Cultural Studies Newsletter

Cultural Studies

Purnima Bose, Program Director Newsletter Anne Delgado, Volume 14 Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Graduate Assistant

Ballantine Hall 419 IMAGES AND PUBLIC CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING IMAGES Bloomington, Indiana ACROSS THE HUMANITIES 47405-6601 The Humanities Image Fo- ourselves in reading groups (details TBA). In addition, (812) 855-0088 rum is hosting two re- for faculty and graduate CAHI will host a round- [email protected] nowned guests this semes- students. If you are inter- ter. table discussion about a ested in joining the Image recent issue of the journal Forum's Oncourse site and Critical Inquiry (of which Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, a participating in those semi- Professor Mitchell has been Inside this issue: leading scholar of visual nars, please contact Jon culture and Distinguished the editor for many years) Simons at: Professor of English and which is about "The Fate of [email protected] Humanities Image 1 Art History at the Univer- the Disciplines," at 5 pm on Forum Wednesday, March 31, sity of Chicago, will visit Dr Ariella Azoulay, an Cultural Studies followed by a reception. Graduate Students the campus as a Patten lec- Israeli cultural theorist and turer from March 29th - There will also be a round- documentary film maker, April 2nd, 2010. He will table about the latest double will visit as a Branigin lec- In the Press and 2-3 issue of the journal Culture, at the Podium give two public lectures: turer, April 5-6th. She will "Migration, Law, and the Theory and Critique which is be screening one of her New Faculty 4 Image: Beyond the Veil of dedicated to a critical re- documentaries on the eve- Ignorance" on Tuesday, view of Professor Mitchell's ning of April 5th and giving In the Press and 5 March 30th at 7:30 pm; and work, on Tuesday, March a public lecture on the eve- at the Podium "Idolatry, Nietzsche, Blake, 30th, 2-3:30 pm, in the ning of April 6th (details (cont.) Poussin" on Thursday, IMU Maple Room. TBA). There will also be a April 1 at 7:30 pm closed seminar for members Cultural Studies 6 (locations TBA). He will Members of the Images of the Images Forum, for Conference De- also screen a documentary Forum will meet with Pro- which we are also preparing scription about the Israel-Palestine fessor Mitchell for closed ourselves in our reading conflict on the evening of seminars during his visit, groups. for which we are preparing Cultural Studies 7 Wednesday, March 31 Conference Schedule Cultural Studies Graduate Students Cultural Studies 8 Konrad Budziszewski was awarded a Cultural Studies travel grant to present his paper, Graduate Awards “ ‘We're the cutting edge of technology and the leading edge of imagination’: Discourses Indiana University of innovation, progress and change in the electronic games industry” at the upcoming DEFA Project annual conference for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Los Angeles this WENDE Flicks spring.

Congratulations to CMCL/CS PhD student Robert Clift, whose film Blacking Up about white hip hop fans and performers will be aired on PBS stations nationally through early March. More information about the film is available online at http:// www.blackingupmovie.com/. Robert's earlier documentary, Stealing Home: The Case of Cuban Baseball, was shown on PBS in 2001. Page 2 Newsletter Title

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Purnima Bose’s book, co- was published in Social on Josephine Baker in a edited with Laura E. Ly- Identities: Journal for the special issue of the Journal ons, Cultural Critique and Study of Race, Nation and of Women's History. the Global Corporation, Culture vol. 15, issue 3 Joan Hawkins is working was published by Indiana (May 2009). Foster re- on an anthology on University Press. The vol- ceived the following Downtown Cinema, ume contains case studies travel/research grants in Video and TV 1975-2001, of six corporations; Bose 2009-10: CAHI Travel and has published contributed a chapter on Research Grant for a pro- “Culture Wars, Old- General Electric. Her arti- ject entitled Festival, Fear, boy and Some New cle "Feminism, the and Tourism: Producing and Trends in Art Horror” in Purnima Bose and Horror Zone: The Cultural Global Struggle" ap- Consuming Heritage in Ja- Laura E. Lyons’ Cul- Experience of Contemporary tural Critique and peared in Against the Cur- pan, and the Northeast Horror Cinema. Ian Con- the Global Corpora- rent, and another essay on Asia Council (NEAC) of rich, ed. UK: B Tauris, tion. Beauty without Borders Association for Asian 2009, and published an and Afghan women has Studies (AAS) grant for expanded version of this been accepted for publica- short-term travel to Japan article in Jump Cut :A Re- view of Contemporary Me- tion in Genders. for professional purposes. dia 51 (Spring 2009).

