower the survivors of violence by publicly speaking up against sexual violence through the work of art, poetry, and music as our medium. *Open to the public

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19403617832

Friday-Sunday, April 18-20, 2008 à

Western Regional Queer Conference @ UCLA

Monday, April 21, 2008 à

Sigma Epsilon Omega "Eliminate Hate Campaign" @ Upper Sproul 11AM-1PM

A campaign on the UC Berkeley campus to bring about diversity and acceptance for all sexualities, ethnicities, races, and opinions! Let's make our campus a hate free environment! SEO will be selling "Eliminate Hate" pink t-shirts on Sproul! *Open to the public

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5047189853

Queer Womyn at Berkeley- Sex Positivity Workshop in 305 Eshleman Hall 8PM-10PM

Come mingle with the queer womyn at Berkeley while discussing sex positivity!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 à

Sigma Epsilon Omega "Eliminate Hate Campaign" @ Upper Sproul 11AM-1PM

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5047189853

CJ Pascoe- Homophobia in High School @ Senate Chambers Eshleman Hall 7PM-9PM

CJ Pascoe, author of Dude You're A Fag, will lead a conversation on masculinity and homophobia. This event is sponsored by Gender Equity Center and QARC. *Open to the public

Queer Diversions- Family Fun Night @ 305 Eshleman 8PM-10PM

Come hang out with the queer student social group and play some games!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 à

Sigma Epsilon Omega "Eliminate Hate Campaign" @ Upper Sproul 11AM-1PM

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5047189853

Double Penetration of Queer Pop Culture: The L Word and Queer As Folk @ 305 Eshleman Hall 7PM-10PM

Come join in on watching two LGBTQQIA series episodes, refreshments and drinks included!

Thursday, April 24, 2008 à

Sigma Epsilon Omega "Eliminate Hate Campaign" @ Upper Sproul 11AM-1PM

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5047189853

Sigma Epsilon Omega "Trip to the Crib" @ Fraternity Brother's House then SF! 8:30PM-3AM

The gay fraternity, Sigma Epsilon Omega, will be hosting a pre-party and a party bus for 60 students to head out to the gay club The Crib in SF!

Friday, April 25, 2008 à

Day of Silence / Night of Noise @ Upper Sproul/Heller Lounge 8am-5PM/ 7PM-11PM

The Day of Silence is an annual event held to commemorate and protest anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender) bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day in silence to echo the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday.

Night of Noise is for the LGBTQQIA community to come together and speak out against the anti- LGBTQQIA sentiments at this university and in the world! Refreshments, food, resources, and music will all be supplied!

Saturday, April 26, 2008 à

QPOC Summit 2008 @ UC Berkeley 10AM-6PM

The QPOC summit will gather students, activists, and community members all over California to dialogue around the intersections between race, age, and sexuality. The theme of the summit this year is: "(re)Generations of Solidarity: Shifting Lenses, Igniting Hearts." The purpose of this summit is to provide a safe space where members of the QPOC community can engage in a cross generational dialogue with each other. By sharing conversations and exchanging perspectives across generations, we hope this will generate new energy and inspire new passion in the QPOC communities.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24429693384

Berkeley: TANNER LECTURES on HUMAN VALUES

2008-03-31T11:55:00.001-07:00

Spring 2008 Lecture Information

TANNER LECTURES on HUMAN VALUES

The Tanner Lectures Committee,
on behalf of the University of California, Berkeley,
cordially invites you to public lectures by

Annabel Patterson
Sterling Professor of English Emeritus, Yale University

with commentary by Lorna Hutson, Geoffrey Nunberg, and J. B. Schneewind

Pandora’s Boxes, or How We Store Our Values

Lecture I: How We Do Things with Abstract Nouns: Bacon, Locke, Williams
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 – 4:10 p.m.

Lecture II: American Keywords: Marriage, Success, and Democracy
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 – 4:10 p.m.

Seminar and Discussion with Commentators
Thursday, April 10, 2008 – 4:10 p.m.

Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley

The lectures and seminar are free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For information, please visit our web site at www.grad.berkeley.edu/tanner
or contact us by phone at 510.643.7413, or by email at
lectures@berkeley.edu

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GRADUATE COUNCIL LECTURES:

FOERSTER LECTURES on the IMMORTALITY of the SOUL

The Foerster Lectureship Committee,
on behalf of the Graduate Council of the Academic Senate,
cordially invites you to a public lecture by

Bart D. Ehrman
James A. Gray Professor, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

God's Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering

Thursday, April 17, 2008 – 4:10 p.m.
Main Auditorium, Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley

The lectures are free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For information, please visit our web site at www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures
or contact us by phone at 510.643.7413, or by email at
lectures@berkeley.edu

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CHARLES M. and MARTHA HITCHCOCK LECTURES

The Hitchcock Professorship Committee,
on behalf of the Graduate Council of the Academic Senate,
cordially invites you to a public lecture series by

Chikashi Toyoshima
Professor of Supramolecular Structure, University of Tokyo

Lecture I: Calcium, Proteins, Energy, and Life
Lecture II: A Molecular Machine at Work: The Case of the Calcium Pump Protein

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 – 4:10 p.m.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 – 4:10 p.m.
International House Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

The lectures are free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
For information, please visit our web site at www.grad.berkeley.edu/lectures
or contact us by phone at 510.643.7413, or by email at
lectures@berkeley.edu

Muslim Women and Sexuality

2008-03-31T10:51:00.002-07:00

Upcoming event:
Round table discussion, "Muslim Women and Sexuality."

Thursday, April 10th, 3:30-4:30
Student Union, Frank Graham Lounge (Room 3108)

Invited participants:
Attiya Ahmad, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Zahra Ayubi, Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Shelina Kassam, Sociology and Equity Studies, University of Toronto
Minoo Moallem, Gender and Women's Studies, University of
California-Berkeley
Taiyyaba Qureshi, UNC Law School

This event is free and open to all UNC and Duke students and faculty, but
space
is limited and undergraduates will have priority in registering. To
register
email Prof. Erin Carlston at
carlston@email.unc.edu and let me know whether you are an undergraduate,
graduate or faculty member.

A Return to the Senses: Political Theory and the Sensorium

2008-03-31T10:51:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS:

A Return to the Senses: Political Theory and the Sensorium

- A Theory & Event Conference -

May 7 – 9, 2009

The resurgence of scholarly research on the nexus between politics and aesthetics has

brought to the fore rich and diverse investigations on the role of the senses in political

life. Whether engaging the theories of perception that configure our understandings of

justice, or forms of aesthetic experience in an ethics of appearance, or the role of affect

and the passions in human motivation, the concerns that motivate these and other cognate

inquiries stem from an important fact of pluralist democratic societies: namely, that

individuals or groups in pluralist democracies attend to one another at the level of

appearances. In this respect, how we imagine the configuration, disposition, character and

function of the senses when engaging political events is of critical importance for

political theory.

In collaboration with the political and cultural theory journal Theory & Event, an

international conference will be held at Trent University in Peterborough (Canada) on

May 7 – 9, 2009. Multidisciplinary in scope and ambition, this conference seeks

proposals from scholars whose research interests pursue the diverse cultural sites of

political theory’s sensorium. Such sites might include television, cinema, new media,

food, music, and dance; practices of visibility, iteration, aurality, flavor; contemporary

and historical treatments of perception and taste, time and movement – from a multitude

of political, historical and theoretical perspectives.

The submission deadline for proposals is October 1, 2008. Please submit abstracts of

300-400 words (Ph.D. candidates should indicate their expected date of completion) to

the following email address: sensorium2009@gmail.com. Notifications of acceptance

will be sent out in January, 2009.

Conference Organizer:

Davide Panagia

Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies

Traill College, Trent University

Conference Coordinator:

Adrienne Richards

The Center for the Study of Theory, Culture, and Politics

Trent University

Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies and The Centre for the

Study of Theory, Culture, and Politics at Trent University.

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture

2008-03-31T09:36:00.000-07:00

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 5: Family and Work Space

Friday, April 25 – Saturday, April 26

In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08

Registration Deadline: April 18, 2008

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please visit:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#apr25

Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, April 25

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Welcome

Session 1: The Scholar’s Workspace

Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

At the Study: Who Was With Early Modern Scholars When They Were Alone?

Gabriele Jancke, Free University of Berlin

Scholars’ Spaces – Households and the Practices of Hospitality

Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Scholar at Work: Habitus, Habitation, and the Identity of the “Learned” in Eighteenth-Century France

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2: The Philosopher Alone and in Public

Carole Martin, Texas State University

Framing the Philosopher’s Work Space: From Chardin’s Philosophe to Diderot’s Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre

Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University

The Philosopher's Studio

Carol Pal, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow

Ephemeral Academy: The Hague and the Republic of Letters in the 1630s

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, April 26

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Household and Social Space

Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach

The Familial and Working Spaces of a Tribade and Her Narrator in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Kimberley Skelton, Tufts University

A Socially Stratified Retreat: The 1650’s English Country House and Household

David Packwood, University of Warwick

Re-Negotiating Social Space in Poussin’s Louvre Self-Portrait of 1649-1650

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 4: Workshops

Sean Silver, UCLA

Visiting Strawberry Hill

Jorge Tárrago Mingo, University of Navarre

Diffuse Boundaries: The Theatrical Workshop

Filmmaking: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

2008-03-31T09:35:00.002-07:00

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Vietnamese Cinema 4 Symposium
Filmmaking: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

2:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Northwest Auditorium
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free and open to the public.
Web announcement here.
Information: Helena Tran 714-260-2308,

Discussion with eight Asian Americans in the film industry: Ham Tran, Director; Elyse Dinh, Actress; David Ngo, Director; Bao Tran Chi, Costume Designer; Timothy Bui,Director; Elisabeth Huynh, Fox Film Acquisitions; Abraham Ferrer, Exhibition Director, Visual Communications; and Christopher Wong, Music Composer.

Screenings of three short films: "Break-up Therapy" by David Ngo, "Oh Mommy!" by Jenni Trang Le, and "Spray It, Don't Say It" by Tuan Andrew Nguyen.

Sponsored by UCLA's Vietnamese Language and Culture (VNLC) in collaboration with the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

The Byuti and Danger of Performing Transgender and Transnational Belonging

2008-03-31T09:35:00.001-07:00

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Film Discussion: The Byuti and Danger of Performing Transgender and Transnational Belonging

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free and open to the public.
Web announcement here.

A colloquium with Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University, analyzing the film "Paper Dolls" ("Bubot Niyar," Israel 2006) by Tomer Heymann.

After the second intifada in 2000 Israel closed its borders and expelled Palestinians who were no longer welcome as service labor in Israel. 300,000 foreign workers were brought in to do jobs Israeli’s could not or did not want to perform including giving care to the elderly in Orthodox neighborhood. This paper focuses on a recent documentary, Paper Dolls (2006), which provides a painfully moving account of the lives of Filipino transgender caregiver-drag performers in Tel Aviv.

Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, specializes in ethnic American and Asian American aspects of American literary and cultural studies. His book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award.

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics.

R. Zamora Linmark reads from a new book of poetry

2008-03-31T09:33:00.001-07:00

Monday, April 7th
WHAT: R. Zamora Linmark reads from a new book of poetry, The Evolution of a Sigh
WHERE: Skylights Bookstore, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
WHEN: Monday, April 7th, 7:30 p.m.
COST: FREE, just buy a book or two!
Lights refreshments will be served, including Filipino delicacies.

Writer R. Zamora Linmark will be reading from his new book of poetry. He is the author of Rolling The R's, Prime Time Apparitions, the just-published The Evolution of a Sigh, and the forthcoming Leche, sequel to Rolling The R's. He is at work on a novel and a collection of poetry. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, he has received grants and fellowships from the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, and twice from the Fulbright Foundation, in 1998, and as a Senior Scholar in 2005.

Bring a friend or two, and pass the info along.

