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Sexuality in Psychoanalysis: Presidency, Primal Scenes, BUSH Phantasm, Drive Saturday, March 12 / Oakes 105 THIS CONFERENCE brings together scholars from the Neo-conservatism, U.S. and Europe to address key concepts in Freud’s theory of sexuality. In asking whether or how they may be extended from the psychic domain to the sphere AND of cultural production, such as literature and film, the conference will explore one of the most significant Opposition ‘returns’ to Freud in the work of the psychoanalyst and Thursday, January 13 / 7 PM his meeting will focus on agendas for analysis and political work during the second G.W. Bush administration. theorist Jean Laplanche. Classroom Unit ll William Bennett is not the only powerful Republican who has found in the election a mandate for a successful PROGRAM conclusion to the culture wars, whose targets include higher education. We in the university will probably 8:45 AM Coffee have no choice but to join this battle. But much more is at stake than an assault on universities. The coming SUSAN HARDING 9:15 AM David Marriott, Introduction years may see continued crisis in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and a speeding up of political and economic 9:45 AM John Fletcher RONNIE LIPSCHUTZ T restructuring in the U.S. We want to begin a discussion at UC Santa Cruz that can lead to a better understanding of the Traumatic Scenographies: Freud, Sophocles, Shakespeare, GEORGE LIPSITZ present, of the new shape of politics, and of what we can do. Hoffman ROBERT MEISTER This forum is intended to foster better analysis of and fresh thinking about the nature of political power, the new 11:00 AM Break HELENE MOGLEN 11:15 AM Vicky Lebeau political role of evangelical Christianity, the cluster of issues and obfuscations represented by the term “values,” the limits Strange Contracts: Elfriede Jelinek’s MANUEL PASTOR and possibilities of elections and electoral politics, the culture wars, the political and economic character of the present The Piano Teacher ALAN RICHARDS orientation, the contestation over the Hispanic vote, the mounting assault on women’s rights, the threat to the principle 12:30 PM Lunch of equality, the accelerated push toward privatization and the ownership of risk, the anti-gay/lesbian mobilization, the 1:30 PM Teresa de Lauretis CHRIS CONNERY The Queer Space of the Drive political character of popular culture and the media, and many more topics. MODERATOR 2:45 PM Paola Mieli Our speakers, from the departments of American Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, History of The Practice of Incompleteness Consciousness, Latin American and Latina/o Studies, Literature, and Politics, have wide-ranging expertise in these and 4:00 PM Break 4:30 PM Leo Bersani other areas, and have generously offered to help us stimulate discussion of the issues we face. We all recognize that slogans, Sexual Fantasy and the Aesthetic repetition of familiar truths, and affirmations of our political virtues will not be enough. We need good, deepening, and Subject 5:45 PM Reception continuing analysis, serious discussion about mobilization and politics, and new thinking.

NOTES ON PARTICIPANTS Our panelists will give short presentations, followed by panel discussion and audience participation.

