| NEW PUBLICATIONS |
Susan Kirkpatrick
Mujer,
modernismo, y vanguardia en España (1898-1931).Feminismos Series. Madrid :
Ediciones Cátedra, 2003.
Wai-lim Yip
"When the last remnants
of emotion are swept away" (Chinese poem). Literary Page, United Daily
[Taipei],
January 21, 2003.
"Daojia Meixue, Zhongguo
Shi yu Meiguo Xiandai Shi, II" (Daoist Aesthetics, Chinese Poetry and
Modern American Poetry. II. 4. The Search for Immanence in Modern
American Poetry), Chung-wai Literary Monthly, Vol.31, No. 8,
January, 2003.
| AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS |
"Æsthetics of Science"
Curated and introduced by Alain Cohen, a new exhibit, unveiled in February at the UCSD Faculty Club, high-lights the powerful synergy between science and art. The exhibit features works from UCSD’s leading national and international researchers and science scholars working at the Supercomputer Center, the SIO Visualization Center, and a wide variety of cutting edge labs. In Alain's words:
"The 35 'paintings' look like art, they have been produced on campus, and they shape new models of vizualisation in the not-so-random harmonies juxtaposed in the nano, the micro, and the macro. Microphotography of nerve cells is cheek-by-jowl with computer generated galactic images a billion years after the Big Bang, canyons on Mars, Earth's ocean floors, imperiled cells, 3-D objects and fMRI scans, anatomic virtual reality, the essence of turbulence, and a pulsed-power experiment. The images are familiar or unfamiliar, disturbing or ecstatic, but the lines, forms, and colors seem as compelling as the science by which they are propelled."
Contributors are acknowledged in the catalogue available at the Faculty Club. The exhibit will remain open until the end of April.
| MARCH EVENTS |
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Regents’ Lecturer
Kenneth D. Kaunda
Monday, March 3, 3:00 pm
Tuesday, March 4, 6:00 pm
Friday March 7, 3:00 pm Contact: Robert Cancel |
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The UCSD Center for the
Humanities and Eleanor Roosevelt College Present: “Making of the Modern
World: The Short Version” Wednesday, March 5, 2003 "The Cold War and Phase-Two Globalization in the Last Half Century" Timothy McDaniel, UCSD Professor of Sociology and Former Director of the Making of the Modern World For more information, please call (858) 534-0999. |
NEW WRITING SERIES.
Winter 2003
Visual Arts
Performance Space, 4:30 pm
March 5:
Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith. Hoa Nguyen, born near Saigon, grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and
studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco.
With Dale Smith, she publishes Skanky Possum, a small poetry
journal and book imprint. Her first full-length collection of poems,
Your Ancient See Through, appeared in 2002.
Dale Smith was born in Garland, Texas in 1967. His American Rambler, a
digressive narrative in prose and verse about the peregrinations of the
16th century conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, appeared in 2000.
The Flood & The Garden, a daybook, was published in 2002. Smith
currently resides in Austin with his wife, the poet Hoa Nguyen.
March 12: Roberto Tejada is an art critic, editor, and poet. From 1987 to 1997 he worked in Mexico City, where he founded the English-Spanish annual Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. Tejada is the author of two books of poetry: Gift and Verdict and Amulet Anatomy. Dodie Bellamy has said Tejada’s “writing pingpongs from a short, fragmentary, careful line à la Beckett to vast post-apocalyptic caverns of fantasy and Bataillean distress.”
Sponsored by the Department of Literature and the University Events Office. Contact: Rae Armantrout.
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Etienne Balibar Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Paris X, and Professor of Critical Theory, UC Irvine, Etienne Balibar is one of the most distinguished French political philosophers living today, and a leading figure in current international debates about citizenship, nationalism, and social change. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear the author of Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities (1991), Spinoza and Politics (1998), and Politics and the other Scene (2002) address the most urgent political questions confronting the international public at the beginning of the 21st century. A reception and book signing will follow Professor Balibar’s lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Literature, UCSD Center for the Humanities, IICAS– European Studies Initiative, and the Departments of Ethnic Studies, Sociology, and Communication. Contact: Marcel Hénaff |
"He Yi's
Postman and the
New Age
Maoist"
Professor
Wendy Larson, University of Oregon
Wednesday, March 12, 4:00 pm
Solis 104
LECTURE: Wendy Larson is Professor of Chinese literature,
former Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
and currently Associate Dean of Humanities at the
University of Oregon-Eugene. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley and
has published on Chinese women's writing, gender, sexuality and
subjectivity, transnational cultural politics, modern Chinese literature
and film, and the Cultural Revolution. She is the author of Literary
Authority and the Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography
(1991) and Women and Writing in Modern China (1998), and a
co-editor of Inside Out: Modernism and Post-Modernism in Contemporary
China (1993).
SCREENING: He Yi's Postman (1995, 97 min.), an example of underground art film from China's sixth generation directors, deals with political repression, crisis of male subjectivity, and the absurdity of human existence in postsocialist China. Postman will be shown in big-screen video projection in two parts on March 5 and 7, both at 4:00-4:50 pm, in Solis 104, in conjunction with Professor Yingjin Zhang’s TWS 23 class. Everyone is welcome to the screenings.
Contact: Yingjin Zhang
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Anti-War Poetry Readings
Everywhere on March 5! This, then, is an open invitation to join us in an antiwar reading that will take place that evening at the Visual Arts Performance Space. If you want to participate, bring a poem to read or perform (your own or other) and we will try to accommodate all readers. Or come simply as listeners and as part of a groundswell of opposition to war, both here in California and throughout our country and our world. The readings will commence at 7:15 p.m. and will continue as long as needed. David Antin -- Rae Armantrout -- Eileen Myles -- Jerome Rothenberg |
Cesar E. Chavez
Breakfast and Awards Ceremony
March 28: 7:30-9:30 a.m.