EXAMINING ENCOUNTERS: MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS AND STRANGERS

2008-03-31T09:32:00.001-07:00

Please join the second year graduate student cohort as we host the second
session of our workshop series

EXAMINING ENCOUNTERS: MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS AND STRANGERS

Encountering the State
Friday, March 28, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
229 Carr Building
Duke University, East Campus

Amy Williams, Department of History, Duke University
"Appropriating Supranationalism: Representing the League of Nations in
Upper-Level German Gymnasium Textbooks, 1920-1968"

Anna Krylova, Department of History, Duke University
"'Woman-Soldier' as a State and Popular Category of Mobilization in the
Soviet Union, 1941-1945"

Liz Shesko, Department of History, Duke University
"'Who Will Speak for the Indian'?: Representations of Indigeneity at
Bolivia's 1945 Indigenous Congress"

John French, Department of History, Duke University
"When the State Reaches Out/Down to the Poor: Combating Hunger During
the First Presidential Administration of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva,
2002-06."

Chair: Stephan Isernhagen, Department of History, Duke University

This is the third annual workshop sponsored by the Duke Department of
History second-year graduate cohort that strives to bring together
graduate students and faculty to present and discuss their research
interests and current projects. This year, our workshop will explore
personal and societal encounters with the marketplace, with the state
and its institutions, and with other people, societies, and places. How
do these encounters leave the participants changed? How do individuals
and societies define themselves in relation to the market, the state, or
the strangers they encounter? How does the historian approach these
questions?

The final workshop in the series will take place this semester:

April 11, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.-Strangers in a Strange Land

"Where We Stand"

2008-03-31T09:31:00.001-07:00

"Where We Stand"

Ang Ating Hangarin - Ang Ating Natamo

LOS ANGELES, California (March 27, 2008) On Saturday, April 5, 2008, the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) campus will host the 2008 SoCal Filipino/a American Studies & Student Conference. The all day (9am-5pm) conference brings together Fil-Am faculty and students to discuss the current state of classes at local campuses and the strategies of student and community support needed to stabilize and expand them. The morning session invites local faculty to report and voice challenges they face on their respective campuses. Following a catered Pilipino lunch break including entertainment, the afternoon session calls for a dialogue of current students and alumni to exchange concrete support strategies. The conference has adopted the theme of "Where We Stand". (The Pilpino translation of "Ang Ating Hangarin - Ang Ating Natamo" more literally means "This is what we struggled for - This is where we are".) The conference invites full community participation.

The day's conference agenda will open with a rare special screening of "A Filipino In America", the 1938 USC Masters in Cinematography project of the late Doroteo B. Ines. This film is perhaps one of the very first Filipino American produced films to expose the real life of our early immigrants. The silent film was restored in a joint project between USC and the Filipino American Library. In addition a keynote address by Jean-Paul deGuzman, a recent graduate of the UCLA Asian American Studies MA Program and who is currently enrolled in the UCLA PhD program in History will open the afternoon student / alumni dialogue session. Community information tables will also be available during the lunch period.
<>All sessions will be held at LMU's Seaver Hall 100 and registration will open at 8:30am. Pre-registration is just $5 and includes lunch. The cost of registration at the door is $9 and lunch is not guaranteed. Parking at LMU is FREE. For campus directions see the following map link: http://www.lmu.edu/page69.aspx

This conference is co-sponsored by the LMU Asian Pacific American Studies and LMU Asian Pacific Student Services. For more information contact Florante Ibanez (213) 736-1431 or email: florante.ibanez@lls.edu.

CONTACT:

Florante Peter Ibanez

213-736-1431

florante.ibanez@lls.edu

UCLA: The Arab-Israeli Conflict

2007-09-23T07:28:00.001-07:00

The Israel Studies Program

with the cooperation of

The Center for Jewish Studies and

The Center for Near Eastern Studies

Invite you to a lecture by

Prof. Galia Golan

on

The Arab-Israeli Conflict:

Is a Two State Solution Still Possible?

Monday, October 1, 2007

4:00 P.M.

Bunche Hall 10383

Prof. Golan, a widely published scholar, is an expert in both Soviet and Middle Eastern Political Science. She served many years on the faculty of the Hebrew University , Jerusalem and is now a Professor of Political Science at the Lauder School of Political Science in Israel .

Call: The Sociology on Southeast Asian Societies

2007-09-23T07:26:00.000-07:00

Call for Paper Presentations
The Sociology on Southeast Asian Societies: Economy, Culture, and Social Transformations

For the 2008 Pacific Sociological Association Meeting: April 10th-13th, 2008 at the Marriott Hotel in Portland, OR, USA. The session organizer seeks presentations on social, economic, cultural, and political issues affecting Southeast Asia communities in Southeast Asia and their global diaspora. All theoretical and empirical approaches including local case studies, regional comparisons, and transnational cases are welcome!

Please send presentation titles and abstracts of 200-250 words to by October 15, 2007. Also state your home department and institutional affiliation in your proposal.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the session organizer:

Peter Chua
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192 USA
Tel: +1-408-924-5330
Email:

For additional details about the 2008 Pacific Sociological Association meeting, see: http://www.pacificsoc.org/2006/06/2008_annual_mee.html

Duke Romance Studies Grad Student Conference

2007-09-17T07:24:00.000-07:00

Insiders and Outsiders

An interdisciplinary conference

Duke University

Sept. 21-22

Friday, Sept. 21, 2006

Morning Session

9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Registration- Rubenstein Hall room 200

9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks

9:45-11:30

Authorship

Moderator: Rachel Valladolid

room 149

Karina Xavier, “Cellini: An ‘Outsider’ on the Inside?”

Timothy Galow, "Sighting, Siting, and Citing Contradictions: Gertrude Stein’s Approach to Modern Celebrity Culture."

Religion

Moderator:

room 153

Kristen Shedd, “Religion, Communism and the Religiously Unorthodox in Cold War America”

Gregory Lee, “Church and Exclusivity in Augustine’s City of God”

11:30-1:15

Translating/Appropriating Culture

Moderator: Erin Laureano

room 149

Rebecca Keegan, “Lost in Translation: An Examination of Acts of Appropriation in the work of Johannes Phokela”

Javier Uriarte, “Francisco Moreno, his travels “inside” and the consolidation of the Nation State”

Karen Yang, “Prince of the Himalayas: The Meeting of Tibet, Shakespeare, and China”

Canon Formation

Moderator: Zach Erwin

room 153

Nichole Gleisner, 'Grant Translateur' or Outsider: The Creation of an Ethos in Chaucer's
"The Book of the Duchess"

Eric Brandom, Historicity of Critic and Text: Clive Bell’s Forgotten Reading of Marcel Proust

Benjamin O’Dell, “The Lost Boy of Cuba: Canon Formation, Transatlantic Identity, and the Revolutionary Fiction of Martin R. Delany”

1:15-2:15- Lunch

2:15-4:00

Insider/Outsider Languages

Moderator: Aude Dieudé

room 153

David Colbert Goikoa, Bernardo Atxaga: foundational writing in Basque literature”

Justin Izzo, “‘The Holy Inexpressible’: Violence and Writing in Chamoiseau’s Texaco”

Reggie Patterson, “Kreyol Insider: Kreyol Signifiers in Modern Guadelope”

The politics of inclusion and exclusion

Moderator: Meg Mahon

room 149

Alicia Ratterree, “Bulding a Nation and Educating Outsiders: Asian Students at California’s Universities, 1870-1930”

Michelle Iden, "The Vietnam Women's Memorial: A Struggle for Commemoration

Orion Teal, “Building a Better World: Camp Wo-Chi-Ca as Leftist Social Space, 1945-1950”

4:00-4:15 – break

4:15-6:00

Children

Moderator: Martin Repinecz

room 149

Katherine Carlson, “’We Feal Pangs as Well as You:’ Marjory Fleming and the Problem of the Child Author.”

Allison Mackey, “Insiders, Outsiders, and the Cultural Politics of Hope: Cultural Representations of Children and Fear”

Leilani Serafin, “The Elf Child and the Gentle Boy: Children as Outsiders in ‘The Gentle Boy’ and The Scarlet Letter‘”

Genre

Moderator: Leonardo Bacarezza

room 153

Paula Park, “De-macondization of Juan Rulfo and Mia Couto: Reading Beyond Magical Realism”

Sophia Kwong, “Post-Modern Pop: Reinventing Comic Book Literacy”

Aisha Peay, “Politicizing the Content, Anthologizing the Form: the extra-textual subtexts of Black Feminist Criticism”

7:30: drinks and heavy hors d’oeuvres at the G-Loft.

Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007. Morning Session

Breakfast: 9:00-10:00

10:00-12:00

National/Transnational Identities

Moderator: Vanessa Doriott

room 149

Felipe Martinez Pinzón, “Federico Sánchez and Jorge Semprún: Secrecy, Victory and Memory”

Olivier Gloag, “Transculturality : toward a new universalism?”

Rolando Ernesto Aguilera, "Blurring the Borders: Redefining Bolivian Citizenship through Saya".

Arianne Dorval, «Visuality, Postcolonial Youth and the Violent (Re)negotiation of National boundaries in Contemporary France »

Gender

Moderator: Brenna Heitzman

room 153

Kathleen Antonioli, “Out of Bounds? Incestuous Desire and Erotic Triangles in Boccaccio’s Decameron IV.1”

Virginie Pouzet-Duzer, “The Outsiders Characters in Racine’s Profane Tragedies: Taxile, Oreste, Antiochus and Eriphile on the Borders of Gender”

Joyce Wu, “Amor de lonh revisited and reinvented: L’amour de loin”

Melinda Cro, “Urban Reflections: Setting and the Woman in the Venexiana”

12:00-1:00 – lunch

1:00-2:45

Urban and Rural spaces

Moderator: Brantley Nicholson

room 149

Lucia Reinaga, “Going out in Santiago: Bars and Clubs in Alberto Fuguet’s depiction of urban spaces”

Jedrek Mularski, “Music, State, and Identity: Re-defining Nueva Canción and the Construction of Chilenidad Under the Popular Unity Government”

Claire McMurray, “Une Certaine Tendance dans le cinéma rural: Representation of History in the French Film Farrebique”

Home, City, Region, Nation

Moderator: Nicole Digioacchino

room 153

Ann E. Deleon, “The Production and Reproduction of “Aztec” Bodies: Antonio Peñafiel and the “Aztec” Palimpsest”

Zachary Erwin, “Time and Sapce in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Morriña”

Victoria Tillson, “Down and Out in Rome: A Socio-Spatial Examination of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Una Vita Violenta”

2:45-3:00- break

3:00- 4:45

Insider/Outsider Art and artists

Moderator: Nichole Gleisner

room 149

Litia Perta, “Insane or Unseen: Was Henry Darger Really Outside?”

Alison Chang, “Navigating the Spaces in Between: Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency”

Martin Oliver Carrion, “Native Artist Agency in Colonial Latin American Painting: From Flower and Fauna to the Controversy of the Tri-facial Christ”

Minority and Marginality in the United States

Moderator: Rebecca Ingram

room 153

Kevin Sobel-Read, "Law without Reservation: How
Corporate Jurisprudence Affects Perceptions of Indian Sovereignty"

Jimmy Patiño, “Border Showdown: The Carter Curtain, the KKK and Chicano Politics in the late 1970s”

Gerry Canavan, “Tony Lives Next Door: Criminality and Marginality in the Sopranos”

5:00- Keynote address: Mary Ellis Gibson “Colonial Scenes of Production: Insiders and Outsiders in Indian English Poetry.”

7:30- dinner and drinks at Satisfaction (Pizza)

Zero Degrees of Separation

2007-09-14T10:02:00.001-07:00

Please join us for a two part event with filmmaker and photographer Elle
Flanders, director of the award winning film Zero Degrees of Separation.

