TOWNSENDCENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES UC BERKELEY September 2006
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16 Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures
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20 Asia by Means of Performance
THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE
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Peony Pavilion 21 Ethical Worlds of Stem Cell Medicine
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SOCIETY CENTER Night of the Dead in Ihuatzio, Michoacán TOWNSEND NEWSLETTER
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities SEPTEMBER 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley TABLE OF CONTENTS STAFF DIRECTOR 3 “Opening Lines” Anthony J. Cascardi, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director Anthony J. Cascardi offers an Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese invitation to help re-articulate the space of the humanities on campus and in public life. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Teresa Stojkov 5 “The Humanities, Plural” FACULTY DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS Celeste Langan, Associate Professor of Celeste Langan, Associate Professor of English English and Faculty Director of Programs at FELLOWSHIPS/PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR the Townsend Center, argues for the porous Aileen Paterson nature of the humanities. FINANCIAL COORDINATOR Ahva Davis 8 “Social Practices in Art and Human Environments” Shannon Jackson, Chair and Professor of FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, describes a new GROUP course on art and Stephen Best, English social practice for undergraduates. Janet Broughton, Philosophy, and Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities (ex oficio) 11 New Faculty in the Humanities Judith Butler, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature Margaret Conkey, Anthropology and the Archaeological Research Facility 12 Working Groups Vasudha Dalmia, South and Southeast Asian Studies
Susanna Elm, History and the Program in Ancient 16 Calendar of Campus Events History and Mediterranean Archaeology
Charles Faulhaber, Spanish and Portuguese and The 22 Fellowships and Grants Bancroft Library Marian Feldman, Near Eastern Studies Gillian Hart, Geography Percy Hintzen, African American Studies TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Leslie Kurke, Classics and Comparative Literature Stephens Hall, MC University of California George Lakoff, Linguistics Berkeley, CA Anthony Long, Classics and Rhetoric TEL.: ⁄- Loren Partridge, History of Art and Italian Studies FAX: ⁄- EMAIL: [email protected] Paul Rabinow, Anthropology WEB: http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu José David Saldivar, Ethnic Studies and English Marc Treib, Architecture Opening Lines
AT ITS INCEPTION IN 1987, The Townsend Center has been of special significance for THE TOWNSEND CENTER WAS those faculty and graduate students who have participated ENVISIONED AS HAVING directly in its fellowship programs over the past years. For THE POTENTIAL TO MAKE A other members of the academic community, the Center PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE has been of occasional benefit through its sponsorship INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE of visiting lecturers, conferences, and talks. In all these HUMANITIES AT BERKELEY. areas, as in others, the Center can and should do more to IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT reach a wider base of faculty and graduate students and UC BERKELEY HAD A LONG AND ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY OF to help strengthen the position of the humanities in the TEACHING AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES, THERE wider world. I hope that in the coming years the Center WAS UNTIL THAT TIME NO CENTER TO SUPPORT HUMANITIES can offer increased fellowship and funding opportunities RESEARCH OR TO INCUBATE NEW PROGRAMS. and that it can serve as a physical and intellectual space Now, nearly twenty years and five directors later, it is that is open to all humanists at Berkeley. hard to imagine what Berkeley was like without the Insofar as additional resources are needed to meet these Townsend Center. The Center’s many different initiatives, goals, we will have to become more active in fund raising ranging from the Townsend Fellows and the Strategic efforts. We will need to learn how to present the strongest Working Groups to the Avenali Lectures, have met with case for the humanities to a non-academic public, and extraordinary success. The Center has provided the for that we will need to find a language of values that intellectual and physical contexts for new work to emerge, we can endorse. I hope that the Center can sponsor the it has afforded much-needed opportunities for dialogue discussions that will lead to a sharper articulation of among faculty and graduate students, and it has sustained those values and that it will be the place where we as a a remarkable level of intellectual intensity and excitement community can test their limits. At the same time we in its programs. The Center has been a great success will need to establish new partnerships with non-profit indeed, and yet there is much more that needs to be done. foundations and to identify the projects that meet our When asked what it is that faculty and graduate students common goals. In the process we will be challenged to in the humanities most need in order to accomplish imagine and invent the ways of working that will help us their work, I hear one consistent set of answers: time shape new versions of the “humanities” out of the forms for research (along with the funding that will allow of inquiry we have inherited from the past. this time), freedom from the structural encumbrances that often impede the realization of new ideas in an I hope to direct attention towards three broadly defined institutional context, space for spontaneous intellectual areas of concern over the next few years and invite your interchange, and help in achieving a broader recognition suggestions and proposals about the ways best to pursue of the importance of the humanities on the campus and them. The first is The Humanities and the Public World. in the wider world. What contribution do the humanities make to public
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values, and what role can we play in shaping the way the new Director, and I hope you will take this missive as people think about the public good? The second concerns an invitation to play an active role in shaping the Center’s the work of Communities of Scholars. How can we future. invent meaningful forms of interaction in circumstances Anthony J. Cascardi, where the very idea of a “community” seems increasingly Director elusive? What does it mean for intellectually independent humanists to be working together, and how can we create Director Anthony J. Cascardi has taught at UC Berkeley since 1980 the collective contexts that will allow our individual work and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. He has served in the past as Interim Dean of Arts and to flourish? Finally, I hope that the resources of the Center Humanities and as Director of the Consortium for the Arts and will afford an opportunity for us to think about the ways Arts Research Center on campus. He has published widely on the relations between literature and philosophy, aesthetic theory, and in which the practices of historically informed reading the literature of early modern Europe. He is currently working on and interpretation can be brought to bear on some of the political theory and practice in the writings of Cervantes and on Critical Dialogues that we need to engage — dialogues contemporary aesthetics in the tradition of critical theory. about values and interests, about claims over identities, representations, and resources, as well as about what is truth and what is legitimacy — in the contemporary world.
