Fall 2006
Several of our past lectures have been recorded and rebroadcast by TPT, channel 17. These can now be viewed here through our media page.
September
"Who Says Pluto is not a Planet?!": A Lecture by Terry Jones, 9/14/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Senior Year," 9/14/06
Time Line on the Washington Avenue Bridge, 9/19/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Four Sisters from Baima" and "Mei Mei," 9/21/06
"Ballets Russes" - film showing and discussion with the directors, 9/22/06
Queering Art-Part 2: Film Presentation About International Queer with Elliat Graney-Saucke, 9/23/06
"Reflections on Current Events in Lebanon": A Discussion with Carol Hakim and Hisham Bizri, 9/27/06
"Contemporary Stagings of the American Other in China": A Presentation by Claire Conceison, 9/28/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Tian Feng and His Institute," 9/28/06
Still Present Pasts - Discussion with Artist Injoo Whang, 09/29/06
October
"Niketche: A Story of Polygamy": A reading by Paulina Chiziane, 10/4/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Continuous Journey", 10/5/06
"Sexuality and Modernity in Interwar European Culture": A Talk by Anna Clark, 10/6/06
"Toward a New Middle East: Beyond Empire and Force": A talk with Mohammed Bamyeh, 10/11/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Repatriation," 10/12/06
Making River Connections: Design Workshop, 10/14-10/15/06
"Latino Spin: The Battle Over Latinos' Public Image": A talk with Arlene Davila, 10/16/06
"Decentering Modernism": A Lecture by Partha Mitter, 10/17/06
"Narrating Partition": A Talk by Sukrita Paul Kumar, 10/18/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Habitual Sadness," 10/19/06
"Did the Aztecs Have Sex?": A talk by Pete Sigal, 10/20/06
Time Symposium Lunch, 10/20/06
"American Judaism's Contemporary Scorecard": Lecture by Jeffrey Gurock, 10/24/06
"The Biocomplexity of Man-Eating: Myth Meets Ecology ": A Lecture by Craig Packer, 10/26/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "A", 10/26/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "West of the Tracks," 10/29/06
November
"A River-Front Development Story": A Talk by Judith Martin, 11/1/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Stone Dream"--Followed by Q/A with Director, 11/2/06
DocuLens Asia Forum, 11/2/06-11/4/06
"Photography by Other Means": A lecture by Kaja Silverman on the work of Gerhard Richter, 11/3/06
"Crossover Voting in African American Senate Elections": A Talk by Hanes Walton Jr., 11/6/06
"Making Sense of the Middle East: An Insider's Critical Analysis," A talk by Rami J. Khouri, 11/6/06
Timescapes and Gamelan: Time Perceptions in Traditional and New Music for Javanese Gamelan, 11/9/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Ode to Mount Hayachine", 11/9/06
Time Symposium Lunch, 11/10/06
"Figures of Capitalist Globalization: Firm Models and Chain Links": A talk by Anna Tsing, 11/10/06
"The Aesthetics and Politics of Recognition": A talk with Rita Felski, 11/10/06
Gender, Genre, and Political Transformations--An Interdisciplinary Conference, 11/10-11/11/06
A Conversation with David Kertzer, 11/11/06
"Global Capitalism's Greatest Challenge": A talk by Raymond Baker, 11/14/06
"The Ideal of Agent Integrity": A Lecture by Adrian Piper, 11/15/06
Empire after Liberalism: Rereading Eric Stokes, 11/15/06
"Passing beyond Passing": A Lecture by Adrian Piper, 11/16/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Viva Tonal: The Dance Age," 11/16/06
"The Spiritual Transformation of American Society": A Lecture by Rabbi Michael Lerner, 11/16/06
"HOWL": Performances and readings around the Allen Ginsberg poem, 11/17/06
"Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema": A talk with Christina Klein, 11/20/06
"The Lion and the Lamb, or the Facts and the Truth": a lecture by Fenton Johnson, 11/28/06
"The Contradictions of Colorblindness: Race and Its Discontents": a talk with Michael Omi, 11/30/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "The Play Goes On", 11/30/06
December
"Alimentary Tracts: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857": A Talk by Parama Roy, 12/1/06
"Race and the Sciences", 12/1/06
"Teaching Race in the New Genetics: What is at Stake?": a talk with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, 12/1/06
DocuLens Asia: Screening of "Doctor Zhang" and Reviewing DocuLens Asia, 12/7/06
Kierkegaard and Irony, 12/8/06
Dinkytown Histories: Multiple Stories, Multiple Meanings, 12/15/06