Center for Ideas and Society ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012

Center for Ideas and Society

ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012

Table of Contents

. DIRECTOR’S WELCOME . INTRODUCTION . EMORY ELLIOTT BOOK WARD . CONFERENCES . RESIDENT FELLOWSHIP GROUPS . ANDREW W. MELLON WORKSHOPS IN THE HUMANITIES . FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS . UC GRADUATE FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES . COMMITTEES AND STAFF . EVENTS 2011-12

DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

Thank you for your interest in the Center for Ideas and Society. We had a very active year, as you will see. Indeed, if you explore our record of lectures, conferences, workshops and meetings you will learn that our activities represented every department in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences except Art (an omission we will correct next year) and even included UCR’s fledgling medical school. Here I would like to highlight two achievements we think worth special mention. First, with the help of the Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund, we established our first new Institute, the Institute for the Study of Immigrant Religions (ISER). Headed by Michael Alexander (Religious Studies) Jennifer Schepper-Hughes (History) and Amanda Huffer (Religious Studies), ISER will pursue its study and archiving of Southern California’s diverse religions under our auspices and with our help. Second, due to a generous grant from Georgia Elliott we were able to bestow the first annual Emory Elliott Book Award. Honoring the memory of the late Director of the Center, Emory Elliott, Distinguished Professor of English, the Award goes to the author of a book published in the previous academic year. The winner is that book which, in the judgment of the selection committee, best exemplifies the values associated with Professor Elliott and his contributions to intellectual and cultural life. These include the capacity to recognize complexity together with the passion to clarify, the ability to contribute to a conversation rather than to summarize agreements already established, and the intent to further a tradition of creative and scholarly munificence.

We hope that you enjoy this report on our 2011-12 activities and that you will join us for what we think will be an equally exciting 2012-13 academic year.

Best Wishes, Georgia Warnke Director The Center for Ideas and Society

INTRODUCTION

In the face of continuing challenges to the worth of the humanities and the liberal arts in general, the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside is committed to demonstrating their importance to both university audiences and the wider public. It may be that scientific and technological developments have a more noticeable influence on our lives. Nevertheless, assessing that influence, situating it within relevant historical, social and cultural contexts, investigating its moral and ethical foundations and, in general, reflecting upon the goals and purposes of scientific and technological development, this is the work of the humanities, the arts and the qualitative social sciences. Nevertheless, the scope of these disciplines ranges far beyond reflections on the so-called STEM fields. Indeed, the subject matter of the humanities, arts and qualitative social sciences is nothing less than the meaning of human life on earth. Who are we and who have we been? Who do we want to be and why? How do different groups answer these questions and how have they and other groups answered them in the past? What can we learn from our past and from each other? What can we learn from the ways we and others imagine the future?

The Center for Ideas and Society brings scholars together to study these questions and to try to construct fruitful frameworks for thinking about our present, past and future. One of ten humanities centers on each of the campuses of the UC system, the Center is part of the Consortium of UC Humanities Centers and of the UC Humanities Network. It accomplishes its mission through a variety of programs. Among them:

Providing resident fellowships for UCR faculty to pursue research interests with other faculty members. Research groups are released from teaching and administrative duties for one quarter, occupy work-space at the Center and meet in weekly seminars. Where appropriate, each group includes a Residential Faculty Visitor who resides in Riverside for the quarter to work with the group.

Administering the Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Student-Faculty workshops. Thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Workshops provide a venue for collegial interaction on topics of mutual interest across departmental lines and among those at different stages in their academic careers. Mellon Workshops host public speakers, hold private and public workshops, and encourage cross-disciplinary expertise and reflection. For UCR graduate students, the workshops offer opportunities for professional contacts, interaction with faculty members from other departments, and mentorship on works-in-progress. For UCR faculty members, the Mellon Workshops offer collegial interaction with colleagues from different departments and universities as well as professional relations with graduate students.

Administering the UC Graduate Students in the Humanities fellowships and the Humanities Graduate Student Research Grants.

Sponsoring, co-sponsoring and providing staff support for conferences, lectures, workshops, and colloquia on UCR’s Riverside and Palm Desert campuses. CIS lecture programs include the Lyceum Lectures, Dueling Disciplines, Winter Wednesdays in the Desert and with a generous grant from Forrest S. Mosten, the yearly Forest S. Mosten Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies Lecture.

FIRST ANNUAL EMORY ELLIOTT BOOK AWARD

Michelle Rahaja Associate Professor Department of English

With great delight, the Center for Ideas and Society presented its first annual Emory Elliott Book Award to Michelle Raheja, Associate Professor of English for her 2011 book, Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film. Reservation Reelism explores representations of Native Americans in film from the silent era to the present, from the heyday of stereotyping to contemporary Native filmmaking. Professor Raheja is particularly interested in the ways Native American actors, directors and film crews variously and sometimes simultaneously submitted to, used and subverted those images. Mining multiple archives and exploring the lives of such actors as Minnie Ha Ha, Molly Spotted Elk, Jay Silverheels, and Iron Eyes Cody, Reservation Reelism illuminates the complexity, politics and contradictions of Native American visual representation.

