SPEAKER SERIES 2011-2012

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Friday, January 13, 2-4 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

RICK VALELLY

Veto-Proofing African-American Citizenship:  Judicial Review and the Strategic Origins of the U.S. Constitution's Citizenship Clause

 

 

Rick Valelly is Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, a well-known U.S. liberal arts college located near Philadelphia. He is author of The Two Reconstructions:  The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement (University of Chicago Press, 2004), which won several professional awards.  He is very active in the American Political Science Association.  At Swarthmore, Valelly teaches courses on Congress, the U.S. Presidency, political parties, and elections.

 

 

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War Child Presents:

“The Future of Aid: Our Shared Responsibility”

In partnership with the Canadian International Council and the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto.

 

 

Join Dr. Samantha Nutt, Founder of War Child and author of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid in conversation with leading experts in the fields of development and human rights as they discuss the future of aid in our conflicted world. 

 

Featuring:
Dr. Samantha Nutt, Founder of War Child and author of Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid
Brian Stewart, Senior Correspondent for CBC and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs
Biju Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank
Ian Smillie, Author of Freedom From Want and Chair of the Diamond Development Initiative
Sasha Lezhnev, Policy Consultant, ENOUGH Project
George Roter, CEO and Co-Founder of Engineers Without Borders Canada

TICKETS: Student  - $10 (with valid student ID) General - $20 More information can be found here:  http://wcc.r-esourcecenter.com/Event/index.asp?Event_Id=31   We encourage you to pre purchase your copy of Damned Nations which can be picked up at the door for only an additional $25. Dr. Samantha Nutt will be signing copies following the event.  Proceeds from this event will support War Child. If you are unable to attend but would like to make a donation click here.

 

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*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ***

Friday, February 17, 2-4 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

TANYA ERZEN

Faith-Based Imprisonment and the Politics of Transformation

Co-sponsored by the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, and the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, University of Toronto.

 

 

Tanya Erzen is Associate Professor of Religion and Comparative Studies and affiliate faculty of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University.  Her first book, Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement (California, 2006), received the Ruth Benedict Prize and the Gustave O Arlt award.  The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the American Association of University Women, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Study, she is currently writing God in Captivity (Harvard University Press), an examination of forms of faith-based imprisonment in the U.S.

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Monday, February 27, 4-6pm
Room 108, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

Fatima El-Tayeb

Postracial Europe? Minority Activism and the Queering of Ethnicity

Co-sponsored by: Centre for the Study of the United States, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Department of History, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies,  Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies, Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, and Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

 

Professor El-Tayeb received a Ph.D. in History. She is an Associate Professor of the Departments of Literature and Ethnic Studies and Associate Director for Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include African and Comparative Diaspora Studies, Transnational Feminism, Migrant, Minority Cultures, and Muslim Communities in the West, Queer of Coluor Critique, Visual Cultural Studies, and Media Theory.

 

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Friday, March 2, 2-5 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

PETER DECHERNEY AND STEFAN ANDRIOPOULOS

SYMPOSIUM ON LAW AND FILM

Co-Sponsored by the: Faculty of Law, Centre for the Study of the United States, Department of  English, Cinema Studies Institute, Centre for Comparative Literature, and Centre for Innovation & Law Policy, University of Toronto.

 

 

2:00 – 3:30 pm

 

Stefan Andriopoulos

“The Terror of Reproduction: Early Cinema's Ghostly Doubles and the Right to One's Own Image”

 

Respondent:  James Leo Cahill, French and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto

 

Stefan Andriopoulos is chair of the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2008; German version: Fink, 2000), which won the SLSA Michelle Kendrick award for best academic book on literature, science, and the arts. His new publication provisionally titled Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media, is under contract with Zone Books. His previous work, published in German, includes a monograph on Accident and Crime: Configurations between Literary and Legal Discourse around 1900 (Centaurus, 1996).