In the more immediate future, you should look for a CALL FOR UNA’S NOMINATIONS number of changes in the administration of the Center. First, I am very pleased to announce that Celeste Langan Every year for one week, the Townsend Center (English) will serve as the new Faculty Director for hosts a distinguished scholar as Una’s Lecturer in Programs at the Center. You will see in the inside front the Humanities. The Una’s Lecturer delivers one cover of this issue of the Newsletter that there has also or more public lectures and meets with faculty been a significant expansion of the Center’s Faculty and students. Advisory Committee; I will be working with this group to achieve greater transparency in the fellowship review A list of past Una’s Lecturers is available at http:// process. You can also expect to see improvements in the townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/una.shtml. technical capabilities of the Geballe Room, a re-design of the Center’s website, and an updated brochure. Over The Center welcomes suggestions for Una’s time I hope to find ways to communicate with all of you Lecturer in the Humanities for 2007-2008. Please both electronically and in print that will be as direct, as send nominations along with biographical dynamic, and as efficient as possible. My hope is that this information to [email protected]. Newsletter will become a forum for issues and ideas in edu. the humanities as well as a source of information about activities and programs. I invite all of you to send email, call, or drop by the Center to talk about your aspirations, ideas, and hopes for the Center. I am very pleased to be
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“IT IS WELL TO HAVE dangerous opportunity to think about the differences SOME WATER IN YOUR among past, present, and future “species” of humanity, NEIGHBORHOOD,” to consider not only different cultures, languages, and SUGGESTS THOREAU IN generations (first and second-generation Romantic WALDEN. PUNNING ON poets, Issei and Nisei, the echo boom) but also new (and “WELL” (ITSELF A KIND OF old) social movements as productive of new forms of “WALLED-IN” POND), HE humanity. As a multiple, moreover, the “humanities” SUGGESTS THAT DIGGING suggests the relevance to the humanities of non-biological INTO APPARENTLY SOLID GROUND TO DISCOVER WATER forms of reproduction (digitalization, for example), BELOW OFFERS A SALUTARY REMINDER THAT “EARTH IS NOT leading us to question prevailing organic and genealogical CONTINENT BUT INSULAR” — THAT IS, LAND MASSES EVEN AS models of “culture,” “language,” and “generation,” and LARGE AS CONTINENTS DO NOT SO MUCH CONTAIN AS THEY making the “posthuman” a relevant critical concept. ARE CONTAINED — SURROUNDED — BY BODIES OF WATER. Of course, “the humanities” have derived many benefits, More than the so-called “disciplines,” departments at a including social and academic self-justification, large research university can function like “continents” from the notion of a single humanity. In this form, — containers — rather than offer, as in Thoreau’s ideal “humanity” gets most frequently deployed as a value term vision, a “foundation” that is also a “port.” The intellectual synonymous with “humane” or “humanitarian.” One resources of each department are sufficiently rich, and the demonstrates one’s humanity in the humane treatment obligations placed on its faculty and students sufficiently of animals (though as Cary Wolfe has pointed out, this demanding, that without a Townsend Center only the seems to require forgetting that humans are animals), of most intrepid of new faculty and graduate students prisoners, of the poor, of the disabled. (Indeed, people would have more than occasional or random contact with outside the ‘walled-in” academic community sometimes faculty and students from other departments. seem to read the phrase “liberal arts” as meaning “those In such a context, perhaps the greatest value of departments which teach the arts of being fiscally or constituting a “center” around so vague a concept as “the politically liberal.”) But the difference between the humanities” is the incongruity of that term itself. The plural and singular conceptualizations of “humanity” question Jean-Luc Nancy posed in The Muses — “Why are — the tendency of the “public world” to see humanities there several arts and not just one?” — might be applied departments and centers as “foundations” and the to “the humanities” as well. In its plural form, the term tendency of scholars to see them as “ports” — is a source de-centers and gives “buoyancy and float” (Thoreau’s of potential conflict that remains to be solved — put “in words) to a concept that might otherwise congeal into an solution,” as it were. apparently solid substance: humanity. The plural form’s Or at least that is Thoreau’s suggestion for counteracting insistence on “several” humanities offers a wonderfully the “insolvent” (singular) form of humanity. The relevant
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“solution” might very well be a corrosive one. Suppose, the implicitly inhumane conditions of what is called for example, that William Blake is right, and “Pity would “the public world,” they will fail to break free from the be no more,/ If we did not make somebody Poor?” If container of the ivory tower. emotions such as pity and compassion — emotions Within that tower, the Townsend Center plays a vital role sometimes thought to constitute our “humanity” — are in keeping the humanities in flux. James Chandler has actually produced (we “make” people poor, according pointed out that the proliferation of humanities centers at to Blake, just as Wordsworth laments “what man has research universities is coincident with the emergence of made of man”) by practices and institutions that we type a new genre or species in the humanities, marked by the as “inhumane,” we are confronted with a constitutive (pluralized) locution “studies,” often with an equivocal contradiction; the very “heart” of the humanitarian modifier (“women’s studies” ambiguously referencing subject depends upon its inhumanity. study of or by women, even as “media studies” often Some might suggest — have suggested — that such entails using new media at once as tool and object of arguments imperil or impoverish “the humanities” analysis). But without some kind of supradepartmental themselves. By renouncing authority to decide organization, such formations — the Townsend Working with finality on the ethical or the good (even as an Groups are a perfect example — struggle with a tendency evaluative aesthetic category), professors of a pluralized to devolve from interdisciplinary engagement to “humanities” no longer offer “the goods.” Long regarded subdisciplinary conversation. As a longtime participant as the “deserving poor” of the research university, now in the Music and Literature working group, for example, humanities departments, by failing to confirm prevailing I was fascinated to see how easily musicologists could public opinion about “human values,” risk the loss “hear” musical notation, without needing to play it on an of charitable giving, public funding. Hence panicked instrument. But often I was the only non-musicologist in attempts to prove, for example, that training in the attendance, the only one whose underdeveloped ear acted visual arts enables doctors to observe and diagnose more as a reminder of different levels of musical literacy, of the effectively. To my mind, such projects err by uncritically non-universal character of the human sensorium. adopting a model of “proper” humanity as effective, What I value most about the pluralized “humanities” is efficient, productive — values we usually employ to judge their challenge to mastery. I have always found it easier technologies, machines — the non-human (although, of to ask real questions when I’m not expected to know course, technologies and machines, being “mind-forg’d,” the answer; my best teaching usually occurs in the face are absolutely human). of new material. It is true, as a friend remarked, that That’s why, following Thoreau, I would prefer to risk the interdisciplinary research risks making the humanities possibility of dissolution that comes with every encounter scholar a “jack of all trades, ‘doctor’ of none.” But of a solid with solution. To engage in interdisciplinary the plural form, with its suggestion of still-unfolding research and conversation, not only across but even “humanities,” means that to be a professor of humanities beyond the humanities, is certainly to risk an intellectual is always an aspiration rather than an achievement. insolvency (as now, when I feel the lack of high school In this respect, I think the greatest achievement of chemistry). Yet the alternative is, to my mind, no longer Berkeley’s humanities center has been its success, from even feasible. Insofar as “the humanities” are regarded as the outset, in encouraging interchange not just among remedial disciplines, whose chief value is merely to offset the different humanities disciplines, but also among its
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various cohorts. Townsend dissertation fellows mingle with junior as well as senior faculty. Associate professors — tenured in their fields of expertise — can “apprentice” FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS, themselves to new fields in the Bridging Grants program FALL DEADLINES or elect a peer as an interlocutor in the Initiative program. September 11, 2006 Graduate students arriving on campus as Discovery fellows are mentored both by faculty and more advanced Conference Grants. Support conferences or other larger-budget activities taking place at UC graduate students, and they organize a program each year Berkeley. Special consideration will be given which ideally marks out a ground-breaking (well-digging) to submissions that coincide with any of the humanities research project. Even undergraduates, following areas of emphasis: The Humanities though still in my opinion less well integrated, have and the Public World; Communities of Scholars; and Critical Dialogues. Eligibility: UC Berkeley the opportunity provided by the GROUP program to affiliates. participate in the process of rethinking the humanities.