CONFERENCES October 21, 2011

Global Post/Socialisms? An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Asia, the Americas, and Europe

Sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society with the UCR Departments of Anthropology and History, UCR Global Studies Program, UCR Interdisciplinary Studies, UCR SEATRIP (Southeast Asia; Text Ritual and Performance) and the Andrew W. Mellon Workshops in the Humanities

Participants

Lynda Bell, History, University of California, Riverside Elizabeth Dunn, Geography and International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder Lan Duong, Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Communications, University of California, San Diego Martha Lampland, Sociology, University of California, San Diego Ann Marie Leshkowich, Sociology and Anthropology, Holy Cross Nguyen-vo Thu-huong, Asian Languages and Cultures, Asian American Studies and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Timothy Rice, Music University of California, Los Angeles Jonathan Ritter, Music, University of California, Riverside Paul Ryer, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Freya Schiwy, Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside Christina Schwenkel, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside Wendy Su, Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside Li Zhang, Anthropology, University of California, Davis

IMPROVISATION AND THE PAST November 14, 2011

Sponsored by The Center for Ideas and Society with Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, University of Guelph

Participants

Jayna Brown, Ethnic Studies, University of California Riverside Danielle Goldman, Dance, The New School Anthea Kraut, Dance, University of California, Riverside George Lewis, Music, Columbia University Tracy McMullen, Music, University of Southern California Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Institute Trinh T. Minh-ha, Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley Sherrie Tucker, American Studies, University of Kansas Deborah Wong, Music, University of California, Riverside

Information and Financial Markets Workshop January 19-20, 2012

Sponsored by The Center for Ideas and Society with University of California, Davis, California Institute of Technology and University of Utrecht. This conference centered the historical development of information management and intermediation in financial markets before the creation of modern banks. Banks are relative newcomers in the financial markets of the developed world, and they are still rare and/or inefficient in developing countries. Recent research on non-bank intermediaries in European, Latin American and African contexts reveals the early financial markets and institutions in which recognizable and comparable intermediary functions and markets developed.

Participants

Alexia Blin, EHESS, Paris Elbra David, University of California, Irvine Martha Poon, New York University Daniel Strum, Stanford University Patrik Winton, Uppsala University Rodrigo Parral Duran, University of Arizona Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College Phil Hoffman, California Institute of Technology Gilles Postel-Vinay, INRA and EHESS, Paris Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology Gustavo A. Del Angel, CIDE, Mexico City Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University Dhanoos Sutthiphisal, McGill University Andrea Lluch, CONICET; Universidad de San Andrés Christiaan van Bochove, Utrecht University Heleen Kole, Utrecht University Juliette Levy, University of California, Riverside

The Material Cultures of Knowledge, 1500-1830 April 23-26, 2012, at the Huntington Library, California

Workshop I: “Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteenth Century”

Supported by the Center for Ideas and Society with the University of California, Riverside, Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Fund, Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, the Huntington Library and the University of California Humanities Network, this first in a series of interdisciplinary workshops brings UC researchers together with Cambridge University’s research group in “Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteenth Century.”

Participants

Katy Barrett, Cambridge University Maxine Berg, Warwick University Heidi Brayman Hackel, University of California, Riverside Susannah Brooke, Cambridge University Melissa Calaresu, Cambridge University Luis Calè, Birkbeck, University of London Sean Corbin, University of California, Riverside Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside Molly Dorkin, Cambridge University Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley Richard Dunn, National Maritime Museum Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside Elizabeth Eger, Kings College London Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara Randolph C. Head, University of California, Riverside Steve Hindle, Huntington Library Maia Jessup-Nuku, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt University Leanna McLoughlin, University of California, Riverside Dana Simmons, University of California, Riverside Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles Sophie Waring, Cambridge University Alexander Wragge-Morley, Kings College London

“What’s Up With Mediterranean Studies?” Legacies of the Mediterranean Symposium May 4, 2012

Supported by the Center for Ideas and Society with the Andrew W. Mellon Workshops in the Humanities, the Mediterranean Multicampus Research Project, and the Legacies of the Mediterranean Resident Fellowship Group.

Participants:

Antonio Donato, Philosophy, City University of New York Ray Kea, History, University of California, Riverside Sharon Kinoshita, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz Jeff Sacks, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside

RESIDENT FELLOWSHIP GROUPS

The Center fosters inquiry from multiple perspectives and disciplines and in furthering a more robust and nuanced understanding of topics than is frequently possible within traditional disciplinary vocabularies, categories, and self- descriptions. To that end, it funds quarterly resident research groups of up to four UCR researchers and one external researcher. While normally the Center is sponsors only three year resident groups, one each quarter, the proposals for the 2012-13 were so interesting that we decided to sponsor four. While this decision put some stress on our space, it provided for an exciting residential program.

Fall Quarter Resident Research Group

“Legacies of the Mediterranean: Translation and

Multilingualism in History, Literature, Philosophy, Music, Theater, and Popular Culture”

The Mediterranean is a site and subject of translation, cross-

juncture, interaction, and invention. It is a locus of late Erith Jaffe-Berg antiquity, a field for the transport of texts and ideas within Theater and between medieval and early modern Europe, Southwest Asia, and Africa, a site of colonial conquest and cultural imposition in modern colonialism, and a fraught sphere for

survival and articulation in the present. Mediterranean studies has emerged as an important field of inquiry in

diverse disciplines – literature, philosophy, anthropology, history, theater. Offering a counterpoint to Area Studies and civilization paradigms, it engages a diverse set of events and legacies across national, linguistic, and disciplinary borders. This resident group explored the histories and legacies of the Mediterranean in order to elicit what may remain to come from this multilingual, heterogeneous, and Jeff Sacks complex locus: what the group calls the legacies of the Comparative Lit Mediterranean. This multilingual and interdisciplinary approach, which interweaves arts, history, and language studies, spurred unanticipated connections and questions. Rather than tracing continuities or breaks within fields that were delimited in advance, it looked at cultural friction and relations that lead to hybrid cultural and artistic work.

