February 2005 News
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Mel Freilicher
Review of American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the
Woman Who Defied the Puritans. By Eve LaPlante. American Book Review
26.2 (Jan/Feb 2005).
http://www.litline.org/ABR
Mike
Alexander Pozo
“Los Latinos y la Educación despues del 11 de Septiembre: Los nuevos
agentes del imperio o una mejor dirección para la comunidad Latina?”
Aula Crítica, Revista Educativa de la Fundación McLaren de Pedagogía
Crítica. Tijuana: Universidad de Tijuana, México. (September 2004).
“Henry Giroux and the Politics of Higher Education under George W. Bush.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. (February 2005).
Jerome Rothenberg
Poemas para el juego del silencio. [selected poems]
Translation into Spanish by Mercedes Roffé. Valencia: Editorial
Germania, 2004.
Eric Watkins is author of three articles in Unmasking Terror: A Global Review of Terrorist Activities. Washington, DC: The Jamestown Foundation, 2005.
Wai-lim Yip
"Fountain City Jinan, Shandong." [lyrical prose] China Times
[Taiwan].
Dec. 23, 2004: Literary Page.
"Pearl Beach Waterfall." [Lyrical prose] United Daily News
[Taiwan]. Jan.
5, 2005: Literary Page.
Yingjin Zhang
published a new refereed article: “Styles, Subjects, and Special Points
of View: A Study of Contemporary Chinese Independent Documentary.” New
Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film [England] 2.2 (2004): 119-35.
Jerome Rothenberg, in collaboration with Jeffery Robinson of the University of Colorado at Boulder, has contracted with University of California Press for Poems for the Millennium, volume three, The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry. As they plan this project, the co-editors invite the “knowledge and passions of those of you who share our sense of the romantic as a principal starting point for much that has followed.”
Rothenberg writes: “Our plan is to trace a line or several lines of work -- both poetry and poetics -- from the late eighteenth-century post-enlightenment to the early twentieth-century eruption of experimental and avant-garde modernism. Such a gathering, as we conceive it, would be international in scope and would attempt to restore a sense of the revolutionary and transformative nature of Romanticism and postromanticism as they were at the time of their inception.
"As with Poems for the Millennium, when Pierre Joris and I began it, Jeffery Robinson and I have only a first, still dim presentiment of where this will carry us. What we're offering, then, is a genuine call both for translations and for consultation and assistance that will open the project to all of you who want to have a voice in it.”
“Isicathamiya: Zulu Choral Music Past and Present”
Elizabeth Gunner
Acting Director, Centre for
African Literary Studies
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - 6:00
pm
Cross-Cultural Center
Contact: Robert Cancel http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents
"Ralph Ellison: An American Journey"
film screening and discussion
Central Branch Auditorium, 820 E Street - 3rd Floor
February 6, 2004 2 pm
"Dynamic: The Black Experience in America"
a reading and discussion series
San Diego Public Library, Central Branch
Wednesdays at 6:30 pm
a. February 2, Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright
b. February 16, Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
c. March 2, Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/
Camille Forbes will also be presenting a talk tentatively titled "Traitor or Treasure?: Assessing Black Comedian Bert Williams (1874-1922)" @ Seuss Room, Geisel Library on February 17, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
WHERE GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND
LOCAL ACTION MEET
Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:00pm - 7:00pm
UCSD Great Hall - Eleanor Roosevelt College
The impact
of globalization and social injustice on lives around the world has
never been more present.
Come to this community collaborative evening
ready for dialogue and action around social justice as we
bring back
UCSD alumni and San Diego activist organizations who are struggling for
global change.
Professor
Jorge Mariscal will facilitate a roundtable on
"The Nation at War: Support the troops & support social justice?" Many
other contemporary issues will be addressed.
Co-hosted by the UCSD
Cross-Cultural Center, the UCSD Women's Center, and International House.
Contact:
Jorge Mariscal
MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD: THE SHORT VERSION
The Center for the Humanities and Eleanor Roosevelt College present a "short version" of the College's world civilization sequence, Making of the Modern World. Please join us as five members of the MMW faculty take you on a tour of global trends and events occurring between the twelfth and twentieth centuries.