WHAT: Screening of Zero Degrees of Separation (reception and Q&A with
the director to follow)

WHEN: October 2, 2007

TIME: 7:00 PM with a reception and discussion to follow

WHERE: 104 Howell Building at UNC-Chapel Hill

WHAT: /Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle
East, /a panel discussion and reception with Elle Flanders, Rebecca
Stein (Duke Anthropology), and Negar Mottahedeh (Duke Literature)

WHEN: October 3, 2007

TIME: 4:30PM reception, with panel to follow

WHERE: East Duke Building Parlors

Zero Degrees of Separation breaks away from the sensationalistic media
coverage of the violence in the Middle East by examining the current
conflict through the eyes of two mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay
couples. Courageous and outspoken, their relationships are as complex
and volatile as the politically-charged world around them. Selim, a
Palestinian, and Ezra, an Israeli, fight for the right to live together
in Jerusalem. Already stigmatized for their socially taboo relationship,
they live under constant threat of Selim’s deportation, despite a family

connection to the city. Edit and Samira, a lesbian couple, try to figure
out how to bridge the divide between their cultures. Faced with modern
injustices of work visas, checkpoints, harassment and family separation
on a daily basis, they remain surprisingly hopeful and compassionate.
Their stories are skillfully interwoven with archival footage that
depicts an idealized Israel of the 1950’s. These rare, haunting images,
taken by the filmmaker’s own grandparents, depict a fledgling nation
brimming with pioneering joyous youth, immigrants, refugees and endless
open vistas of the Holy Land. Through modern eyes, these same images now
evoke larger questions of humanity, conflict and nationalist aspiration.

Zero Degrees of Separation is an award winning film, achieving award
recognition at the follow festivals: the USA Columbus International Film
and Video Festival, the 28^th French International Women’s Film
Festival, the India Mubai International Film Festival, the USA San
Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, the Spain
Barcelona Mostra Internacional de Films de Donnes, and the Canada
Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival.

Born in Montreal in 1966, and raised in Canada and Israel, Elle Flanders
is a filmmaker and photographer based in Toronto and New York City. Her
recent feature-length documentary, Zero Degrees of Separation, premiered
at the Berlin International Film Festival and has toured extensively,
winning awards internationally. Bird on a Wire, a dual-screen film
projection with a live music performance, also premiered at the 2006
Berlin International Film Festival, with subsequent screenings in
Toronto and Taipei. It will continue to tour in New York, London and
Ramallah in 2007. Flanders is currently in development on a new
experimental documentary, 12 months/2 square miles. Her photo
installation, What Isn’t There, is an ongoing project that has been in
the making for the past fifteen years, and was recently exhibited in
Toronto.

Presented by Duke's Program in the Study of Sexualities, the UNC-CH
Program in Sexuality Studies and the Robertson Scholars

Please contact Erin Norris at Duke at _erin.norris@duke.edu
_ or Elyse Crystall at UNC-CH at
_ecryst@mindspring.com_ for more information

"Race, Racism, & Methodology" [Duke]

2007-09-14T10:00:00.000-07:00

The Institute for Critical U.S. Studies invites you to take part in the
first in a yearlong series, "Methodologies on U.S. Studies: A Conversation," which will engage scholars from different disciplines in discussions of how different methodologies address like-minded projects on the United States.

Our first Conversation will engage Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of
Sociology, African and African American Studies, and the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Bob Korstad, Professor of History
and Public Policy, in a discussion of "Race, Racism, and Methodology: How to Study Racial Matters in Contemporary America" and will take place on
Tuesday, September 18th from noon to 1:30 in room 225 Science Building
(a.k.a. Old Art Museum) on East Campus. A light lunch will be served.

200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade

2007-09-05T06:27:00.001-07:00

200 Years after the Abolition of the British Slave Trade:
New Scholarly Directions

A Symposium

Thursday - Friday
September 20-21, 2007

Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University

For more informaiton, including full symposium program, please visit:
www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/panels/index.php

See below for directions and parking information

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Thursday, September 20, 4:30 pm
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, West Campus

PLENARY ADDRESS

ROBIN BLACKBURN
University of Essex

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Friday, September 19, 9 am - 5 pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road

SYMPOSIUM

Panelists:

CHRISTOPHER BROWN
Columbia University

VINCENT BROWN
Harvard University

VINCENT CARRETTA
University of Maryland

YVETTE CHRISTIANSE
Fordham University
(Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke)

LAURENT DUBOIS
Duke University

SAIDIYA HARTMAN
Columbia University

** breakfast & lunch provided **

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Directions & Parking

* Thursday Plenary *
Click here for directions to the Perkins Library.
Paid parking ($2/hr) at Bryan Center garage or metered lot - click here for directions.

* Friday Symposium *
Click here for a map of the Franklin Center and nearby parking.
Free parking, with voucher, at Duke Medical Center decks on Erwin Road & Trent Drive (#2 & #3 in map) -
vouchers will be distributed at event.

Photo Exhibition by Botumroath Lebun

2007-08-31T11:24:00.003-07:00

Cambodia: Rivers of Life

Photo Exhibition by Botumroath Lebun
NuArt Cafe
2741 East 4th Street (corner of 4th and Temple)
Long Beach, CA 90814
562-439-3089
http://www.lebunphoto.com/index.html
http://www.thenuartcafe.com/

The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros

2007-08-31T11:24:00.001-07:00

Thursday, August 23 - Thursday, August 30, 2007
The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros)

Laemmle One Colorado Cinema
42 Miller Alley
Pasadena , CA 91103
626-744-1224
http://www.laemmle.com/viewtheatre.php?date=08232007&thid=9&Submit=Go%21
In Filipino with English subtitles.

(This film was the Philippines' entry to the 2007 Academy Awards)

Just like the flower in the opening scenes, 12-year-old Maxi is a beautiful accent in the gritty underworld on the outskirts of Manila, where he lives. Living with his outlaw father and two older brothers, Maxi dutifully infuses everything he does for them with love. From cooking and sewing to braiding his brother's hair, Maxi fulfills the role of dalaga for his family, living as a young lady in the absence of femininity and their deceased mother. We follow Maxi through his glowing and textured world of shopping, reenacting beauty pageants, and hanging out at a local DVD stand that screens movies for abundant audiences of transient children. But Maxi's emotions blossom late one night when he is rescued from neighborhood thugs by Victor, a kind rookie cop. Smitten with the handsome policeman, Maxi begins to feel pulled between the petty-thief family that he loves and the law and romance Victor embodies. As part of an impressive ensemble cast, newcomers Nathan Lopez and JR Valentin exuberantly inhabit their roles as Maxi and Victor. With its vibrant cinematography, simple scoring, and vast emotional scope, Auraeus Solito's directorial debut as a dramatic filmmaker seems itself like a flower amid the grit of most contemporary cinema.

Directed by Auraeus Solito, written by Michiko Yamamoto and produced by Raymond Lee. Read reviews at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pagdadalaga_ni_maximo_oliveros/

Balinese Gamelan Burat Wangi Performance

2007-08-31T11:23:00.001-07:00

Saturday, September 15, 2007
Balinese Gamelan Burat Wangi Performance

8:00 PM
Grand Performances
California Plaza
300-350 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90071
California Plaza garage parking $7.50 after 5pm on weekdays and all day Saturdays and Sundays.
Garage is best accessed from Olive Street between 1st and 4th Streets. We suggest carpooling whenever possible.
Free admission.
For more information, see http://www.grandperformances.org/ and scroll down to September 15.

Composers, directors, and cultural ambassadors I Nyoman Wenten and Nanik Wenten are Southern California’s pre-eminent Balinese music and dance masters. The grace and elegance of this ancient culture’s traditional music and dance is fused with contemporary elements to create ethereal, soul-stirring performances. I Nyoman Wenten is the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology's "Music of Bali" instructor, as well as chairing the World Music Program of the California Institute of the Arts. More information about him can be found at http://www.calarts.edu/schools/music/faculty/wenten_nyoman.html. Gamelan Burat Wangi is the CalArts gamelan ensemble.

Indonesian Tall Ship "Dewaruci" Visiting Long Beach

2007-08-31T11:22:00.000-07:00

Through Friday, September 1, 2007
Indonesian Tall Ship "Dewaruci" Visiting Long Beach

The tall ship KRI Dewaruci is visiting the port of Long Beach at Pine Avenue Pier from August 29-September 1. The public are invited to tour the ship during its stay there. Its main mission is to extend Indonesian sea and cultural diplomacy by visiting about ten large U.S. ports.

The ship is operated by a crew of 92, while 57 cadets in training from the Indonesian Naval Academy also sail aboard. The crew and cadets are also skillful performers of diverse varieties of Indonesian dance and folk culture for public viewing. The featured art forms are, among others, the Rampak Kendang Dance, Saman Dance, Reog Ponorogo, Poco-poco and the "Genderang Suling Gita Jala Taruna" marching band.

For information, please phone the Consulate General of Indonesia at 213-383-5126.
Consulate website: http://kjri-la.net/home.html

FESTIVAL OF PHILIPPINE ARTS & CULTURE

2007-08-31T11:21:00.001-07:00

CELEBRATE COMMUNITY SPIRIT AT THE 16TH ANNUAL
FESTIVAL OF PHILIPPINE ARTS & CULTURE

The Community's Diverse Artistry, Culture, Cuisine and People
Converge For Highly Anticipated Festival Weekend

(LOS ANGELES – August 21, 2007) – The 16th Annual Festival of
Philippine Arts and Culture (FPAC), Southern California's largest and
most lauded ongoing Filipino American tradition, is on! Taking place
on Sept. 8 and 9, 2007 at breathtaking Point Fermin Park, 807 Paseo
del Mar in San Pedro, this year's theme is "Handog," or "Offering" –
in celebration of true community spirit as Filipino Americans from
different walks of life gather together to bring you this 16th edition
of pure community soul through artistry, culture, and food.

Comedian Rex Naverrete and upcoming Jazz singer Charmaine Clamor
return to headline FPAC, with multi-awarded singer / songwriter
Anthony Castelo and the world Hip Hop champions: Philippine All Stars.
Authentic, traditional music and dance are brought to you by
Kayamanan ng Lahi, BIBAK (Benguet, Ifugao, Bontoc, Apayao, Kalinga - 5
major tribes of the Northern Philippines), Kultura, and others. Kali
/ Eskrima demonstrations are brought to you by eskrimadors Kapisanang
Mandirigma, Pakamut, and Bahala Na. Leading the Hip Hop movement are:
emcee Bambu, formerly of Native Guns, and DJ Icy Ice, who will be
receiving the 2007 FilAm ARTS Artist Award.

Equally stellar are the non-profit, community-based partner
organizations whose years of dedication make the Festival of
Philippine Arts & Culture a shining example of community spirit – the
6th Annual Amateur DJ Battle is brought to you by Stacks Vinyl and the
9th Annual Balagtasan Poetry Slam is brought to you the KmB -
Kabataang Makabayan. Film is featured at the 14th Annual
"Pinoyvisions" co-presented by Visual Communications, the premiere
Asian media center in the U.S. Visual art at the Pilipino Artists
Network Pavilion is co-presented with Remy's On Temple Gallery and the
California Arts Council.

Additional unique features of FPAC include: the 8th Annual Vegetable
Competition at the Seniors Village that will be brought you by Manong
Tony and Manang Angelita Ringor of Diversified Services for Youth &
Seniors; arts, crafts, and games at the Youth Pavilion will be
presented by community sponsor Search to Involve Pilipino Americans;
and Filipino cuisine demonstrations at the Culinary Arts Pavilion will
again be led by Chef Cecilia De Castro of Culinary Consultations and
food producer for Wolfgang Puck.

A brand new area is the Workers Pavilion sponsored by the Pilipino
Workers Center. The Pilipino Workers Center is a Los Angeles-based
organization dedicated to delivering services to overseas Filipino
workers (OFW's) through education, legal advice, advocacy, and a
low-cost remittance program called the PWC Remit Program.

Initiated by the City of Los Angeles back in 1990, the stewardship of
the Annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture was transferred over
to a non-profit organization now called FilAm ARTS – the Association
for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture.

"Still true to its original intent since its inception, the Festival
is designed to be a `common ground.' The aim of FPAC is to be as
inclusive in every which way possible," says Executive Director Jilly
Canizares. "This is seen in the conscious programming to include the
rich diversity of Philippine artistic expressions – from old to new,
traditional to contemporary, visual arts to cuisine. Coming to the
Festival gives you a true slice of the Filipino American community."

