Events
Humanities 1, Room 202
Ram Neta: “Puzzle of Transparency”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Puzzle of Transparency As you and I are out for a walk, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you "do you believe that it's going to rain?" In response to this question, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind, but rather to the […]
CRES: Works in Progress featuring Sheeva Sabati & Nick Mitchell
Humanities 1, Room 202
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Angela Nguyen
Humanities 1, Room 202"Mom, can you help me with my homework?" Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children The collective memories of the Southeast Asian diaspora are interwoven with histories of war and colonial violence that continue to be felt in everyday experiences as hauntings. Post-war generations are often without access […]
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
Humanities 1, Room 202"Delinquency As Labor" Chrissy Anderson-Zavala Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
Humanities 1, Room 202"This is Your Life": Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto […]
Dr. Nikhil Anand: “Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban”
Humanities 1, Room 202The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
Humanities 1, Room 202Pidgin Comedy in Hawai'i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture In 1970s Hawai'i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai'i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language, visual culture, and attitude of the islands, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 […]
Maudemarie Clark “Nietzsche’s Nihilism”
Humanities 1, Room 202Nietzsche claims that in realating the "advent of nihilism," he is relating "the history of the next two centuries." He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, "outside of self." In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
Humanities 1, Room 202From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women, one back and one white, the painting inspired the 2014 film, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Danielle Crawford
Humanities 1, Room 202Shooting Cameras and Shooting Weapons: U.S. Military Violence and Ecological Ruin in Coppola's Apocalypse Now This presentation examines the shooting history of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), which was shot on the Philippine island of Luzon. I investigate the collision between Hollywood's shooting of cameras and the U.S. military's shooting of weapons, and the […]