2006 Resources
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
4:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Filmmaker Isaac Artenstein will present his award-winning documentary "Tijuana Jews" in a public screening, followed by a discussion of the film and his experiences in producing, writing and directing documentaries and independent feature films such as "Break of Dawn," "Love Always" and "A Day Without a Mexican. "Growing up Jewish in Mexico", Artenstein found reactions of surprise, even disbelief, from many people north of the border: they had no idea there were Jews in Mexico, end especially in Tijuana. Tijuana's dark legend continues to fire up the imagination with stories of free-flowing liquor, cheap narcotics, beautiful señoritas, and black velvet paintings. TIJAUANA JEWS is an authentic and living testimony set against conceptions and misconceptions of this near-mythic city. The discussion following the screening will focus on issues of transculturation, border realities while placing film in a cultural and social context. Creative and technical issues relevant to film and video production will also be discussed for those interested in the process.
Topics: Jewish diaspora, border relations
An interview with Isaac Artenstein
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"Intersecting Lives: Globalization is Diversity in the 21st Century" Film Festival
Advertising Missionaries
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
"In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, "the market" must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products. Advertising Missionaries follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands. In bigger and more modern towns, the company plugs the qualities of farming products or car parts. In the more remote villages, a set is unfolded on the back of a flat-bed truck, portraying a modern Western living-room where the advantages of Coca-Cola, Colgate, clothing, canned food, and washing powder are touted. The film observes the impact of the advertising theater on a previously "untouched" village in the remote valley of Yaluba, where it enters the lives of Aluago, Tintiba and their two children. We see the village before, during and after first contact by the new missionaries -- and what happens as a result of their visit"
*Topics: "bringing the global to the local", commodification, advertising, creating markets
Darwin's Nightmare
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
"In the 1950s or 1960s, the Nile perch was released into the Lake Victoria. In just a few decades, the large, voracious predator has all but eliminated the other species of fish, turning the lake into an ecological wasteland. "But economically, it's good" -- and indeed, perch fillet is Tanzania's best selling export to Europe. Fishermen, factory workers, civil servants, pilots of cargo aircrafts, delegates of the European Commission, communities living around Lake Victoria: plenty of people are involved in some way in this new industry. But if Africa exports hundreds of tons of premium-priced fish each day, what exactly do Africans get in return?" Summary written by Eduardo Casais {casaise@acm.org}
*Topics: globalization and ecology, arms trade, HIV Aids, bringing the local to the global, bringing the global to the local.
For more information:
http://www.coop99.at/darwins-nightmare
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024
Dangerous Living
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
This film "is the first documentary to deeply explore the lives of gay and lesbian people in non-western cultures. Traveling to five different continents, we hear the heartbreaking and triumphant stories of gays and lesbians from Egypt, Honduras, Kenya, Thailand and elsewhere, where most occurrences of oppression receive no media coverage at all. By sharing the personal stories coming out of developing nations, Dangerous Living sheds light on an emerging global movement striving to end discrimination and violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people"
[http://firstrunfeatures.com/dangerousliving.html]
Concepts: sexual orientation, human rights, oppression, discrimination,
does globalization impose greater restrictions on the expression of sexual orientation or does globalization allow for freer expression? Why in some places? Why not in others?
For more information:
http://www.afterstonewall.com/dangerous.html
Daughter of Keltoum
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
"A young woman, Rallia, raised in Switzerland, travels to an isolated and barren Berber settlement located in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria. Rallia's journey is one of multi-tiered discovery in terms of her relationship to her extended family, traditional Berber culture, and her desperate need to locate her biological mother. Through her eyes, the viewer is immersed in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, one that still clings to tribal mores and strict religious codes of conduct. Mehdi Charef skillfully captures the windswept vistas of a faraway mountain range with wide camera angles that frame the harsh environs and the desperate daily search for water, the responsibility of the resilient women of the Berber tribe."
[http://www.frif.com/new2005/dau.html]
Concepts: rural to urban migration, North Africans to Europe migration, traditional Islam vs. modernity, females in Islam, Islamic terrorism, bringing the global to the local.