Of course there are still problems; there is still too much November 20, 2006 isolation, too few communities of scholars. Too many Townsend Fellowships. Support research graduate students feel mystified when confronted with of individual recipients. Recipients form a fellowship group together with several tenured the necessity of finding an “outside examiner” for their faculty. Eligibility: Ph.D. students advanced to qualifying exams or a third reader for their dissertations. candidacy by June 2007; Assistant Professors. Similarly, professors often feel unqualified to examine or GROUP Courses. Grants for the development of advise on a third “field” often of a student’s own devising. interdisciplinary undergraduate courses on one Nor is it clear that there will be jobs to fit a newly of four themes: humanities and the environment; developed interdisciplinary expertise, or that an audience humanities and human rights; humanities and for nontraditional work will always be found. All of us new media; humanities and biotechnology, health, and medicine. Eligibility: Ladder faculty. need to do a better job, I think, of explaining why our work ought to interest those not in our titular “field.” Strategic Working Groups – Stage I. Provide a framework for interdisciplinary thinking about And to do that, we need to have multiple conversations. curricular innovations in new research areas. I consider it my job, as Faculty Director of Programs, to Eligibility: Proposals for groups are invited from help sustain those conversations. any two ladder-faculty members, normally from separate departments. Celeste Langan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Faculty Director of Programs at the Townsend Center. Departmental Residencies. Intended to target A recent participant in the Strategic Working Group on New persons who can enrich academic programs Media, she has taught courses on Literature and Media Theory but who may not necessarily be academics. and Literature and Disability. Author of Romantic Vagrancy (1995) Eligibility: Humanities and related departments and “Mobility Disability,” her more recent publications include can nominate writers or artists in the earlier “Telepathos: Medium Cool Romanticism” and “Pathologies of stages of their careers, promising journalists, or Communication from Coleridge to Schreber.” She is currently persons with careers in public service. working on a book-length project called Post-Napoleonism: Imagining Sovereignty After 1799. Information about how to apply to these programs is available on the Center’s website: http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu.
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PERSPECTIVES ON A TOWNSEND GROUP on the relationship between aesthetics and politics. In the COURSE Townsend-sponsored GROUP seminar, Social Practices: Art and Human Environments, we will explore a range A group of artists in Turkey rent an apartment together of art practices that attempt to make a “social” turn in in a diverse, intergenerational neighborhood; instead both the content and form of their practice, linking this of using the space to paint or display, they invite their much-debated turn to a range of movements and debates neighbors to dinner, create a playroom for children, and in th-century philosophical and artistic histories organize a neighborhood parade. They call their work ranging from Adorno to Rancière, from Brecht to Oda Projesi (The Room Project). Situationist International, to the most recent experiments An African-American visual artist, William Pope L., variously called social practice, activist art, conversation known for an unusual gallery practice, decides to crawl pieces, littoral art, relational aesthetics, community arts, from lower Manhattan to Harlem in a superman costume, performance ethnography, amongst many other terms. talking or not talking to New York inhabitants who have The critical reaction to these efforts is varied and often to make room for him on the sidewalk. quite contradictory. Some wonder how art can contribute In a commissioned art piece in Zurich, the artist meaningfully to an effort in politics or social work, collective WochenKlausur invites sex-workers, politicians, accusing a work of serving only a decorative and largely journalists and activists to take a boat ride on Lake useless function. Meanwhile, different constituencies are Zurich; gathered around the table of a main cabin, they concerned about the opposite problem, about the ways are instructed to “have a conversation” in a piece that will in which a social mission can “over-functionalize” an be titled Intervention to Aid Drug-Addicted Women. aesthetic process, neutralizing its formal imagination and capitulating to a kind of over-intelligible do-gooderism, In Richmond, California, community artist Shannon or worse, feel-goodism. Flattery and her team conduct oral histories with a variety of residents in preparation for a multimedia, site-specific In many ways, current debates around Social Practice in oral installation and performance that promises to engage October, Artforum, Critical Inquiry, Public Culture and UC Berkeley and Richmond in central questions about other publications in the arts and humanities repeat long- neighborhoods, schools, race, violence, food and health, standing debates around very familiar issues. But this as well as how to raise children and how to grow flowers. contemporary manifestation is also an opportunity to reflect on our contemporary condition and on the place The list of examples that exemplify “social practice” in the of affect, sociality, and critique in our current moment. It contemporary arts and humanities is only increasing, and is also a chance to think about the very different artistic indeed, such examples could be positioned in a much, and social histories that are engaged in these multi- much longer genealogy of experimentation and debate disciplinary forms. Some experiments locate themselves
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in a post-Minimalist conversation around the autonomy hours of recorded interviews, and participation in the of the art object and its interdependent relation with the day-to-day life of the community. Touchable Stories has space of its production. From within cultural studies, been the center of multi-year neighborhood art projects environmental studies, and anthropology, social practice in several Boston communities, such as Central Square, emerges to locate research in the local and everyday Allston, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Fort Point. experience of urban space as supplement to cartographic Flattery is currently at work on a large-scale installation or quantitative methods of understanding communities. involving Berkeley and Richmond, as well as a smaller Meanwhile, these and other movements might find installation in the Free-Speech Movement Café. Her themselves entering the domain of performance — the interactive installations are based on oral histories offered social, spatial, embodied, gestural, by the Richmond community, sonic, spectacular, and verbal a complex city, containing medium whose allegiances to everything from verdant gated activism and social work (from condominium complexes to the New Deal theatre to Bread and Iron Triangle neighborhood, one Puppet to Augusto Boal to Anna of the most culturally diverse Deavere Smith) also run deep, are and economically challenged complicated, and are ongoing. As inner-cities in the nation. This we take up these investigations seems a propitious moment for throughout the seminar, we will such a project at UC Berkeley, have the privilege of engaging a campus whose Chancellor with a number of Bay Area has declared his own interest in artists and organizations that promoting programs that seek are asking similar questions. We to understand the conditions will study, attend, and anticipate that help diverse communities to performances and exhibits at thrive in California. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Flattery’s practice is one in the Berkeley Art Museum, the which she and a team of artists collect over oral Museum of the African Diaspora, California College histories from inhabitants and civic leaders over the of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, and numerous course of a year. Flattery moves into neighborhoods to experimental performance spaces. meet police officers, mayors, homeless activists, YMCA Most importantly, we will have the opportunity to work teachers, teenagers, elders, and community inhabitants with the Arts Research Center’s artist-in-residence of all varieties to get their perspective on place. After and Touchable Stories founder, Shannon Flattery. The archival research and interviews, she gathers local artists Touchable Stories project began in with the idea to create installation environments and living mazes that of using the talents of contemporary artists to help mix image, gesture, sound, motion, and embodiment to individual communities define their own concerns and take a critical and affective stance on the issues that press give them public expression. The conversation with each most heavily on particular urban neighborhoods: past neighborhood involves exhaustive research, hundreds of projects have included installations on the process of