Funded in part by the City of Los Angeles Dept of Cultural Affairs and
L.A. District 15 Councilmember Janice Hahn, the L.A. County Arts
Commission, the California Arts Council, and the National Endowment
for the Arts, FPAC is also sponsored by PWC Remit Program, El Pollo
Loco, Macy's, Wells Fargo Bank, The Gas Company – a Sempra Energy
Utilities company, and Washington Mutual. Media sponsors include:
LA-18, KPFK 90.7 / 98.7, and mygringos.com .

For more information on exhibitor booth, table and volunteer, log onto
www.filamarts.org, or call us at (323) 913-4663.

12th Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival

2007-07-24T15:16:00.001-07:00

12th Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival

Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29

Los Angeles – T he Dunbar Economic Development Corporation, the artistic director of the Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival, announced the stellar line-up for the 12 ^th Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29 from 11 a.m . until 7 p.m. Admission and parking is free.

T he streets of Central Avenue between 42^nd Place and 43rd Street will come alive with the sounds of straight-ahead jazz and blues from high-caliber musicians:

Saturday, July 28:

Clora Bryant and guests, panel discussion

Paul Bryant Trio

Ernie Andrews, vocalist

Phil Ranelin

Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars

Arthur Blythe Quintet

Sunday, July 29:

Buddy Collette' s Jazz America

CJS Quintet, winners of the Chuck Niles Award

Henry Franklin featuring Michael Sessions

Roy Gaines and surprise guests

Gilbert Castellanos Latin Trumpet Summit

Charles McPhearson

Sandra Booker's Underground Jazz Movement

The masters of ceremony are Michael Dolphin of the Dolphin' s of Hollywood legacy, KKJZ Radio Personality Jose Rizo, and Jazz announcer James Janisse. Note: The order of appearance of performers may change.

"The Festival is one of the most important cultural events of the year," remarks Reginald Chapple, president and CEO of Dunbar EDC. "It is not only a tribute to the history of Los Angeles' contribution to the music industry, but an opportunity for everyone to enjoy timeles s music." Other activities at the Festival, includes art and crafts, food, and informational booths.

"Our focus, when selecting the entertainers, is to honor the rich music legacy of Central Avenue -- from the musicians to the orchestras that once graced the stages in nightclubs on Central Avenue," explained Jose Rizo, KKJZ radio personality and Dunbar EDC board member.

"It has always been important that the Central Avenue Festival reflects elements of the history of the avenue," says Michael Dolphin, a Dunbar EDC board member and Central Avenue historian. "This year, blues legend Roy Gaines and surprise guests will lead a 50^th Anniversary Tribute to "Mama" Laura Gros s. Mama Laura has operated Babe and Ricky's (Blues) Inn, formerly located at 52^nd and Central but now operating in Leimert Park, since 1957 - quite an accomplishment for any busines s owner, but certainly a tribute to the legacy of Central Avenue."

To learn more about the Dunbar EDC or the Festival, contact 323-234-7882 or visit the website at www.CentralAvenueJazzFestival.com . For press credentials, inquire at platinumstarpr@aol.com.

About Central Avenue :

Central Avenue was part of the early national musical circuit for musicians from 1900-1950. Those several blocks along the avenue gave birth to R&B station KGFJ radio, which broadcasted in the window of the Dolphin's of Hollywood Record Store at Vernon and Central Avenue.

Along the Avenue was the Dunbar Hotel, the only first-clas s hotel available for Blacks to stay in Los Angeles. Duke Ellington maintained a suite in the Dunbar. Renowned entertainers like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat "King" Cole, Clora Bryant, Johnny Otis, Gerald Wilson, and hundreds more were regulars at the Dunbar Hotel, Club Alabam, The Apex, The Last Word, and The Downbeat, and other nightclubs on Central Avenue.

About the Dunbar Economic Development Corporation:

The Dunbar EDC, under the guidance of President and CEO Reginald Chapple, is a leader in real estate development and historic preservation in the Central Avenue corridor. Incorporated in 1988, the non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation' s mission is to advance the cultural heritage and economic well being of the Vernon-Central corridor through stewardship of the built environment. It is accomplished through the implementation of objective strategies in affordable housing, busines s creation, economic development, technology training, family support, youth development, arts, and cultural enhancement.

Architectures of the Flesh: Design(at)ing the Human Body

2007-07-24T07:36:00.001-07:00

Call for Papers
Architectures of the Flesh: Design(at)ing the Human Body

Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 6-9, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.cmstudies.org

This is a CFP for a pre-constituted panel at next year's SCMS conference (this information is also posted on the SCMS bulletin board). If interested, please email 200-250-word abstracts and a brief bio by August 1st to Sophia Siddique Harvey at sophfeline@earthlink.net and Mike Dillon at dillon@usc.edu.

Summary: In keeping with this year's theme, this panel welcomes essays addressing representations of the body as a blueprint, a schematic of pieces and parts where meaning -- whether affective communication or political agitation -- is designated through the body's assembly, repair, and augmentation.

The means by which we manipulate our bodies to prolong life and circumvent death is a topic of simultaneous fascination and dread, and has constituted the tropes of numerous popular narratives for ages. Now, at a time of impassioned debate concerning stem cell research and genetic engineering, that medical advancements and biotechnology allows for unprecedented modifications to a body’s physical appearance, structure, and possibly its very DNA demands an examination of our existing and speculative relationships to our corporeal selves. Furthermore, we must question the role state powers have in shaping the development of human bodies for enhancement or customization, as well as how bodies can be conversely reimagined as sites of resistance to such power dynamics. We hope to gather a group of papers investigating media representations of varying artificial, aesthetic, medicinal, and technological designs that facilitate transformations of that most elemental of vessels -- the human body.

Possible topics may include: cosmetic surgery, prosthetics, cyborgs and robotics, mad scientists, transvestites, transsexuality, bodybuilding, body genres, computer-rendered likenesses, "Intelligent Design," cloning, genetic engineering, and cyber-sexuality.

Panel Organizers: Sophia Siddique Harvey, PhD, Old Dominion University; Mike Dillon, University of Southern California

Film Screening of Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves and Discussion

2007-07-12T08:12:00.001-07:00

Film Screening of Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves and Discussion
Tuesday, July 17th 7-9 pm
International Action Center (IAC)
55 West 17th Street between 5th and 6th Ave, 5th Floor
Take N, Q, R, W to 14th Street/Union Square NYC

In light of the recent NYT article, "A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves" By JASON DePARLE, it has come to the attention of the mainstream U.S. that there is a dire need for reform in the way the Philippines views its terms of accountability to its Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs.) Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE) invites you to join this dialogue by attending our screening of Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves which touches on the desperate economic conditions in the Philippines, where thousands leave and seek work as domestic workers in "developed nations." This crucial source of revenue to the country's economy has prompted the Philippine government to call these contract workers "modern day heroes." Despite the obvious exploitation experienced by these workers, the Philippine government is reluctant to pressure foreign governments for fair treatment in fear of losing revenue. With New York City accounting for one of largest populations of domestic workers on the east coast, this screening of Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves is the beginning of a much needed dialogue in our community.

The film will begin promptly at 7 pm, the discussion and Q and A will follow, and light fare will be served.

Something to Crow About: A Modern Zarzuela

2007-06-27T14:45:00.000-07:00

Thursday, June 28, 2007
“Something to Crow About: A Modern Zarzuela” Filipino Musical Play

8:00 PM
The Alex Theatre
216 North Brand Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91203
Tickets $55.00 / $35.00 / $25.00 available from The Alex Theatre, Telephone (818) 243-2539 (http://www.alextheatre.org/) or from FASGI (213) 487-9804 (x205)
Discount tickets for Seniors & Students (with Valid I.D.) Group Tickets [15 or more] available.
Non-ticket information available from Ted I. Benito, tibenito@tdrz.net, Phone: 310-710-8390

An award-winning full length modern zarzuela direct from the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Based on Philippine National Artist for Literature Dr. Alejandro R. Roces’ prize-winning book of short stories, the musical is about the uniquely “Pinoy” fascination with fighting roosters (or game cocks) and cockfighting. Under the direction of Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, “Something to Crow About” won the 2006 Aliw Award for Best Musical (category: zarzuela) and Best Musical Direction. Prior to the L.A. premiere, the cast and crew of the production will perform five shows at the off-Broadway La Mama Theater in New York (June 12 – 24). The L.A. production of “Something to Crow About” will be executive produced by Susan M. Dilkes and Edward Dilkes and co-produced by Zen Lopez. This production is for mature audiences only.

Sponsored by TDRZ Productions, Inc. in association with the Philippine Consulate General of Los Angeles, the Philippine Department of Tourism and the Filipino American Service Group, Inc. (FASGI).

2007-06-26T17:03:00.000-07:00

DEADLINE FRIDAY!!

LOS ANGELES QUEER STUDIES CONFERENCE 2007

Friday and Saturday, October 19-20, 2007, Royce Hall, UCLA

Plenary speakers and panelists for this year's conference:

Jill Dolan, Kale Fajardo, Judith Halberstam, Kara Keeling, Chandan Reddy, Nayan Shah, Dean Spade

Thomas DeFrantz and the Slippage Ensemble will present "Queer Theory: An Academic Travesty"

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference welcomes presentations of research and other work in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, on queer topics, sexuality and gender. Since one of the principal goals of the conference is to encourage the exchange of ideas across academic generations, we invite participation of both graduate students and faculty scholars. Please send your proposal (not more than 850 words) for a 20-minute presentation and a cv (not more than 2 pages) to one of the addresses below. If you would like to organize a panel of three speakers, please feel free to do so.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: June 29, 2007

Submissions by US Postal Service:

UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program

3300 Rolfe Hall

Box 951531

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1531

Email submissions: lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu

For further information, please contact the LGBTS office at 310 206 0516 or lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu

Organized by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program

with generous support from the David Bohnett Foundation and the Gill Foundation

PLAY: CHINATOWN CORRESPONDENT

2007-06-21T11:25:00.000-07:00

CHINATOWN CORRESPONDENT
World premiere of production and theatre company!

Saturdays - June 23, June 30 & July 7 at 8pm
Sundays - June 24, July 1 & July 8 at 2pm

Luna Playhouse
3706 San Fernando Rd (at S Brand Blvd)
Glendale, CA 91204

Synopsis: In this dramatic comedy set in 1968 San Francisco, a Chinese American man starts his own newspaper and discovers much more than he planned while reporting on a murder case.

Director: Peter Kuo
Co-Director: Cynthia Sho
Writer: Mark J. Jue

Cast: Adrian Zaw, Pamela Woo, Carlos Duarte, Joseph Falasca, Alden Ray, Carin Chea, Davis Wyn, Todd Silver, Harry Du Young, Elbert Traister, Ed Gunawan, June Mock

Tickets: $20 general
Students with ID and groups (5 or more with reservation) get $5 off per ticket
Reservations recommended - please call 310.838.8862 or email Chinatown90210@gmail.com

Chinatown 90210 Theatre Company
Founded by Carin Chea, Cindy Sakumoto & Pamela Woo
http://www.myspace.com/chinatown90210

Lindy Leong
C.Phil | Cinema and Media Studies Program
UCLA Department of Film, TV & Digital Media
Project Archivist | Visual Communications [ www.vconline.org]
email: kinemagirl@yahoo.com | lleong@ucla.edu

KUSS: Vol 3 League of Filipino Student's Hip-Hop Show

2007-06-21T11:23:00.001-07:00

KUSS: Vol. 3
Kilusan Underground Sound Session
"Word to the Mother Land"
@
The Filipino Community Center (FCC)
35 San Juan Ave, SF (Alemany & Mission)
Tickets: $8-10 (Sliding scale)
Date: July, 29h 2007
Show @ 7pm
Doors @ 6pm

We are the League of Filipino Students, a grassroots organization based out of SFSU that fights to take action and address the issues within Filipino Community.