Participants:

Erith Jaffe-Berg, Associate Professor, Theatre

Jeff Sacks, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature Ray Kea History Ray Kea, Professor, History

Rogerio Buudasz, Associate Professor, Music

Antonio Donato, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, City University of New York

Rogerio Budasz Music

Winter Quarter Resident Fellowship Group

“Ornament, Race and Aesthetics”

Art historian David Summers identifies a critical western philosophical perspective informed by Plato and embodied in the epigraph above from modernist architect Adolph Loos that inappropriately charges ornament with crimes of superficiality, meaninglessness, and degeneracy of form and Andrea Denny-Brown truth. A perspective explicitly gendering and marking English ornament as feminine and raced. Summers defends ornament, describing how, “ornament serves the purpose of evaluation, adding to the force of artifacts by distinguishing and heightening them. Kind and degree of ornamentation typically make social hierarchy clear, in costumes and furnishings, and in social spaces as part of the enactment of relations of status and power.” Ornament, properly understood, is not epiphenomenal, but central to the articulation and legibility of form and social distinction. For Summers, “Much of the art of the world-and much of the

most splendid art of the world-is ornamental.” Further, as Vorris Nunley Derrida suggest in Truth in Painting, distinctions between English classifications such as the ornamental and pure form are not stable. This group of resident fellows, bring together a variety of academic fields and lenses including material and visual culture, Japanese studies, rhetorical theory, gender, fashion, literature, architecture, and European, Japanese, French, African, and Roman and Greek poetics, proposes to unsettle, shift, and challenge critical, hegemonic assumptions about the function of ornament, aesthetics, and

race.

Participants:

Andrea Denny-Brown, Assistant Professor, English Margherita Long Comparative Literature Vorris Nunley, Assistant Professor, English

Margherita Long, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages

Heidi Brevik-Zender, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages

Heidi Brevik-Zender Comparative Literature

Winter Quarter Resident Fellowship Group

“Environmental Legacies of Conflict” Large-scale, prolonged conflicts not only traumatize people connected to them but they also disturb the environments and landscapes they inhabit. This group draws together an historian, an anthropologist and two political scientists to develop interdisciplinary approaches to study how legacies of conflict relate to environmental issues such as land use David Biggs policies, environmental degradation, pollution, History modifications to built landscapes and conservation of lands with highly contested, cultural significance. Environmental legacies include a range of phenomena related to conflict, dispossession, and war, encompassing their biophysical consequences, their immediate and long-term effects on

human ecology-the ways people are able to use, inhabit, and imagine their environments, and their post-conflict political life-the ways environmental damage and exclusion are taken up in (and forgotten in) processes of peacemaking, reconciliation and restitution. This group has several aims. Yuhki Tajima First, it is an effort to extend collaborative work among UCR Political Science faculty on environmental dimensions of conflict, drawing on different disciplinary and area studies strengths. Second, this cluster represents an effort to expand the opportunities for graduate and faculty research in CHASS in environmental studies. With respect to research foci, this group aims to advance new major research projects for all four faculty. With regards to public intellectual life at UCR, this group intends to bring several UC and nationally-recongnized scholars to campus for talks as well as to highlight the work of UCR faculty engaged in related projects.

Participants: Bronwyn Leebaw Political Science David Biggs, Associate Professor, History

Yukhi Tajima, Assistant Professor, Political Science

Bronwyn Leebaw, Assistant Professor, Political Science Derick Fay, Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Derick Fay Anthropology

Spring Quarter Resident Fellowship Group

“Belonging and Biopolitics: Examining Sovereignty in Transnational Spaces”

This group examines how sovereignty is constituted and contested in transnational geographical and cultural spaces,

and the corresponding implications this has for political and

Weihsin Gui social representations of raced, gendered, and sexed English individuals and collectives. In an increasingly globalizing and transnational world, there is an increasing interplay between regimes of discipline that surveil and punish individuals in order to enforce socio-cultural norms and modes of biopower that emphasize the management of life

and security of an entire population. This group takes up

this interplay between biopower and discipline with transnational spaces to develop two linked conceptual and thematic rubrics: first, the possibility of non-statist forms of political sovereignty and social belonging; second, the Carole-Anne Tyler importance of individual narratives, communal histories, and English the intimacy of everyday life within the politics of

sovereignty and representation. Questions they will explore: how is sovereignty redefined and contested within the context of late capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization in which the nation-state is no longer the center actor? How do individuals and collectives appropriate or resist practices of discipline and subjection in order to imagine alternative

or emergent forms of autonomy, affiliation, and belonging?

How do colonial, semi-, and postcolonial conditions require us to revise Foucault’s ideas of discipline and regulation and construction of individuals as raced, gendered, and sexed Annmaria Shimabuku subjects? How might they read Foucault’s own earlier Comparative Literature writings on heterotopic spaces and figurative language as ways of imagining alternative and emergent forms of

sovereignty through literature and film?