Michael Foster’s Pande- Sara L. Friedman has two forthcoming publica- Vivian Halloran’s book, monium and Parade: Japa- Exhibiting Slavery: The nese Monsters and the Cul- tions: “Determining ‘Truth’ at the Bor- Caribbean Postmodern ture of Yôkai (Berkeley: der: Immigration Inter- Novel as Museum was pub- University of California views, Chinese Marital lished in 2009 by the Uni- Press, 2009) was selected Migrants, and Taiwan’s versity of Virginia Press. for the 2009 Chicago Sovereignty Dilemmas” The book demonstrates one aspect of Halloran’s Folklore Prize for best in Citizenship Studies (April 2010) and “Marital interdisciplinary research book-length work of folk- methodology. It blends lore scholarship, awarded Immigration and Gradu- ated Citizenship: Post- literary criticism and mu- jointly by the American Naturalization Restric- seum studies to argue that Folklore Society and the tions on Mainland Chi- postmodern fiction and University of Chicago. nese Spouses in Taiwan” postmodern museology Foster also published in Pacific Affairs’ Spring both deploy similar multi- Vivian Halloran’s Exhib- media narrative strategies 2010 special issue: Politics iting Slavery: The Car- "Haunted Travelogue: as they depict the history of Citizenship and Transna- ibbean Postmodern Hometowns, Ghost of transatlantic slav- tional Gendered Migration Novel as Museum Towns, and Memories of ery. in East and Southeast Asia. Exhibiting Slavery War" in Mechademia 4: analyzes the effects of

these acts of narrative War/Time (2009). Matt Guterl is currently curation and display by on leave and is an NEH placing them in the Foster’s article "What Fellow at the Rice Uni- broader context of the time is this picture? Cam- versity Humanities Re- reading experience. eraphones, tourism, and search Center. He re- the digital gaze in Japan" cently published an essay Volume 14 Page 3

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John Hanson has been Post-Video Era?” was Conquest: The Myth of named a National Hu- recently translated into Modernity and the Transat- manities Center Fellow for Polish by Andrzej Lyda lantic Onset of Modernism for the 2009-10 academic Kultura Wspolczesna will be published by Van- year. Hanson will use the 58.4. She also has two derbilt University Press in fellowship to complete a forthcoming articles: book, tentatively titled “Becoming Cult: Replay February 2010. In 2009, Islam, Schooling and the Culture, The Big Lebowski, Professor Mejías-López Public Sphere: The Ahmadi- and Male Fandom” in also received a CAHI re- yya Muslim Community in Screen 51, no. 1 and search travel grant to Ghana, West Africa. “Contraband Cinema: work on his next project Piracy, Titanic, and Cen- He is one of 33 fellows on the intersection of re- selected by the National tral Asia” in Cinema Jour- ligion, science, national- Humanities Center in Re- nal 49, no. 2. search Triangle Park, ism, and sexuality in His- Scott Herring’s Another N.C., from among 475 Professor Klinger also panic modernism. Country: Queer Anti- applicants. The scholars delivered a number of Urbanism are from 23 U.S. colleges keynote lectures includ- Radhika Parameswaran and universities and from ing: “Reenactment: Fans published a monograph institutions in Germany, Performing Movie Scenes (co-authored with the Netherlands, Poland from the Stage to You- Kavitha Cardoza) Mela- and the United Kingdom. tube,” for the Ephemeral nin on the Margins: Adver- Hanson's research exam- Media Symposium; ines how the Ahmadiyya “Internet Attractions: tising and the Cultural Poli- Muslim movement has Online Video and User- tics of Fair/Light/White been an important force Generated Ephemera,” at Beauty in India in the fall for education and progress The Institute of Film and 2009 issue of Journalism in Western Africa, particu- Television Studies, The & Communication Mono- larly in Ghana. University of Notting- graphs. A second publica- ham, Nottingham, UK; tion “Immortal Comics, Scott Herring’s new book, “Becoming Cult: The Big Another Country: Queer Anti Lebowski, Replay, and the Epidermal Politics: Rep- -Urbanism, is forthcoming Aftermarket,” for the Me- resentations of Gender from NYU Press in their dium to Medium Sympo- and Colorism in India," Sexual Cultures series ed- sium, Center for Screen also co-authored with ited by Ann Pellegrini and Cultures, Northwestern Kavitha Cardoza, appears Alejandro Mejias-Lopez’s University, Evanston, IL Jose Esteban Munoz in in a 2009 issue of Journal The Inverted Con- the summer of 2010. and “Global Titanic: Pi- of Children & Media. Her quest: The Myth of racy and Transnational Modernity and the article "Moral Dilemmas Barbara Klinger received Reception in Central Transatlantic Onset of the Distinguished Alumni Asia” at the Eleventh An- of an Immoral Nation: Modernism Award from the School of nual Film and Media Gender, Journalism, and Film and College of Fine Symposium, University Sexuality in the Film Page Arts at Ohio University, of Kansas, Lawrence, 3" was published in where she received her Kansas. M.A. Her essay, “The (continued on page 5) Contemporary Cinephile: Alejandro Mejías- Film Collecting in the López’s book The Inverted Page 4 Cultural Studies Newsletter