This benefit is to raise money for the LFS Summer exposure trip to the Philippines, where as and organization will be able to connect our Struggles here as Filipinos in the USA, to our struggles back in the homeland.

Music sessions by:
Aristyles
Twan
JOAL and Zelstarrr ft. Silahis
Kapatid X
The Wrong Hands

Bgirl sessions by:
Sisters of the Underground

Turntable sessions by:
DJ that Girl
Dose (from The Spiritfingaz)
Cutso (from The Fingerbangers)

Artist pieces by:
Bean
Artivista
Jessicka

For more information:
http://www.myspace.com/leagueoffilipinostudents

Call for Proposals: Filipino as a Global Language

2007-06-16T16:26:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Filipino as a Global Language: Future Directions and Prospects

1st International Conference
Filipino and Philippine Literature Program
Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
March 17-19, 2008

The conference will be an avenue for bringing together scholars, writers, language teachers, researchers and other practitioners from around the world to discuss issues pertaining the role of Filipino as a global language. Participants can be teachers, researchers, program administrators/coordinators and other practitioners who are directly involved in the promotion and nurturing of the Filipino language, literature and culture. This first conference is geared towards establishing a tradition of scholarly meetings of this kind among practitioners in the field of Filipino language, literature and culture studies.

Its goal is to provide a venue for the exchange of ideas among teachers, researchers, program administrators, writers, and other agencies involved in the promotion and nurturing of the Filipino language and culture for the purpose of:
1) describing/sharing existing state-of-the-art programs
2) identifying program needs as well as available resources
3) sharing ideas, research results, resources, assessment tools, and practices on teaching, program administration, and language promotion
4) fostering cooperation, and collaboration in doing research
5) raising consciousness on the importance of the national language to minimize regionalism and
6) advocacy

Topic: Papers will need to directly focus on one or more of the following:
Curriculum Development, Needs Analysis and Syllabus Design
Program Development, Administration and Coordination
Translation, Interpretation and Dubbing
Teacher Training and Professional Development
Language and Politics
Heritage Language Learners: Needs Assessment and Curriculum Development
Materials Development
Research Funding and Grant Sourcing
Teaching Culture
Filipino Linguistics: An Overview and Directions
Language Teaching Approaches
Service Learning, Community Sourcing, Student Organizations
Articulation, Assessment and Implementation of Standards
Language Teacher Certification
Program Evaluation Methods and Practices
Teaching Literature
Filipino in the Media and Diplomacy
Poster Sessions will be on Filipino Programs Outside the Philippines

DEADLINE: August 6, 2007

For details, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/filipino/intlconf2008/

For more information please contact: Ruth Mabanglo, PhD , or Elvira Fonacier, DALL, .

Southeast Asia Films in LA Film Festival

2007-06-16T16:24:00.000-07:00

Southeast Asia films in Los Angeles Film Festival include:

Saturday, June 23, 2007 and Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Owl and the Sparrow / Cu va Chim Se Se (Vietnam)
LA Film Festival

Saturday, June 23, 2007
5:00 PM
Landmark's Regent Theatre
$11.00

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
7:00 PM
Majestic Crest Theatre
$11.00
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=4003
USA , Vietnam, 2007, 97 min
In Vietnamese with English subtitles

Directed By: Stephane Gauger
Writer: Stephane Gauger
Producers: Quan Nguyen, Doan Nhat Nam, Stephane Gauger
Executive Producers: Timothy Linh Bui, Ham Tran
Cinematographer: Stephane Gauger
Editor: Ricardo Javier, Ham Tran
Music: Pete Nguyen
Cast: Cat Ly, Le The Lu, Pham Thi Han

Writer-director Stephane Gauger’s gentle and luminous film unfolds on the tough but hopeful streets of urban Vietnam. Headstrong and irrepressible, 10-year-old Thuy runs away to Saigon where she eventually befriends two lovelorn strangers: Phuong, a beautiful but heartbroken flight attendant, and Hai, a zookeeper more comfortable with his animals than people. Pham Thi Han is a true discovery as the spirited Thuy, and Gauger directs the young star with an assured, understated hand in this romantic tale of love and loneliness.

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Opera Jawa (Indonesia)
LA Film Festival

1:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
$11.00
Austria , Indonesia, 2006, 120 min
In Javanese with English subtitles
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=0026

Directed By: Garin Nugroho
Writers: Garin Nugroho, Armantono
Producers: Garin Nugroho
Cinematographer: Teoh Gay Hian
Editor: Andhy Pulung
Music: Rahayu Supanggah
Cast: Artika Sari Devi, Martinus Miroto, Eko Supriyanto, Jecko Siompo Pui, Retno Maruti

Garin Nugroho adapts an episode from the seminal Ramayana epic for his provocative foray into a brand of cross-cultural and multiform cinema which encompasses Mozart's Requiem, gamelan music, sacred court dance and modern conceptual art installations. The story concerns a pair of former dancers (Artika Sari Devi and Miroto), now pottery makers in a fraying marriage, and the rich village bully (UCLA alumnus Eko Supriyanto) who comes between them. The style is an astonishing mélange of influences gracefully entwined to fashion a moving elegy for victims of tyranny and violence.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 and Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Syndromes and a Century / Sang sattawat (Thailand)
LA Film Festival

Sunday, June 24, 2007
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
$11.00

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
9:45pm
The Landmark (Pico & Westwood)
$11.00
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=4919
Austria , France , Thailand, 105 min
In Thai with English subtitles

Directed By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pantham Thongsang, Charles de Meaux
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Editor: Lee Chatametikool
Music: Kantee Anantagant
Cast: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Nu Nimsomboon, Jenjira Pongpas, Sophon Pukanok

The foremost Thai creator of mysterious cinematic objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul derives his latest magical concoction from the lives his own parents led before they became lovers. The characteristically bifurcated narrative first follows a young female doctor in an idyllic rural hospital before switching focus to a young man working at an alienating modern urban medical facility. This supremely ethereal film, replete with patiently gorgeous sequence shots and unforced poetic echoes, eschews facile linearity in favor of the uncanny logic of memory and dream.

Monday, June 25, 2007
The Elephant and the Sea (Malaysia)
LA Film Festival

5:00 PM
Italian Cultural Institute
$11.00
Malaysia, 2007, 95 min
In Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=4649

Directed By: Woo Ming Jin
Writer: Woo Ming Jin
Producers: Tomoko Ueda, Woo Ming Jin
Executive Producer: Chan Hai Liang, Gan Hui Yee
Cinematographer: Chan Hai Liang
Editor: Kok Kai Foong
Cast: Berg Lee, Chung Kok Keong, Ng Meng Hui, Cheong Wai Loon

Part of an ongoing wave of new films from Malaysia, Woo Ming Jin’s second feature is an energizing blend of fable and kitchen-sink reality. The fish in the waters surrounding a small village have turned toxic and the locals seem to have fallen victim to some mysterious malady, too. Against this backdrop of muted malaise, two men — one younger and one older, both adrift — attempt to adapt to the changing landscape. By turns contemplatively introspective and charmingly funny, The Elephant and the Sea is quite a catch.

Monday, June 25, 2007 and Saturday, June 30, 2007
Nagpapanggap / Pretend (Philippines)
Plays in Shorts Program 5, LA Film Festival

Monday, June 25, 2007
9:30 PM
Majestic Crest Theatre
$11.00

Saturday, June 30, 2007
2:30 PM
Majestic Crest Theatre
$11.00
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=1965
USA, 2006, 20 min
In Tagalog with English subtitles

Directed By: Debbie Formoso
Writer: Debbie Formoso
Producers: Debbie Formoso, Jessica Faires
Executive Producers: Tomas Formoso, Carol Formoso
Cinematographer: Peter Soto
Editor: Adam Burr
Music: David Reynolds
Cast: Thelma Sugay, Abe Pagtama, Kristine Sabella

This earnest portrayal of a middle-aged woman's struggle to salvage her own sense of worth while confronting her worst fears is set against the backdrop of 1960s Philippines.

Thursday, June 28, 2007 and Friday, June 29, 2007
Dynamite Warrior / Khon fai bin (Thailand)
LA Film Festival

Thursday, June 28, 2007
10:00 PM
Landmark's Regent Theatre
$11.00

Friday, June 29, 2007
4:30pm
Majestic Crest Theatre
$11.00

Thailand, 2006, 103 min
In Thai with English subtitles
USA Premiere
http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2007/filmguide/eventnote.php?notepg=1&EventNumber=4867

Directed By: Chalerm Wongpim
Writers: Chalerm Wongpim, Yuttaphong Pirayutphong
Producer: Prachya Pinkaew
Executive Producer: Somsak Techaratanaprasert
Cinematographers: Thanachart Bunlah, Chalerm Wongpim
Cast: Dan Chupong, Leo Putt

The Dynamite Warrior is a hero to the farmers and villagers of the Thai countryside — not just for his mighty martial art skills, but because he flies into battle standing atop a bamboo rocket, like it was a jet-propelled surfboard. The latest Muay Thai action film from the team behind Ong Bak, Dynamite Warrior mingles hard-hitting martial arts with spectacular wire work and abundant pyrotechnics to push its action to glorious, giddy heights.

“Something to Crow About: A Modern Zarzuela” Filipino Musical Play

2007-06-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

Fiestas Filipinas 2007: "Many Islands, One People"

2007-06-13T19:47:00.001-07:00

PRESS CONTACT: Charleen Morla FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(805) 236-1309, e-mail: Charleen.Morla@ gmail.com (Photo Opportunity)
Event website : http://www.myspace. com/fiestasfilip inas

June 7, 2007

EVENT Fiestas Filipinas 2007: "Many Islands, One People"

LOCATION Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson Way, Oxnard, CA 93030;

DATES June 9 – 10, 2007 (Fiesta); June 12, 2007 (Flag Raising at Oxnard City Hall)

OPENING June 9, 2007, 10:00AM – 5:00PM

The Filipino-American Council of Ventura County invites all to come to their Annual Philippine Independence Day Celebration, "Many Islands, One People", an event to commemorate the Philippines' Independence from Spain for over 100 years. This Fiestas Filipinas festival will take place on June 9 and 10, 2007 at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson Way in Oxnard. The event will include a variety of experiences from film screenings, art exhibitions, live entertainment, traditional dances, youth activities, cultural displays, martial arts exhibits, a car and bike show, various food vendors, an Adobo Cook-off contest and a formal dinner dance.

The fiesta kicks off on Saturday, June 9th, with an exciting presentation of independent films and an art exhibition. The exhibition will include paintings and photographic expressions of Filipino culture, spirituality, and politics by internationally known and local artists including Patti Beers, Andrew Lepe, Mario Castroni, Angelica Garcia, Debra Mora, Isela Munoz, Judith Sanchez, Aaron Dadacay, Maria villote, Gene Tapia, Genalin Paler, Mike Ravasco, Orlando Lara, Jon Austria and Eli Neri. The film screening will feature a variety of inspiring pieces by independent film producers.

Highlighting Day 1 of the weekend's festivities is "Dessa: Asia's Divette" also known as the Asian Powerhouse. Dessa gained international acclaim and recognition as Asia's divette when she won the 1993 Federation International Def Organisation de Festival (FIDOF) held in Russia. Also gracing the stage is Bay Area's four-part R&B female singing group, IMMIJ.

Included in the Fiesta schedule is an entire day of cultural celebration including Filipino Martial Arts demonstration conducted by Mt. San Antonio College Filipino Martial Arts group who will demonstrate Eskrima, Arnis, Kali and kickboxing. The Fil-Am Camarillo Association will host a "Shall We Dance?" competition ala "Dancing with the Stars" for young and adult couples. Salin Lahi, Zambales Youth Dancers, Angie's Angels, Undeclared, and Emanon will perform a wide array of dances from cultural, modern hip-hop, to belly-dancing. Author, Dan Manalang, of children's literature "Ambrosia", will be having a story reading and book signing for children of all ages. A car exhibition by High End Performance of Ventura, CA will also take place in the main parking lot displaying several modified show class import vehicles. The day ends with an evening of a formal Filipiniana dinner dance, hosted by Q-104.7's Fred Rock, with a live band- Music Masters, and also to award the winning pageant couple for Mr. & Ms. Philippine Independence 2007.

