MULTIPLE
MODERNITIES,
Spring 2007
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MAY 3 Azade Seyhan, “Tales
of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel Between
Tradition and Innovation”
Time: 4 PM
Place:114 Van Hise Hall
MAY 4 Workshop: “Critiques of
Western Modernities: Migration, Exile, Scholarship”
Texts for the workshop are available at http://btcs.wisc.edu/index.htm.
Time: 11 AM
Place: 6125 Social Sciences Building
Organizer: B. Venkat Mani
Past
Events (2007)
FEBRUARY 8: James English,
Contemporary Literature Colloquium event co-sponsored
by BTCS
Roundtable with graduate students, "The Economy
of Prestige," 12:30 pm, Room 7101 Helen C. White
Hall
Public Lecture,"UK America: Centers of Power and
Problems of Translation in the Empire of Global English,"
4:00 pm, Room 6191 Helen C. White Hall
FEBRUARY
15: Yvette Christianse and Rachel Holmes,
“Writing and the Colonial Archive”
Room 7191, Helen C. White Hall, 4:00 pm
Yvette Christianse (Unconfessed, Other Press,
2006) and Rachel Holmes (African Queen: The Real
Life of the Hottentot Venus, Random House, January
2007) will discuss their new books, which dramatize,
in fiction and nonfiction, the lives of two nineteenth
century South African women who lived through some extraordinary
experiences.
Co-sponsored by the MidMod Colloquium; Organizer: Rob
Nixon
MARCH 7 to 10 “Ibero-American
Writers in the Era of Globalization,” Department
of Spanish and Portuguese with BTCS co-sponsorship.
Organizer: Paula Di Dio
Pyle Center
Organized by graduate students from the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
this conference will serve as a forum to debate themes
such as Violence and Literature in Latin America, Literature
and Cinema, and Writing and Publishing in the Era of
Globalization. The conference will also include graduate
student presentations, activities with the community
and a screening of Latin American cinema.
MARCH 22 Christopher Reed, MidMod
Colloquium co-sponsored by BTCS.
Graduate Student Roundtable, “Bloomsbury Rooms,”
12:00 – 1:00 pm, 7101 Helen C. White Hall.
Lecture, “Japonisme and Occidentalism,”
4:00 – 5:30 pm, 7191 Helen C. White Hall. Reception
to follow.
APRIL 12 Rejin Leys, “Contemporary
Haitian American Art: The Work of Rejin Leys”
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: L150 Elvehjem
Workshops and/or class visits TBA.
Co-sponsored by French and Italian, LACIS, African Diaspora
Research Circle, and Visual Cultures; Organizer: Guillermina
De Ferrari
APRIL 26 David Driskell
Workshop, 12:00 noon, Room 6191 H.C.White Hall
Lecture: "Picturing Transcultural Vision,"
4:00 pm, Room L160, Chazen
Organizer: Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis
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