Cultural Analysis Colloquium
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Asian-American
Studies, Center for Chicano Studies, East Asian Studies, Film Studies,
Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, Global Studies, Religious Studies and
Sociology, its founding department.
With the financial support of the Deans of the Humanities and the Social
Sciences
Wednesdays, 12-1:30
Mc Cune Conference Room
January 14 Roger Friedland, Religious Studies and Sociology, UCSB, “The
Rationality of Religious Violence.”
January 21 Charles Li, Linguistics, UCSB, “Language and Genetically
Based Human Behavior: Scientific Imperialism and the Persistence of
Culture"
January 28: Dominic Sachsenmaier, Global Studies Program, UCSB,
“Challenges to Western Modernity after World War I: Towards a Global
Perspective"
February 4: Meir Shahar, Religious Studies, Stanford University and East
Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University, "When Did Shaolin Monks Start
Practicing the Martial Arts?
February 11 Paul Bové, English, Pittsburgh University, "Critical Poetics:
American Resources for Theorizing America." co-sponsored by the
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
February 20 (Please Note Time and Location--FRIDAY, 12:00-1:30
Multicultural Center Theater): Jorge Huerta, Chancellor’s Associate
Professor of Theater, UC San Diego, "Keeping the Revolution On Stage:
Chicano Theatre From 1965 to the Present."
February 25 James Faubion, Anthropology, Rice University, “On
Cosmo(logico)politics: Away from Dedifferentiation, Toward a Typology of
Power.”
March 3 Ann Pellegrini, Religious Studies and Performance Studies, New
York University, “Testimonial Sexuality (and other religious feelings).”
March 10 Marianne Schuller, German, Johns Hopkins University, "Kafka's
Animal Stories and the Problem of Modernity."