San Diego Convention Center
Student winners of the UCSD Cesar E. Chavez Essay Contest will present their essays and receive recognition. Part of the city-wide and UCSD combined Chavez Celebration which takes place throughout the month of April.
Contact: Jorge Mariscal
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Artists on the Cutting Edge XI: Cross Fertilizations
Quincy Troupe, Artistic Director. Contact: 858-454-3541 or http://www.mcasd.org |
| UPCOMING EVENTS |
Friday, April 4, 3:00 pm -- Elizabeth Dahab, Cal State Long Beach. “Voices from the Desert: Arabic Canadian Women Writers”. deCerteau Room. Contact: Pasquale Verdicchio
Thursday, April 17, 5:00 pm -- Baja California Poets (in Spanish & English). deCerteau Room. Contact: Max Parra.
Monday, April 28, 4:00 pm -- Lecture by Camille Charles. deCerteau Room. Contact: Jorge Marsical
Tuesday, April 29, afternoon -- Salvadoran Literature Symposium. deCerteau Room. Contact: Misha Kokotovic
Tuesday, April 29, 8:00 pm -- Elliott Lecture: Judith Butler. 115 Center Hall. Contact: Michael Davidson
May 8-9 -- Graduate Program Review
Monday, May 12 -- Donna Haraway. Graduate Students’ Center for the Humanities Lecturer. Contact: Jake Mattox
May 14-27 -- Visiting Professor Joseph Roach. Graduate Seminars: May 16, 20, & 22, 1:00 – 4:00. Public Lecture (date TBD)
Tuesday, May 20, evening -- Samuel R. Delany. New Writing Series
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Colored (Black and White):
Filipinos in American Popular Media, 1896-1907
April 5 – May 31, 2003 Contact: Jody Blanco |
| OPPORTUNITIES |
Grants and Travel to
Scholarly Meetings Academic Senate Committee on Research
Calls for applications are updated on a continuing
basis at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/cor.htm
The next deadline for Academic Senate members to apply for Research Grants and/or Travel to Scholarly Meetings is March 31.
Application forms are available at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/cor/applications/corapps.htm, or from Nancy Ho-Wu.
Questions may be directed to Michelle Null at the Academic Senate Office
(534-2130).
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GASPAR DE
PORTOLÀ CATALONIAN STUDIES PROGRAM CALL FOR EXCHANGE PROPOSALS The Autonomous Government of Catalonia and the University of California, Berkeley are pleased to invite, as part of the Gaspar de Portolà Catalonian Studies Program agreement, applications from University of California faculty for scholarly visits to Catalan universities and research institutes. The purpose of an exchange visit would be to interact with colleagues in Catalonia and to give lectures about one's own scholarly work. UC faculty also may wish to be aware of a generous program that also allows Catalan scholars to be sent to UC, which they can access through the Office of the Director General for Research of the Commissioner for Universities and Research, in Barcelona. Complete information addressed to Catalan faculty (not available in English) on this program is available through the web: http://www.gencat.es/dursi. It appears under "beques i ajuts" (grants). Applications for visits in the fall should be received in Berkeley no later than April 15th. |
| CONFERENCES |
Memory, Material, and Meaning
WESTERN HUMANITIES ALLIANCE
22nd Annual Conference
October 16, 17, 18, 2003
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
The Western Humanities Alliance
invites proposals for participation in the 22nd Annual Western Humanities
Conference on the theme of "Memory, Material, and Meaning." Paper
Abstracts (250 words, max.) must be postmarked on or before
April 22, 2003. Complete
panel submissions are also encouraged.
Please submit proposals to:
WHA Conference Committee, Tanner Humanities Center
University of Utah, 380 S. 1400 E.,
Room 201 C Hall,
Salt Lake City UT 84112
Tel (801) 581-7127 Fax (801)
585-3510
http://www.hum.utah.edu/humcntr/
e-mail submissions of abstracts:
hcampbel@mail.hum.utah.edu
e(X)literature: the
Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of Electronic Literature
April 3-4, 2003 at UC
Santa Barbara.
This conference takes up the many issues surrounding attempts to preserve, archive and disseminate literature, art, and music created with the networked computer. The conference is co-sponsored by the Digital Cultures Project and the Electronic Literature Organization.
For information contact Professor William Warner
(English, UCSB)
| Winter Quarter 2003 Calendar | |
| Instruction Ends | Friday, March 14 |
| Final Exams | Mon-Sat, Mar 17-22 |
| Winter Quarter Ends | Saturday, March 22 |
| Spring Quarter 2003 Calendar | |
| Spring Quarter Begins | Thursday, March 27 |
| Cesar Chavez Holiday | Friday, March 28 |
| Instruction Begins | Monday, March 31 |
| Memorial Day Observance | Monday, May 26 |
| Instruction Ends | Friday, June 6 |
| Final Exams | Mon-Fri, June 9-13 |
| Spring Quarter Ends | Friday, June 13 |
| NOTICES |
New Library Resources and Services
A Workshop for Faculty and Graduate Students
The Social Sciences & Humanities Library is offering a workshop designed to introduce faculty and graduate students to new and updated library services and resources.
Participants will explore new library resources and services to investigate their own research needs. The class will learn how to access article databases, electronic reserves and other full-text resources from on and off campus. Participants will also be introduced to future library services such as desktop delivery. Attendees are encouraged to bring actual literature research questions to the workshop.
Dates and Times:
Place: Library Electronic Classroom (Room 274, adjacent to main lobby), Geisel Library. To register, please contact Katy Farrell at ext. 22346.
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If you wish to learn how you can support UCSD's Department of Literature, please contact:
Lynda Stansbury |