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CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES FALL 2001 and the Politics of Transfor-mation (1998), explores activism and coalition building by women of color in Britain. FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE is Asso- ciate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil (1997) and Bearing Blackness in Britain (forthcoming from Duke University Press). Her recent publications include Racing A Conference Research, Researching Race: Methodological OCTOBER 19–2O, 2OO1 Dilemmas in Critical Race Studies (2000). COLLEGE EIGHT, 24O GLORIA WEKKER is a socio-cultural an- Convened by the Feminist Studies Research Unit of thropologist specializing in Women’s Studies, the Institute for Humanities Research, University of African American Studies, and Caribbean California, Santa Cruz Studies, and teaches at theUniversity of Utrecht. Her work explores the constructions This conference will interrogate the particular of subjectivity and sexuality of Creole work- ways in which Black European communities ing-class women in Suriname, the develop- are positioned in relation to the concept of di- ment of multicultural and anti-racist gender aspora, while also posing the critical question: theory in the Netherlands, and interethnic What happens to articulations of national romantic relationships in the Netherlands. and/or diasporic identifications when gender MICHELLE MARIA WRIGHT is Assis- is placed at the center of the exploration of tant Professor of English at Macalester Black culture, community, and identity for- College, where she teaches postcolonial mation? How does the current cartography theory, as well as African American, Black of Black Europe shift when viewed through British, Afro-German, and Black French the lens of feminist analysis and critique? literature and thought. Her book, Missing “Remapping Black Europe” explores such Persons: The Search for Postcolonial Sub- questions by theorizing the nexus of race, gen- jects in the African Diaspora, is forthcom- der and nation in Black European women’s ing, and she is co-editor of Domain Errors: literature, political activism, and cultural A Cyber-feminist Handbook, to be publish- practice. The work of the feminist scholars ed by Autonomedia Press. RemappingBlackEurope New Cartographies of Race, Gender & Nation presented in this two-day conference engages Women, Race and Class (1983), and Blues Research Unit of the Institute for Human- CONFERENCE SCHEDULE the histories of identity and community for- Legacies and Black Feminism (1998). She is ities Research. She recently completed a mation in Black British, Black Dutch, and working on a comparative study of women’s manuscript on Black German narratives of FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 Black German communities, emphasizing not imprisonment in the United States, the their experiences during National Socialism 5:3O PM Keynote Speaker: Netherlands, and Cuba. entitled Other Germans: Black Germans only the similarities of processes of racializa- HAZEL CARBY tion among Black peoples, but also the pro- and the Politics of Race, Gender and ASALE ANGEL-AJANI is Assistant Pro- Memory in the Third Reich. Department of African American Studies, Yale University found differences between and among Black fessor of Anthropology and African and Europeans and African Americans. African American Studies at the University PHILOMENA ESSED is Senior Researcher SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 of Texas at Austin. She is currently complet- and co-director of the research program on 9–1O:3O AM Policing Black Europe: Black CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ing a book on African women detained in Gender, Ethnic Relations and Childhood at Women & the Politics of Incarceration HAZEL V. CARBY is Chair of the Depart- Rome, Italy. This year she is a Visiting Scho- the Amsterdam Research Institute for Glo- ment of African American Studies and lar at the University of Illinois at Urbana- bal Issues and Development Studies at the ASALE ANGEL-AJANI Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin Professor of American Studies at Yale Champaign. University of Amsterdam. Currently a visiting professor at the University of Calif- University, where she has taught since JACQUELINE NASSY BROWN is Assis- JULIA SUDBURY 1989. Her books include Race Men (1998) ornia, Irvine, she is author of Everyday Department of Ethnic Studies, Mills College tant Professor of Anthropology at the Racism: Reports from Women of Two and Cultures in Babylon (1999). She is cur- University of California, Santa Cruz. She rently researching the lives of radical black Cultures and Diversity (1990) and Gender, Panel Chair: YVETTE HUGINNIE has published in Cultural Anthropology Color and Culture (1996). Department of American Studies, UC Santa Cruz women in the 1930s and 1940s. and