February 2007 News
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Michael
Davidson
“The Dream of a Public Language: Modernity, Manifesto, and the Citizen
Subject.” Foreign Literature Studies
[Wuhan. China]
28.6 (Dec 2006).
“Cosmopolitanism.” Cross-Cultural Poetics 15/16 (2006).
“Technologies of Presence: Orality and the Tapevoice of Contemporary
Poetics.” OEI [Stockholm, Sweden]28/29/30
(2006).
Ali
Liebegott
The IHOP Papers. Carroll & Graf, 2007.
"Francesca's friends think she's wonderful—and why wouldn't they?
Beneath a thin veneer of hip cynicism, she's thoughtful, brilliant and
genuinely kind. She's also abject and self-destructive, qualities that
endear her to her philosophy professor."
Jan 1, 2007 - Kirkus Reviews
Anna Joy
Springer
An excerpt from Anna Joy Springer's forthcoming novel The Vicious Red
Relic, Love is out in Suspect Thoughts, a Journal of Subversive
Writing, online at
http://www.suspectthoughtspress.com/springer.htm.
Yingjin
Zhang
Yingjin Zhang published a refereed journal article: “Comparative Film
Studies, Transnational Film Studies: Interdisciplinarity, Crossmediality,
and Transcultural Visuality in Chinese Cinema.” Journal of Chinese
Cinemas [UK] 1.1 (2007): 27-40.
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Fatima
El-Tayeb will be presenting at the "Histories of the
Aftermath: The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective"
international conference sponsored by the Institute for International,
Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD from February 16-17, 2007.
(http://iicas.ucsd.edu/hota/)
Ana Grinberg will be attending the 2007 Popular Culture/American
Culture conference in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007, to present
a paper entitled “Voicing Women’s Presence and Absence as Vampire
Writers.”
Melissa Hidalgo has been invited to Ireland to present a paper at
the Gender and Education Association International Conference in March
2007. The conference is sponsored by Trinity College, Dublin.
Chunlin Li has an appointment as Associate In by the Department
of History / Chinese Studies to teach first year Chinese during Winter
Quarter 2007.
Lisa Lowe
will present a keynote address titled "Asian and African Diasporas in
Global Modernity" at the Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership (CAPP)
International Symposium at Osaka University of Economics and Law in
Tokyo on "Towards Multiculturalism and the Protection of Immigrant Human
Rights: Comparative Studies of Asian and African Diasporas," February
24-25.
Gabriela Nunez has accepted a position as Assistant Professor
in the Department of English at the University of Louisville.
Congratulations Gabriela!
Jerome Rothenberg is the 2007 recipient of the San Diego Library Local
Author Lifetime Achievement award (LOLA). The LOLA Award is an annual
award presented to a writer who has a distinguished writing career and
whose work has provided significant enrichment to the San Diego
community. Rothenberg, who has been dubbed “the ultimate 'hyphenated'
poet: critic-anthropologist-editor-anthologist
-performer-teacher-translator, ” accepted the LOLA award on January 27,
2007. See the tribute to him at
http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/pdf/070129lola.pdf
Kyla Schuller has received the Margaret Storrs Grierson Travel-to-Collections Award for archival research in the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. She is also going to present a paper titled “The Fossil and the Photograph: Capturing the ‘Primitive’ in the Museum and Boarding School” at the American Comparative Literature Association in Puebla, Mexico, in April 2007 and another paper entitled “Evolving California: Evolutionary Thinking and California Land Rights” at the California Cultures in Comparative Perspective Working Paper Series at UCSD in February.
Lisa Yoneyama will be presenting at the "Histories of the Aftermath: The European 'Postwar' in Comparative Perspective" international conference sponsored by the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD from February 16-17, 2007. (http://iicas.ucsd.edu/hota/)
EXAMS & DEFENSES
Qualifying Exam
Annick Gentet – January 24, 2007 (also received an MA in Comparative
Literature)
UPDATE ON CLARION SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY WRITERS' WORKSHOP
JUNE 25 -
AUGUST 3
Established in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson, Kate Wilhelm, and Damon
Knight, The Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop is the
oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier
proving and training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science
fiction.
Clarion's name derives from its original location at Clarion State
College in Pennsylvania, now Clarion University. From 1972 through 2006,
Clarion was hosted by Michigan State University in East Lansing,
Michigan. This year marks the beginning of a new chapter in the
workshop's long history of excellence as Clarion moves to a new location
on the campus of University of California, San Diego.
Workshoppers will be housed in the new Eleanor Roosevelt College dorm on
the UCSD campus, and classes will be held in the seminar facilities of
the UCSD Department of Literature.
The 2007 writers in residence are:
Gregory Frost,
Jeff VanderMeer,
Karen Joy Fowler,
Cory Doctorow,
Ellen Kushner,
Delia Sherman
FEBRUARY EVENTS
NEW WRITING SERIES
Winter 2007 - all readings at 4:30 pm -
Wednesday, February 7, Amra Brooks/James Meetze, Visual Arts Performance Space
Wednesday, February 14, Heriberto Yépez, Visual Arts Performance Space
Wednesday, February 21, Heather Fowler Zion, Visual Arts Performance Space
Monday, February 26, Noy Holland, deCerteau Room
Wednesday, February 28,
Bob Glück,
Visual Arts Performance Space
The New Writing Series is sponsored by the Dean of Arts
& Humanities, the Muir Provost,
the Department of Literature, and Mandeville Special Collections.
