CFP - "Global Lives" Conference at SBU Manhattan, with Keynote by NYU's Una Chaudhuri

Call for Papers [Deadline: June 1, 2012]

3^rd Annual Graduate Student Conference

Stony Brook University, The State University of New York

Cultural Analysis and Theory Department

Stony Brook Manhattan

October 13^th, 2012

Keynote Lecture to be delivered by:

Una Chaudhuri

“Global Lives”

The rapid changes currently experienced in the different spheres of contemporary life are loosely addressed by the term “globalization.”

How do we theorize these changes? And perhaps more importantly, while these changes are often considered a global phenomenon, are they not also shaped by a set of discourses? This calls for a reconsideration of key terms such as “domination” and “hegemony”, as well as of the various intellectual/cultural positions associated with them. In particular, we aim to reconsider the cultural sphere as a globalized phenomenon in which cultural products circulate on a worldwide scale, and as a sphere where “global” experiences are articulated.

The conference will attempt to explore some of the many aspects of this globalized view of culture, as well as other aspects of global lives, economical, political or other. We seek to engage scholars from a wide range of disciplines to bring together the different theories and perspectives of globalization in order to articulate the diverse experiences of living in a globalized world.

Topics include but are not limited to:

-        Transnational cinema and global film industry

-        New media and transnational communication networks

-        Mass media and global culture industry

-        Transnational literature(s)

-        Colonialism and postcolonial theory (empire, diaspora, exile, migration)

-        Neoliberalism

-        Emerging discourses of globalization, academic and popular

-        Globalization as historical process

-        Global material culture

-        Circulation of capital, goods, and people

-        Labor and work life on a global scale

-        Travel and tourism

-        Cultural Geography and Cartography

-        Educational Responses to a Global Culture

-        Popular movements and the various shapes of resistance

-        Ecology on a worldwide scale

-        National identities

-        Military, defense, homeland security and warfare studies

Submission and acceptance to the conference is based on blind peer review of a 250-300 word abstract. Panels and non-traditional presentations will also be considered. Graduate students interested in submitting should email an abstract, paper title, 2-3 sentence bio, affiliation and contact information to catgradconf@gmail.com by June 1, 2012. Presenters will be informed by August 1, 2012.

Conference Website:

http://www.catgradconf.com

Spivak Lecture, April 5 @ NYU

You’re cordially invited to the…

COMP LIT UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS’ CHOICE LECTURE with

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Comparative Literature and the Subaltern”

Thursday, APRIL 5th

Silver Center, Room 703  -  6:30-8:30pm

Poetics & Theory Dirk Quadflieg Seminar & Lecture Postponed

The Quadflieg seminar originally scheduled for this Monday, March 5, has been postponed until March 19. The Quadflieg lecture originally scheduled for March 8th has been postponed until March 20.

There are also a few other changes in our original P&T Feb-April event schedule. Please see changes in GREEN below.

Also: Don’t forget the Anachronic Shakespeare conference this Saturday!

POETICS & THEORY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM EVENTS

February, March and April 2012

The following events are sponsored by the Poetics and Theory Program -- with financial and moral support from the Department of Comparative Literature.

· Tuesday, February 14 4-6:00pm Shira Wolosky

Hebrew University

Lecture: "Transcendence and Poetics: Levinas and Robert Frost"

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor)

· Friday, February 24th - Saturday, February 25th

Conference: Anachronic Shakespeare

100 Washington Square East/Silver Center, Jurow Hall (1st floor)

See http://complit.as.nyu.edu/page/events for program details.



· Saturday, March 3rd

Conference/Workshop:

“Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction”

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor) All day

See http://complit.as.nyu.edu/page/events for program details.

· Monday, March 19th 6:30-8:30pm SEMINAR with Dirk Quadflieg

Goethe University & Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Columbia University

“Reification: Lukacs and Honneth” (readings TBA)

19 University Place, room 223

NOTE: Seating is limited! Come early!