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gentrification, racism, the experience of immigration and of undecidability in order for the arts to have a social role exile, spirituality, the environment, aging, violence, food, at all? health, longing, and more. Shannon Jackson is Chair and Professor of Theater, Dance and There are many things that I have found compelling Performance Studies and Professor of Rhetoric. She will teach Social Practices: Art and Human Environments (Rhetoric 240G) about Flattery’s art practice. First, it involves a process with Shannon Flattery during fall semester on Tuesdays 1:30- that is itself a collective act of deliberation and 4:30pm. cooperation between diverse community participants, joining the project of art-making to the goals of action research in community development. Second, it seeks to understand the memories and emotions that surround a community, using art’s historic ability to attend to the affective realm of local knowledge to find out how TOWNSEND GROUP COURSES people feel about where they are. At the same time, it Townsend GROUP courses are funded through makes use not only of art’s affective function but also of the generous support of Theodore and contemporary art’s critical function, its tendency to ask Frances Geballe and are part of the Townsend questions and to see otherwise, to ask often impertinent Center’s Geballe Research Opportunities for questions of why the world is shaped as it is — and Undergraduates Program. Other GROUP to wonder how it might be shaped differently. With courses offered in the fall semester are: Touchable Stories, it seems to me, the personal moment Catastrophe, Memory and Narrative: of the aesthetic encounter simultaneously produces an Comparative Approaches to 20th Century expanded moment of social and political encounter. The Atrocity local and the systemic, the compassionate and the ironic, Alan Tansman, East Asian Languages and the micro and the macro, the artistic and the social are Cultures brought into a scene of reciprocal reflection. Mariane Ferme, Anthropology Through an intimate interaction with the Touchable Death and the Visual Arts Stories process as well as with that of other artists and Thomas Laqueur, History collectives, students in the GROUP course will have the Guy Micco, School of Public Health chance to think together about what it means to bring a social imagination and an aesthetic imagination into Technology and Culture of Computer Graphics the same space. Is such a combination socially useful, Greg Niemeyer, Art Practice even if it is art? Or is such a combination too socially Dan Garcia, Computer Science useful to be art at all? How are the formal questions of Please consult the Schedule of Classes for more aesthetics matched to the formal questions of society? information. Does that match require certainty? Is there room for undecidability? Indeed, does that match require a degree
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New Faculty in the Arts & Humanities
Penelope Edwards Todd P. Olson Assistant Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies Associate Professor, Art History Penny Edwards is a cultural historian of Cambodia and Todd P. Olson is the author of Poussin and France: Burma whose research and teaching interests include Painting, Humanism and the Politics of Style. His Southeast Asian modern literary and print cultures, interests include class, gender and sexuality in visual Buddhism, gender, French colonialism, nationalism, race representation, Early Modern antiquarianism in France theory, urban studies and Chinese diaspora. and Italy, the history of art criticism and theory, and the politics of collecting. He is currently completing Eric Falci Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics: Painting History After Iconoclasm. Assistant Professor, English Eric Falci, a poet, completed his PhD in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Alessia Ricciardi and is originally from Syracuse. His work has recently Associate Professor, Italian Studies appeared in The Adirondack Review among other Alessia Ricciardi is a specialist of 20th-century Italian publications. This fall Falci will teach a junior seminar and French studies. Her main interests are literature, in English and lecture on contemporary literature since film studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political WWII. theory. Ricciardi is the author of The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film. Lyubov Golburt Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures Sherrilyn Roush Lyubov (Luba) Golburt’s research focuses primarily on Associate Professor, Philosophy Russian (and also French and British) Enlightenment Roush’s philosophical interests are mainly in general and Romanticism, especially on history and genre in philosophy of science, epistemology, probability, the Romantic period, eighteenth and early nineteenth- and logic. She has recently published Tracking Truth: century visual culture, literary polemics, readership and Knowledge, Evidence, and Science. She is now working consumer practices. on the evolution of knowledge and logic, the function of reasoning, and a tracking-based account of justified Anna Maria Martinho belief. Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese (Spring 2007) Ana Maria Martinho has written and lectured primarily Duncan Williams about African Literature from former Portuguese Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures Colonies. Her secondary field of research is Education, Williams works on Japanese Buddhist history, Buddhism in Portuguese as a Second and as a Foreign Language. and environmentalism, and American Buddhism. He is Martinho will focus her future research on issues the author of The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of concerning the shaping of Modernity in African texts and Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan, translator of four the epistemological boundaries of contemporary thought, Japanese books, and editor of three volumes. His next namely in Angola and Moçambique. project focuses on Buddhism, bathing practices, healing, and purification.
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Working Groups
American and Postcolonial Studies Contact Kelvin Black, [email protected], or Edrik Lopez, [email protected].
Ancient Philosophy Contact Joe Karbowski, [email protected], or Joseph Barnes, [email protected].
Armenian Studies Contact Stephen Astourian, [email protected].
Arts and Community Development Contact Karen Chapple, [email protected], or Heather The Townsend Center Working Groups bring Hood, [email protected]. together faculty and graduate students from various fields and departments with shared Asian Art and Visual Cultures Contact Yueni Zhong, [email protected]. research interests. Asian Cultural Studies For updates on the groups’ activities please Contact: Amy Lee, [email protected]. contact each group individually. Asian Pacific American Studies Contact Marguerite Nguyen, [email protected], or Janice Tanemura, [email protected].