Participants:

Weihsin Gui, Assistant Professor, English

Carole-Anne Tyler, Associate Professor, English

Annmarie Shimabuku, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages

Lan Duong Lan Duong, Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Media & Cultural Studies Studies

ANDREW W. MELLON WORKSHOPS IN THE HUMANITIES

As part of its multi-year grant to the Center for Ideas and Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation sponsored five Graduate Student-Faculty Workshops in the Humanities during the 2011-2012 academic year. These workshops allow graduate students and faculty to interact as colleagues and to learn together in advancing their research interests beyond disciplinary and departmental boundaries. They also provide opportunities for graduate students to present and receive feedback on their work in progress and they bring prominent and creative visitors to campus. In what proved to be another active and productive year, these workshops sponsored or co-sponsored 49 events and included over 100 active workshop participants.

Medieval Cultures and Postmodern Legacies

This workshop focuses on the legacy of the Middle Ages as it has been defined and redefined in the late twentieth and early twenty first century. This legacy extends from the popular impact of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to the condemnation of Islamic societies as “medieval” and the location of the origin of particular forms of patriotism in “medieval” histories, such as the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

In addition to the signs and symbols of medieval culture the workshop investigates the degree to which the Middle Ages

themselves engaged in the production of modernities. Through December 2011 the workshop also had access to funds from the Australian Research Council. Public lectures were followed by master classes with the graduate student members of the workshop.

John Ganim, Faculty Coordinator John Ganim, Faculty Coordinator Tom Schneider, Graduate Student Coordinator English Participants:

J. M. Ganim, Professor of English Piotr Gorecki, Professor of History Conrad Rudolph, Professor of the History of Art Andrea Denny-Brown, Assistant Professor of English Sherri Franks Johnson, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Benjamin Liu, Professor of Hispanic Studies (in absentia, but involved) Melissa Conway, Director, Special Collections, Rivera Library Joanna Scott Bradfield, Ph.D., English Leona Fisher, Ph.D., English Jason Tondro, Ph.D., English Wallace Cleaves, Lecturer, University Writing Program Kristin Noone, Graduate student, English Raymond Papica, Graduate student, English Megan Stein, Graduate student, English Thomas Schneider, Graduate student, English Jennie Friedrich, Graduate student, English

Tom Schneider, Graduate Student Coordinator

Viral Ports, Virtual Currents – Interconnections between Media, the Arts, and the Everyday in Southeast Asia and its Diasporas

The Viral Ports workshop tries to create a space for discussing everyday life in Southeast Asia beyond traditional questions involving socio-politics and economies. Reflecting Arjun Appadurai’s call for a “new architecture of area studies,” one focusing on “process geographies” and looking at “areas as spaces of action, interaction, and motion,” the workshop explores the part arts and media (e.g. YouTube videos, films, music, sermons, paintings, and the Internet) play in daily interactions. The workshop tries to develop Hendrik Maier, Faculty understandings of the forms and practices through which Coordinator ideas and ideologies are creatively presented, shaped, Comparative Literature and assimilated and communicated within and among Southeast Foreign Languages Asian communities.

Hendrik Maier, Faculty Coordinator Lan Duong, Faculty Coordinator Mike Atienza, Independent Scholar Coordinator

Participants: Deborah Wong, Professor, Music Sally Ness, Professor, Anthropology Hendrik Maier, Professor, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Wendy Rogers, Professor, Dance Mariam Lam, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Christina Schwenkel, Associate Professor, Anthropology Rene Lysloff, Associate Professor, Music David Biggs, Associate Professor, History Muhamad Ali, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies Lan Duong, Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Studies Lan Duong, Faculty Coordinator Tamara Ho, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Media and Cultural Studies Weishin Gui, Assistant Professor, English Yuhki Tajima, Assistant Professor, Political Science Baskara Wardaya, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, History Husni Abu Bakar, Comparative Literature Supeena Adler, Graduate Student, SEATRiP Aaron Singer, Graduate Student, SEATRiP and Music Nerfita Primadewi, Graduate Student, Music Phouc Duong, Graduate Student, Anthropology Chi Pham, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Panida Lorlertratna, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Minh Nguyen, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Sarah Grant, Graduate Student, Anthropology Gloria Gonzalez, Comparative Literature Premalath Thiagarajan, Graduate Student, Dance Katie Stahl, Graduate Student, Dance Paul Michael Atienza, Independent Scholar, Southeast Asian Studies Mike Atienza, Independent Scholar Coordinator

Unauthorized but not Silent: The Social and Political Dynamics of Undocumented Immigration

in the United States and Abroad

In the past two decades, undocumented immigrants have

risen in prominence in various parts of the United States and a range of European countries, both as objects of national and local policies and as subjects who challenge their status Vanesa Estrada, as “policy problems.” Despite the importance of immigration Faculty Coordinator issues, scholarship is has been limited by the lack of reliable Sociology data and insufficient cross-disciplinary dialogue on immigration research. This workshop built a network of local scholars doing qualitative, quantitative, interpretive, and critical research on undocumented and irregular migration and it brought them together for workshops, Karthick presentation and discussions. Ramakrishnan, Faculty Coordinator Political Science Todd Sorensen, Faculty Coordinator Vanesa Estrada, Faculty Coordinator Karthick Ramakrishnan, Faculty Coordinator Andrea Silva, Graduate Student Coordinator Chris Haynes, Graduate Student Coordinator