Day 2 of the fiesta kicks off with The 2nd Annual Adobo Cook-off will take place in the patio areas while a Harley Davidson bike exhibition by the Pinoy Harley Riders of Southern California will be displayed at OPAC's main parking lot. ICAC will host their 3rd Annual Filipino-American Idol singing contest at 11:00am, leading to another special guest performance by American Idol's Season 3 – Top 12 Finalist, Camile Velasco.

For the duration of the event, over several vendors will be located throughout the facility lobby, terrace, main halls, and gallery spaces including: Pinoy Appeal Clothing Unlimited, Michael's Arts and Crafts, Philippine Expressions Bookstore, Pinoy Video Email, CSUCI, Oxnard Dental, Boba Smoothies, WLG Mortgage, Terramor Organic, Pangasinan Association, Heritage Makers, Oxnard College, Auto Club of Southern California, Michael's Arts and Crafts, Asian Miracle Marrow Matches, Filipino American National historical Society, Buhay Na Kasaysayan, Cookie Lee Jewelry, Forey Company YTB Travel, United States Army, Visayan Association, Beatrock, Flipside T-shirts, It's in the Sauce BBQ, Pretty Lil' Thingz, Salad Master, Pain Free USA, Ava Sari Sari, Ventura Children's Health, Evely Dalmasin's Home Decore, Ilocano Association, Java Joe's Expresso, Tri-Counties Regional Center Senior Program, Lexus of Oxnard, Arbonne, Dip N Dots, Kapitbahay News, Meesh Meesh Designs and many more.

To close this year's celebration, an annual Philippine Flag raising will take place at 12 noon on Tuesday, June 12th at the Oxnard City Hall, 305 W. 3rd Street, Oxnard.

World Premiere of PAGBABALIK!

2007-06-13T19:45:00.000-07:00

Almost 1 WEEK until the World Premiere of PAGBABALIK!
Don't miss out - buy your tickets today!

"Pagbabalik searches beneath the veneer of identity to expose the hidden pains and passions of a past embedded not only in name and family, but in the skin, the terrain. It follows a Filipina daughter's return to the land of her heritage and to the ghosts that inhabit her legacy." – Elmaz Abinader, author and playwright

The Pagbabalik cast & crew cordially invites you to "Pagbabalik" (Return), the multidisciplinary theatre production that wowed audiences at La Peña Cultural Center last October and has been featured at APAture 2006, CounterPULSE's Stream Fest, Laney College Theatre and recently, Bindlestiff Studio! See it JUNE 14-16 (Full Production) at La Peña Cultural Center.

The production, which fuses dance, live music and spoken word has been called "exquisite" and of "vital importance" by audience members. Written/produced by Aimee Suzara, the work is directed by Alex Torres and Jose Saenz with Directorial Support from Ellen Sebastian Chang (Theatre Bay Area). The work has been awarded the Zellerbach Community Arts Grant in 2006 and 2007 and features a stellar cast of collaborating musicians, dancers, and actors.

Spread the word and invite your friends and family! Purchase tickets at www.lapena.org and (510) 849-2568 x20.

See you there!

The Pagbabalik Project
SEE CAST BIOS, PHOTOS AND MORE AT: www.aimeesuzara. net
LISTEN TO THE THEME SONG AT:
www.myspace. com/pagbabalikpr oject

WHAT AUDIENCES ARE SAYING:

"This show is what Fil-Ams need to begin to dialogue about our experiences as visitors in our homeland and the similarities other immigrants in the U.S. share." – Audience Member, October 1st 2006, Pagbabalik Work-in-Progress

"...honest and perceptive of what it's like to be a first generation Asian American (specifically Filipina) going back to the homeland" – Audience Member, 5/24/07 Work-in-Progress

"Aimee Suzara writes and performs with an unhurried beauty, lyricism, and love of words that contains all of her urgency and fierceness as a woman of color." – Aya de Leon, poet/performer

Mattilda's "Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?" (The Sequel)

2007-06-13T19:44:00.000-07:00

Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots? (The Sequel) - Curated by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore

Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Jon Sims Center for the Arts

1519 Mission Street near 11th

This sequel to last year's event will feature brand-new performance and spoken word with discussion to follow the show. The event will feature Kirk Read, Seth Eisen, Nico Dacumos, Wickie Stamps, Thandiwe Thomas and more TBA. According to organizers, as back rooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture becomes little more than straight-acting dudes hangin' out, where are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that destroys the assimilationist norms of a world that wants us dead? It's time for flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification and the desire to conform.

This event is part of the National Queer Arts Festival, and is sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center and the San Francisco Foundation

GuyWriters to perform at the National Queer Arts Festival

2007-06-13T19:43:00.001-07:00

GuyWriters to perform at the National Queer Arts Festival

Friday, June 15, 2007, 7:30 pm

GuyWriters presents
"Is Gay Male Culture Dead?
A Futuristic Happening of New Words, New Music and New Art!"
at The National Queer Arts Festival
Jon Sims Center for the Arts
1519 Mission (between 11th Street and South Van Ness)

Don't you think it's time to join the evolution? Get plugged in and
hooked up at this poetry orgy and prose explosion served hot with
funkalicious beats and mind-bending art!

GuyWriters, a network for gay male writers in the Bay Area, will
celebrate its third anniversary by presenting "Is Gay Male Culture
Dead? A Futuristic Happening of New Words, New Music and New Art!" at
the National Queer Arts Festival on June 15th. Local literary rock
stars Cedric Brown, Jaime Cortez, Andrew Demcak and Truong Tran will
join GuyWriters' own Louis Anthes, Jim Coughenour, Donald Currie,
Philip Huang, Jair, Larry Kaplun, Richard Kane, Derek Lassiter, Mac
MacNamara, Jay Siegel, Rafaelito Sy, Guy Tiphane, Michael Webb, and
Anthony Williams for the evening.

Refreshments and free giveaways will enhance the festivities at this
social gathering for all lovers of words, music and art.
Admission: Sliding Scale $8 to $15
Advance Tickets for NQAF:
www.BrownPaperTickets.com
(800) 838-3006
www.GuyWritersOnline.org, GuyWriters {at} yahoo.com
www.QueerCulturalCenter.org, NQAF Hotline: (415) 864-4124

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS - Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia

2007-06-06T15:47:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia

PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL FACULTY MEMBERS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

M.E. Sharpe, an award-winning academic and reference publisher, is seeking contributing scholars for a two-volume illustrated reference work on the history and culture of Asian Americans. The project is aimed at the academic high school and undergraduate levels. The General Editors are Dr. Huping Ling of Truman State University and Dr. Allan Austin of Misericordia College .
The encyclopedia will include articles on politics and government; economy, labor, and business; society; religion and education; technology, science, and the environment; and arts and culture. There will be entries on individuals, places, ideas, events, institutions, and general themes. Articles will vary in length from 500-4,000 (depending on significance of topic). Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.
We are seeking contributors to write the remaining unassigned or re-assigned articles. Subjects include all major ethnic groups and a variety of topics. Contributors will receive full authorial credit, a cash honorarium and/or copy of the full encyclopedia set (depending on contribution length and contributor preference).
If you are interested in contributing to this exciting and important reference project, we would be happy to email you a prospectus with a full description of the project--with deadline, compensation, and other pertinent information, including a table of contents of remaining articles. Please contact the encyclopedia editorial assistant, Irene Chow, at: asian_america@ca.rr.com
If you cannot contribute, please feel free to forward this email to any potentially interested scholars (either professors or graduate students).

Sincerely,

Drs. Huping Ling and Allan Austin, General Editors
Irene Chow, Editorial Assistant
Asian America History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
Asian_America@ca.rr.com

IMAGES OF CAMBODIA: A Photography Exhibition by Michael Burr

2007-06-06T01:57:00.002-07:00

June 2 - June 30, 2007
IMAGES OF CAMBODIA: A Photography Exhibition by Michael Burr

Nuart Cafe
2741 East 4th Street
Long Beach, CA 90814
562.439.3089
http://www.mburrphoto.com/
Questions? Voice/Fax: 562.439.5753, Cellular: 4562.472.3585, m.burr@verizon.net

Reception for the Artist
Saturday June 2, 2007
7:00 - 10:00 PM

S.E. Asia Films in LA Film Festival

2007-06-06T01:57:00.001-07:00

Thursday, June 21 - Sunday, July 1, 2007
Los Angeles Film Festival

All venues in Westwood near UCLA.
See their website at http://www.lafilmfest.com/ for more information.

Southeast Asia films include:

Dynamite Warrior, Chalerm Wongpim – Thailand (Magnolia Pictures) – US PREMIERE

The Elephant and the Sea, Woo Ming Jin – Malaysia

Opera Jawa, Garin Nugroho – Indonesia/Austria

Syndromes and a Century, Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Thailand/Austria/France (Strand Releasing)

“Something to Crow About: A Modern Zarzuela” Filipino Musical Play

2007-06-06T01:56:00.001-07:00

"Karim at Jasmine" - An Original Filipino Musical Opera

2007-06-06T01:55:00.000-07:00

Saturday, June 23, 2007
"Karim at Jasmine" - An Original Filipino Musical Opera

2:00 PM Matinee
8:00 PM Evening Premier
Long Beach Terrace Theatre
300 E. Ocean Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90802
Tel: 562-436-3636
Tickets: $50 and $65; $10 discount for students with ID Tickets available at Ticketmaster
For more info visit us on the web at http://www.karimatjasmin.com/

A Musical Opera by Ramon Sison Geluz, in Filipino with English subtitles, starring Anthony Angelo Francisco, Maria Cristina Navarro, Luningning Buan-Manahan, and Everlita Rivera-David. Music by Joselito Pascual. This is the U.S. production of a show originally produced on November 4, 2006 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

UCLA: Hip-Hop on the Brain; Aesthetics, Activism, and the Academy

2007-05-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

Hip-Hop on the Brain: Aesthetics, Activism, and the Academy
Thursday, May 31st 2007
1-3pm
Kerckhoff State Rooms

Featuring:

* Jeff Chang, author of the National Book Award-winning Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation.
* Rennie Harris of Puremovement, renowned choreographer and hip hop dance historian.
* Cheryl Keyes, author of Rap Music and Street Consciousness.
* Susie Lundy, muralist from the Eastside Arts Alliance Collective in East Oakland, researching political graffiti writers in Oakland.
* Samir Meghelli and James Spady, two co-authors of the recently published Tha Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and Consciousness

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This event is sponsored by:
The Academic Advancement Program/Graduate Mentorship Program, Asian American Studies Center, Hip Hop Congress, the Department of Anthropology, USAC Financial Committee, and the UCLA Hip Hop Studies Working Group

UCLA: Shahidul Alam, The Majority World - Reconifguring the Frame

2007-05-30T11:31:00.000-07:00

The Majority World: Reconifguring the Frame
A Talk by Shahidul Alam
Thursday, May 31, 2007
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

One recent study has shown that "upward of 90% of the images of the developing world (now increasingly called 'majority world') are taken by white non-indigenous photographers, either in-country staff of development organisations or commissioned photographers sent in-country by the 'western' media." Charities and development agencies need to raise money from the western public. It has been felt that the best way to pull the heart strings - and thereby the purse strings - is to show those doleful eyes that a few pennies could save.

With the advent of the internet and digital photography it should be easier than ever for photographers from the Majority World to present their own reality in the global media. But old prejudices die hard.

Perhaps photographers from the South cannot be trusted to understand this? Perhaps they are so hardened to such images of daily suffering that they are unable to appreciate the impact these sights might have on western audiences - and the coffers of western aid agencies.

The talk explains the underlying causes behind this prejudice and narrates the tale of resistance against it.

About Shahidul Alam:

Shahidul Alam is one of the world's most recognized and exciting photographers and a major figure in the public, intellectual, and cultural life of Bangladesh.