Berkeley and Bay Area Early Modern Studies Contact Joy Crosby, [email protected], or Margo Meyer, [email protected].
Berkeley Film Seminar Contact Kristen Whissel, [email protected].
Berkeley New Music Project Contact Robert Yamasato, [email protected], or Loretta Notareschi, [email protected].
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Berkeley-Stanford British Studies Critical Sense (journal) Contact Caroline Shaw, [email protected], or Contact Ben Krupicka, [email protected], or Hans Thomas Laqueur, [email protected]. Sagan, [email protected].
BTWH: The Emergence of German Modernity Critical Theory: Vocabulary and Schools of Thought Contact Michael Huffmaster, [email protected], or Contact Kfir Cohen, kfi[email protected]. Russell Bucher, [email protected]. Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on California Studies Dinner Folklore and Popular Culture Contact Richard Walker, [email protected], or Delores Contact Jean Bascom, [email protected], or Dillard, [email protected]. Anthony Buccitelli, [email protected].
Chicana/o Cultural Studies Culture and History of East Central Europe Contact Marcelle Maese-Cohen, mmaesecohen@berkeley. Contact John Connelly, [email protected], or Michael edu, or Gabriele Erandi Rico, [email protected]. Dean, [email protected].
Children’s Literature Dance Studies Contact Catherine Cronquist, [email protected], or Contact Lisa Wymore, [email protected], or Natalia Aki Cecire, [email protected]. Katherine Mezur, [email protected].
Chronicle of the University of California (journal) Eighteenth Century Studies Contact Carroll Brentano, [email protected]. Contact Bradford Boyd, [email protected].
Clio’s Scroll Folklore Roundtable Contact Natalie Mourra, naty@berkeley.edu, or Albert Contact Jean Bascom, [email protected], or Monica Wu, [email protected]. Foote, [email protected].
Cognitive Science and Religion Frankfurt School of Aesthetics and Political Theory Contact Mark Graves, [email protected], or John Contact Monika Gehlawat, monika@berkeley.edu, or Kihlstrom, [email protected]. Charles Sumner, [email protected].
Consortium on the Novel Gender in German Studies Contact Karen Leibowitz, [email protected], or Orna Contact Doug Spencer, [email protected], or Shaughnessy, [email protected]. Jennifer Zahrt, [email protected].
Contempoary Poetry and Poetics Graduate Film Seminar Contact Charles Legere, [email protected], or Chris Contact Erica Levin, [email protected], or Amy Rust, Chien, [email protected]. [email protected].
Critical Filipina/o Studies Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley Contact Ethel Regis, [email protected], or Ligaya Contact Karen Williams, [email protected], or Domingo, [email protected]. Charity Urbanski, [email protected].
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Hip-Hop Studies Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Contact Michael Barnes, [email protected], or Ryan Studies (JAGNES) Rideaum, [email protected]. Contact Cyrus Zargar, [email protected], or Catherine Painter, [email protected]. History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science Late Antique Religions et Society (LARES) Contact Fabrizio Cariani, [email protected], or Paolo Contact Emily Haug, [email protected], or Brendan Mancosu, [email protected]. Haug, [email protected].
History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Latin American Colonial Studies Body, aka MedHeads Contact Brian Madigan, [email protected], or Melissa Contact China Scherz, [email protected], or Galvan, [email protected]. Thomas Laqueur, [email protected]. Linguistic Anthropology Identity Formation and Material Outcomes Contact E. Mara Green, [email protected], or Contact Kemi Balogun, [email protected], or Tamera Nathaniel Dumas, [email protected]. Lee Stover, [email protected]. Linguistics and the Language Arts Identity in Central Asia Contact Jeremy Ecke, [email protected], or Zachary Contact Sener Akturk, [email protected], or Pietro Gordon, [email protected]. Calogero, [email protected]. Literary Theory and French Literature Intercultural Theory and Performance Contact Sonja Bertucci, [email protected], or Neil Contact Emine Fisek, [email protected], or Catherine Landers, neil[email protected]. Ling T’ien Duffly, kate_duffl[email protected]. Literary Translation Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Contact Rebekah Collins, [email protected], or Marlon Contact Hamsa Murthy, [email protected], or Sara Jones, greffe@graffiti.net. Kendall, [email protected]. Literature and Psychoanalysis Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group Contact Alvin Henry, [email protected], or Julia McAnallen, Contact Satyel Larson, [email protected], or Annie [email protected]. McClanahan, [email protected]. Lucero (journal) Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Drink Contact Monica Gonzalez or Cesar Melo, gspa@berkeley. Contact Joseph Bohling, [email protected], or Alex edu. Toledano, [email protected]. MALCS - Women Active in Letters and Social James Joyce Change Contact Sarah Townsend, [email protected]. Contact Carolina Morales, kro[email protected], or Heidy Sarabia, [email protected]. Joseph Conrad Contact Tiffany Tsao, [email protected], or Paul Kerschen, Memory [email protected]. Contact Christine Bare, [email protected], or Rachel Giraudo, [email protected].
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Muslim Identities and Cultures Transatlantic Early American Studies Contact Huma Dar, [email protected], or Fouzieyha Contact Cody Marrs, [email protected], or Megan Pugh, Towghi, [email protected]. [email protected].
Nahuatl Transit (journal) Contact Heather McMichael, [email protected], or Contact Jennifer Zahrt, [email protected], or Rob Martha Moran, [email protected]. Schechtman, [email protected].
New Media Visual Cultures Contact Irene Chien, [email protected], or Brooke Belisle, Contact Anne Nesbet, [email protected]. [email protected]. Visuality and Alterity Nineteenth Century and Beyond British Cultural Contact Dalida Maria Benfield, dalidamariabenfield@berkele Studies y.edu, or Laura Perez, [email protected]. Contact Mark Allison, [email protected], or Marisa Knox, [email protected]. Yucatec Maya Language Contact Beatriz Reyes-Cortes, mireya@berkeley.edu, or Philosophy of Mind Timoteo Rodriguez, [email protected]. Contact John Schwenkler, [email protected], or Emily Jacobs, [email protected].
Police and Penalty Studies Contact Kevin Karpiak, [email protected], or Paul Hathazy, [email protected]. qui parle (journal) Contact Peter Skafish, skafi[email protected], or Nima Bassiri, [email protected]. repercussions (journal) Contact Hannah Greene, [email protected], or Camille Peters, [email protected].