New Faculty Members Join Cultural Studies

Karen Bowdre is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture. Her research is on the significant impact black female performers— many of them overlooked by historians and media scholars—have had on repre- sentations of women in popular culture. Karen’s teaching and research interests include critical race and gender studies. She has presented work on these and re- lated topics at, among other venues, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the National Communication Association. Karen has offered classes on Afri- can-American cinema and black film directors.

Michael Foster is an assistant professor in the Department of Folklore and Eth- nomusicology and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. His research focuses on folklore, literature, film and popular culture, primarily in Ja- pan. His recent book, Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (University of California Press, 2009), traces how notions of the super- natural and monstrous are articulated both in academic discourses and popular Michael Foster’s practices from the seventeenth century through the present. By focusing on his- Pandemonium and torically shifting notions of the "mysterious" and the "weird," he explores some Parade: Japanese of the ways in which people attempt to express, define, and illustrate the ineffa- Monsters and the ble. The book was awarded the 2009 Chicago Folklore Prize. He is currently Culture of Yokai working on a new project, titled Visiting Strangers: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Gods, in which he explores the relationship of tourism, ethnography and festival/ritual in Japan. At the graduate level, Professor Foster teaches courses on Japanese folkloristics, ethnographic writing, tourism, and historical and literary methods in folklore research.

David A. McDonald is an ethnomusicologist whose teaching and scholarly work intersects with the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, and Middle Eastern studies. His research focuses on understanding the cultural dynamics of music performance, politics, and identity among Palestinian communities dispersed throughout Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Territo- ries. Currently he is pursuing research on the poetics of violence, masculinity, and cultural trauma. This research will be supplemented by the book, My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance (Forthcoming, Duke University Press 2011). Darlene Sadlier’s Brazil Imagined: Darlene Sadlier is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Por- 1500 to the Present tuguese Program. She is affiliated with and an adjunct professor in several de- partments and programs, including Communication and Culture, Cultural Stud- ies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, West European Studies, African Studies and Gender Studies. Her books cover a wide range of subjects such as women and gender studies in Portugal and Brazil, literary modernism, and Bra- zilian Cinema Novo. She is the author most recently of a cultural history of Bra- zil titled Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present (2008) and is editor of the collection Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos and Entertainment (2009). She is currently writing a book about Good Neighbor cultural relations during World War II. Volume 14 Page 5