For more information:
http://www.globalfilm.org/film_library/daughter/daughter.html
"Dirty Pretty Things"
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
"How come I've never seen you before?" demands the Englishman of Okwe(Chiwetel Ejiofor), an illegal immigrant from Nigeria living in London. "Because we're the people you do not see," replies Okwe. It's the most explicit statement in Dirty Pretty Things, an intensely political film from veteran director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity), set in the confining and desolate world of London's marginal inhabitants-the ones who aren't supposed to be there, whose every moment of survival is a hard-won victory in an endless battle that often ends in deportation or death. Did I say living in London? Hiding out in London is more like it. Okwe works two job, dodges immigration officers, and grabs a few hours' rest anywhere he can, like in the mortuary at the hospital where his buddy Guo Yi (Benedict Wong) works as a porter. Okwe is a doctor by training, but now he's driving a cab, and working the redeye shift at the front desk of the seamy Baltic Hotel. Okwe shares a flat and some kind of a bond with lovely Senay (Audrey Tautou), a young Turkish illegal who makes beds and swabs toilets at the Baltic, but there is no time or energy for love when you're trying just to get from one day to the next. Okwe keeps to himself and stays out of other people's business, but medical services are in demand among the city's disenfranchised. Other people's business tends to come to him. One night, in room 510 of the Baltic Hotel, Okwe discovers something that would make even David Lynch queasy. The discovery draws him from his everyday dangers into deeper peril"
(http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/d/dirtyprettythings.html
Concepts: commodification of the body (organ harvesting), illegal immigration/guest workers, Europe's new ethnic composition, nostalgic
For more information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301199/
In America
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
"An aspiring Irish actor and his family illegally immigrate in the United States with the dreams of the father breaking into the New York City theatrical scene. Once they arrive in the big city, they move into a flop house and try to make it truly their home. While they struggle to fit in their new country, the family finds new friends like the reclusive neighbor, Mateo, who provide help in the most unexpected ways in America" Summary written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298845/plotsummary]
Concepts: Immigration, identity (Irish), nostalgia/longing
For more information
http://www2.foxsearclhlight.com/inamerica
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/i/in_america.html
Bend It Like Beckham
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
7:00 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
"Like most everyone else in England, Jess Bahmra (Parminder Nagra) idolizes professional British football player David Beckham. But Jess is different from most fans; she's a talented player in her own right. Unfortunately, her traditional Indian parents (Anupam Kher and Shaheen Khan) have other plans for their youngest daughter. They expect Jess to follow in the footsteps of her sister, Pinky (Archie Panjabi), who is preparing to marry in a traditional Indian wedding. When Jess meets Jules (Keira Knightley), who plays for a local female football team, she pursues her own dream and begins to play, keeping her participation a secret from her parents and often leading to disastrous results. To complicate matters even more, both Jess and Jules are enamored with their coach, Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). Ultimately, Jess has to decide whether to live life on her terms or act in accordance with her parents' wishes. This charming coming-of-age tale is also an intriguing look at Indian culture in England. Juliet Stevenson is superb as Jules' tarty, ultra-feminine mother. BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM is directed, written, and produced by Gurinder Chadha"
Concepts: South Asian diaspora, transnationalism, Western vs. Eastern (South Asian) values, feminism, love
For more information
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/benditlikebeckham
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Global Justice, Local Justice: Unfolding Human Rights It has become commonplace to speak of the contemporary intensification of processes of globalization and the ways in which they are continually reconfiguring the structures of everyday life. The massive decentralization of capital accumulation worldwide over the past two decades has resulted in the growth of new centers of economic and political expansion and innovation, while older centers have declined. Simultaneously, rapid advances in information and transportation technologies, as well as the circulation of new regulatory bodies and technologies of knowledge have changed the ways in which a range of practices and movements have become reconstituted outside of the nationstate. For example, the recent growth of human rights activism and the related internationalization of various human rights treaties have led to the establishment of extra national juridical bodies. These bodies have ranged from the widespread proliferation of Truth and Reconciliation