Participants: Jorge M. Aguero, Assistant Professor, Economics Ben Bishin, Associate Professor, Political Science Vanesa Estrada, Assistant Professor, Sociology David Glidden, Professor, Philosophy Martin Johnson, Associate Professor, Political Science

Todd Sorensen, Faculty Anthony Maciasm Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Economics Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Political Science Tanya Nieri, Assistant Professor, Sociology Paul Ryer, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Devra Weber, Professor, History

Todd Sorensen, Assistant Professor, Economics Allan Colbern, Graduate Student, Political Science Connie Chow, Graduate Student, History Andrea Silva, Graduate Student, Political Science Carrie Skulley, Graduate Student, Political Science

Andrea Silva Chris Haynes, Graduate Student, Political Science Grad Student Coordinator D. Xavier Medina Vidal, Graduate Student, Political Science Edgar Rodriguez, Graduate Student, Sociology Edwin Elias, Graduate Student, Sociology Kevin Sitz, Graduate Student, Political Science

Chris Haynes Grad Student Coordinator

Critical Digital Humanities Research

The goals of the Critical Digital Humanities Mellon Workshop are to raise awareness of the digital humanities field and to support graduate student research in the area. The workshop accomplished these goals through both smaller events such as reading group meetings, which allowed participants to learn the basics, and public talks, which allowed participants to learn about a wide range of highly

developed projects that approach the digital humanities

from very different angles and reveal very different

investments in it. Public talks included master classes that James Tobias, Faculty Coordinator allowed graduate students to discuss their own research with English premier scholars who were frank about both the joys and challenges of working within digital humanities.

James Tobias, Faculty Coordinator Kimberly Hall, Graduate Student Coordinator Ian Ross, Graduate Student Coordinator

Participants: James Tobias, Associate Professor of English Heidi Brayman Hackel, Associate Professor of English Susan Zieger, Assistant Professor of English Kimberly Hall, Graduate Student, English Anne Sullivan, Graduate Student, English Mark Biswas, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Tanner Higgin, Graduate Student, English April Dunham, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages

Richard Hunt, Graduate Student, English Kimberly Hall David Banuelos, Graduate Student, English Grad Student Coordinator Rochelle Gold, Graduate Student, English Alex Saum, Graduate Student, Hispanic Studies Jennifer Kavetsky, Graduate Student, English Justin Gautreau, Graduate Student, English Raymond Papica, Graduate Student, English Shannon Tarango, Graduate Student, English Elias Serna, Graduate Student, English Derek Yung, Graduate Student, English Amanda Moreno, Graduate Student, English Mark Young, Graduate Student, English Jerry Winter, Graduate Student, English Mike Podolny, Graduate Student, English Eddie Eason, Graduate Student, English William Sun, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages Jessica Roberson, Graduate Student, English Steve Anderson, Graduate Student, History Ian Ross Grad Student Coordinator

Medical Narratives: Telling an Interdisciplinary

Story of Suffering and Hope

This workshop addressed the entanglements of inequity, bio-

medicalization, and medical narratives. Because medical

narratives are created by some, collected and analyzed by others, and utilized by still others in the group, the workshop is a dynamic source of conversation about definitions of medicine in narrative, expectations of medicine and biomedical technology, their intersections with inequity, and the multiple roles of medical narratives in reflecting and shaping humanity. The workshop held a two- day training session in conversation with a Los Angeles-based Chikako Takeshita, Faculty theatre group to sharpen its methods and community Coordinator Women’s Studies outreach skills.

Juliet McMullin, Faculty Coordinator Chikako Takeshita, Faculty Coordinator

Kara Miller, Graduate Student Coordinator

Emily Mattingly, Graduate Student Coordinator

Participants: Juliet McMullin, Associate Professor, Anthropology Chikako Takeshita, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Tiffany Lopez, Professor, Theatre Robin DiMatteo, Professor, Psychology Paul Eric Lyons, Associate Dean, School of Medicine Goldberry Long, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing Neal L Schiller, Associate Dean, School of Medicine Rickerby Hinds, Associate Professor, Theatre Clifford Trafzer, Professor, History Juliet McMullin, Faculty Silvana De Paula, Visiting Scholar Coordinator Lisa Garibaldi, Graduate Student, Anthropology Anthropology Isabelle Placentia, Graduate Student, Anthropology Lorenzo Servitje, Graduate Student, English Nick Welcome, Graduate Student, Anthropology Tanya Frank, Graduate Student, Creative Writing Emily Mattingly, Graduate Student, English Kara Miller, Graduate Student, Anthropology Brittany Bannon, Graduate Student, Psychology Courtney Lund, Graduate Student, Creative Writing Luis Villanueva, Graduate Student, Anthropology Jelena Radović Fanta, Graduate Student, Anthropology

Nicholas Welcome Grad Student Coordinator

FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS

Residential Fulbright Scholars are a regular feature of the Center’s outreach and re-search mission. This academic year we were pleased to host:

Dr. Wardaya graduated from Indonesia’s Institute of

Philosophy in 1986 and completed his doctorate degree at Marquette University in 2001. He teaches at Sanata Dharma University and Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and serves as Director of PUSdEP (Center for History and Political Ethics). His publications include: Bung Karno Menggugat! [Sukarno Accuses] 2006; Cold War Shadow: United States Policy toward Indonesia 1953-1963 (2007) and Membongkar Supersemar [Dismantling “Supersemar] 2007. Dr. Wardaya is also known for his involvement with human rights projects.

