Category: Lectures and Talks

http://www.radioopensource.org/donald-pease-obamas-transnational-

Lindsay discusses ‘Slow Reading’ for the Australian Radio Network’s featured literary radio show. 

Stathis Gourgouris has asked me to post his essay,The Present of a Delusion, to the web site.  The essay is forthcoming in Paul and the Philosophers, Ward Blanton,
Creston Davis, and Hent de Vries eds., Duke University Press, 2009.

           

 

                                               

Tony Bogues speaks with Christopher Lydon on Open Source, January 30, 2009.

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Dartmouth College announces

The 2009 FUTURES OF AMERICAN STUDIES Institute

www.dartmouth.edu/~futures

RE-CONFIGURATIONS OF AMERICAN STUDIES

Monday, June 22 – Saturday, June 26, 2009

Director: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)

Co-Directors: Elizabeth Dillon (Northeastern University)

Winfried Fluck (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)

Eric W. Lott (University of Virginia)

Institute Faculty:

Nancy Bentley (University of Pennsylvania), Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Barrymore Anthony Bogues (Brown University), Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia), Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Christopher Castiglia (Pennsylvania State University), Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin), Michael Chaney (Dartmouth College), Tim Dean (State University of New York, Buffalo), Soyica Diggs (Dartmouth College), J. Martin Favor (Dartmouth College), Nancy Fraser (New School), Jeffrey Glover (University of Rochester), Macarena Gomez-Barris (University of Southern California), Judith Halberstam (University of Southern California), Andrew Hebard (Miami University of Ohio), Donatella Izzo (University of Naples), Cindi Katz (City University of New York), George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Lee Medovoi (Portland State University), Klaus Milich (Dartmouth College), José Munoz ( New York University), Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky), Anders Olsson (Upssala University, Sweden), John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California), José David Saldívar (University of California), Ramon Soto-Crespo (State University of New York, Buffalo), Paul Smith (George Mason University). Maurice Stevens (Ohio State University)

Description:

This year of the Institute is the fourth of a four-year focus on “Re-configurations of American Studies.” This topic is meant to foreground the reflexive turn in the cultures of American studies both inside and outside the United States. As such, we are inviting both scholars well known as "Americanists" internationally and those whose theoretical frameworks, objects of study, and disciplinary inclinations promise to transform the field’s self-understanding.

The Institute is divided into plenary sessions which feature current work from Institute faculty (listed above) and research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own works-in-progress. Speakers in the plenary sessions will examine the relation between emergent and residual practices in the field of American Studies from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in American Studies.

The Institute was designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings the participants’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Over the past ten years, plenary speakers have recommended participants’ work to the leading journals and university presses within the field of American Studies, and have provided participants with recommendations and support in an increasingly competitive job market.

ABSTRACT San Francisco, since its global takeoff in the Gold Rush Days and long-standing trafficking in Bohemian, socialist, queer, and left-leaning energies in and beyond the Beat era of the 1960s, has a complicated global/local history of trying to disentangle its city-space and urban imaginary from the Greco-Roman will-to-supremacy that would turn California into a frontier settlement of Asian/Pacific domination and US-framed empire. Forces of social becoming like the Beats and post-Beat hippies as well as more experimental authors like Jack Spicer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, and Bob Kaufman helped to forge a different literary-social vision of San Francisco and the Pacific Rim city as a porous community of transnational innovation and outer-national becoming.  This paper will invoke some literary and film texts from Howl and Tripmaster Monkey to Vertigo to Margaret Cho stand-up performances as well as some geopolitical studies, such as Gray Brechin’s Imperial San Francisco  and City Light Press’s Reclaiming San Francisco  to substantiate this double vision of San Francisco as global/local US site of (a) imperial ratification and (b) counter-orientalist deformation. Link

Taylor and Francis RIAC_A_338817.sgm 10.1080/14649370802386503
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 1464-9373 (print)/1469-8447 (online)
Original Article 2008 Taylor & Francis 9 4 000000December 2008
RobWilson rwilson@ucsc.edu

Rob Wilson and Chris Connery have posted the lecture they gave on October 23 2008 to the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  This was part of the celebration of their 20th anniversary.  Here is the talk.