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Parameswaran Annenberg School for cago Press. He also pub- (continued from page 3) Communication, Univer- lished "By the Light of the online academic jour- sity of Pennsylvania. What Comes After: Even- nal Image of the Journal- tologies of the Ordinary" ist in Popular Culture in She has been selected to in Women and Performance: early fall and her essay be a residential visiting A Journal of Feminist The- "Facing Barack Hus- professor in 2010 at Uni- ory, vol. 19, no. 2 (2009). sein Obama: Race, Glob- versity of Colorado, His essay. "Lena Horne's alization, and Transna- Boulder, in the School of Impersona," received the Journalism and Mass 2009 Outstanding Essay tional America" was fea- Michiko Suzuki’s Becom- tured in the Journal of Communication, for the Award from the Associa- ing Modern Women: Communication Inquiry. forthcoming Summer Ses- tion for Theatre in Higher Love and Female Iden- sion I. Education (ATHE) and tity in Prewar Japanese Her conference paper "E- the 2009 Gerald Kahan Literature and Culture raceing Color: Gender Micol Seigel recently Scholar's Award, Honor- and Transnational Vis- spent two weeks research- able Mention, from the ual Economies of ing in Los Angeles on a American Society for Beauty" won a top paper new project involving Theatre Research. award in the Ethnicity U.S. police training in and Race Division at the Latin America and police Brenda Weber’s book International Communi- militarization in the U.S. Makeover TV: Selfhood, cation Association Citizenship, and Celebrity, (ICA) convention in Chi- Ted Striphas’ book The was recently published by cago in late May 2009. Late Age of Print: Everyday Duke University Press. She was one of Book Culture from Consum- three organizers of a two- erism to Control, was re- She has also published: day symposium "India cently published by Co- “Extreme Makeovers” and Communication lumbia Univer- in 100,000 Years of Beauty, Studies" at the same ICA Vol IV: Beauty as Personal Shane Vogel’s The sity Press. Professor Scene of Harlem Caba- convention in Chicago. Challenge. Les Editions Striphas also maintains ret: Race, Sexuality, She organized a panel on Babylone, Paris. an accompanying blog at Performance. "Gender, Globalization, http:// 2009; “For the Love of and Media" for the Asso- www.thelateageofprint.org Jane: Austen, Adapta- ciation for Education tion, and Celebrity” in Adaptation in Contemporary in Journalism and Mass Michiko Suzuki’s book Communication annual Becoming Modern Women: Culture: Textual Infidelities. convention at Boston Love and Female Identity in Rachel Carroll, ed. Con- in August 2009. She pre- Prewar Japanese tinuum Press. 2009; and sented a paper Literature and Culture was “‘Are you Finally Com- "Producing Cosmopolitan recently published by fortable in Your Own Citizens: Journalism and Stanford University Press. Skin?’: The Raced and Mass Communication in Classed Imperatives for the U.S. Academy" at a Somatic/Spiritual Salva- In 2009, two-day symposium Shane Vogel's tion on The Swan” with book, The Scene of Harlem "Making the University Karen Tice in Genders 49 Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Matter," which was held (2009). Performance was published Brenda Weber’s Make- in early December at the by The University of Chi- over TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Ce- lebrity Page 6 Cultural Studies Newsletter

Cultural Studies Annual Conference—Gender and Citizenship GenderFebruary and 26 & Citizenship27

The Conference: The United Nations has recently identified women as a leading force in the twenty-first century in reshaping communities—social, political, cultural, and economic—across the world. The UN’s acknowledgment of women’s impact on social life comes after several decades of discussion by feminist scholars of the gender implications of globalization, citizenship, immigration, and nationalisms.

This year’s Cultural Studies Conference will engage in three especially salient areas of this discussion: gender and citizenship, international feminisms, and feminism in academia. Within these three areas, the conference raises such questions as: What does it mean to gender globalization and displacement? How does an understanding of gender and citizenship travel across cultural and geographic boundaries? To what extent does feminism enable a multi-tiered conception of citizenship which recognizes that national identifications can be complicated by sub-, cross-, and supra-national affiliations? What would a transnational feminist future look like, and what role should academic feminist play in envisioning and enabling that future?

The Keynote: Srimati Basu, “The Violence of Marriage: Rape and Conjugal Citizenship” In a dramatic post-show performance in January 2004, Kolkata (India) police stormed the play Phataru and attempted to arrest actor Rudranil Ghosh on charges of rape brought by fellow-actor Oindrila Chakraborty, galvanizing conversations around rape in terms of sexual agency, marriage and fraud. Professor Basu examines accounts of this hypervisible case against ethnographic data from other legal settings and other appellate cases which evoke and elide rape in the context of marriage. Legal categories for managing divorce, domestic violence and sexual violence have seemingly been negotiated separately through political compromises and feminist formulations, but they have come to shape each other as legal strategies such that rape and marriage come to be mutually constituted. While judicial discourse around rape appears to have moved away from notions of property redress, these recent cases underline continuing constructions of rape in terms of compensation and fraud and highlight the role of law in buttressing norms of kinship and conjugality over sexual agency. The task for feminists is to engage with ongoing legal constructions, to challenge the erasure of sexual agency and the promotion of marriage as optimal solutions, and to trans- form the discourse of power relations encoded in such constructions.