Russian History, “kruzhok” Contact Eleonory Gilburd, [email protected], or Yuri Slezkine, [email protected].
Study of Everyday Life Contact Kate Mason, [email protected], or Trinh Tran, ttran@berkeley.edu.
Tourism Studies Contact Stephanie Hom Cary, [email protected], or Naomi Leite, [email protected].
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C 54th Annual Noon Concert Series MUSIC Program: The Four Seasons and Concertos for violin, strings and basso continuo by Antonio Vivaldi Faculty recital by Graeme Jennings (violin September 22–23 instructor), with April Paik, Christy Kyong, Jessica Ling, violin soloists, and strings from Asia by Means of the UC Berkeley Chamber Music class Performance Noon | Hertz Hall Symposium held in conjunction L The Emperor’s Muslim Servants: Muslim with Peony Pavilion Collaborators and the Establishment of
THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES Qing Colonial Regime in Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), 1759 – 1765 see p. CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Kwangmin Kim, Ph.D. candidate, History Noon | Dwinelle Hall
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CS Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures CENTER FOR BRITISH STUDIES/ENGLISH Plenary speakers: “Scottish Aesthetics and the September 28–29 Landscape of Memory”, Cairns Craig (Uni- versity of Aberdeen); “America’s Bard”, Robert Ethical Worlds of Stem Cell Medicine Conference EVENT KEY THE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY C CONCERTS CENTER E EXHIBITIONS
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Crawford (University of St Andrews); “‘A L Center for Race and Gender L P Meeting the Man of the Heart Wandering Passion for a Fugitive Object’: Afternoon Forum THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES/ Romanticism and the Irish Sublime”, Luke CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER BERKELEY ART MUSEUM Gibbons (University of Notre Dame); Jen Ace, Kanet Kendall, Lee Loua, and Gail Sudipto Chatterjee, Theater, Dance and “Literary Friendship and Lateral Thinking”, Vue, undergraduate grant recipients Performance Studies Susan Manning (University of Edinburgh); pm | Barrows Hall pm | Museum Theater, Berkeley Art “Fratriotism: Empire and its Limits in the Museum Scottish and Irish Imagination”, Mur- L ray Pittock (University of Manchester); The Riddle of Tabo: The Origin and Fate of a West Tibetan Manuscript “‘Which is the Merchant Here, and Which MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 the Jew?’: Walter Scott’s Foreigners”, David Collection CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES Simpson (UC Davis). CS National Security, the War on Paul Harrison, Religious Studies, Stanford Seminars/workshops: “Maria Edgeworth Terror, and the Constitution University between Smith and Scott”, James Chandler INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL STUDIES pm | IEAS Conference Room, Ful- (University of Chicago); “The Edinburgh pm | Lipman Room, Barrows Hall ton Street, th Floor Edition of the Waverley Novels: Achieve- Speakers: Rich Abrams (History), Lowell ment and Retrospect”, David Hewitt and Bergman (Graduate School of Journalism), L At Empire’s End: The Nizam in the Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen); Steven Maurer (Goldman School of Public Eighteenth Century “Authority and Authenticity in Scottish Policy), Vikram Amar (Hastings College Romanticism”, Margaret Russett (Uni- CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES/CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIA STUDIES of Law), and Pete McCloskey (former versity of Southern California); “Is There a congressman), with moderator Gordon Munis Faruqui, South and Southeast Asian Whole Hogg?: A Collaborative Seminar on Silverstein (Political Science). James Hogg’s Shorter Works”, John Plotz Studies Contact Janeen Jackson, janeenj@berkeley. (Brandeis University) and Penny Fielding pm | Center for Middle Eastern Studies, edu, for more information. (University of Edinburgh). Stephens Hall Symposium: “The Novel in World History, 1790-1840”, Margaret Cohen (Stanford TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 University), Catherine Gallagher (UC FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 L Public Art and the Social Berkeley), Peter Garside (Cardiff Uni- L Is China Shifting its Development Conscience versity), Catherine Jones (University of Paradigm? Central-local Relations ANTHROPOLOGY Georgia), and Franco Moretti (Stanford and the Impetus for Change University). CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES “Art, for What? Urban Intervention and Public Art in Brazil”, Ibraim do Nascimen- Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center Maria Heimer, Political Science, Uppsala to Santos (Universidade Federal de Bahia, for the Humanities, the Dean of Arts and University Humanities, the Dean of International Brasil); “Living Culture, A Look at the pm | IEAS Conference Room, Fulton and Area Studies, English, Comparative ‘Pontos de Cultura’ in Ceara, Brazil”, Meg Street, th Floor Literature, History, Philosophy, the Center Stalcup (Anthropology) for the Study of Law and Society, and the St. pm | Dwinelle Hall Andrew’s Society of San Francisco. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 In Portuguese with translation. Lectures The conference runs through September and a workshop continue on September . L P Women in the Ming Dynasty . Registration is required. Contact the Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center Center for British Studies, ⁄-, CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES for the Humanities, the Center for Latin [email protected], or visit http://ies. Lecture and demonstration by Lindy Li American Studies, Art Practice, Ethnic berkeley.edu/cbs/scottishromanticism/ for Mark (Anthropology, CSU East Bay), Mat- Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and the more information. thew Sommer (History, Stanford Univer- Public Research Institute at SFSU. sity), and Ming Zeng (master kunqu flutist) Contact Elizabeth Farfan, farfan@berkeley. pm | Hertz Hall edu, for more information.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 CS Democratic India: Social and Political Challenges in the 21st C 54th Annual Noon Concert Series L Reflective Rhetoric: Representations Century MUSIC of the City in Arabic and African- CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIA STUDIES Program: Clarinet Concerto by Leonard American Art and Literature :am – :pm | Berkeley Art Museum Bernstein, Clarinet Concerto by Paul Hin- CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES demith, Gra for clarinet by Elliott Carter Dalia El-Shayal, English, Cairo University Sessions: Raka Ray (South and Southeast Asian Studies) and Yogendra Yadav (Insti- Faculty recital by Robert Calonico, clarinet, pm | Center for Middle Eastern Studies, tute for Comparative Democracy, Centre with Andrea Liguori, piano Stephens Hall for the Study of Developing Societies, Noon | Hertz Hall Delhi), with respondents Pranab Bard- L Obscene Jouissance: Aesthetics han (Economics) and Ifran Nooruddin L P and the Visual Poetics of Labor Public Art and Human Rights (Ohio State University); Pradeep Chhibber Exploitation ANTHROPOLOGY (Political Science), Robin