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There’s no place like home: (Trans)nationalism, Diaspora, and Film A Symposium with Hamid Naficy Friday, April 11, 2003 142 Dwinelle Hall UC Berkeley Campus |
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1:30 pm Opening Remarks 1:45 - 3:15 pm Panel
I Gayatri Gopinath (Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis) “Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer
Representation and the Perils of Translation” Sirida Srisombati (History
of Consciousness Program, UC Santa Cruz) “Two Tales of Globalization:
Transnational Circuits of Thai Television” 3:30 - 4:45 pm Panel
II Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (Dept.
of History of Art, UC Berkeley) “’She’s my sister’: Adoption
and Longing in Josephine Baker’s
Zou Zou (1934)” Riché Richardson (Dept.
of English, UC Davis) “The Caribbean Problematic
in Contemporary American Media” |
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5:00 pm
Hamid Naficy (Dept.
of Art and Art History/Film and Media Studies, Rice University) “House, Home, and Homeland in Diasporic
and Exilic Cinemas” Reception 7:30 - 9:30 pm Diasporic Aporias:
Films and Filmmakers Anita Chang (in person), Mommy, What’s Wrong?; Hoang Nguyen (in
person), Pirated!; Caveh Zahedi (in person), The
World is a Classroom; Cauleen Smith, Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron; Tran T. Kim Trang, Aletheia; Walid Ra’ad, Hostage: The Bachar Tapes;
Shashwati Talukdar, My Life as a Poster. Prof.
Naficy is the author of The Making
of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (University
of Minnesota Press, 1993) and An
Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (Princeton University
Press, 2001). He has edited Home,
Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics
of Place (Routledge, 1999). Organized by Monika Mehta and Tamao Nakahara, with programming
assistance from Irina Leimbacher. Special thanks to the Dept. of Comparative Literature,
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Center for South Asia Studies,
The Center for African Studies, The Film Studies Program, The Dept.
of Anthropology, The Center for Race and Gender, and the Dept. of History
of Art. For information, please see http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Diaspora.htm
or call 510-527-6915. |
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Keynote Speaker: Hamid
Naficy is Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History/ Film and
Media Studies and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Rice
University. He has published extensively about theories of exile and
displacement, exilic and diasporic cinema and media, and Iranian and
Third World cinemas. His English language books are: An
Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diaspora Filmmaking (Princeton University
Press, 2001), Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the
Politics of Place (Routledge, 1999), The
Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (University
of Minnesota Press, 1993), Otherness
and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged (co-edited,
Harwood Academic Publishing, 1993), and Iran
Media Index (Greenwood Press, 1984). He has also published extensively
in Persian, including a two volume book on the documentary cinema, Film-e Mostanad (Tehran: Entesharat-e Daneshgah-e
Azad-e Iran, 1978-79). He is currently completing Cinema and National Identity: A Social History of Iranian Cinema (University of Texas
Press). His publications have been anthologized, reprinted, and translated
into many languages, including French, German, Italian, and Persian.
Speakers: Gayatri Gopinath is Assistant Professor of Women
and Gender Studies at UC Davis. Her work on sexuality, diaspora and
South Asian popular culture has appeared in various anthologies and
journals including Diaspora, Positions,
and GLQ. She is currently at work on a book
manuscript entitled Impossible
Subjects: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, forthcoming
from Duke UP. Her publications include "Local Sites, Global Contexts:
The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire,"
in Queer Globalizations: Citizenship,
Sexualities, and the Afterlife of Colonialism, eds. Arnaldo Cruz
Malave and Martin Manalansan (New York: NYU Press, 2002) and "Nostalgia,
Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion," in "New
Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies," eds. Elaine
Kim and Lisa Lowe, special issue of positions: East Asia cultures critique.
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby received her degree from University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before taking her post as Associate Professor
at UC Berkeley. She has done work on Orientalist European Art since
1700 and her publications include "'Egypt! Egypt!': Delacroix's
Post-Napoleonic Orient" in Beth Wright, ed., Companion to Delacroix, forthcoming; "Nudity a la Grecque in
1799," Art Bulletin;
"Mamelukes in Paris: Fashionable Trophies of Failed Napoleonic
Conquest", published Morrison Library Inaugural Lecture; "Rumor,
Contagion and Colonization in Gro's Plague
Stricken of Jaffa (1804)", Representations;
"Dilemmas of Visibility: Contemporary Women Artists' Representations
of Female Bodies," in Larry Goldstein, ed., The Female Body, Figures, Styles, Speculations, 1991. Riché Richardson is Assistant Professor in the
department of English at UC Davis. She specializes in African American
literature with a focus on studies of the South in the United States.
Other interests include critical theory, cultural studies, feminism
and gender studies, and the relation of feminism and philosophy. She
was a 2001-2002 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins
University. Her forthcoming and developing publications treat topics
such as the status of the South in formations of race and masculinity
in the African American context, Southern rap, psychoanalysis, race
and masculinity in contemporary African American literature and film,
and transnational and diasporan perspectives in contemporary Southern
studies. She is completing a booklength study entitled Masculinity, Black Identity, and the American
South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta. Sirida Srisombati is a Ph.D. candidate in the
History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz and holds an M.A.
in Critical Studies from USC’s School of Cinema-Television. Her dissertation
analyzes the relationship between contemporary discourses of globalization,
popular culture, and transnational subjectivities. Focusing on the circulation
of cultural objects between Bangkok and Los Angeles, she traces the
development of illicit economies and material networks to posit the
emergence of distinct Thai-US transnational subjectivities in Southern
California. She has presented on various aspects of this topic at Console-ing
Passions (Bristol, UK 2001), the Society of Cinema Studies (Denver,
CO 2002), and Race and Digital
Space 2.0 (Los Angeles, CA 2002). Organizers: Monika Mehta is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral
Fellow at University of California at Berkeley, affiliated with Film
Studies and Comparative Literature. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from the University of Minnesota. At Berkeley, she is working
on her book project, "Selections: Cutting, Classifying, and Certifying
in Bombay Cinema," which focuses on censorship of sex in Bombay
cinema. She is also doing research on her next project which examines
how globalization reconfigures the relations amongst the Indian State,
Indian diasporic communities, and Bombay cinema. Tamao Nakahara is a Ph. D. Candidate in the
Department of Italian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in the Film
Studies Program. She is completing a dissertation on exploitation in
post-war Italian cinema. Her forthcoming publications include "Barred
Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films" in Alterimage
(Wallflower/Columbia University Press) and "Horrific Habits:
Nunsploitation Horror" in Horror Zone (Verso), and she is director
of the Born to Be Bad: Trash Cinema Conference and Film Festival. |