Conferences
November 20, 2009
The Oceanic Turn in the Long Eighteenth Century
A one day conference 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Reception: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
UC Riverside Alumni Center
3701 Canyon Crest Drive
Conference link: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/oceanicturn
February 19 & 20, 2010
TRANSNATIONAL U.S. STUDIES: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF EMORY ELLIOTT
Emory Elliott had many passions, among them was the internationalization of American Studies. Indeed, Emory was one of the initiators of the so-called transnational turn in the American Studies, a turn that rethinks political, geographical and disciplinary borders in an attempt to understand better the people, the flows of goods and the transmissions of ideas that comprise the United States. Emory was, in fact, a transnational scholar, rethinking the American literary canon and nurturing scholars of American culture and literature in all parts of the world. It is fitting, then, that we honor his memory with a conference devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American cultures within a transnational context.
Featured Speakers:
- Mark Elliott, University of North Carolina http://www.uncg.edu/his/docs/Elliott_index.html
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
- Winfred Fluck, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/faculty/culture/persons/fluck/index.html
- Carl Gutierrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Sharon Holland, Duke University
- John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003657&CFID=6714767&CFTOKEN=65632209
- George Sanchez, University of Southern California http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003672&CFID=6714767&CFTOKEN=65632209
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/emoryelliott.html
May 14 – 16, 2010
"Theories of Violence"
Spring Workshop
UC Multi-Campus Group “Japanese Arts and Globalization”
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/projects/jag/events.htm
Friday 4-6 pm: Mission Inn, Downtown Riverside
Keynote Lecture: Thomas Lamarre from his book The Anime Machine (Minnesota, 2009)
Discussant: Jim Tobias, Department of English, UC Riverside
Reception: 6:00 – 7:00
Open to JAG MRG members and general publicSaturday 10 am to 4 pm: UC Riverside Campus
Discussion-based Workshop: “Theories of Violence”
Limited to JAG MRG members & sponsored UC grad studentsSunday 10 am to 12:30 pm: UC Riverside Campus
Visual Presentations: Watching and Theorizing
Open to JAG MRG members and general public.
Multi-media presentations by Southern California scholars and JAG members