Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 27, 2014
- April 27, 2014 -Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
It's easy to create a victim. One of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and […]
Monday, April 28, 2014
- April 28, 2014 -"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference
- April 28, 2014 -Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles"
"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference
This conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop, as an increasing number of scholars […]
Cécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles"
Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor's Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published three books on this subject Antifacism in American Art, A Taste For Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture, and Pop L.A.: Art and the […]
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
No events on this day.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
- April 30, 2014 -Morten Axel Pedersen: "Collaborative Damage: A Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia"
Morten Axel Pedersen: "Collaborative Damage: A Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia"
Morten Axel Pedersen Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen Morten Axel Pedersen has conducted fieldwork in Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Western China on topics as diverse as shamanism, political cosmology, post-socialist transition, infrastructure, social networks, and hope. He is currently completing a comparative ethnography of Chinese resource-extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
- May 1, 2014 -Film Screening: "Dalip Singh Saund: His Life and Legacy"
- May 1, 2014 -Living Writers Series: Meena Alexander (also, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference: Feminist Interventions: On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar)
Film Screening: "Dalip Singh Saund: His Life and Legacy"
Dalip Singh Saund: His Life, His Legacy tells the inspiring story of an ethical and passionate man who rose above prejudice and racism to serve as the first Asian, the first Indian, and the first Sikh elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Presented by the Heritage Series, LLC. In association with the U.S. Capital […]
Living Writers Series: Meena Alexander (also, honoring Roshni Rustomji-Kerns) and in support of graduate conference: Feminist Interventions: On Gender & South Asia (hosted by Anjali Arondekar)
Meena Alexander is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Birthplace with Buried Stones; an autobiography, Fault Lines; two novels, most recently Manhattan Music; the academic study Women in Romanticism; and Poetics of Dislocation, a collection of essays. Roshni Rustomji-Kerns is the editor of Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers; and coeditor of three books: Encounters: People […]
Friday, May 2, 2014
- May 2, 2014 -Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
Michela Ippolito: "Negative Conditionals"
Abstract: In this talk I will look again at one kind of counterfactual conditionals, which I will call Negative Conditionals (NCs), from a cross-linguistic perspective. NCs have properties that set them aside from standard would conditionals: (i) they contain a negative element in the antecedent clause or in the complementizer domain; (ii) they are obligatorily […]
Saturday, May 3, 2014
No events on this day.