Latino/a Studies Seminar
This working-group-style seminar, convened by Sarah Deutsch, will begin collaboratively to build a graduate and faculty Latina/o Studies community at Duke, ideally coordinated with that at UNC and centered around intellectual engagement with this rapidly developing and cutting edge field.
Schedule of Events and Meetings
Wednesday, April 19, 5:30-8:00 in room 108 East Duke Building, Jennifer Gonzalez, from University of California, Santa Cruz's Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, will deliver a public lecture entitled "¿Qué Es Mas Macho?: Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Chicano/Latino Art."
Thursday, April 20, 10:30-12:00 in room 130/2 John Hope Franklin Center, Professor Gonzalez will lead a seminar workshop entitled "Morphologies: Race in Digital Culture."
Readings::
1- Guillermo Gomez-Pena, "Chicano Interneta: The search for intelligent Life in Cyberspace," Hopscotch: A Cultural Review - Volume 2, Number 2, 2001, pp. 80-91
2- Jennifer Gonzalez, "The Appended Subject: Race and Identity as Digital Assemblage," in Race in Cyberspace, Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, Gil Rodman, eds., (New York: Routledge, 2000), 27-50.
3- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Chapter 3 "Scenes of Empowerment" in Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics, (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006) pp. 129-170.
For Thursday’s seminar, parking passes will be available for the Medical Center Parking Lot on Erwin road. Please RSVP to Jolene.tam@duke.edu by April 15 if you plan to attend the seminar.
Many thanks to our generous sponsors: Duke in Madrid; Latina/o Studies Initiative; History; Romance Studies; the Visiting Artist Series in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies; and Women’s Studies.
Jennifer Gonzalez is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work examines contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, museums and material culture studies, and public and activist art in the U.S. since 1960. Recently, she co-authored Christian Marclay (Phaidon Press, 2005) and co-edited Shock and Awe: War on Words (The New Pacific Press, 2004). Her essays have appeared in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (2003), Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections (2002), and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). A former Whitney Museum of Art fellow, she has received numerous grants, including two from the Ford Foundation.
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Events Archive
Thursday, March 30, 11:00-1:00 in room 130/2 of the John Hope Franklin Center, José David Saldívar, from University of California, Berkeley's Departments of English and of Ethnic Studies, will lead a seminar discussion, "U.S. Latino/a Studies Otherwise," on the following essays:
1. Walter D. Mignolo, "Postface: After 'America,'" from The Idea of Latin America, (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2005), pp149-162.
2. Anibel Quijano and Immanuel Wallerstein, "Americanity as a Concept, or the Americas in the Modern World-System."
3. José David Saldívar, "Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power from Gloria Anzaldua to Arundhati Roy," Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave Press, 2006).
Seminar includes lunch. Parking passes will be available for the Medical Center lot on Erwin Road.
Monday, November 14, 10:30-12:30 in room 016A/B John Hope Franklin Center, Rafael Perez-Torres, UCLA Department of English, will lead a seminar discussion of the following pieces:
1. Stuart Hall, "The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity" in Culture, Globalization and the World System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, Anthony D. King, ed. (SUNY Binghamton, 1991)
2. Alberto Moreiras, "A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism" The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader, Ileana Rodriguez, ed (Duke UP, 2001)
Space is limited to 15 people, so please R.S.V.P. to clight@duke.edu at your earliest convenience.
Monday, November 14, 4-6pm in room 240 John Hope Franklin Center, Professor Perez-Torres will present a public lecture entitled "Mestizaje and Chicano Critical Discourse." Parking is available in Pickens Lot across Trent Drive.
Friday, September 30, 10:30-12:30 in room 230 John Hope Franklin Center.The Latino/a Studies working group presents its first public event, featuring Sandra Soto,
assistant professor of Women's Studies, co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. Professor Soto will lead a seminar discussing Alicia Schmidt Camacho's essay entitled "Body Counts on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Feminicidio, Reification, and the Theft of Mexicana Subjectivity" and her own work entitled "A Run for the Border: On Representations of Nihilism in Transnational Greater Mexico." (please email clight@duke.edu for a digital copy of this essay).