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Colloquium Series Fall 2001
Levis Faculty Center, Monday 8:00 pm |
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| 10 September |
Nicholas Burbules |
Educational Policy Studies: "What Does It Mean to Teach Students to Be 'Critical'" |
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Respondents: |
Chip Bruce, Library and Information Science
Gary Ebbs, Philosophy |
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Background Reading: |
Brian Fay, Critical Social Science (selections)
Nancy Fraser, "What's Critical About Critical Theory?" |
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| 8 October |
Nancy Blake |
Comparative Literature: "'What in you is more than you': Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love, a Lacanian Reading" |
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Respondents: |
Tim Dean, English
Poshek Fu, History |
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Background Reading: |
Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and Politics of Disappearance (selections)
David Bordwell, "Romance on Your Menu"
Gina Marchetti, "Buying American, Consuming Hong Kong: Cultural Commerce, Fantasies of Identity, and the Cinema" |
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| 5 November |
Lisa Lampert |
English: "Race, Periodicity, and the Middle Ages" |
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Respondents: |
Ania Loomba, English
Adam Sutcliffe, History |
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Background Reading: |
Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Race"
Jerome Friedman, "Jewish Conversion, the Spanish Pure Blood Laws and Reformation: A Revisionist View of Racial and Religious Antisemitism" |
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| 3 December |
Dara Goldman |
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese: "Enemy Mine: Insularity and Contested Spaces in the Hispanic Caribbean" |
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Respondents: |
Nancy Castro, English
Andrew Orta, Anthropology |
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Background Reading: |
Antonio Benitez Rojo, The Repeating Island (selections)
Edward Soja, Thirdspace (selections)
Michele Wucker, Why the Cocks Fight (selections) |