Colloquium Series Spring 1999 Levis Faculty Center Monday 8.00 pm       1 February Charis Cussins Sociology "Is Man to Father as Woman Is to Mother?: Masculinity in Contemporary U.S. Infertility Clinics" Sara Connell Communications Research Leslie Reagan History   Background Reading: Sherry Ortner, Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture (selections) Michael Peletz, Reason and Passion: Representations of Gender in a Malay Society (selections)             1 March Matt Garcia History : "The 'Colonia Complex' Revisited: Racial Hierarchies and Border Spaces in Southern California, 1910-1930"   Respondents: Alejandro Lugo Anthropology Cameron McCarthy Communications   Background Reading: Neil Foley, "The Little Brown Man in Gringo Land: The 'Second Color Menace' in the Western South" Carey McWilliams, "The Colonia Complex" Jose David Saldivar, Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (selections)             5 April Nancy Tomes History, SUNY Stony brook: "Making the Modern Health Consumer: Some Reflections on the History of Advertising and Public Health   Respondents: Linda Scott Advertising Rosemarie P. Holz History   Background Reading: T.J. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance (selections) Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream (selections) Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs (selections)             3 May Tim Dean English: "Homosexuality and the Problem of Otherness"   Respondents: Nancy Blake Comparative Literature Lisa King Philosophy   Background Reading: Jean Laplanche, "The Theory of Seduction and the Problem of the Other" (selections) Emmanuel Levinas, Outside the Subject (selections) Tim Dean, "Two Kinds of Other and their Consequences"