Jeffrey (Austra- HISTORY OF ART “Seeds for Peace: Recycling Street Violence lian National University) and Nita Kumar in the San Francisco Bay Area” Workshop, Derek Murray, Chancellor’s Diversity Post- (Claremont McKenna College), with East Bay Community High School; “Fight- doctoral Fellow, History of Art respondents Raghbendra Jha and Debjani ing with Flowers and Seeds in Xavante pm | J Doe Library Ganguli (Australian National University); Territory”, Mariana Leal Ferreira (Medical Ramachandra Guha (independent scholar) Anthropology, SFSU); “The Revenge of with respondents Robin Jeffrey and Raka Huitlacoche” Performance, Navarrete x FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Ray. Kajiyama Dance Theatre Company CS Peony Pavilion in Context: Kun Hosted by the Center for South Asia Stud- pm | Dwinelle Hall Opera and Cultural Performance ies, in collaboration with the Research In Portuguese with translation. from Ming to Modern Times School of Humanities and the Research CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, INSTITUTE OF School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Aus- L Foerster Lectures on the EAST ASIAN STUDIES, CAL PERFMORMANCES tralian National University. Contact Ahalya Satkunaratnam, ⁄-, or visit Immortality of the Soul :am – :pm | Toll Room, Alumni http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/events. THE GRADUATE DIVISION House html for more information. “Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Wil- A symposium in conjunction with Kenneth liams and the Roots of a Constitutional Pai’s production of Peony Pavilion, Septem- L Making Theater Tradition” ber -, at Zellerbach Hall. THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES/ Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distin- Sessions: “The Music of Kun Opera”, Joseph CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES guished Service Professor of Law and Eth- Lam (Musicology, University of Michi- A workshop with Kenneth Pai, Hua Wei, ics, University of Chicago Law School gan) and Wu Xinlei (Literature, Nanjing and Wang Mengchao, members of the pm | Chevron Auditorium, International University), with discussant Lindy Li Mark production of Peony Pavilion House (Anthropology, CSU East Bay); “Kun pm | Toll Room, Alumni House The lecture is free and open to the public. Opera and the Ming-Qing Transition”, No tickets are required. Katherine Carlitz (EALL, University of L Language, Feeling and the Brain: Pittsburgh) and Catherine Swatek (Asian A Pribram-Based Model Studies, University of British Columbia), BERKELEY LANGUAGE CENTER FALL LECTURE with discussant David Johnson (History). SERIES The symposium continues through Dan Shanahan, Professor of Communica- September . Contact IEAS, ⁄-, tion, Charles University, Prague [email protected], for more information pm | Dwinelle Hall EVENT KEY For information about Peony Pavilion, contact Cal Performances, http://www.
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CS Peony Pavilion in Context: Kun CS Peony Pavilion in Context: Kun C 54th Annual Noon Concert Series Opera and Cultural Performance Opera and Cultural Performance MUSIC from Ming to Modern Times from Ming to Modern Times Program: Amazing Grace by Leslie Adams, CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, INSTITUTE OF CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES, INSTITUTE OF Ventriloquist Acts of God by Adolphus Hail- EAST ASIAN STUDIES, CAL PERFMORMANCES EAST ASIAN STUDIES, CAL PERFMORMANCES stork, Three Dream Portraits by Margaret :am – :pm | Toll Room, Alumni 8:30am – Noon | Toll Room, Alumni Bonds, and Lyric Suite by Robert Morris House House Faculty recital by Candace Johnson, so- Sessions: “The Politics of Kun Opera in the Sessions: “Kunqu in a Global Context, 1”, prano, with Margaret Kapasi Qing”, Hua Wei (Literature & Philosophy, Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak (Theatre Noon | Hertz Hall Academia Sinica) and Wei Shang (East and Dance, University of Hawaii at Manoa), Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia Sheila Melvin (Asian Wall Street Journal), L The Role of Song in Jin ping mei: University), with discussant Sophie Volpp Madam Hua Wenyi (master kunqu artist), Implied Judgment and Narrative (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Susan Pertel Jain (UCLA), Haiping Yan Integration “Kunqu Trajectories in the 19th Century”, (School of Theatre, Film and Television, CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Andrea S. Goldman (History, University UCLA), and Sudipto Chatterjee (Theater, Katherine Carlitz, of Maryland) and David Rolston (Asian Dance and Performance Studies); “Kunqu East Asian Languages Languages and Cultures, University of in a Global Context, 2”, Kenneth Pai and and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh Michigan), with discussant Matthew Som- panelists. Noon | Dwinelle Hall mer (History, Stanford University). Contact IEAS, ⁄-, ieas@berkeley. The symposium continues through edu, for more information. September . Contact IEAS, ⁄-, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 L [email protected], for more information. Folk and Fine Arts Flux in India L Race and Visual Culture Today CENTER FOR RACE AND GENDER AFTERNOON L Kunqu Opera Master Class BERKELEY ART MUSEUM FORUM THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUD- Joanna Williams, South and Southeast Elizabeth Abel, English and Hertha Sweet IES/CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES Asian Studies Wong, English Wang Shiyu and Zhang Jiqing, vocal direc- pm | Berkeley Art Museum pm | Barrows Hall tors of Peony Pavilion
pm | Toll Room, Alumni House L Analyticity TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 PHILOSOPHY L Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India L The Kadish Lecture Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford BERKELEY ART MUSEUM THE GRADUATE DIVISION 4:10pm | Howison Library Artists Atul Dodiya, Nalini Malani and Chaitanya Sambrani, with Lawrence Co- “Traditions: Constitutional Law and the L The Sultan’s Supreme Sacrifice: hen (Anthropology and South and South- Authority of the Past” The Celebration of Aid al-Kabir in east Asian Studies) and Vasudha Dalmia Cass Sunstein (scholar and author) with the French Protectorate of Morocco, (South and Southeast Asian Studies) Larry Kramer (Stanford Law School) and Philip Frickey (Boalt Hall School of Law) 1912-1937 pm | Museum Theater, Berkeley Art CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES Museum pm | 140 Boalt Hall Stacy Holden, History, Purdue University L Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan pm | Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Created Its Own Lost Generation Stephens Hall INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES Michael Zielenziger pm | Women’s Faculty Club Lounge
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Sambit Basu (ENAD), Vidhu Singh (theater scholar/director), with respondent and moderator Sudipto Chatterjee (UC Berkeley). Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Multi-Campus Research Group on International Perfor- mance and Culture, International and Area Studies, the Center for South Asian Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Rhetoric, and The- ater, Dance and Performance Studies.