commissions, United Nations hybrid tribunals, and, of late, the formation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Such formations are shaping new expressions of human rights, and, as a result, local ideologies of justice are becoming more flexible, while racial and religious hierarchies are being reconstituted globally--areconstitution that co-operates with evolving international divisionsthat are leading to complex dynamics for studying global phenomena. The main questions guiding this lecture will explore the complex ways that global political, legal and economic restructuring over the past two decades has reshaped the ways that people (especially in Sub-Saharan Africa) are addressing the changing human rights landscapes around them. I examine the ways that negotiations between local and global justice regimes are constituted through notions of ethnicity, religion, and national belonging. Among the questions addressed are: How has the changing global political economy generated new ideas about the legitimacy of international human rights? What are the competing juridical visions of justice and reconciliation promoted within popular(local) cultural forms? And how do these articulate with those promoted by new judicial institutions such as the International Criminal Court? |
You can learn more about Dr. Clarke and her work by visiting the following links:
Work by and about Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v052/52.1adekunle.html
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U.S./Mexico Relations in the 21st Century: Politics, Economy, and Immigration THE US-MEXICO RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY are undergoing a profound transformation. After NAFTA, deepening globalization, the advent of democracy in Mexico, and growing concerns over immigration in both countries, Mexico and the US are having to adjust to new realities. The economic integration of both nations is advancing rapidly but not painlessly nor in consonance with expectations. In political and diplomatic terms, Iraq and other issues have widened the gap in perceptions between the two countries, perhaps surprisingly given the economic realities. And of course immigration is looming as a largely un-tractable issue driven by unreasonable, unrealistic and on occasion unfriendly attitudes in the US. I will be addressing all of these issues during my stay at Miami University in Ohio. |
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Border Urbanism: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment The perennial alliance between systems of control and urbanization is reenacted at the SD/TJ border region as the US continues hardening the border wall against its Mexican neighbor, further transforming San Diego into the world's largest gated community. Extreme geographies of conflict such as this one become the site where alternative participatory architectural practices towards the city can emerge and the role of official urbanism questioned, exposing the discriminatory socio-political and economic histories of land-use that continue shaping our notions of housing, the city and the territory. |
http://www.california-architects.com
http://www.aia.org/cod_lajolla_042404_teddycruz
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Living Ritual in the Village of the Sick Suggested readings: |
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"Carnaval in Rio: Race, Class and Nationality in Samba School Competitions"
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
5:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro was historically an event by Brazilians for Brazilians. In recent years, however, this has changed, particularly in Carnaval’s most visible event, the Samba School competition. Whereas historically participants were exclusively Brazilian, predominantly black and of the lower classes, Carnaval has evolved into an event in which large numbers of white Brazilians and foreigners have had an ever-increasing presence. Other aspects of Carnaval, most notably blocos or street celebrations, have stayed close to their traditional roots. Through the use of photos, films and costumes, this lecture explores the state of Carnaval, recent changes in various aspects of the celebrations, and the social, economic and political forces that drove these changes.
Suggested Readings:
Raphael, Alison. "From Popular Culture to Microenterprise: The History of Brazilian Samba Schools. Latin American Music Review" 11 (1 (spring/summer) 1990): 73-83.
Philip Galinsky. C-option, Cultural Resistance, and Afro-Brazilian Identity: a History of the Pagode Samba Movement in Rio de Janeiro. Latin American Music Review / Revista de Musica Latinoamericana Vol. 17, No. 2 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 120-149.
Robin E. Sheriff. "The Theft of Carnaval: National Spectacle and Racial Politics in Rio de Janeiro." Cultural Anthropology > Vol. 14, No. 1 (Feb., 1999): 3-28
Philip Galinsky. "Co-option, Cultural Resistance, and Afro-Brazilian Identity: A History of the 'Pagode' Samba Movement in Rio de Janeiro."
Robin E. Sheriff. "The Theft of Carnaval: National Spectacle and Racial Politics in Rio de Janeiro." Cultural Anthropology Vol. 14, No. 1 (Feb. 1999): 3-28.
J. Lowell Lewis. "Sex and Violence in Brazil: Carnaval, Capoeira, and the Problem of Everyday Life." American Ethnologist > Vol. 26, No. 3 (Aug. 1999): 539-557.