Leo Bersani, Professor Emeritus of French at UC Berkeley, is the author of The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (1986), The Culture of PGOPULARIZING ASIA PACIFIC AMERICASPROGRAM Redemption (1990), and Homos (1995). With Ulysse Dutoit he has coauthored Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais (1993), The Forms of A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern February 11- 12 / Oakes Mural Room 12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH BREAK Culture (1985), and Forms of Being: Cinema, 1:30 – 2:45 Aesthetics, Subjectivity (2004). This conference explores popular culture and the politics of 5 PM / OAKES MURAL ROOM IMAGING ASIANS AND ASIAN Teresa de Lauretis, Professor of History urban, modern, global identities. What roles have various 5:00 – 6:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS AMERICANS: LOCAL AND Henry Yu of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, is the author of forms of imagination and expression played in popularizing TRANSNATIONAL IDENTIFICATIONS University of British Columbia and UCLA Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (1984), the broadly construed spaces and inhabitants of “Asia Is Tiger Woods Asian? War, Sports, Kelly Vaughn Education, Stanford University Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and the Marketing of Culture Pacific Americas”? What forms of cultural practices, Hen Chiang and Hip Hop: Identity and Fiction (1987), The Practice of Love: Lesbian Markers and Cultural Bridges among Sexuality and Perverse Desire (1994), and Figures of knowledge, and differences are created, articulated, and 6:30 RECEPTION Asian Immigrant Students in an Resistance (forthcoming). distributed through processes of reifying, exoticizing, eth- American High School John Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in English nicizing, interpreting, reinventing, and ordering? How Emily Cheng Literature, UC San Diego at the University of Warwick (UK), is the leading W has popular culture been entangled with the discourses of Alien Abduction or Alien Adoption: translator and interpreter of Laplanche in English. nationalism, colonialism, identity, gender, ethnicity, or race? 9 AM – 6:30 PM / OAKES MURAL ROOM Family, Race, and Citizenship in He has edited a major collection of Laplanche’s Disney’s Lilo and Stitch The conference will feature faculty and graduate students metapsychological papers, Essays on Otherness 9:00 – 9:15 WELCOME (1999), with a comprehensive introduction, coedited from nine institutions in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Kotaro Nakagaki the dossier Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation, 9:30 – 10:45 Tokiwa University, Japan Drives (1992), and guest-edited “Laplanche and the PLAYING “COOL” AND “HIP” IN Representations of “Japan” in NOTES ON KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: THE AGE OF GLOBAL MARKETING Theory of Seduction,” New Formations (no. 48, 2002- Post-1980s U.S. Films and Fiction 2003). He is completing a book on “primal scenes” Andrew F. Jones is Associate Professor in the Jin Suh Jirn Literature, UC Santa Cruz 3:00 – 4:45 in psychoanalysis, film, and literature. What’s So Cool About Asian Cool? POPULARIZING THE “NATIVE” East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at UC AND “EXOTIC” Vicky Lebeau, Senior Lecturer in English Berkeley. His research interests include music, sonic Stephanie H. Chan at the University of Sussex (UK), is the author of English, San Jose State University Dina El Dessouky Literature, UC Santa Cruz culture, media technology, modern and contemporary Psychoanalysis and Cinema (2002), and Lost Angels: The Limits of Hip: Examining Popular Riding the Wave Back to Tahiti: Tahitian Psychoanalysis and Cinema (1994), and the editor fiction, children’s literature, and the cultural history of Asian American Women’s Fiction Reactions to Surfing’s Popularization of “The Ruins of Childhood,” New Formations the Republican period. He is the author of Yellow Music: (no. 41, 2001). Her current book in progress is Alexander Lee Matthew J. Moore B.A. Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego , UC Santa Cruz titled “The Anxiety of the Image.” Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Ngo si Sui (Who am I?): Race, Culture, Jazz Age (Duke, 2001), coeditor of a special issue of posi- The Spread of Surfing: David Marriott, Associate Professor of and Social Movements in the Films of “Hawai´i’s Royal Sport” History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, is the tions: east asia cultures critique entitled “The Afro-Asian Jackie Chan author of On Black Men (2000), Letters to Langston Century,” and translator of literary works by Yu Hua and Shelly Chan History, UC Santa Cruz 11:00-12:15 Cooking up Cosmopolitan Vancouver: (forthcoming), and several essays on race and Eileen Chang. LITERARY LANDSCAPING The Marco Polo Theatre Restaurant psychoanalysis, as well as Lative, Dogma, and other in the 1960s-70s poetry chapbooks. Grace Yeh English, UCLA Henry Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Orienting Chicanos in Oscar Zeta Paola Mieli is a practicing psychoanalyst Shige Suzuki Literature, UC Santa Cruz History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach Japanese Cyberpunk Anime and in New York City. Co-founder and president of People Techno-orientalism the Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and Canada, and in the Department of History at UCLA, member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris), she is on the where he is also a faculty member of the Asian American Stephan Sohn English, UC Santa Barbara 5:00 – 6:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS faculty of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis Studies Center. Professor Yu is working on trans-Pacific The Post Asian American in the City in Berkeley and of the School of Visual Arts in New of Angels: The Destabilization of Asian Andrew Jones UC Berkeley York. Among her publications are “Femininity and migration, as well as on a book entitled “How Tiger American Identity in the Commodified Playthings of History: the Child as the Limits of Theory” (web), Actualité de l’hystérie Woods Lost His Stripes.” His most recent book, Thinking Urbanscape of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Commodity in Republican China Tropic of Orange (Paris, 2002) and the coedited Being Human: The Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern Sponsored by the Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster of Technological Extensions of the Body (2000). America (Oxford, 2001), received the Norris and Carol Veronica Kirk-Clausen the Center for Cultural Studies with cosponsorship from the IHR Literature, UC Santa Cruz APARC Website: www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/aparc.htm Sponsored by the Psychoanalysis and Sexuality Research Unit of the IHR, the Hundley Prize for Most Distinguished Book of 2001 The Palimpsest as a Literary Technique Coordinator: Shelly Chan, [email protected] Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment, and from the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast for Popularizing Asia Pacific Americas the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research Branch. CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES WINTER 2OO5