Co-sponsored by Gender Studies and India Studies

Conference organized by Maria Bucur, Karma Lochrie, and Purnima Bose

No registration necessary. All sessions are open to the public. Volume 14 Page 7

GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, February 26, 2010 Ernie Pyle Auditorium, Room 220 4:00 pm-6:00 pm; Opening Keynote: Srimati Basu (Gender and Women’s studies, University of Kentucky) “The Violence of Marriage: Rape and Conjugal Citizenship”

FRIDAY SATURDAY, February 27, 2010 Opening Keynote: All Panels held in the Faculty Club on the Second Floor of IMU Srimati Basu 10:00 am-12:00 pm; Panel I: Gender and Citizenship Ernie Pyle  Susan Williams (Law, IU) "Gender and Equal Political Citizenship in Burma: Electoral Gender Quotas, Democracy, and Disruption" Auditorium Room  Eva Cherniavsky (English, University of Washington) "Citizenship Af- 220 ter Popular Sovereignty"  Sara Friedman (Anthropology and Gender Studies, IU) “Maternal Citizenship Revisited” Moderator: Purnima Bose

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00 pm-3:00 pm; Panel II: International/Global Feminisms  Lessie Jo Frazier (Gender Studies, IU) “Relocations of Empathy: Transnational Feminist Theory, Borders, States, and Bodies” SATURDAY  Kristen Ghodsee (Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College) "Revisiting the International Decade for Women: International Femi- Panels 1, 11, and nisms and Cold War Politics from the American Perspective" 111 in the Faculty  Susan Dewey (Women’s Studies, DePauw) "Gendered Migration, Gendered Citizenship and the Traffic in Women" Club on the Moderator: Radhika Parameswaran Second Floor of 3:15 pm-5:15 pm; Panel III: Feminism and the Academy IMU  Karma Lochrie (Gender Studies and English, IU) "Gender and Jeop- ardy"  Maria Bucur (History, IU) "'What's Gender Got to Do With It?': Femi- nism and Diversity on the Bloomington Campus"  Robyn Wiegman (Women’s Studies, Duke University) "The Intimacy of Critique" Moderator: Jean Robinson

CULTURAL STUDIES CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM TRAVEL GRANTS AND AWARD AT INDIANA DEADLINES UNIVERSITY The Cultural Studies Department will award the Brantlinger-Naremore Prize for the best graduate essay in Cultural Studies written during the academic year. The competition is open to minors in the Cul- tural Studies Program who are invited to submit essays that offer a serious engagement with issues in the field. Submissions for the 2009-2010 Brantlinger-Naremore Prize should be sent to Purnima Bose (Ballantine 442) by June 30, 2010. The Cultural Studies Program will also accept applications for travel grants for graduate students to present their scholarship in the spring. Travel grant applications should consist of an abstract of the paper and confirmation that the paper has been accepted for presen- tation. The deadline for travel grants is March 30, 2010. Materials should be sent to Purnima Bose

The Indiana University DEFA Project WENDE FLICKS Last Films from East Germany SCREENING SCHEDULE: WENDE FLICKS+ Screenings at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater http://www.indiana.edu/ February 14 (BCT):7pm, Herzsprung ~cstudies/index.shtml February 21 (BCT):7pm, Leipzig in the Fall and Eastern Landscape February 28 (BCT):7pm, The Tango Player March 7 (BCT): 6pm, Burning Life; 8pm, OSCAR VIEWING PARTY March 21 (BCT):7pm, The Mistake March 28 (BCT):7pm, The Land Beyond the Rainbow April 4 (FA 015):7pm, Miraculi April 11 (FA 015):7pm, Latest from the Da-Da-R April 18 (FA 015):7pm, DDR, DDR [SPECIAL EVENT] An evening with filmmaker and video artist Amie Siegel Cultural Studies Ballantine Hall 419 Bloomington, IN 47405-6601

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