2001-2002 Focused Research Groups
Aesthetics, Spirituality
and Social Change
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Winter 2002
MEMBERS
KARL TAUBE,
Professor, Anthropology
IVAN STRENSKI,
Professor, Religious Studies
MOLLY MCGARRY,
History
Modernity and Its Discontents -
Winter
2002
The Winter focuses on the question of the
constitutive contradictions of political, philosophical and economic
modernity, and what it would mean to “historicize” enlightenment
thinking as embedded within conditions that include slavery,
colonialism, industrialization, and the emergence of metropolitan
bourgeois societies. To this end, we consider works by Locke, Rousseau,
Kant, and Marx both as authorized foundations of modernity and as core
texts in a genealogy of various late modern critiques.
MEMBERS
LISA LOWE,
Professor of Literature UCSD, DFV
KATHERINE
KINNEY,
Associate Professor, English
CHRISTOPHER BOLTON,
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
GARY DYMSKI,
Associate Professor, Economics
GLEN
MIMURA,
UC Irvine
LETI VOLPP,
American University
SAVVINA
CHOWDHURY,
Graduate Student
Out of the West -
Spring 2002
Lisa Lowe is, a noted Professor of
Literature from UCSD has been appointed this years Distinguished
Faculty Visitor. In this position, she will lead a Focused Research
Group that will look at “late modernity” and the contradictions of
modern concepts and institutions within 20th century globalization. We
consider different critiques of modernity generated within
post-Enlightenment Europe (Frankfurt School, Foucault), by
decolonization (Rizal, James, Fanon), a range of feminisms (Pateman,
Butler, Brown, Spivak), postcolonial theory (Chakrabarty), and
contemporary scholarship on race (Critical Race Studies, Ethnic
Studies.) These works will assist us in “historicizing” the
“legitimacy crisis of modernity” within a framework that reads the
exacerbated contradictions of our current moment “out of the West.”
MEMBERS
LISA LOWE,
Professor of
Literature UCSD, DFV
MICHELLE BLOOM,
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
MARGUERITE WALLER,
Professor,
English & Women's Studies
STEVEN CULLENBERG,
Professor, Economics
GLEN
MIMURA,
UC Irvine
LETI VOLPP,
American University
YATIN LIN, Graduate Student
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