The San Diego Public Library and The California Center for the Book present Reconceptualizing Blackness: The Lively Art, a book discussion led by Professor Camille Forbes
February 7: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
February 21: Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward
discussions begin at 6:30 pm,
San Diego Public Library,
Wangenheim Room - third floor,
820 E Street, San Diego
California Cultures Graduate Fellows Roundtable
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm,
Social Sciences Building 102
featuring Maria Cesena,
Jason Crum, Cecilia Rivas,
Kyla Schuller, and Jenifer
Vernon
free and open to the public -- food and refreshments provided
La UABC en UCSD
(The Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
at the University of California, San Diego)
The series brings poets, scholars, playwrights, and critics from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California,
Tijuana campus, to UCSD to showcase their creative and scholarly works in the Department of Literature. Talks are in Spanish.
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Thursday, February 15, 2007 – 4:00 pm,
deCerteau Room
Víctor Soto Ferrel. “La poesía joven de Tijuana”
Author of Sol de espejo (1982) and La casa del centro
(2001). His poetry has appeared in several literary journals and
anthologies, including the bilingual edition of border poetry Across
the line/Al otro lado (2002). Sponsored by the
Division of Arts & Humanities
and the
Department of
Literature.
Contact: Max
Parra
As part of the ongoing House of Italy Film Series in Balboa Park ,
Pasquale Verdicchio will be showing
MEDITERRANEO
by G. Salvatores
on
Thursday, Feb 15 @ 7 pm
.
UC San Diego Libraries Host
“An Evening with James Salter”
Tuesday, February 20, 5:30 pm
Geisel Library’s Seuss Room
Salter has written five novels, the screenplay Downhill Racer, a collection of short stories entitled Dusk and Other Stories (winner of the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award in 1989), Burning the Days, Last Night, and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, co-authored with his wife, Kay Salter. He has been awarded a grant from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
California Cultures Presents:
Eric Mann,"Building the Left in the Age of the Right: Challenging Racism and
Empire"
Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 3-5pm,
Robinson Auditorium at IR/PS
Eric Mann is director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center and
member of
the Bus Riders Union Planning Committee. He has been a civil rights,
anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer for 40 years,
with the
Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society, and
the
United Auto Workers, including eight years on auto assembly lines.
He is the
author of five books including Comrade George: An Investigation into
the Life,
Political Thought, and Assassination of George Jackson and most
recently Katrina's Legacy: White Racism and Black Reconstruction in New
Orleans and
the Gulf Coast (Frontlines Press).
Contact:
Jorge Mariscal
The Eugene Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, an
endowed lecture series at UCSD, will sponsor two talks by
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, the Krister Stendahl Professor of
Divinity at Harvard University and the author of many pioneering
books in biblical interpretation and feminist theology. Her
books include In Memory of Her (translated into 12
languages), Discipleship of Equals, Revelation: Vision
of a Just World, Jesus: Miriam’s Child, and
Wisdom’s Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation.
She is a co-founder and editor of the Journal of Feminist
Studies in Religion, was the first woman president of the
Society of Biblical Literature, and has been elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She will give a free public lecture, “The Power of the Word:
Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire,” at the Institute of the
Americas Auditorium in Hojel Hall on Thursday, February 22, at
8:00 p.m. This lecture will explore how a rhetoric of empire has
shaped readings of Christian Scriptures, as well as public
discourse and societal self-understanding, and how a feminist
critical method of biblical interpretation building on early
Christian practices can respond to it..
She will also speak on feminist biblical interpretation in
conjunction with a meeting of Religion 112 in Center Hall 216 on
Friday, February 23, at 11:00 a.m. This talk is co-sponsored by
the Program for the Study of Religion and is open to the public
as well.
UC San Diego Library Exhibit
Honors Poet, Professor Emeritus
Jerome Rothenberg
The work of celebrated poet Jerome Rothenberg, UC San Diego
professor emeritus in both visual arts and literature, will be
featured in an exhibit beginning Saturday, February 24, in the
Geisel Library.
“Dynamic Exchange: Collaborative Works of Jerome
Rothenberg” illustrates his work with other poets and artists during
the past fifty years.
Rothenberg, 75, will read from his work at an exhibition-opening
ceremony in the library, joined by other artists and poets,
including Bert Turetzky, David Antin,
Michael Davidson, and others.
Rothenberg is an internationally renowned poet, performance artist,
critic and scholar. He has published more than 60 books, booklets
and pamphlets of poetry, and assembled and edited several seminal
anthologies of experimental and traditional poetry and performance.
Eileen Myles and
Ali Liebegott reading some
of their recently published work.
D.G. Wills Books - 7:00 pm.