· Tuesday, March 20th 4-6:00pm LECTURE with Dirk Quadflieg "Reification"

19 University Place, Great Room



· Monday, March 26th 6-8:00pm Kiarina Kordela

Macalester College

Seminar: “Spinoza’s Resistence” (readings TBA)

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor)

· Monday, April 2nd 6-8:00pm Katrin Trüstedt

University of Erfurt

Lecture: "Translation, Transference and Sublation in The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare - Hegel - Derrida"

19 University Place, Great Room (1st floor)

NYUAD Lecture Series: Tahrir Square, 2012: The Voices of Women & Religious Minorities (3/1)

Tahrir Square, 2012: The Voices of Women and Religious Minorities

March 1, 2012 | 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: 19 Washington Square North

Viola Shafik Freelance Lecturer and Filmmaker
Yasmin Moll Department of Anthropology, NYUNY
Dina Ramadan Assistant Professor of Arabic, Bard College

In the year following Egyptian revolution, peaceful demonstrations have given way to increasingly violent and sectarian strife. Digital films and social media have documented and brought to the wider public's attention the experiences of women and minority populations in Egypt's ever-changing social and political climate. This panel brings together filmmakers, journalists, and analysts to discuss the recent past and potential future of the country and how social and digital media continues to impact and frame the course of events.

In collaboration with The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies supported by the Social Science Research Council and the NYU Center for Religion and Media with generous support from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.

Part of the series on Digital Religion: Knowledge, Politics, and Practice

What is the Occupy Movement? pt. 2 - 12/9, 7pm

What is the Occupy Movement? pt. 2

Friday 7pm | December 09, 2011
NYU Kimmel Center (Room 905/907) | 60 Washington Square S., NYC

Speakers: Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group), Brian Dominick (Z Media Institute), David Graeber (Author, Debt: The First 5000 Years), Erik Van Deventer (NYU), Nathan Schneider (Waging Nonviolence)

The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. These concerns are coupled with aspirations for social transformation at an international level. For many, the protests at Wall St. and elsewhere provide an avenue to raise questions the Left has long fallen silent on:

What would it mean to challenge capitalism on a global scale?
How could we begin to overcome social conditions that adversely affect every part of life?
And, how could a new international radical movement address these concerns in practice?

Although participants at Occupy Wall St. have managed thus far to organize resources for their own daily needs, legal services, health services, sleeping arrangements, food supplies, defense against police brutality, and a consistent media presence, these pragmatic concerns have taken precedent over long-term goals of the movement. Where can participants of this protest engage in formulating, debating, and questioning the ends of this movement? How can it affect the greater society beyond the occupied spaces?

We in the Platypus Affiliated Society ask participants and interested observers of the #Occupy movement to consider the possibility that political disagreement could lead to clarification, further development and direction. Only when we are able create an active culture of thinking and debating on the Left without it proving prematurely divisive can we begin to imagine a Leftist politics adequate to the historical possibilities of our moment. We may not know what these possibilities for transformation are. This is why we think it is imperative to create avenues of engagement that will support these efforts.

Towards this goal, Platypus will be hosting a series of roundtable discussions with organizers and participants of the #Occupy movement. These will start at campuses in New York and Chicago but will be moving to other North American cities, and to London, Germany, and Greece in the months to come. We welcome any and all who would like to be a part of this project of self-education and potential rebuilding of the Left to join us in advancing this critical moment.

The Platypus Affiliated Society
October 2011

The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.

newyork.platypus1917.org | www.platypus1917.org

Upcoming Lecture 11/14: The National Museum of the American Indian after 9/11

John Haworth -- Monday, November 14, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
Director, National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center
The National Museum of the American Indian after 9/11:
Lessons Learned in Cultural Representation, Civic Engagement and Reconciliation
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 301

Co-Sponsored by the Program in Museum Studies, the Native Studies Forum, and the Department of Anthropology

Museum Studies Fall 2011 Speaker Series: http://museumstudies.as.nyu.edu/page/news_events .

Program in Museum Studies
Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University
240 Greene Street, Suite 400, New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-998-8080; Fax: 212-995-4185

E-mail: museum.studies@nyu.edu

Web: http://museumstudies.as.nyu.edu

Oct 21 Colloquium: "Arts of Resistance: Locating Black Women's Philosophies"

The Foucault Society, NYC
2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies

Devonya N. Havis, Ph.D. "Arts of Resistance: Locating Black Women's Philosophies"

We are delighted to announce our first colloquium of this academic year. Please join us for an evening of critical dialogue and light refreshment.