Queer Mediations d Saturday, February 26 / 1 PM – 5 PM / College 8, Room 240 Recent years have witnessed an explosion in mass-media representations of gays and lesbians. CLOTHCLCLOTHLOLLOTOTHOTTHH an In response, this event engages issues of representation, spectatorship, and counter-practice. B. RUBY RICH Queering Third Cinema A new generation of film and video artists has further refined the radical impulse of the original New CULTURE Queer Cinema. Through the work of Lucrecia Martel, Julián Hernández, Ximena Cuevas, Diego Lerman, Apichatpong Weerasethaku and others, Rich charts the shape of an unexpected revival and considers the role of location in queer aesthetics. in B. Ruby Rich has written widely on queer film and video as well as on Latin American cinema in GLQ, The Nation, The Guardian, Village Voice, and The Advocate. She is the author of Chick Flicks: Theories and OCECEANAANA Memories of the Feminist Film Movement (Duke, 1998) and is currently at work on The Rise and Fall of the New Queer Cinema (NYU, forthcoming). In 2004 she joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty in Community Bark Cloth from Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, & the Marquesas Islands Studies. EXHIBIT / 15 February - 13 March 2005 / UCSC Women’s Center

AMY VILLAREJOSavvy Queer TV This exhibit features tapa (bark cloth) from Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and the Marquesas, With its appetite for innovative programming, television continues to digest queer life. The resultant queer produced from the late 19th century to the present. Found throughout Oceania, tapa thematics (The L Word), queer aesthetics (Queer Eye), and queer histories (Tipping the Velvet) demand a is an elaborately decorated textile made from the beaten bark of trees. The making renewed materialist method of understanding. If Rich looks abroad for a vigorous queer cinema, Villarejo of tapa and the motifs used to embellish it are deeply connected to the continuity sorts through the detritus of commodity culture at home for a new critical engagement with television. of indigenous culture both on the islands and for those living in diaspora. Given as Amy Villarejo is Associate Professor at Cornell University, where she teaches film and is Director of the gifts at weddings, funerals, and other ceremonial occasions, tapa cloths remain a Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program. She is author, most recently, of Lesbian Rule: Cultural central form of women’s wealth in Oceanic and diasporic communities, mediating Criticism and the Value of Desire (Duke, 2003). social, economic, cultural and transnational relationships. RESPONDENTS: GINA VELASCO is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Speaker Series Her work focuses on Filipino diasporic cultural production. The speaker series features scholars whose talks will illustrate the continuing GREG YOUMANS is a graduate student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, significance of tapa as a cultural form, in a variety of locations. where he works in American history and media studies. Sponsored by the Queer Theory Research Cluster HILARY SCOTHORN Florida State University Samoan Siapo: Invention & Interaction in the West Polynesian Trade Triangle Año Nuevo Elephant Seals Field Trip Tuesday, February 15 / 12-1:45 / Earth & Marine B210 Friday, January 14 / 12 PM / Meet at Oakes Circle CAROLINE KLARR Florida State University Every winter, thousands of elephant seals come to Año Nuevo State Reserve to give birth, wean their pups, and mate before returning to the ocean. This local event has Tradition & Innovation in Fijian Bark Cloth (Masi) become critical in defining elephant seal migratory patterns, conservation management Thursday, February 17 / 12-1:45 / Earth & Marine B210 plans, and tourism. Explore these issues on a tour of the elephant seal breeding beaches. PING-ANN ADDO Yale University The tour is approximately 2.5 hours long and requires a moderate 3-mile hike. Tour cost is $5 and space is limited; advance sign-up is encouraged. To sign up or for more Tongan Women, Textiles, and Transnational information, email Jessica Ward at [email protected]. Preliminary meeting will be Fri- Identities: Reflections on Revived Bark Cloth day, January 7, 1:30 PM, at Cafe Pergolesi, 418 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. (Tapa) Making Practices in Oakland & Auckland Sponsored by the Cultural Geography Research Cluster Tuesday, February 22 / 12-1:45 / Earth & Marine B210

African Cinema: CAROL IVORY Washington State University Film Festival & Open Discussion Marquesan Tapa for Contemporary Times: Friday, February 11 / 10AM – 4 PM / Communications Building, Studio C The Story of Omoa Village Thursday, March 3 / 12-1:45 / Earth & Marine B210 Films include director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 1999 film, Bye-Bye Africa, which questions the possibilities of filmmaking in contemporary Chad, and director Ingrid For information, contact: Stacy Kamehiro, History of Art & Visual Culture Department, 459-2085, [email protected] Sinclair’s 1996 film, Flame, which traces the experiences of women guerrilla fighters Sponsored by the Pacific Islands Research Cluster and the Arts Research Institute in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. Discussion participants include Peter Limbrick (Film & Digital Media), Gina Dent (Women’s Studies), and NeEddra James (History of Consciousness).