CS Asia by Means of Performance The conference continues on September THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES . Call ⁄- or visit http://theater. berkeley.edu for more information. :am – :pm | Townsend Center for CS Image and Imagination, Body and the Humanities, Stephens Hall L Some Thoughts on the Cultural Spirit What is the role of performance as an art Permutations of Literacy in Language SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE/ANTHROPOLOGY practice and as a social form in an era of Teaching Cristina Garcia Rodero, visiting artist globalization? How have these changes af- BERKELEY LANGUAGE CENTER FALL LECTURE Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for fected and been affected by Asian perfor- SERIES the Humanities. mance practices as we understand them Janet Swaffar, Germanic Studies, University Contact the department of Spanish and historically, regionally, and philosophically? of Texas at Austin Portuguese, ⁄-, for details. Sessions: “Are We Imposing Theoretical Im- pm | Dwinelle Hall perialism?: Japanese Theorists in Western Theory”, Carol Sorgenfrei (UCLA); “Indo- L On Court Poetry in Medieval China nesia by Means of Performance: Ethnomu- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES sicologists’ Approaches”, Benjamin Brinner CS Jack Chen, East Asian Languages and Lit- Asia by Means of Performance (UC Berkeley); “Destabilizing the ‘Native’ eratures, Wellesley College THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES and the “Foreign’: Theorizing Corporeal am – :pm | Townsend Center for the Hauntings of Transnational Indian Dancers pm | IEAS Conference Room, Fulton Humanities, Stephens Hall in Early American Modern Dance”, Priya Street, th Floor Srinivasan (UC Riverside) with respondent Sessions: “Tropes of ‘Home’: The Global Miryam Sas (UC Berkeley); “Fantasies of L Discussion with Timothy Shanghai and New Asia in Performance”, ‘Chinese-ness’ and the Traffic in Women Williamson Haiping Yan (UCLA); Roundtable on from Mainland China to Hong Kong in PHILOSOPHY “‘Area-based’ Studies Debates and Per- Fruit Chan’s Durian, Durian”, Pheng Cheah Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford formance Research”, Shannon Steen (UC Berkeley), Sally Ness (UC Riverside), (UC Berkeley) with respondent Sue-Ellen :pm | Howison Library Case (UCLA); “Colors inon the Umbrella”: Suk-Young Kim (UC Santa Barbara), and A Roundtable on Diversity in South-Asian Sophie Volpp (UC Berkeley). American Theater”, Sujit Saraf (NAATAK),
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. L The Fourth Dimension: Space, The conference continues on Friday, Sep- Time, and Space – Time as Leitmotif tember at UC San Francisco. Contact in 20th-century Art Clair Dunne, [email protected], or BERKELEY ART MUSEUM visit http://stsc.berkeley.edu/events/- Linda Dalrymple Henderson EthicalWorldsSept_over.htm for more pm | Museum Theater, Berkeley Art information. Museum
CS Ethical Worlds of Stem Cell FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Medicine P Suburban Motel: A Festival of THE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY L Carl Einstein’s Ontology of Art One-Act Plays by George F. Walker CENTER HISTORY OF ART THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES – :pm | Townsend Center for the Sebastian Zeidler, Mellon Postdoctoral Fel- Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall pm | Zellerbach Playhouse low in Modern Art Stem cell medicine, including both research Performances of Criminal Genius and Adult pm | J Doe Library and potential clinical applications, has Entertainment. introduced some of the most innovative These and additonal plays are performed medical possibilities of the 21st century, in October and November. Tickets: $ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 from cellular therapies for previously un- general admission, $ UC faculty/staff, $ students/seniors. Call ⁄- or C 54th Annual Noon Concert Series treatable conditions to actualized alliances visit http://theater.berkeley.edu for more MUSIC between research and industry, patients, scientists, and politicians, generating a information. Program: Concerto for Orchestra by Witold surfeit of promissory biocapital. Simultane- Lutoslawski ously, stem cell medicine has heightened University Symphony Orchestra, David public and political concerns over the ethics SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Milnes, conductor of research, intervention, and translation. P Film Screening of ‘Milarepa’ Noon | Hertz Hall Ethical debates have been re-ignited over: CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES the religious and ontological status of embryos; cultural knowledge of and toler- Filmmaker Neten Chokling Rinpoche in THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 ance for chimeras; the genetic and bodily person integrity of human subjects and donors; the pm | Wheeler Auditorium L Provisional Bodies: Contemporary distribution of benefits and burdens among Contact the Center for Buddhist Studies, Literatures of the Chinese Diaspora patients, publics, industry, government, [email protected], or visit and Cultural Translation and science; the profit boundaries between http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/events/ CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES academy and industry; the implications of for more information. Serena Fusco, Comparative Literature, globalization for this emergent science. University of Naples Public Sessions: “Diversity, Globalization P Suburban Motel: A Festival of pm | IEAS Conference Room, Fulton and Distributive Justice”, Rayna Rapp One-Act Plays by George F. Walker Street, th Floor (NYU), Nancy Scheper-Hughes (UC THEATER, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES Berkeley), Troy Duster (NYU), and Aihwa pm | Zellerbach Playhouse Ong (UC Berkeley), with Ruha Benjamin Performances of Criminal Genius and Adult (UC Berkeley) and Jennifer Liu (UC San Entertainment. Francisco); “The Idea of Ethics in Science”, Charis Thompson (UC Berkeley), David These and additonal plays are performed Rothman (Columbia), and Adrianne Asch in October and November. Tickets: $14 (Yeshiva), with Vincanne Adams (UC San general admission, $10 UC, $8 students/se- Francisco). niors. Call ⁄- or visit http://the- ater.berkeley.edu for more information.
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About The Townsend Center
TOWNSEND CENTER PROGRAMS
GROUP (GEBALLE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR
UNDERGRADUATES PROGRAM). Provides grants to undergraduates and ladder faculty for the development of interdisciplinary undergraduate courses, summer research apprenticeships, and research teams on four themes: humanities and the environment; humanities and human rights; humanities and new media; humanities and biotechnology, health, and medicine. Deadlines: Fall and Spring (November, March).
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3 “Opening Lines” THE AVENALI LECTURE: 5 “The Humanities, Plural”
8 “Social Practices in Art and “Globalization and Human Environments” De-colonial Thinking” 11 New Faculty in the Humanities
12 Working Groups Walter Mignolo
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In the next Newsletter Classicist Anthony Long looks at Tuesday, October 17, 2006 evolution and intelligent design 7:30pm | Lipman Room, Barrows Hall