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Fall 2009 Angela Davis Legacies in the Making The Center for Cultural Studies FALL 2009 Angela Davis LEGACIES IN THE MAKING R ECOGNIZING THE ACADEMIC , ACTIVIST , AND CULTURAL INTERVENTIONS OF A CONTEMPORARY VISIONARY Saturday, October 31 / 9am & Sunday, November 1 / 10am SCHEDULE Humanities Lecture Hall Room 206 / UC Santa Cruz For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis’s scholar- SATURDAY , OCTOBER 31 3:45 PM ship and activism has defi ned the meaning and prac- 9 :00 AM PANEL 4: Are Prisons Obsolete? tice of being a public intellectual and has radically Facilitator: Sora Han Welcome and Opening Remarks Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine transformed many sites of knowledge production, 10:00 AM Angela Davis’s contribution to critiques of state including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a PANEL 1: Voices of Resistance violence and the prison industrial complex is con- site of intervention and social transformation. Few Facilitator: Rashad Shabazz siderable; the papers in this panel will explore how professors have had such a broad impact in their George Washington Henderson Postdoctoral Fellow, panelists have drawn on that work to inform their fi elds of expertise or on the world in their lifetimes. Geography, University of Vermont own related projects. This gathering of her former students, in conversa- This panel addresses themes of institutional per- 6:30 PM tion with scholars nationally, maps the impact of secution and individual and collective resistances. Institutions can include, but are not limited to, the Evening Events her vision on issues such as democratic theory, phi- prison industrial complex, the state, schools, the SUNDAY , NOVEMBER 1 losophy, Marxism, cultural studies/popular culture, workplace, and the home, and resistances might social policy, race, class, and feminisms. Professor be anything from direct action to cultural produc- 10:00 AM Davis has also trained students as activist scholars tion and pedagogy. Legacies in the Making for almost four decades in both university systems 11:30 AM Facilitator: Bettina Aptheker Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz in California. We thus convene this conference PANEL 2: Race, Gender, & Politics to examine the poetics and politics of Professor Panelists include M. Jacqui Alexander (Women’s Facilitator: J. Kehaulani Kauanui and Gender Studies, University of Toronto), Saidi- American Studies, Anthropology, Wesleyan University Davis’s pedagogy in California over the past forty ya Hartman ( English and Comparative Literature, years (1969-2009) and to consider how her role as an In this panel presenters will discuss how Angela Columbia University), Neferti X. Tadiar (Women’s activist-scholar-teacher bridges the academy/com- Davis’s framing of race, gender, and politics has Studies, Barnard College; Director, Center for munity divide and dismantles the false dichotomy affected their work. Papers may also address the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia of theory/praxis. history and legacy of Davis’s political affi liations University), and others. by identifying a particular argument or theoretical 12:00 PM One focus of the event will be to highlight cul- a p p r o a c h f r o m D a v i s’s t e x t s o r l e c t ur e s , a n d b y d i s- tural production that has emerged in conversation cussing how their work builds upon that approach. Closing Remarks by Angela Davis with the writing and theorizing that Angela Davis For further information, visit has facilitated and inspired. We are inviting Profes- 2:00 PM http://ihr.ucsc.edu/angela-davis, or write to [email protected]. sor Davis’ colleagues, friends, and family to pro- PANEL 3: Cultural Legacies Facilitator: Kevin Fellezs Sponsored by: UCHRI, the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon vide video messages recognizing her considerable School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, Puknat Endowment, the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies, the on-going contributions to academic and activist UC Merced UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC Faculty Against the War, History of Consciousness, UCSC Vice Chancellor for work; these will be compiled into a montage to be Papers in this panel will connect the presenters’ Research, UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Chief Diversity Offi ce, Com- screened at the symposium. The event, as a whole, work with Angela Davis’s analyses of such cul- munity Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino tural productions as the Blues and visual repre- Studies, Merrill College, Oakes College, Philosophy, Porter Col- will be recorded, and we plan to liaise with the Cali- lege, Literature, Cowell College, Languages, Politics, Psychology, fornia Documentary Fund to translate those records sentation, and the complex relationship of culture and Stevenson College. to race, gender, class, and sexuality. into a multi-media resource for education. There will also be an evening of music and poetry in honor of Professor Davis and her contributions to cultural THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. “legacies in the making.” Staff assistance provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. 