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"New York's African Burial Ground: From National Secret to National Monument" For more information: |
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Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats
Thursday, April 19,2007
7:30 p.m. Millett Assembly Hall
For more information:
http://www.fna.muohio.edu/pas/
http://www.fieldtrips4kids.com/golden_dragon_acrobats.html
(A teacher's guide is available from this site.)
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"Global Vulnerability and Health Care Distribution" Abstract: "Social forces contribute to disease burden and poor outcomes and shape access to timely diagnosis and effective treatment. The AIDS epidemic, as the leading infectious cause of young adult death in much of the developing world, has crystallized these inequalities of risk and care. This talk presents data from the scale-up of integrated AIDS prevention-and-care programs in impoverished rural Haiti and Rwanda, where comprehensive clinical care is complemented by robust community-based services. Good outcomes, access to essential resources, and a commitment to equity will help reverse the healthworker “brain drain,” strengthen primary health, restore trust in the health sector, and launch “virtuous social cycles” that can lift entire families and communities out of desperate poverty. Research and advocacy activities that draw on lived experience are critical in advancing global health policy that benefits the destitute sick." Dr. Farmer is an attending physician in infectious diseases and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and medical director of a small hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti. U.S. News and World Report named Paul Farmer one of America's Best Leaders For more information: |
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The Asian Diaspora in Latin America: 1492 to the Present Columbus' failed search for a new route to "Las Indias" might have ended up in the Americas, but shortly after 1492, Spaniards did find their way to Asia and launched the global Manila Galleon Trade that endured for 250 years; along with all sorts of luxury and consumer goods that flowed from Asia to Europe via America came the first Asian migrants to Latin America. This migration accelerated by the mid-19th century when Spanish (Cuban) and British Caribbean and Peruvian plantation owners turned in desperation to Chinese and East Indian coolies or contract workers to supplement or replace slave labor on their sugar estates. By the turn of the 20th century, with the US barring most Asian immigrants from entry, Chinese and Japanese migrants turned to Latin America as final destinations to create new lives and livlihoods, producing variations of race mixture and hybridity in identity and cultural expression. More recently, Koreans have also found their way to Latin America, while Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Peruvians have embarked on a return migration to their ancentral homeland, Japan, for factory jobs and manual labor, similar to the kind of work that, ironically, had attracted their forebears to migrate to Latin American in the first place two or three generations ago. For more information: 2005 Opium and Social Control: Coolies on the Plantation of Peru and Cuba. Journal of Chinese Overseas 1, 2: 169-183. 2002 Asian Women Immigrants in the US Fashion Garment Industry. Women and Work in Globalising Asia, edited by Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper, pp. 209-230. Routledge, New York. 2002 Huagong and Huashang: the Chinese Laborers and Merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean. Amerasia Journal 28 (2): 64-90. 2000 Introduction, Asian American Formations in the Age of Globalization. In Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization, edited by Evelyn Hu-DeHart, pp. 1-27. Temple University Press, Philadelphia. |
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"The Battle That Stopped Rome"
Thursday, October 5
4:00 p.m. Upham Hall, Room 275
Dr. Peter S. Wells is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He is a very active member of the AIA and has at various times served as Vice-President and President of the Minnesota Society. Dr. Wells received his BA from Harvard and then studied at the University of Tübingen in Germany before coming back to Harvard for his PhD. He returned there yet again three years later, as a Professor, and taught there for several years before coming to Minneapolis. Dr. Wells specializes in European archaeology - especially of the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and the Roman Period. Dr. Wells has done extensive fieldwork in Germany and is the author of ‘The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe’ (Princeton University Press, 1999).
For more information, click here.
