2009 Fall Colloquium Schedule
*All readings will be on electronic reserves, listed under UNIT 2009, Goodlad.
Monday, September 14
IRPH Seminar Room
8:00pm
Graduate Student Pizza Event.
Learn about opportunities for scholarship and research support offered through the Unit for Criticism. Refreshments to be provided.
Monday, September 28
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
8:00pm
Author's Roundtable, I:
Darieck Scott, African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination (forthcoming from NYUP)
Respondents: Richard T. Rodriguez (English & Latina/Latino Studies), Marc D. Perry (African American Studies & Anthropology), and Emily Skidmore (History)
The first of a three-part series in which scholars will discuss their recent books in a conversational setting with respondents from the University of Illinois.Readings available on E-reserve:
Scott, Darieck. "Ch. 3: Slavery, rape, and the black male abject." Extravagant Abjection. NYU Press, forthcoming. 1-38. (E-Reserves)
Scott, Darieck. "Introduction." Extravagant Abjection. NYU Press, forthcoming. 1-41. (E-Reserves)
Scott, Darieck. "Ch. 5: Porn and the N-word: lust, Samuel Delany’s the mad man and a derangement of body and sense(s)." Extravagant Abjection. NYU Press, forthcoming. 1-69. (E-Reserves)
Tuesday, October 13
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
8:00pm
“'Biopolitics': the New Behemoth?"
Etienne Balibar, Université de Paris X Nanterre and University of California, IrvineCo-sponsored by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, and by the departments of French, Comparative and World Literature, English, and Philosophy.
Readings available on E-reserve:
Agamben, Giorgio. "The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government." State of Exception, 2005 (excerpt).Foucault, Michel. “Society Must Be Defended”, Lectures at the Collège de France 1975-1976:
--Ch. 11: 17 March 1976 (1st excerpt). "Society Must Be Defended." Picador, 2003.
--Ch. 11: 17 March 1976 (2nd excerpt)." "Society Must Be Defended." Picador, 2003.
--Ch. 3: 21 January 1976." "Society Must Be Defended." Picador, 2003.
Monday October 26
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
8:00pm
Author's Roundtable, II
Frank Donoghue, English, Ohio State University
The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham, 2008)
Respondents: Antoinette Burton (History), Dianne Harris (IPRH & Landscape Architecture), and David Morris (English)
The second of a three-part series in which scholars will discuss their recent books in a conversational setting with respondents from the University of Illinois.
Readings available on E-reserve:
Donoghue, Frank. The Last Professors. Chap. 1: Rhetoric, History, and the Problems of the HumanitiesDonoghue, Frank. The Last Professors. Chap. 5: Prestige and Prestige Envy
Monday, November 16
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
8:00pm
Author's Roundtable, III
Readings available on E-reserve:
Ritu Birla, History, University of Toronto
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India (Duke, 2009)
Respondents: Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology), Matt Hart (English), and James Warren (History)
The third of a three-part series in which scholars will discuss their recent books in a conversational setting with respondents from the University of Illinois.
Birla, Ritu. "Introduction." Stages of Capital. Duke U. Press, 2009.Birla, Ritu. "Ch. 3: For general public utility." Stages of Capital. Duke U. Press, 2009.
Birla, Ritu. "Ch. 5: Economic agents, cultural subjects." Stages of Capital. Duke U. Press, 2009.
Monday, December 7
Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
8:00pm
"Happily Ever After? Examining Narrative Form in the Latina Girl-Meets-Girl Story"
Dara Goldman (Spanish, Latina/Latino Studies, & Gender and Women's Studies)
Respondent: Chantal Nadeau (Gender and Women's Studies)