1 The Queer Theory Research Cluster presents: Center for Jewish Studies. Professor Pollock is the author of numer- ous publications, including: Encounters in a Virtual Feminist Muse- Chandan Reddy um: Time, Space, & the Archive (Routledge, 2007); Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories (Routledge, Department of English, University of Washington 1999); and The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Dif- From Marriage to Milk: Race and ference, edited with Victoria Turvey-Sauron (I.B. Tauris, 2008). Readings will be available from [email protected]. the Political Economy of Sexuality For more information, contact Lucian Gomoll at [email protected]. Thursday, October 15 / 4-6 PM / Humanities 210 Co-sponsored by the Visual and Performance Studies Faculty Research Cluster. Professor Reddy’s talk intervenes in queer theoretical discussions The Science Studies Research Cluster presents: about queer representation in the political sphere. He engages the “anti- social” turn in queer theory, in which queerness reveals to all social Experiments in STS subjects the loss of particularity and personal liberty that attends social (Science and Technology Studies) and political representation. Professor Reddy takes up the “marriage equality movement” and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (2008)—the recent cin- Friday, November 20 / 2-5 PM / Humanities 420 ematic portrayal of the emergence of so-called modern gay politics in For our fall event we invite cluster members to informally present the 1970s—as his “cases” for diagnosing the limits of the anti-social nascent work (10 minutes each). We are especially interested in position. He argues that queer of color critique offers an alternative projects that engage one of these three themes: 1) BioArt as activ- understanding of the political economy of sexuality that overcomes the ism and scientific practice; 2) working animals in laboratories and limiting opposition between a politicization of queer marginality and farms; and 3) the role of imagination and imaginaries in scientific the queer anti-social critique of politics. inquiry. Afterwards, we will ask questions and discuss resonances Chandan Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University among the presentations with the goal of creating an experimental of Washington. He has authored a number of essays and articles on collaborative product. Please e-mail Martha Kenney (mkenney@ race, sexuality, and late capitalism, which have appeared in such jour- ucsc.edu) if you are interested in participating as presenter or in- nals as Social Text and Fordham Law Review. He was a founding mem- terlocutor. New cluster members are welcome. ber of the Audre Lorde Project: a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, For more information, contact Martha Kenney at [email protected]. and Two Spirit People of Color Organizing Center, and remains active in queer of color cultural politics. He is completing a book, Desiring Modernity: Race, Sexuality, and Epistemologies of Violence (Duke, The Feminism and Pornography Research Cluster presents: forthcoming). SHINE LOUI S E HOU S TON & SYD BL AKOVIC , PINK & WHITE PRODUCTION S For more information, contact Logan Walker at [email protected]. Queer Feminist Pornography: Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Literature, and the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center. A Look at the Products and The Museum and Curatorial Studies Research Cluster presents: Politics of Pink & White Productions Tuesday, December 1 / 4-6 PM / Humanities 210 Griselda Pollock Shine Louise Houston is the founder/director and Syd Blakovic Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds is a producer/performer at Pink & White Productions, an award- winning adult entertainment company that explores the complexi- Curating in the Freudian Space ties of queer sexual desire. Pink & White specializes in lesbian of Memory and Migration and transgendered pornography featuring performers of diverse genders and ethnicities. Pink & White’s orientation is feminist, Thursday, November 5 / 2-4 PM / Humanities 210 and many of the performers are also the writers, producers, or What is curation? In contemporary art, the curator functions as an au- directors. Houston and Blakovic can speak to various facets of thor, the exhibition as text, the works as illustrations of a thesis, and pornography production: the economic side of producing and the catalogue as a monument, where the art is a series
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