The lectures will be held from 7:00 - 8:30pm in the Great Hall at UCSD's Eleanor Roosevelt College on the following days:
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
"Faith and Science in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"
Steven Cassedy, UCSD
Professor of Literature and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
"Fascism, Communism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Early Twentieth
Century"
Pamela Radcliff, UCSD Professor of History
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
"Give Them Stuff!" -- Material Well-Being, Consumer Desires, and the
Making of a New World Order"
Patrick Patterson, UCSD Lecturer, Making of the Modern World
See “The Practice of Dreams”
works by Pasquale Verdicchio,
Lynn Susholtz, and Andrea Singer
on display at
Art Produce Gallery
3139 University Avenue
January 22 through March 12.
NEW WRITING SERIES –
WINTER
2005
All readings at 4:30 pm in the Visual Arts
Performance Space
Jordan Davis
Thursday, February 10
Jordan Davis is the author of Million Poems Journal (Faux). With Chris
Edgar, he edits The Hat, an annual literary journal; with Sarah Manguso,
he edited Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. In the
fall of 2004, he began hosting The Million Poems Show, a poetry talk show at the
Bowery Poetry Club.
Monica Youn
Wednesday, February 16
Monica Youn’s first book of poems,
Barter, was published by Graywolf in 2003. She’s been awarded a Stegner
Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, among other honors. She currently
lives in Manhattan where she is an entertainment lawyer. Writing in The
Constant Critic, Ray McDaniel says Youn’s poems make “a cocktail of
politesse and shame, brewing it from her own peculiar napalm.
Lesley Stern
Wednesday, February 23
Lesley Stern is Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD. She writes at the intersection of fiction, memoir, history, and poetry. Her most recent publication, The Smoking Book, has been described as “a sexy and provocative collection of short stories and vignettes…fidgety riffs on smoking, sudden explosions of surprises and epigrammatic density.”
Fanny Howe
Wednesday, March 9
Celebrated poet, novelist, and UCSD literature professor emerita, Fanny Howe, returns to UCSD for this reading. Howe’s most recent books include On the Ground (Graywolf), The Wedding Dress, Gone, and Selected Poems (all from UC Press.) Her poems are incarnations in which spiritual longing and material fate intersect. Of Howe’s Selected Poems, John Ashbery writes, “Fanny Howe’s strangely hushed but busy landscape keeps leading us into it until we realize we’re lost but wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
The New Writing Series is sponsored by UCSD's
Department of Literature,
Division of Arts & Humanities, and
Muir
Provost's Humanities Fund.
Contact:
Rae Armantrout
COMING EVENTS
the
James K. Binder Lectureship in Literature
presents
Klaus
Scherpe
Professor of Contemporary German Literature
Humboldt University in Berlin
"How German Is It, and How American? Ironic Replays in Literature"
March 1, 2005, 7:30 pm Fung Auditorium, Bioengineering Building
Contact: Todd Kontje http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents
Upcoming Lectures – Details in future newsletters:
March 8, 2005 – Walton Look Lai
April 6, 2005 – Binder Lecture Series: Tzvetan Todorov
April 28, 2005 – Elliott Lecture Series: Amy Kaplan
May 5, 2005 – Emory Elliott
May 24, 2005 - Alumni Lecture Series: Frances Smith Foster
For details and the latest updates, see:
Current Events on the Literature website at
http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents or
Literature Events Calendar at
http://literature.ucsd.edu/calendar
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here.
Western Humanities Alliance
24th Annual Conference
October 20-22, 2005
University of Arizona
Call for Papers due February 15, 2005
UCHRI Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical
Theory, "Present Tense Empires, Race, Bio-Politics,"
August 16-25, 2005
Applications are open to faculty, graduate students, other scholars, professionals, and public intellectuals. Up to 10 scholarships available for full-time registered students. Instructors: Ien Ang, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lisa Lowe, Achille Mbembe.
Graduate students and junior faculty are invited to apply for The Future of Minority Studies Research Project (FMS) Summer Institute at Cornell University July 25 - August 5, 2005:
FEMINIST IDENTITIES, GLOBAL STRUGGLES
Taught by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English at Spelman College, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor of Women's Studies and the Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University
For details, go to http://www.fmsproject.cornell.edu/summer_overview.htm
Look for numerous other funding opportunities
on the department's website at
http://literature.ucsd.edu/funding/ .