BASKARA WARDAYA

UC GRADUATE FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES

UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities are supported by the

UC Humanities Network and UCR’s Graduate Division. The program encourages the collaboration, interdisciplinary dialogue and innovation that are fundamental to research in the arts, qualitative social sciences and humanities. It supports two advanced doctoral students on each campus, providing them the time to finish their dissertations. UC

Graduate Fellows in the Humanities met with the Graduate Fellows from the other UC campuses at the end of academic year for a conference at UC Santa Cruz that, in addition to the UC Graduate Students, included the UC Humanities Deans, the directors of the humanities centers and the UC faculty fellows. During their fellowship year, UCR’s two Janise Roselle Graduate Fellows inhabited workspace at the Center, took part in its activities and both offered a lecture to the UCR community. Our 2011-12 fellows were:

Janise Roselle, English Department Samantha Matherne, Philosophy Department

Samantha Matherne

Bodies Under Empire: Recovering Gender in the American Narrative, Responding to the Nationalist Fantasy, and Re-territorializing the Feminine Body Politic

This dissertation explores the ways American women have used their bodies since the time of early colonization as metaphorical weapons to flout culturally enforced expectations of “femininity” and have successfully struggled against being perceived as objects of sexual exploitation or “conquerable territories.” Early colonial women’s acts of resistance are the focal point of the early chapters of the project, establishing a historical precedent for aggressive and difficult work with the female body as a creative response to rhetorical, ideological, and even physical violence against women. These acts further serve as a springboard for understanding how the female body figures as an exploitable territory in postmodern literature and performance art, which are explored in the second half of the dissertation.

Art in Perception: Making perception aesthetic again

Recent philosophers and cognitive scientists claim that perception is essentially active, something we do rather than something passive, something that happens to us. Yet, they have also tended to characterize perception’s activity in more or less mechanical terms. This dissertation project aims at correcting this one-sidedness by exploring the artistic or ‘aesthetic’ dimensions of perceptual activity. Although imagination and creativity have traditionally been situated in the aesthetic domain and more closely associated with artistic production, Matherne claims they actually underpin our everyday perceptual experience. To support her account she builds on the work of Immanuel Kant and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. There is not only activity in perception but art as well.

COMMITTEES AND STAFF ADVISORY COMMITTEE

GARY DYMSKI, PROFESSOR, ECONOMICS

JOHN GANIM, PROFESSOR, ENGLISH

DAVID HERZBERGER, PROFESSOR, HISPANIC STUDIES

ERITH JAFFE-BERG, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, THEATRE

ANTHEA KRAUT, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DANCE

JULIET MCMULLIN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ANTHROPOLOGY

ERICF SCHWITZGEBEL, PROFESSOR, PHILOSOPHY

ANDY SMITH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

GEORGIA WARNKE, DIRECTOR, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE

STAFF GEORGIA WARNKE, DIRECTOR, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE LAURA LOZON, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR RENEE DEGUIRE, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

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EVENTS 2011-12 Event Title Type of Speaker(s) Location Date Time Project Event "What is Conservative Political Lecture Rui Romao INTS 1113 Monday, 12:00 CIS/Political Science Philosophy? Bertrand de Jouvenal, October Michael Oakeshott, George 10th Santayana, and Russell Kirk" "Gap or overlap? Parent-child Lecture Tanya Nieri INTN 2031 Tuesday 2:10-3 Mellon(Immigration acculturation differences in Mexican October Research Group) immigrant families" 11th Mexican Kairos: Religious Responses Lecture Jennifer Hughes INTS 1113 Thursday 4:00 UC President's to Demographic Catastrophe in the October Society of Fellows in Sixteenth Century 13th the Humanities Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog Lecture/Bo Brantley Bryant HMNSS Friday 11:00 Mellon(Medieval ok 1500 October Cultures) 14th "Visa and Passport Policies" Lecture Allan Colbern INTN 2031 Tuesday 2:10-3 Mellon(Immigration October Research Group) 18th Global Post/Socialisms? An Conference Joseph Childers, INTS 1113 Friday 8:00-7 CIS, Anthro, History, Interdisciplinary Conversation on Jonathan Ritter, Film INTS October 21st Global Studies, Asia, the Americas, and Europe Elizabeth Dunn, Christina 1128 Interdisciplinary Schwenkel, Paul Ryer, Studies, Lynda Bell, Katherine Mellon(Viral Ports) Hagedorn, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Zhanara Nauruzbayeva, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Stephen Cullenberg, Li Zhang, Timothy Rice, Nguyen-vo Thu-huong, (Film) Lan Duong, Freya Schiwy, Wendy Su Health Policy, Patient-Centred Care Lecture Leah McClimans INTS 1113 Monday, 12:00 CIS and Clinical Ethics October 24th Leisure College: Where Does a Dueling Geoff Cohen, MIndy INTS 1113 Wednesday 11:45- CIS University Education Occur? Disciplines Marks October 1:30 26th Breaking News: The Huntington Reception Steve Hindle INTS 1113 Monday 12-1:30 CIS Library Comes to UC Riverside…or, October 31st rather, it's Research Director New Urbanism: Sustainable Dueling Juliann Allison, John University Tuesday 1:30 CIS, LIFE Society Communities or Just Bad Disciplines Ganim Extension November Architecture? "E" 1st "Indonesia and the Struggle for Truth Lecture Fadjar I. Thufail, Baskara INTS 1113 Wednesday 3:00-5 CIS, Mellon(Viral and Reconciliation" Wardaya November Ports) 2nd The Necessary Theater of the Royal Lecture Ella Diaz INTS 1113 Monday 12:30-2 CIS, Theatre Chicano Air Force and the November Performance of Memory 7th "Growing Up Angry: How Landmark Lecture Marisa Abrajano INTN 2043 Tuesday 2:10-3 CIS Immigration Events Affect Public November Mellon(Immigration Opinion" 8th Research) Quagmire: Nation-Building and Colloquium David Biggs HMNSS Tuesday 4:00 Mellon(Viral Ports) Nature in the Mekong Delta /Book 1303 November 8th A Writer's China China in Ten Words Lecture/Bo Yu Hua INTS 1113 Thursday 12:40- CIS, Comparative Lit ok November 2:40 & Foreign 10th Languages