Sponsored by the Africana Dialogues Research Cluster, with cosponsorship from the Film and Digital Media Department

READING GROUP 2005-2006 The Africana Dialogues Research Cluster (ADRC) will begin a reading group focusing on Africa and the disciplines. Those interested in being added to the listserv and Resident Scholars participating in the reading group should contact Heather Turcotte, hmturcotte@juno. com, or NeEddra James, [email protected]. Program Religion,Violence, Nation: A Cross-Regional Conversation The Center for Cultural Studies invites applications from scholars Thursday, March 3 / 4:30 PM / Oakes Mural Room who wish to be in residence at UC Santa Cruz during the 2005-2006

GYANENDRA PANDEY Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University academic year in order to pursue cultural studies research. The Dalits, Hindus and Buddhists Center offers University affiliation, library access, an office with Respondent: CHARLES HIRSCHKIND Anthropology, UC Berkeley computer, and a congenial interdisciplinary environment; regrettably, Moderator: ANJALI ARONDEKAR Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz we cannot provide salary replacement or a stipend. Affiliations

This event explores sectarian violence in and around South Asia as a globally significant without offices are also available. Visitors are expected to participate problem. Professor Gyanendra Pandey will initiate this cross-regional conversation about in Center activities while pursuing their own research. Residencies the political importance of religion with a discussion of the Dalit question in India. Professor may span the entire academic year or be held for shorter periods. Charles Hirschkind will provide some reflections on the practical and theoretical ques- tions these issues engender. This event will facilitate conversations on religion as it There is no application form; applicants should send a curriculum relates to group formation, geopolitics, and power. vitae, an outline of the research project to be undertaken while in Sponsored by the Religion and Culture Research Cluster, with cosponsorship from the Anthropology Department, the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, the Literature Department and the Department of Women’s Studies residence at UC Santa Cruz, and two letters of reference to the following address:

Brownow! The Center for Cultural Studies ANTHONY BROWN Director, Asian American Orchestra Attn: Resident Scholars Program LEONARD BROWN Associate Professor, Music and African American Studies Departments, Northeastern University Oakes College

Friday, March 4 / 4 PM / Oakes Learning Center University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA Leonard and Anthony Brown's duet BROWNOW! represents over fifty years of com- bined experience as performing artists and scholars. Founded through collaborative Applicants should hold a doctorate or the equivalent. Deadline for explorations in music performance and scholarship ranging from West African songs to Duke Ellington, from field hollers and spirituals to Coltrane standards and spon- receipt of application materials is March 4, 2005. Inquiries or requests taneous compositions, BROWNOW! presents concerts with commentary informed by for further information can be directed to the Center at our address, experience and research, addressing issues such as musical process, culture, identity, and power. Leonard Brown performs on saxophone and various other wind instruments or we can be contacted by telephone at (831) 459-4899, by fax at and percussion, and Anthony Brown performs on drum-set, percussion and other in- (831) 459-1349, or by email at [email protected]. struments. BROWNOW! will present a lecture followed by a performance. The event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Black Music Research Unit of the IHR Winter Activities Winter .