UCLA: Alsaybar, Filipino American Youth Formations in Los Angeles

2007-05-30T11:30:00.000-07:00

Culture, Power, and Social Change

Please join us for a discussion with:

Bangele (Nonoy) Alsaybar

Filipino American Youth Formations in Los Angeles : A Transnational View

Thursday, May 31, 2007
4:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Haines 352

Refreshments will be served.

****

Bangele (Nonoy) Alsaybar recently completed his doctoral work at the UCLA Anthropology Department. He has an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA and an MA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines , Diliman.

Abstract: Extensive field ethnography of youth groups in both the Philippines and Los Angeles has shown me that the "gang" framework and the "gang/non-gang" dichotomy (widely held by both law enforcement and influential researchers) cannot adequately explain the rise and creation of a violence-rejecting, fun-seeking Filipino American youth culture. Rather than search for defects in the mental and social backgrounds of immigrant youths and explain gangs as a response to difficult acculturation, I bring attention to pre-immigration American cultural influences that provided models for aggressive behavior and group bonding. An examination of youth formations like the transplanted barkada, gang, fraternity,the more recent crew and the linkages among them illustrates the relative complexity of the phenomenon and challenges assumptions and dominant images of Filipino American gangs and youth.

****

For more information about CPSC, including the schedule of speakers, please visit the course website:

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/07S/anthro297-4/

News: Senate Votes for Filipino WWII Veterans

2007-05-29T11:08:00.001-07:00

SENATE OVERWHELMINGLY VOTES FOR

FILIPINO WORLD WAR 2 VETERANS

Passage of Family Reunification Amendment Continues Momentum for Legislation to Restore Honor and Dignity for Filipino Veterans

The National Alliance for Filipino Veterans Equity (NAFVE) commended the Senate for passage of amendment S. 1186 to the Senate Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act. The amendment would exempt children of certain Filipino World War 2 veterans from numerical limitations on immigration visas. The amendment was offered by Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 87-9.

“We thank Senator Akaka for his ongoing commitment to the Filipino World War 2 veterans,” said Jon Melegrito, NAFVE Co-Chair. “We continue to work with him to pass the Filipino Veterans Equity Act (S. 57) as well, which would restore U.S. veterans status for these individuals who fought so bravely for the United States . We support all of the Senator’s efforts to help our veterans in their twilight years.”

“This landslide vote in favor the amendment demonstrates the support in the Senate for Filipino World War 2 veterans,” said Lillian Galedo, NAFVE Co-Chair. “We applaud the Senate for this move and call on them to take the next step and restore full equity for our veterans through passage of the Equity Act.”

NAFVE represents over 20 local, national and international organizations committed to securing full equity for Filipino World War II Veterans. More information about NAFVE and the Filipino Veterans Equity Act is available on the NAFVE Web site: www.nafve.org.

APC: AAPI Communities at UCLA Seek to be Counted!

2007-05-29T11:07:00.001-07:00

May 23, 2007

Contacts: Jason Osajima, 714.745.6243

Candice Shikai, 323.422.7406

Struggling for Recognition of its Diversity

AAPI Communities at UCLA Seek to be Counted!

What: Assembly Member Ted Lieu’s office will join the Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA in a press conference to urge public support for the “Count Me In” campaign and Lieu’s AB295— separate efforts to disaggregate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) data collected by the University of California and by state agencies. The “Count Me In” campaign and Lieu’s bill aim to disaggregate the racial category of AAPI into their specific communities to ensure that public policy reflects the needs of diverse communities.

When: Thursday, May 31, 2007

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Where: Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Rooms

University of California, Los Angeles

Who: Representative from Assembly Member Ted Lieu’s Office, Assembly District 53

Alex Lowe, Asian Pacific Coalition (APC)

Alma Riego, APC & Samahang Pilipino

Erik Yang, Association of Hmong Students

Nefara Riesch, Pacific Islands Student Association

Kevin Peanh, United Khmer Students

Candice Shikai, APC & Nikkei Student Union

Why: While many believe the AAPI community is a homogenous group of affluent and educated individuals, the reality is that many face serious inequities. Currently, UC admissions and state agencies only collect data on some of the larger Asian American communities and condense underrepresented groups into the “Other Asian” category. UC admissions currently place Pacific Islanders in the same racial category as Asian Americans, effectively marginalizing this complex group by hiding the barriers they face in access to higher education. The collection of data for these groups would create a better understanding of the diversity within the AAPI community, and accurate data collection would help decision makers craft public policy that better serves these underrepresented communities. This press conference will demonstrate the desperate need for disaggregated data and programs that serve underprivileged AAPI communities.

Visuals: A short 2-minute video presentation on the “Count Me In” campaign.

*The Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA represents over 21 different organizations as the officially recognized voice of AAPI students on campus. Founded under our Points of Unity, APC has historically worked on issues that impact the AAPI community both on and off-campus by advocating for progressive changes that ensure equal opportunity and civil rights.

UCLA: Clare Sears, "The Queer Crime of Cross-Dressing"

2007-05-29T11:05:00.000-07:00

Clare Sears

The Queer Crime of Cross-Dressing

Monday, June 4

4:00 pm
306 Royce Hall

In 1974, in the city’s Tenderloin district, the San Francisco Police Department arrested ten drag queens for the criminal offense of wearing women’s clothing. According to the police, the queens were violating a local cross-dressing law that made it illegal to appear in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors had passed this law more than a century earlier as part of a broader attempt to regulate “good morals and decency.” However, far from being a nineteenth-century anachronism, cross-dressing law had proved remarkably durable, and by the mid-twentieth century it had become a flexible tool for policing emerging lesbian, gay and transsexual communities. In this talk, Clare Sears analyzes the history of San Francisco’s cross-dressing law, with particular focus on the forces that undermined its viability and led to its removal from the law books in 1976. Her analysis focuses on the emergence of a medicalized transsexual identity, struggles between doctors and police for ownership of this gender offense, and transsexual women’s efforts to deploy medical discourse to challenge the law.

Clare Sears received a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of California Santa Cruz, 2005), specializing in studies of sexuality, gender, law and social control. She received the Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Fellowship in California Studies (University of California Humanities Research Institute, 2005-2006) and was a Beatrice M. Bain Research Group Scholar-in-Residence (University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2006). She currently teaches courses in women’s studies and queer studies at the University of California, Irvine and is completing a book manuscript, entitled “Arresting Dress: Policing Gender Difference in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.”

UCLA Conference: Rise of Korean American Studies

2007-05-25T18:21:00.000-07:00

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center cordially invites you to attend . . .

Rise of Korean American Studies:
15 Years after the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest

Saturday, June 9, 2007
9:00 AM- 4:30 PM
Viewpoint Conference Room, Ackerman Student Union, "A" Level,
UCLA Campus.

Free and Open to the Public
Please pre-register and reserve a free lunch via email (aascrsvp@aasc. ucla.edu) or by phone (310.825.2974) .
Park in Lot 6 (next to Pauley Pavilion), $8/day

An Invitation

We would like to convene a conference on the status of Korean American Studies in order to commemorate the 1992 unrest. This national conference will be the third one commemorating the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. We propose to critically reflect on what kinds of knowledge have been produced about Korean Americans. Its main objective is to discuss the status of the field, to clarify the mission of Korean American Studies, to share our strategies, and our vision. We would also like to invite you to share your assessment of the field, strategy, or vision. In addition, we would like to come together to mourn the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings and offer condolences to their families and friends. Korean American community leaders and ordinary Korean immigrants on the street have taken it upon themselves to apologize for the actions of gunman Seung Hui Cho, citing a sense of collective guilt and shame simply by virtue of a shared ethnicity. We would like to reflect on how the Korean American community coped with the enormity of this horrific event, beyond concerns about a racial backlash.

9:00- 9:30 Registration

9:30-10:00 Welcoming Remarks

10:00- 11:00 Session I: Humanities
Moderator/Discussan t: Grace Hong (UCLA)
Discussants: Elaine Kim (UC Berkeley), Laura Kang (UC Irvine),
Ji-Yeon Yuh (Northwestern University)

Break (10 min)

11 :10- 12 :10 Session II: Social Sciences
Moderator: Kyeyoung Park (UCLA)
Discussants: John SW Park (University of California, Santa Barbara), Pyong Gap
Min (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY),
Jung-Sun Park (California State University, Dominguez Hills)

12:10- 1:10 Session III (over lunch): Community-Based Research
Moderator: Ailee Moon (UCLA)
Discussants: Eun Sook Lee (National Korean American Service & Education
Consortium - NAKASEC), Hae Jung Cho (Koreatown Youth and
Community Center - KYCC), (Asian Pacific Counseling and Treatment
Center)

Break (10 min)

1: 20- 2:20 Session IV: Asian Americanists
Moderator/Discussan t: Lane Hirabayashi (UCLA)
Discussants: Min Zhou (UCLA), Purnima Mankekar (UCLA),
L.M. San Pablo Burns (UCLA)

Break (10 min)

2:30- 3:30: Plenary Session: Korean American Studies Programs and Activities
Moderator: Elaine Kim (UC Berkeley)
Discussants: Edward T. Chang (UC Riverside), Hyojoung Kim (California State
University, Los Angeles), Kyeyoung Park (UCLA),
Jeongduk Yi (Chonbuk National University, Korea)

"Refugee Nation" Laotian play, Sunday, May 27

2007-05-25T18:19:00.000-07:00

From: UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies

TEADAWORKS FESTIVAL CONCLUDES WITH “REFUGEE NATION,” Sunday, May 27, 2007

TeAda Productions’ fifth annual TEADAWORKS 2007 New Performance Festival concludes with the extraordinary workshop production of "Refugee Nation," Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng’s dramatic theatrical presentation of first-hand personal accounts depicting the struggles facing Laotian political refugees and their American children.

Following its Los Angeles workshop presentation, "Refugee Nation" will have its official preview performance as part of the first-ever National Asian American Theater Festival at New York’s Abingdon Theatre June 22-24. The Refugee Nation project launch will take place at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Massachusetts October 12 & 13.

Refugee Nation - one Los Angeles performance only, Sunday, May 27, 2:00 PM. Tickets $15.00. Highways Performance Space and Gallery - 1655 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404. For reservations, please call 310.998.8765 or visit our website at http://www.teada.org/ for more information.

Images in America: Filipinos in Los Angeles

2007-05-15T19:59:00.000-07:00

Saturday ** May 26, 2007
3 - 5 pm

Remy's On Temple and
The Filipino American Library
are proud to present a booklaunching for

Images in America: Filipinos in Los Angeles

Join us for an in-depth discussion with author Mae Respicio Koerner, whose
new book presents over a century of life in Los Angeles through the unique
stories of Filipino Americans. This book is rich with evocative
photographs and narratives of their challenges and achievements, and shares in their
everyday moments. The Filipino culture has a long tradition of oral
history which Koerner thoughtfully presents in her book along with her
extensive research. This book is a remarkable compilation highlighting the many
voices of Filipino Angelinos.

Mae Respicio Koerner received her degree in communication and journalism
and has resided in Los Angeles for over ten years. She is a
second-generation Filipina American, born and raised in Stockton California. She is a
recipient of the PEN Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship in creative
writing and the Books for Life Foundation New Voices in Literature Award.

"...I hope it [Filipinos in Los Angeles] will open another door into a community that is still largely underrepresented, particularly in the literary mainstream, and that it educates others about a unique and vibrant community with a rich history of contributions to the Los Angeles area. For Filipino youth in particular, I hope that the book will act as an impetus for them to ask more questions about their culture and to further explore their own history. Finally, I hope that readers-- Filipino or not-- may be inspired to make their voices heard. I hope that the book may inspire readers to realize the importance of preserving their cultural history and their own family's stories within the larger fabric of American history ."

Mae Respicio Koerner

Arcadia Publishing, April 2007
128 pages/softcover
Suggested retail: $19.99

2126 W. Temple Street
Los Angeles, 90026

This event is free.

