Previous Events

Conferences

• Contact and Power: Transgressions in the Borderlands of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Encounter ,
  March 7-9, 1996.
• Transnationalism, Travel and Desire . February 6-7, 1998.
• Transnationalism, Creolization and the Cultural Politics of Encounter . March 20-21, 1998.
• The Question of the Comparative at the Turn of the Century: 'Comparative Literacy' in a Global Age . March 25-28, 1999.
• Global Diasporas: Communities of Exile and Migration . October
  29-31, 1999.
• The "Contact Zone" Revisited: Violence, Reconciliation, and Co-Existence . April 5-6, 2001
• Ibero-American Writers in the Era of Globalization, March 7-10, 2007

Lectures, Symposia, Panel Discussions

• Violent Passions in the Racial Borderlands of Post-War Europe: A Screening and Panel Discussion of
  Borderline , a 1930 film featuring Paul Robeson and H.D. , November 23, 1998.
• " Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism ," a lecture
  by Anne McClintock, March 26, 1999.
• Graduate Student Seminar Series , Spring 2000.
• " Managing the Infidel: Renaissance Equestrian Art between East and West ," a lecture by Jerry Brotton, September 20, 2000.
• Alternative Modernities featuring Luke Gibbons, with Thongchai Winichakul and Susan Stanford Friedman, March 2, 2001.
• Theory in an Uneven World, lecture by Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Friday, April 4, 2003
• An Evening of Poetry with Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Saturday,
  April 5, 2003.
• Multiple Caribbeans: Performance, Displacement, Identities, International Conference, April 25-27, 2002.
• Robert Fisk Lecture, 8:00pm. Thursday, November 20, 2003.
• Judith Halberstam Lecture, Tuesday, February 11, 3:30 to 5:30, 2004.
• Professor Beverly Gordon, The Second Life of Fashion: The Global Re-circulation of Our Cast-Off Clothing, Friday, April 23, 2004
• Crude Awakening: Writing about Oil and Water in an Age of Global Crisis. March 13, 2005
• Aram A. Yengoyan Lecture, Workshop, and Class Visit , October 25-27, 2006
• Ian Baucom Lecture, November 2, 2006
• Michelle Warren Lecture and Workshop, December 7-8, 2006
• Yvette Christianse and Rachel Holmes, "Writing and the Colonial Archive," February 15, 2007
• Phillip Rothwell, "Angola's Answer to the Postcolonial Age: Pepetela's Jaime Bunda e a morte do americano," February 28, 2007
• Rejin Leys, “Contemporary Haitian American Art: The Work of Rejin Leys,” April 12, 2007
• David Driskell, "Picturing Transcultural Vision," April 26, 2007
• Azade Seyhan "Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel Between Tradition and Innovation," May 3, 2007
  

  Potlucks and Potluck Discussions

• November, 1996. Organizational Potluck.
• December, 1997. Organization Potluck.
• November 1, 1998. Potluck Discussion: "Modernity" in Transnational Context .
• February 7, 1999. Potluck Discussion: "Hybridity" and (Post)Modernity .
• September 18, 1999. Potluck Discussion: Global Diasporas .
• September 17, 2000. Potluck Discussion: New Thinking About Space .
• September 28, 2001. Potluck Discussion: Transnationalism, Terrorism, and Gender.
• November 10, 2002. Potluck Discussion: Postcolonial Modern: Hybrid Culture and Multi-Modernities.
• November 9, 2003, Fall Potluck on Sunday, November 9, 2003. Toby Miller, will be leading our discussion. See bio and website Theme: Paranoid Empire: Masculinities and Other War Zones

Associated Seminars

• Comparative Literature 974: Nation, Narrative, Gender, Fall 2001
• Fall 2004, Paranoid Empire: Masculinities and Other War Zones with Professor Anne McClintock of the English Department (English 939).
• Spring 2005 Course: “Environmental Writing and Social Justice in a Global Context” with Professor Rob Nixon of the English Department (English 727).
• Spring 2006 Course: “The Carribbean in Theory” with Professsor Guillermina De Ferrari of the Spanish and Portuguese Department (Spanish 716).
• Spring 2007 Course: “Feminist Theory and Criticism: Global, Local, Transnational” with Professor Susan Stanford Friedman of the English Department (English 737).

Grant Opportunities

• Faculty Grant Opportunity: Material Culture in the Global Cultural Economy November 2003