u THER invites applications [email protected] Santa Cruz humanities.ucsc.edu/ Oakes College (831) 459-1274 Program Manager Program fax (831) 459-1349 e-mail Santa Cruz, CA 95064 University of California Center for Cultural Studies Contact: Stephanie Casher CultStudies/Rockefeller.html Application Deadline: FEBRUARY 4, 2005 web site: LOBALIZATIONS scholars in humanities disciplines scholars, journalists, or government support dissertation research, and shorter periods), as well as medical ships to support scholarly work ships to support scholarly Summer office space is usually including history, literature, film literature, including history, university faculty members, but in a substantial publication. The interdisciplinary environment. religious studies, and area studies. at the time of application. Faculty at UC Santa Cruz are not eligible. and life insurance (subject to terms available, but the fellowship does and video, philosophy, art history, art history, and video, philosophy, a private office, and a congenial piece or conference paper). projects. The fellowship does not preference will be given to those propose projects that will result participation, and collaboration. predate the contemporary era, predate the contemporary downloaded from our web site (see mailing address); description of maximum, plus bibliography); members and graduate students not include a summer stipend. for Rockefeller Resident Fellow- for Rockefeller Resident fax, home and office telephone, below); up-to-date curriculum vitae by agents overlooked in standard CALL FOR APPLICATIONS the applicant’s qualifications; and the applicant’s the proposed project (1,000 words two letters of recommendation the intellectual life of the campus through exchange, colloquium the Santa Cruz area during the term holding a Ph.D. or its equivalent histories, and globalizing circuits evaluating the proposed project and evaluation committee will favor or NGO officials who have scholarly one short writing sample (published candidates who can contribute to of their fellowship. of $40,000 for one academic year of appointment), library access, copying and computer facilities, of the following: application form on moments of globalization that on moments of globalization produced circuits of globalization outside of transnational capitalism. Candidates are expected to G The Center will provide a stipend The fellowships are designed for he Center’s project on O project The Center’s (September-June, pro-rated for (September-June, 2005-2006 Fellows are expected to reside in will also consider independent with all contact information (e-mail, Other Globalizations: Globalizations: Other Formations Cultural We expect most applicants to be expect most applicants We Applicants should submit four sets Histories, Trans- Histories, Regionalisms and and Regionalisms Winter Activities

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MARCH 2 work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal, normally informal, are sessions The visitors. and faculty campus by work FEBRUARY 23 FEBRUARY 16 FEBRUARY 9 FEBRUARY 2 tea, and cookies. in 1960s San Francisco and the Politics of are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee, gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We Jason Ferreira

Global Literature: Colloquium Series Colloquium Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire JANUARY 26 JANUARY 19 JANUARY 12 Spooks (II): That Within Sacred Peaks, Secular Visions: Smuggling the “Self” into “Interest”: In Winter 2005, the Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday Wednesday colloquium series, which features current cultural studies M. Theresa Hern Tony Crowley Tony David Marriott Dean Mathiowetz Edu Kären Wigen Kären Wigen Reorienting Mountains in Modern Japan Race, Writing, and the World System and the World Race, Writing, Multiracial Unity Medicine of Memory: Third World Radicalism Medicine of Memory: Third World The Spaces of War and the Wars for Space: for and the Wars The Spaces of War City Law, Technology, James Joyce and the Politics of Language in in Language of Politics the and Joyce James From Ireland: A Critical Reflection on a Liberal Dissimulation A Critical Reflection on a Liberal Vilashini Cooppan Vilashini MARIE THERESA 2002). Her current project, in which types of war correlate with is the author of HERNÁNDEZ registers these dialectical interplays, air), which in turn correlate with particular topologies (earth, sea, different legal orders (European, for space, but also a supplement that numerous works including EDUARDO MENDIETA becoming a palimpsest of the war the Center for Cultural Studies, challenges the logic of war.” currently Rockefeller Fellow at and The Réel: The Buried History The Réel: The and (University of Texas, of Nuevo León (University of Texas, of Transcendental Philosophy: of Transcendental writes, “This talk considers the way Littlefield, 2002), and editor of Discourse Ethics Delirio: The Fantastic, The Demonic, Demonic, The Delirio: The Fantastic, Karl-Otto Apel’s Semiotics and Karl-Otto Apel’s Issues, Debates Prophecy: Death, Legacy, History, History, Prophecy: Death, Legacy, American, Global, etc). The city

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Visualities Abolition by Denial Transnationalism Feminism & The Object as Photo Thematic Complications: Narrative and Subtext Docudramas Performance &Visual StudiesPresents:Performance Spooks: Visualising Race Seminar Series Seminar Series In this talk, Chatterjee explores the Geographies January 26(co-sponsoredwithMAGS) January 12 January in the New Prehistoric tion of slavery without the emancipa- tion of slaves in south Asia. Art CenterCollegeofDesign Anthropology, UCSantaCruz INDRANI CHATTERJEE INDRANI WINTER QUARTER 2OO5 QUARTER WINTER EVA FORGACS EVA peculiar paradox of the colonial aboli- DIANE GIFFORD-GONZALEZ DIANE MARRIOTT DAVID Sponsored bytheDepartmentofWomen’s Studies Wednesdays, 5PM-7/CowellConferenceRoom Winter andSpring2005 Wednesday, 23/5PMOakesMuralRoom February Department ofHistory, RutgersUniversity February 9 February History ofConsciousness,UCSantaCruz History Change ServiceRequested SANTA95O6O CA CRUZ, NON-PROFIT ORG. NON-PROFIT PERMIT NO. 32 NO. PERMIT U.S. POSTAGE U.S. / PAID