 

James Leo Cahill teaches in the French Department and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on early French cinema, documentary and experimental media, and critical theory, with a special interest in the relationships between scientific uses of cinema, cinematic uses of science, and film pedagogy. Cahill is also a co-editor of Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

 

3:30 – 5:00 pm

 

Peter Decherney

“Auteurism on Trial: Moral Rights and Films on Television”

 

Respondent: Simon Stern, Faculty of Law and Dept. of English

 

Peter Decherney is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and Communication and the Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: from Edison to the Internet (Columbia, 2012), and Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American (Columbia, 2005). He regularly testifies before the Copyright Office of the United States, and in 2011, he filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court Case of Golan v. Holder. Prof. Decherney has been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.

 

Simon Stern is Assistant Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the history of copyright law; legal, literary, and intellectual history in the 18th and 19th centuries; and methodology in interdisciplinary work involving law and the humanities. Stern’s work has been published, or is forthcoming, in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Law & Literature, Law & Social Inquiry, the Yale Law Journal, and ELH.

 

 

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Wednesday, March 14, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

KEN WISSOKER

The Problem of the Second Book

Organized by the Asian Institute, and co-sponsored by Centre for the Study of the United States, and Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies.

Ken Wissoker is the Editorial Director of Duke University Press, acquiring books in anthropology, cultural studies, and literary theory; globalization and post-colonial theory; Asian, African, and American studies; music, film and television; race, gender, and sexuality; and other areas in the humanities, social sciences, media, and the arts. He moved to Durham to join the Press as an Acquisitions Editor in 1991, and became Editor-in-Chief in 1997, before being named Editorial Director in 2005. Among the authors whose books he has published are: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jane Gallop, Charles Taylor, Lisa Lowe, Lauren Berlant, Judith Halberstam, Brian Massumi, Ann Stoler, Aihwa Ong, Rey Chow, and Arjun Appadurai. He is especially proud of the number of first book prizes that have gone to Duke University Press authors—a sign that the Press continues to have its pulse not simply on current scholarship, but on the most promising new intellectual developments.

 

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Thursday, March 22, 2012, 3-5 pm
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
170 St. George Street

SHARI HUHNDORF

Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics Of Space In Louise Erdrich's “Tracks” And Leslie Marmon Silko's “Sacred Water”

Co-sponsored by: the Jackman Humanities Institute, the Department of English, the Centre for Comparative Literature, the Women and Gender Studies Institute, and the Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs.

 

Shari Huhndorf is Professor of Native American Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She is the author of two books, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell UP, 2001) and Mapping the Americas:The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell UP, 2009), and a co-editor of Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (UBC Press, 2010). Another co-edited work, Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, recently won the 2011 award for best special issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. She is currently at work on a manuscript tentatively entitled “Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: The Gendered Geographies of Native Women's Culture.”

 

No registration is required.

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Thursday, March 22, 5-7 pm
Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

MICHAEL D. MARTINEZ

The 2012 US Presidential Election . . . through a Rearview Mirror and a Crystal Ball

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

 

Michael D. Martinez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. He earned his PhD at the University of Michigan, and has had visiting appointments at Texas A&M, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Calgary (as a Fulbright Scholar). His research on ambivalence in public opinion, voter turnout, partisanship, and ideology in the United States and Canada has appeared in many scholarly journals, including Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, and American Politics Research. He teaches graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in political behaviour, research methods, and American politics.

 

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** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. **

 

Friday, March 23, 2-4 pm
Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

STEVE HERBERT

Adrift in a Sea of Uncertainty:  Compliance, Coercion and Endangered Whales

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, and the Centre for Criminology and Socio-legal Studies, University of Toronto

 

 

Steve Herbert is Professor of Geography and Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington.  His research focuses on the geographies of law and policing. He is the author of three books: Policing Space (Minnesota 1997), Citizens, Cops, and Power (Chicago, 2006), and (with Katherine Beckett) Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America (Oxford, 2009). His current research examines the use of the Endangered Species Act to help preserve a group of orca whales who frequent the Pacific Northwest.

