Events

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February 2010

2 Andrea Westlund Autonomy in Relation Mariano Plotkin Psychoanalysis and Political Authoritarianism: The Case of Argentina in the 1960s and '70s Panel LGBT Rights Under U.S. Immigration Law Amy Hagopian US Policy and Migrant Health Workers

3 Brett Walton, Stevan Harrell, Patrick Christie H2Asia: Asia’s Water Crisis

4 Queer + Public + Performance Research Cluster Tea Time for the Senses Film Screening Seven Samurai Richard Gray Katz Lecture: Fabulation and Metahistory: W. G. Sebald and Recent German Holocaust Fiction

5 Tristan Weddigen The Fabrication of the King: Raphael and Le Brun Reflecting on the Textile Medium Jack O’Dell and Nikhil Pal Singh Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder Heekyoung Cho Constructing Proletarian Literature: Adapting Turgenev for 1920s Korea

8 Panel Community College Teaching Opportunities

9 Gina Neff Media Labor in the Age of YouTube Panel Faculty Careers at Teaching Focused Universities Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky A Place on the Corner: Working Queues in Day Labor Geoffrey Canada Danz Lecture: Leveling the Playing Field: How to Help Poor Children Succeed

10 Non-Faculty Positions in Universities for People with Graduate Degrees Eric Tang Local Communities and Global Identities in Asian American Studies Yong Zhao Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization

11 Local Communities and Global Identities in Asian American Studies Roundtable on Activism in Academia Film Screening Beshkempir

12 Andrew Nestingen Rings and Things: Aki Kaurismäki and the Cinema of Nostalgia Anne Finger Reading: Call Me Ahab

16 Carolyn McLeod Conscience and Conscientious Objection in Bioethics Carolyn McLeod A Relational Theory of Conscience for Bioethics

17 Bret Gustafson After Neoliberalism, "Living Well": Natural Gas and the Cultural Politics of Redistribution in Bolivia Ann Blair The Impact of Note-taking in Early Modern Europe Film Screening & Discussion The Response Jessica Sommerville & Rebecca Saxe The Development of Thinking about People: From Behavior to Brain

18 Alex Jassen What Happens to Prophecy after 'The Prophets'? Film Screening Battle of Algiers

19 Christopher Scott Blood Brothers: Racial Passing and Male Bonding in Japanese Yakuza Films Herbert Blau Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual

23 Matthew Frye Jacobson Can You See Me? Rock, Race, and the Social Geography of the Jimi Hendrix Experience Baltasar Garzón Human Rights and Historical Memory Nejib ben Lazreg The Roman Mosaics of Tunisia

24 Matthew Frye Jacobson Seminar on Whiteness Studies Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen Making Minds and Madness: From Hysteria to Depression Michael Beecher & Michael Goldstein Learning to Talk, Learning to Sing: Parallels in Humans and Songbirds

25 Screening The Lives of Others Roundtable Asian Language Textbook Development Film Screening Persepolis

26 Reading Group Meeting Asian American Research Collective Randall McLeod Fearful Asymmetry

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