UCLA, "Straddling Cultures: The Writings of Linh Dinh"

2007-05-09T14:26:00.001-07:00

UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Colloquium Series

Straddling Cultures: The Writings of Linh Dinh

A colloquium with Vietnamese American poet and translator Linh Dinh

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
UCLA Campus

Linh Dinh will read from his books of stories and poetry, including his latest, Jam Alerts. He will also discuss and read works of contemporary Vietnamese poets, in his translations.

Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1963, came to the US in 1975, and has also lived in Italy and England. He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003), American Tatts (Chax 2005), Borderless Bodies (Factory School 2006) and Jam Alerts (Chax 2007).

Two Philippine Films in Japan Film Fest

2007-05-07T08:38:00.001-07:00

2 RP films in Japan fest

By Marinel Cruz

Inquirer

Last updated 09:27pm (Mla time) 05/05/2007

MANILA, Philippines - Two Filipino films are competing in the fourth
Con-Can Movie Festival, an online short film festival in Japan this
month.

Khavn dela Cruz's "Can & Slippers" and Nick Olanka's "Monday of
Sorrow" are up against 18 other short films from around the world in
the Fiction 2 category.

"Can & Slippers" is about a boy from the slums who plays football
with an empty can as soccer ball. "Monday" is about the revenge of a
woman scorned. Both have won awards in other worldwide festivals.

The other films under Fiction 2 are: Carlos Ceacero's "The Hole,"
Miguel del Arco's "To Die To Sleep To Dream," Guillermo
Rios' "Nasija" and Pedro Touceda's "The Clearing" (all from Spain);
Marie Miyayama's "Maika's Weekend," Petra Schoeder's "Exploding
Buds" and Claire Walka's "Promenade d-aspres-midi" (Germany); Lau
Chec Nien's "Old Woman"(Singapore) ; Slava Ross' "Meat" and Nadej
Zaretckaya's "Scratch" (Russian Federation); Yoshihiro
Aragaki's "The Tradition" (Japan); Lin-Tay-Jou' s "Bardo" (Taiwan);
Sevada's "Mikosh" (Armenia); Eric Chin's "Strong Spirits" (China);
Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan's "Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager" (USA);
Maarit Koskiner's "Pappa" (Finland); and Julia Ruskiewicz's "Wild
Duck Season" (Poland).

A total of 80 films in three categories - fiction, animation,
documentary - were selected, subtitled and streamed for global
viewing. Four --- two for fiction, one animation and one
documentary -- will be chosen for the Global Audience Award through
public voting. Winners will receive $1,000 each (according to the
festival website, www.con-can. com) and are automatic nominees for
the Grand Prix Award, with a cash prize of $10,000.

A five-member international jury and the audience ratings will
determine the winner of the Con-can Grand Prix and Tamashii awards.
Two short films will receive the Tamashii Award and a cash prize of
$2,000 each.

UCLA AASGSA presents Anida Yoeu Ali, "On the Cusp of Phoenix Rising"

2007-05-04T22:55:00.000-07:00

UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association (AASGSA) presents:

Subverses 2007

On the Cusp of Phoenix Rising, featuring performance artist, Anida Yoeu Ali

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
6:00pm -8:00 pm
Kerchkoff Grand Salon
UCLA Campus,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free and Open to the Public.
Parking is in structures 6, 8, and 9 for $8. See campus map.

"Subverses" is an annual event held by AASGSA, started after 9/11, to foreground issues that have been lost in the shuffle of U.S. master narratives but continue to be urgent today. For Subverses 2007, we focus on issues of the anti-war struggle as it intersects with immigrant rights with the show, On the Cusp of Phoenix Rising, which is a combination of poetry & performance with one mic, one stage and one wall. This show is a collection of Anida Yoeu Ali's poetry and performance works. Through humor, wit, anger, and honest storytelling On the Cusp of Phoenix Rising is a reflection of Anida's hybrid cultural experiences as a non hyphenated Cambodian American Muslim woman struggling to find the juncture of her artistic, spiritual, and political identities.

Anida Yoeu Ali uses an interdisciplinary approach to creating art that mixes the visual, spoken and written into performed explorations of hybrid identities. A believer in the power of collective creations, she has founded Mango Tribe , Asian American Artists Collective-Chicago, the APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, I Was Born With Two Tongues and the MONSOON fine arts journal. Ali tours extensively. She aches for home, a good pair of ass-kicking shoes, and poetry by Audre Lorde. She is proud to call Chicago home but knows the journey never really ends for the refugee. Visit www.atomicshogun. com for more info.
Flyer attached. Funded by Campus Programs Committee of the Programs Activity Board

UCLA "Migration, Empire, and Transformation" Conference

2007-05-04T14:29:00.000-07:00

UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
“Cultures in Transnational Perspective”
Co-directed by Françoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih
Presents its 2006-2007 Annual Conference
“Migration, Empire, and Transformation”
May 16-18, 2007
UCLA

This conference considers the intersections of empire and the multiple displacements of populations through the lens of cultural productions. It considers how aural, historical, literary and visual texts act as transformative forces and dialogic spaces, which contest and (re)articulate notions of identity and community beyond the categories of nation, colonizer and colonized, center and periphery. Among the questions we wish to address are the following: How does the global reach of the expansive economic and informational networks of power today compare to the earlier imperialisms associated with colonization, conquest and slavery? What is the effect on the nation of shifting frontiers, antagonistic groups, and unexpected transnational alliances?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007, James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409
Opening Film screening and Artist Presentation
6:30 pm: Opening Reception, James Bridges Theater
7:00 pm: Introduction, Elsa Chen (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow)
7:05 pm: Film Screening, James Bridges Theater
Shu Lea Cheang, “Fresh Kill” (1994, 80 minutes)
8: 30 pm: Keynote Artist’s presentation, Shu Lea Cheang
“Re-Route: Rush Hour on the Trans-Nation Highway ”
9:00 pm: Audience Q&A with artist

Shu Lea Cheang is a multi-medium artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production. Her net installation works were commissioned and permanently collected by Walker Art Center (Bowling Alley, 1995), NTT [ICC], Tokyo (Buy One Get One, 1997) and the Guggenheim Museum (Brandon, 1998-1999). She made two theatrical feature films, Fresh Kill, which premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 1994 and was included in Whitney Biennale (New York) in 1995; another feature I.K.U. produced by Tokyo's Uplink, was premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2000. Her recent installation and web projects include BabyPlay (NTT [ICC], Tokyo , 2001), Garlic=RichAir (Creative time, New York , 2002), Burn (Venice Biennale, 2003), Milk (56K bastard TV, 2004), BabyLove (Palais de Tokyo, 2005). She co-founded several collectives: Kingdom of Piracy (based in netspace, since 2001), Mumbai Streaming Attack (based in Zurich since 2003) and TAKE2030 (based in London since 2003). In 2007, she launched "MobiOpera,” a collective public cinema made with mobile phones at the New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival. She is currently developing "LOVEME2030,” a series of multi-screen-based installation set in Metropolis Europa.

Thursday, May 17, 2007, Royce Hall 306
9:00 am: Welcome, Royce Hall 306
Timothy Stowell, Dean of Humanities , UCLA
Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, co-directors, UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
9:05 am: Introduction
Babli Sinha, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

9:10 am to 12:00 pm
Panel I: Transnational Media and the Production of Global Imaginaries
Hamid Naficy (Northwestern University, Department of Radio/TV/Film and Department of Art History), “The Multiplicity Factor in the Current Cinemas”

Priya Jaikumar (USC, School of Cinematic Arts), “Film Surveys and British India ”

Olivia Bloechl (UCLA, Department of Musicology), “Devils on the Move: Possessed Vocality in the Early Atlantic World”

Babli Sinha (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow), “Mimicry or Mediation? Comic Reflections on Modern Life in Nayak Panchotia’s Kanya Palaka/Woman Protector”

Discussant: Ali Behdad (UCLA, Departments of English and Comparative Literature)

12:00 pm to 1:30pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm:

Panel II: Resisting Colonial Violence

Angie Chabram-Dernersesian (UC Davis, Chicana/o Studies Program), “Between the Transnational and the Translocal: Chicana Feminist Homelands and Contact Zones”

Joan Ramon Resina ( Stanford University , Department of Spanish and Portuguese), “The Confines of the World: Empire and Transformation in Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin”

Eulàlia Moles (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow), “Thinking Translatinidad through Contemporary Chicana and Catalan Feminist Decolonial Writings ”

Discussant: Rafael Pérez-Torres (UCLA, Department of English)

4:00 pm to 4:30 pm: coffee break

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm: Keynote Speech, Royce Hall 314

Étienne Balibar, “Toward a Diasporic Citizen?”
Introduction: Françoise Lionnet

Étienne Balibar is a Distinguished Professor of French & Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California , Irvine , and Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the Université de Paris X, Nanterre . He is an internationally renowned political philosopher, who early on co-authored, with Louis Althusser and others, the landmark book of French Marxism, Reading Capital(1965). His current research focuses on issues of citizenship, racism, subjectification, and the question of Europe . His works available in English include Masses, Classes, Ideas: Studies on Politics and Philosophy before and after Marx (1993); Race, Nation, Class (with Immanuel Wallerstein) (1994); Politics and the Other Scene (2002); and We, the People of Europe ? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (2004).

Friday, May 18, Sequoia Room, Faculty Center , 480 Charles Young Drive

9:30 am to 12:00 pm

Panel III: Asian American Art beyond the Nation

Susette Min (UC Davis, Department of Asian American Studies), “Between Ruins: Time Travel and Utopic Memory in the Works of The Otolith Group and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha”

Midori Yoshimoto ( New Jersey City University , Department of Art History), “Public Art as Catalyst of Social Action: Transnational Collaborations in the Art of Nobuho Nagasawa”

Elsa Chen (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow), “The Migration of Art: On the Transnational Reception of Works by Taiwanese American Media Artist Shu Lea Cheang ”

Discussant: Saloni Mathur (UCLA, Department of Art History)

12:00 pm -1:30 pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm to 4:00 pm:

Panel IV: Across Continents, Across Histories

Massimo Riva ( Brown University , Department of Italian), “Italian Diasporas and the Invention of a National Identity: Remarks on a Modern Paradox”

Simon Levis-Sullam (UC Berkeley, Mellon Fellow), “Exile as a Transnational Experience and the Origins of Modern Italy ”

Alessandra Di Maio (UCLA, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow), “Weak Postcolonialism? Somali Italian Writers”

Discussant: Lucia Re (UCLA, Department of Italian)

4:00 pm: Closing Reception

This event is sponsored by the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, UCLA, and the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA.

For further information, please visit our website at www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon or contact Laura Clennon at clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

OUTFEST 2007: THE 25TH LOS ANGELES GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

2007-05-04T10:23:00.000-07:00

OUTFEST 2007: THE 25TH LOS ANGELES GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Festival Dates: July 12-23, 2007

José Muñoz and Nao Bustamante to program:

Queer Fossilization, Or, a Tour through the Museum of Gay Unnatural Herstories

Once the proud gays roamed the earth with their florid plumage shimmering in the sunlight. Gay pride became too garish a spectacle and the era of gay shame and the eventual end of gays came to pass. Now it is the year 2507, and the time has come to chip away at the queer sedimentation and rediscover these colorful creatures and their picturesque ways. How did the lesbian kill its prey? What funny little mating dances did the homo bird do? How did the trans people wage war? What of the mythical bisexual, fantasy or startling truth? Join us on this archeological extravaganza as we unearth the remains of the lost gay world.

We seek video and performance documentation of this lost era of the gays. Send us any work you may have that speaks to the forgotten world of silly sodomites, when queers had a distinctive voice and smell.

Films and videos should be of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and/or transgendered people. We are seeking narrative, documentary, experimental and animated films and videos (shorts).

Submission Deadline, Postmark May 15, 2007
Send a review copy of your short on DVD or VHS (NTSC) to:

Dept. of Performance studies
TSOA
New york University
721 B'way
New York, NY 10003

Attention: José Muñoz