American Ethnologist, and is complet- The Color of Germanness: ing a manuscript titled Dropping Anchor, JULIA SUDBURY is a black British les- 11–12:3O PM ANGELA Y. DAVIS is Professor of His- Black Germans & the Tensions of Diaspora tory of Consciousness at the University Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black bian womanist and activist. She is currently Liverpool. of California, Santa Cruz and University Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic MICHELLE MARIA WRIGHT of California Presidential Chair in African TINA CAMPT is Assistant Professor Studies at Mills College, and a member Department of English, Macalester College American and Feminist Studies. Professor of Women’s Studies and History at the of the National Organizing Committee of Davis is the author of five books, including University of California, Santa Cruz, and Critical Resistance. Her book, Other Kinds TINA CAMPT Department of Women’s Studies, UC Santa Cruz Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1989); is a coordinator of the Feminist Studies of Dreams: Black Women’s Organizations Panel Chair: CAROLINE STREETER DISTINGUISHED VISITING SCHOLAR Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz 2–3:3O PM Engendering Black Britain: tural criticism is necessarily subject to phas- “Placing” Black British Community es of market boredom with… “critical” histor- ical sense…and with the slow, incremental FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara Meaghan Morris temporality endured by any struggle with NOVEMBER 13-16, 2001 All events in this series will take place in the Oakes Mural Room serious designs on the future. My response JACQUELINE NASSY BROWN Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz to such boredom is—that’s tough for cultural and a seminar, Meaghan Morris presents her Tuesday, November 13, 4 PM critics. Alternative values and their constitu- Panel Chair: LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI current work. One project centers on the LECTURE: In the Outback of Civiliza- encies may be obliterated in an apocalyptic Department of Literature, UC Santa Cruz tion: Anthropology as Popular Culture pioneering Australian travel writer/journal- event, but they will not disappear by decree of 4–5:3O PM Dutch Diasporic Trajectories: in Modern Colonial Australia ist Ernestine Hill, who used the literary some jaded culturati, nor fade to fit the needs Gender, Race and the Politics of Ethnicity The lecture will include film clips from the 1940s action-adventure genre and “contact” sto- Australian film Uncivilised. of the conference component of the hospitality ries about both Aborigines and Asian peo- GLORIA WEKKER industry. (232) Thursday, November 15, 4 PM ples in Australia to promote civilizational Department of Women’s Studies, University of Utrecht, Holland Morris is also the author of The Pirate’s LECTURE: “Two Schools”: Contact values and policies. The other examines the Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodern- PHILOMENA ESSED Narrative and Cultural Rivalry in Mar- deployment of history in action cinema over Institute for Global Issues and Development Studies ism (1988) and Ecstasy and Economics: tial Arts Cinema the past 30 years, with attention to Holly- University of Amsterdam, Holland The lecture will include film clips from the 1970s Hong American Essays for John Forbes (1992), wood, Hong Kong, and the production of Panel Chair: COLIN LEACH Kong film Bruce Lee in New Guinea. and co-editor, among other works, of Austra- narratives about these “two schools” and Department of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz Friday, November 16, 10 AM-12 PM lian Cultural Studies: A Reader (1993) and “two styles.” The seminar will take up con- SEMINAR: On History in Action- Michel Foucault: Power, Truth, Strategy 6–7 PM Closing Remarks: nections between the two projects, which Adventure: Cultural Studies, Critical (1979). Currently Professor and Chair of the ANGELA Y. DAVIS form a trilogy with Morris’s 1998 book, Too Department of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz Theory, and the Question of Genre Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture, Copies of the readings for this seminar are available to the University, Hong Kong, she has taught at For additional information contact Shann Ritchie UCSC community at the Center for Cultural Studies office, in which she writes: or may be requested via email ([email protected]). the University of Technology in Sydney, at [email protected] or 831.459.5655 Please make email requests at least one week in advance. Sharing neither the immobilizing convic- Australia, Duke University, the University Sponsored by the Feminist Studies Research Unit of the Institute for Humanities Research, the Center for Cultural Studies, the UC Meaghan Morris’s pathbreaking work in tion

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