Friday, October 21, 2011
7:00-9:30pm

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409
New York, NY

Abstract:
This paper works through Foucault to examine the parameters within which Black women's lived experience can be intelligible as philosophy. Toni Morrison characterizes the condition of Black women in the US as one in which they have "nothing to fall back on; not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything." It is at the juncture of self-invention, which simultaneously contests and resists imposed categories, that Black women's philosophies emerge. As opposed to a static set of philosophical principles, Black women's philosophies are more aptly described as philosophical strategies that perform ethico-political interventions--doing philosophy from the posture of critique. In evoking the notion of "doing philosophy," the project calls attention to philosophy as a practice, or process of habituation, whereby one develops an active critical posture in which theory and action are necessary linked. My account enlists Foucault's analytic of subjugated knowledges, takes up his elaborations on genealogy (as outlined in Society Must Be Defended), and explores his discussions of critique and the "Aesthetics of Existence."

Speaker bio:
Devonya N. Havis (Ph.D., Boston College) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. Her research engages contemporary continental philosophy with critical race theory to promote social justice. Her current work develops a conception of auditory identity as a counter to the longstanding philosophical emphasis on the visual. Recent articles include "Blackness Beyond Witness" in Philosophy and Social Criticism (2010). Courses she teaches range from introduction to traditional Western philosophical concepts to explorations of the political implications of Hip-Hop theory. She is the Conference Site Coordinator for the Foucault Circle's 2012 Annual Meeting, taking place in Buffalo on March 30-April 1.

About the Colloquium Series:
The Foucault Society's Colloquium Series provides a forum for new research and works-in-progress, and offers an opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share new work with a friendly and supportive audience of colleagues.

Open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated. E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com.

**As part of our on-going fundraiser, we will have Foucault's The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983 (Palgrave, 2010) available for purchase.**

About the Foucault Society:
The Foucault Society is an independent, nonprofit educational organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to the critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984). All of our events are open to the public. We welcome new participants who have an interest in Foucault's work and its impact on diverse areas of inquiry, including critical social theory, philosophy, politics, history, culture, gender/sexuality studies, and the arts.

Website: www.foucaultsociety.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/foucaultsociety/

E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com

For directions to the CUNY Graduate Center, please see: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Building-Particulars/Building-Access.

Lecture: Islamic Philosophy & Manners of Unfolding in Documentary Cinema

The Center for Religion and Media & The Center for Media, Culture and History present:

Islamic Philosophy and Manners of

Unfolding in Documentary Cinema

a distinguished lecture

by LAURA MARKS (Simon Fraser University)

Introduced by FAYE GINSBURG (NYU)

Friday, October 14th, 4-6PM

NYU Hagop Kevorkian Screening Room

50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street

Dr. Laura U. Marks is the Dena Wosk University Professor of Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University. A scholar, theorist, and curator of independent and experimental media arts, she is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (Duke University Press, 2000), Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (Minnesota University Press, 2002), and many essays. Several years of research in Islamic art history and philosophy gave rise to her new book Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT Press, 2010). She has curated programs of experimental media for venues around the world. Her current research interests are the media arts of the Arab and Muslim world, intercultural perspectives on new media art, and philosophical approaches to materiality and information culture. www.sfu.ca/~lmarks

This event is sponsored by The Center for Religion and Media and The Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU, and is co-sponsored by the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.
All events are free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
For further information, visit www.crmnyu.org, or please call (212) 998-3759.

Rebecca Colesworthy NYU Lecture on Poe: May 20th

Positioning Poe:
Purloined Letters, Counterfeit Coins, and Other Modern Fictions

A lecture by Professor Rebecca Colesworthy

Friday, May 20th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
NYU's School of Law - Furman Hall,
245 Sullivan Street, Room 216

Reception to follow lecture.

Please RSVP to community.affairs@nyu.edu

How might literature be like money and money like literature? What is the relevance of economic notions of “credit,” “value,” and “exchange” to literary studies? What is the relationship between events in economic history (such as financial crises) and processes of artistic and intellectual production?

This talk positions the work of Edgar Allan Poe within a transnational and interdisciplinary tradition of reflecting on the strange connections between literary and monetary forms of representation. While Poe’s work is productive for pondering the formal and thematic intersections between art and commerce, reading his work in light of these intersections helps us to reconsider Poe’s gender politics—namely, his notorious claim that the most poetical topic in the world is the death of a beautiful woman.