Improvisation, History and the Past Conference Jayna Brown, Danielle INTS 1113 Monday all day CIS, International Goldman, Anthea Kraut, November Research Project, George Lewis, Tracy 14th Music McMullen, Pauline Oliveros, Trinh T. Minh- ha, Sherrie Tucker, Deborah Wong African Christianity Rising: Stories Screening James Ault INTS 1128 Monday 6:30 CIS, Religious from Ghana November Studies 14th Anthropology, Media and Cultural Studies "Oral Medical Narratives of Southern Lecture Anthony Madrigal INTN 2043 Monday 4-5:30 CIS, Mellon(Medical California Indians." November Narratives) 14th "Input Market Frictions and Lecture Todd Sorensen INTN 2031 Tuesday 2:10-3 CIS, Immigration" November Mellon(Immigration 15th Research Group) Burm America Lecture/Bo Charmaine Craig INTS 1113 Friday 12:10-1 CIS/Mellon(Viral ok November Ports) 18th "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Lecture Kevin Sitz INTN 2031 Tuesday 2:10-3 CIS, Refugees and Economic Migrants November Mellon(Immigration during the End of the Cold War" 29th Research Group) "How African Was the Medieval Lecture Ramzi Rouighi INTS 3154 Thursday 10:00-1 CIS, Mediterranean?" December Mellon(Medieval 1st Cultures) "Reflections on the Current Disorder" Lecture Doug Henwood INTS 1113 Wednesday 3:30-5 CIS January 25th Perpitube: An Ongoing Dialog Lecture Natalie Bookchin and HMNSS Tuesday 4-5:30 CIS Mellon(Critical Alex Juhasz 1500 January 31st Digital Humanities) The Murder of King James 1 Lecture Tomas Cogswell Palm Wednesday 6:00 CIS Desert February 1st The Multilingual Art of Commedia Lecture Erith Jaffe-Berg Palm Wednesday 6:00 CIS dell'Arte Desert February 22nd Drawn into Story: Memory, Healing, Lecture Dana E. Walrath INTS 1113 Monday 11:30 CIS, Mellon(Medical and the Graphic Narrative March 5th Narratives) Reservation Reelism Boo/Recep Michelle H. Raheja INTS 1113 Monday 3:00-5 Emory Elliott Book tion March 5th Award "Bodies Under Empire: The Territory Lecture Jan Roselle INTS 1113 Thursday 3:30 CIS, English of American Feminism" March 8th "A Brush with Life: An Artist Story of Lecture Barbara Carrasco INTS 1113 Wednesday 3-5:30 CIS, Mellon Survival" March 14th Chaucer and Clothing: Fashion in the Lecture Andrea Denny-Brown Palm Wednesday 6:00 CIS Canterbury Tales Desert March 21st Digital Archives Lecture Tanya Clement HMNSS Wednesday 4:30-6 CIS, Mellon(Critical 1500 April 4th Digital Humanities) "The Internet and Social Mobilization Lecture Hu Yong INTS 1111 Thursday 2:00- CIS, Media and in China" April 5th 3:30 Cultural Studies, Comparative Lit & Foreign Languages Dear Dr. Frankenstein: A Love Story Lecture/Bo Emily Rapp INTS 1113 Tuesday 3:30-5 CIS, Mellon(Medical ok April 10 Narratives) "Mapping Water: Measured Lecture Ian Copestake HMNSS Wednesday 3:00-5 CIS, English Responses to Madness and the Sea in 1500 April 18th the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell."! The Chick Let Ghetto: Women's Lecture Goldberry Long INTS 1128 Wednesday 3-4:30 CIS, Mellon(Medical Medical Narratives in Contemporary April 18th Narratives) Fiction