 

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Monday, March 26, 2012 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

Roundtable on Takashi Fujitani’s New Book:

Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans in WWII

Co-sponsored by the Asian Institute and the Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Takashi Fujitani
Professor of History and the Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto
Moon-Ho Jung – Commentator, Associate Professor and Walker Family Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington
Ken Kawashima – Commentator, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies University of Toronto
Andre Schmid – Commentator, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies University of Toronto
Elspeth Brown – Chair, Director, Centre for the Study of the United States and American Studies Program, and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto

This book offers a major challenge to our understandings of nationalism, racism, colonialism and wartime mobilization during the Second World War. In parallel case studies – of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military – T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes government policies and representations of these soldiers (including in film, in literature, and in archival documents) to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides of the Pacific, with repercussions that remain with us today. Writing against the grain of conventional historiography the author demonstrates that the U.S. and Japan became increasingly alike during the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.

 

To order the book online with a 20% discount, log on to www.ucpress.edu/9780520262232 and use discount code 12M0402.

 

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

Moon-Ho Jung

Subversive Histories: Race, National Security, and Empire Across the Pacific

Co-sponsored by the Centre for South Asian Studies, Centre for the Study of the United States, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto

This lecture will critique standard narratives of Asian American and U.S. history that tend to treat Asian Americans as “immigrants” deserving or striving for inclusion (citizenship) in the U.S. nation-state. By exploring how Asians came to be radicalized and racialized subjects of the U.S. empire before World War II, I will seek to reframe our notions of movements across the Pacific. In particular, my talk will trace the historical origins of the national security state, the heart and soul of the U.S. empire, to a series of U.S. “foreign” and “domestic” policies targeting Asians on both sides of the Pacific. Moon-Ho Jung is Associate Professor and the Walker Endowed Family Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), which received the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

 

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Thursday, March 29th, 4-6 pm
University College, Room 140
15 King’s College Circle

SUSIE BRIGHT

Big Sex, Little Death: Sexual Liberation, Erotic Forensics, and the Great Feminist Vanishing Act

Co-sponsored by: The Michael Lynch Distinguished Visitorship, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies; Women & Gender Studies Institute; and Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs; and Come As You Are.

 

 

Best-selling author, activist, and erotic forencist Susie Bright writes about sex and politics (almost) every day on susiebright.blogs.com. Bright is the author of Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir (Seal Press, 2011). Her bestselling audio show, "In Bed With Susie Bright," airs every week at audible.com/susie.

 

No registration is required.

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Friday, March 30, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs

 

BRITTNEY COOPER

Black Women Public Intellectuals and the Discourse of American Peculiarity, 1892-1956

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Brittney Cooper is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. She is a 2009 alumna of the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University with a Ph.D. in American Studies. She is spending the 2011-2012 academic year as a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. Currently, Dr. Cooper is completing her first book project, Race Women: Gender and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual Tradition, 1892-Present. She has two forthcoming book chapters on the history of the Order of Eastern Star and the history of Black women's fraternal and club activism in North Louisiana. She has published several book chapters and articles on representations of Black women in popular culture. Dr. Cooper has a forthcoming article on Sapphire's Push as a hip hop novel. She is also co-founder along with Dr. Susana Morris of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a feminist of color scholar-activist group that runs a highly successful blog, and also does speaking tours, conducts workshops, and engages in a range of activist causes related to women’s issues. Professor Cooper blogs for the CFC as “Crunktastic.”

 

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Tuesday, April 10, 4-6 pm
Centre for Criminology and Socio-legal Studies
Room 150, Canadiana Gallery
14 Queen's Park Cres. West

LAURA E. GÓMEZ

The Next Generation of Socio-legal Scholarship on Race and Racism: Connecting How We Operationalize “Race” to its Conceptualization as Social Construct

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Criminology & Socio-legal Studies, University of Toronto.

 

Laura E. Gómez rejoined the faculty of UCLA Law in 2011, after serving as professor of law and American studies at the University of New Mexico from 2005-10. Before joining the UNM faculty, she spent 12 years as professor of law at UCLA. She was a co-founder and the first co-director of UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program. Gómez has lectured widely and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and op-ed commentaries, as well as two books. In her 2007 book, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, Professor Gómez examines how law and racial ideology intersected to create new racial groups and to re-structure the turn-of-the-twentieth century racial order in the US As an associate editor of the Law & Society Review, she produced a special issue on law and racial inequality (2010). She has held prestigious residential fellowships at the School for American Research in Santa Fe and the Stanford Humanities Center in Palo Alto.

 

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