Two Upcoming Events at the Taub Center

Two lectures that may be of interest to Draper students (RSVP required; see below):

Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Religion and Identity in Israel

Nadav Shelef
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

February 28, 2011
6:00 - 7:30pm

Kafka, Zionism and the Trial in Tel-Aviv

Mark H. Gelber
Professor, Comparative Literature, Ben-Gurion University

March 2, 2011
6:30 - 8:00pm

Both lectures will be held at the NYU Open House Gallery, 528 LaGuardia Place. RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.

MLK Week Lecture and Event, Today: 2/10

Check out http://www.nyu.edu/life/events-traditions/mlk-week.html# for more Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Week events.

On February 10, 1961, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech on the campus of New York University that advocated for civil rights and championed nonviolent protest for social change. For the sixth-consecutive year, the University will commemorate Dr. King’s visit and his legacy by hosting a weeklong schedule of special events and programs. This year’s theme is intended to remind us of the spirit of Dr. King’s message to come to together, work toward positive goals and change our world for the better.

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MLK Faculty Lecture: 4:00 PM
Kimmel Center, Room 405

As a featured event of MLK Week 2011, Rogan Kersh will deliver the NYU MLK Lecture and you are cordially invited. Rogan Kersh, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, has been a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Policy, a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, and Luce Scholar. His publications include Dreams of a More Perfect Union (Cornell University Press, 2001), a study of U.S. political history; Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and articles and op-ed pieces in numerous academic and popular journals. He is also a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S. political issues.

Rogan Kersh is also one of the Office of the Provost, 2011 recipient of the New York University Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award.

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MLK Week Featured Event: February 10, 2011

Skirball Center for Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South

On February 10, 1961, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. met with members of the NYU community during a three-hour visit. Join us as NYU commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's visit to NYU. Provost David McLaughlin will present the MLK Humanitarian Award to Dr. Fritz Francois (WSC '93, MED '97, '07) of NYU Langone Medical Center for his work on Haitian relief. Additionally the evening will showcase special guests, such as Tony Award winner, Lillias White, along with tributes and performances that include the first African American to serve as the Former Governor of New York State, the honorable David Paterson and much more.

Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Alumni of NYU.

Former Governor of New York State, the Honorable David Paterson

Tony Award winner, Lillias White

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Translating Classical Arabic Literature: 12/2

Translating Classical Arabic Literature

December 2, 2010 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Location: 19 Washington Square North

The lecture is sponsored by the Library of Arabic Literature, directed by Philip Kennedy, Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature, NYU, and Faculty Director of the NYUAD Institute's public programs and conferences. The project is commissioning translations and publishing a library of classic works of Arabic literature and culture in English and Arabic parallel-text editions.

Michael D. Cooperson Professor of Arabic, the University of California, Los Angeles

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Space is limited. Please RSVP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu.

Visit NYUAD Events for more information.

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"The Fate of Trans-" Humanities Lecture, 11/22

The Fate of "Trans-"
November 22, 2010
6:30pm (Please note the change of time from 5:00pm to 6:30pm.)
19 University Place, Great Room (1st Floor)

A panel with Francois Noudelmann, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, Universite de Paris VIII, and
Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU
Manthia Diawara, Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies, NYU
Denis Hollier, Professor and Chair, Department of French, NYU
Shireen Patell, Clinical Assistant Professor of Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies, NYU
Avital Ronell, University Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English, NYU
Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature; Director, The Humanities Initiative, NYU


This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow. Please note the location at 19 University Place.

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Initiative, Africana Studies, the Departments of French and German, and Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies

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Upcoming Lecture: Secularism, Sex, and Religious Liberty (10/6)

NYU Abu Dhabi Lecture Series in New York City: The Demands of Tolerance

Secularism, Sex, and Religious Liberty

October 6, 2010 | 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Location: 19 Washington Square North

This year-long lecture series probes the complexities and modalities of tolerance, not solely as a matter of individual virtue but as a social and political challenge. The lectures explore the limits and demands of tolerance when under pressure by fervently held religious, sexual, social, and political beliefs.

Saba Mahmood, Associate Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, the University of California, Berkeley

Joan Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

Linda Gordon, Professor of History, New York University

Space is limited. Please RSVP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu.

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