Historical GIS and Observations on Lecture David Del Testa HMNSS Thursday 12:00-2 CIS, History, the the Nghe-Tinh Rebellion: Markets, 1303 April 19th Chancellor's Rice, and Religion Strategic Research Fund, Mellon(Viral Ports) Residual Effects of Assisted Lecture Melissa Pashigian HMNSS Friday April 12:00-2 CIS, Mellon(Viral Reproductive Technologies: A Case of 1500 20th Ports, Medical Surrogacy, Rights, and Borders Narrative) between Vietnam and Thailand Anthropology Things: Material cultures of the Long Workshop Steve Hindle, Adriana The April 23-26 Eighteenth century Craciun, Heidi Brayman Huntingto Hackel, Elizabeth Eger, n Library Richard Dunn, Sarah Kareem, Ian Duncan, Sarah Kareem, Melissa Calaresu, Kary Barrett, Dana Simmons, Sophie Waring, Maia Nuku, Susannah Brooke, Jonathan Eacott, Alexander Wragge- Morley,Maxine Berg, Luisa Cale, Rebecca Addicks, Steven Tabor, Elizabeth Eger, Patricia Seed, Randolph C. Head, Seve Anderson, Patricia Fumerton, Leanna McLaughlin Networks of Performance Art in Lecture Nora A. Taylor INTS 1113 Friday April 12:10-2 CIS Mellon(Viral Southeast Asia 27th Ports) Sprawl: As bad as they say? Lecture Robert Bruegmann HMNSS Tuesday 4:00 Public History 1313 May 1st Program, History, Art History, CIS Free Speech and Civil Disobedience Lecture Dan Stormer, INTS 1113 Wednesday 2:30-5 College of What we all need to know for Mohammmad Tajsar May 2nd Humanities, Arts Students, Faculty, Staff and and Social Sciences, Administrators CHASS F1RST, CIS 9000 Needles Film Doug Dearth INTS 1128 Wednesday 5:00 CIS, Mellon(Medical Screening May 2nd Narratives) Chicana Power! Contested Histories Lecture/Bo Maylei Blackwell INTN 4043 Wednesday 4:00-6 CIS, Chicano of Feminism in the Chicano ok May 2nd Student Programs, Movement English, Women's Studies, MALCS de, Latinic Societas Unitas "What's Up With Mediterranean Symposium Sharon Kinoshita, Ray CHASS Friday May 10:30-3 CIS, Studies?" Kea, Jeff Sacks, Antonio 1113 4th Mellon(Medieval Donato Cultures), Postmodern Legacies, Mediterranean Multicampus Research Project, Legacies of the Mediterranean resident fellowship group Structural Violence, Political Violence, Lecture Tom Leatherman INTS 1111 Monday 1:00:- CIS, Mellon, and the Political Ecology of Health in May 7th 2:30 Anthropology, the Andes, 1980-2010 Economics, Agricultural Development and Nutrition Research Group

"'Fresh Dressed Like a Million Bucks': Lecture Monica Miller INTS 1113 Thursday 12:40-2 CIS, English, A Cultural History of Black May 10th Comparative Lit & Dandyism." Foreign Languages, CHASS F1RST Policing and Protest in the UC System Roundtable Student Activists & UCR INTS 1113 Thursday 1:00-5 CIS, College of and Beyond PT 1 Debate Police Chiefs May 10th Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, CHASS F1RST. Riverside Coalition for Police Accountability. 40 Years of Silence An Indonesian Film Robert Lemelson, INTS 1128 Thursday 7-9:30 CIS, Indonesian Tragedy Screening Baskara Wardaya, Hink May 10th American Music & Maier Film Association, Elemental Productions "Therapy, Remedy, Cure: Disorder Lecture Matthew Wolf-Meyer INTS 1113 Tuesday 2:00-5 CIS, Mellon(Medical and the Spatiotemporality of May 15th Narratives) Medicine and Everyday Life" Technologies of Critical Writing: On Lecture Steve Anderson, Holly INTS 1111 Tuesday 1:00-3 CIS, Mellon(Critical the War Between Data and Image Willis May 15th Digital Humanities) Alternative Funding Models for the Lecture Stan Glantz, Chris HMNSS Thursday 3:00-5 CIS, College of UC System LoCascio, Alex Abelson 1500 May 17th Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, CHASS F1RST, UC Riverside Faculty Association CESRC Symposium Reconsidering Symposium Monday "Post-Racialism" and Diversity": A May 21st Critical Ethnic Studies roundtable on the new racial common sense Policing and Protest in the UC System Lecture Angela Davis, Mike University Friday May 10:00-5 CIS, College of and Beyond PT II Davis, Gina Dent, Theatre 25th Humanities, Arts & Jennifer Doyle, Ken Social Sciences, Ehrlich, Martha Escobar, CHASS F1RST, Farah Godrej, Rachel Media & Cultural Herzing, Pat Morton, Studies, Ethnic Vorris Nunley, Dylan Studies Rodriguez, Randall Williams, Thar Herzallah, Shaheen Nasser, Brittnay Proctor TXTual Practice Lecture Rita Raley INTS 1113 Thursday 4:30-6 CIS, Mellon(Critical May 31st Digital Humanities) Launch Celebration: Institute for the Workshop Jeanette Reedy-Solano, UCR Friday June 10:00-6 CIS, UCR Study of Immigrant Religions Michael Alexander, Visitor 1st Chancellor's Office Samip Mallick, Gaston and Espinosa, Jane Iwamura, Alumni Amanda Huffer, Jennifer Center Scheper Hughes