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"The Future of Islam: Toward The Islamic Reformation" Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of Iowa, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in History of Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Until recently, he was both Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Iowa and the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has served as a legislative assistant for the Friends’ Committee on National Legislation in Washington D.C., and was elected president of Harvard’s Chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, a United Nations Organization committed to solving religious conflicts throughout the world. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Slate, Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the Nation and has appeared on Meet The Press, Hardball, The Daily Show, and Nightline. No god but God is his first book. Born in Iran, he now lives in Santa Monica and New Orleans (from http://www.rezaaslan.com/html/aslan_bio.html). For more information: |
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Latino Americans: Reinventing the Immigrant Experience, Redefining the American Community
Thursday, September 21
4:00 p.m. Parish Auditorium, Miami University Hamilton campus
A discussion of the current conflict between nativism and the immigrant rights movement seen in the context of a century of American History. This lecture focuses on the evolution of American identity in the light of the "Latinization" of large parts of the United States, and how a civic consciousness is emerging in Latino communities in which Jeffersonian notions of citizenship combine with a Latin American sense of collective identity.
The son of Guatemalan immigrants, Héctor Tobar is a National Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and was part of the writing team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 riots. He holds an MFA from the University of California at Irvine and lives in Mexico City.
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A provocative panel on the Nicaraguan Revolution and its lessons for contemporary U.S. foreign policy: "Remembering and Rethinking the Nicaraguan Revolution." Two of the panelists are women who were actively involved in the revolution.
Ileana Rodríguez, Distinguished Humanities Professor at Ohio State University and a native Nicaraguan, served in the Ministry of Culture during the revolution.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the California State University at Haywood and Director of the Indigenous World Association, worked during the revolution at great personal risk with the Miskitu Indians of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
These Indians were primary recruitment targets for the Reagan administration's counter-revolutionary policies against the Sandinista government policies that culminated in the notorious Iran-Contra scandal. Dunbar-Ortiz played an instrumental role in convincing the Sandinista government to recognize the autonomy of this indigenous people.
The third panelist, Greg Grandin, Professor of History at New York University, worked with the United Nations Guatemalan Truth Commission examining genocide in that tragic country. He is the author of Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (2006).
Each panelist will speak about twenty minutes, after which there will be a full and open discussion by all interested parties. Professor Rodríguez will speak on "Between Hope and Disenchantment: Memories and Historical Archives." Professor Dunbar-Ortiz will speak on "National Liberation Movements, Indigenous Self-Determination, and U.S. Imperialism: The Contra War, a Case Study."
Finally, Professor Grandin's topic is "Empire's Workshop: Ronald Reagan's Central American Policy as Precursor to Bush's War on Terror." The panel will take place on October 30 at 4 PM in Harrison 111. The event is free and open to the public. The speakers will also be visting classes. For more information or to set up a class visit, contact Professor Peter Rose, Deparment of Classics, 529-1484.
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"Why Jamestown Matters"
Thursday, March 8, 2007
4:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall
Suggested readings:
Robert Appelbaum and John Sweet, editors, Envisioning An English Empire: Jamestown And The Making Of The North Atlantic World, Early American Studies series (University of Pennsylvania, 2005)
Frederick W. Gleach, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures, Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians Series (University of Nebraska Press, 1997)
Karen Kupperman, The Jamestown Project (Harvard University Press, 2007)
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"Beyond Boundaries: Chinese art in the 21st Century"
Friday, April 13, 2007
4:00 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall
Dr. Kuiyi Shen is Associate Professor, Head of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, at University of California, San Diego. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, exhibition catalogues, and articles on modern and contemporary Chinese art, including A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China (New York, 1998); The Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution (San Francisco, 2000); Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists (Buffalo, 2000); Zhou Brothers: Thirty Years of Collaboration (Stuttgart, Germany, 2004), Shanghai Modern (Munich, Germany, 2005), Elegant Gathering (San Francisco, 2006), and Arts of Modern China (Berkeley, forthcoming).
He also maintains an active career as a curator. Among the exhibitions he has curated, the best known is A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China held at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao in 1998.
He is the recipient of fellowship awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Social Science Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Luce Foundation, Blakemore Foundation, and Stanford University.
Recommened Reading:
A century in crisis : modernity and tradition in the art of twentieth-century China / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen; with essays by Jonathan Spence ... [et al.] New York : Guggenheim Museum : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, c1998
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE DAY at Miami University
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Proclamation
Multipurpose Rooms A and B, Shriver Center
1:00 p.m. - Human Rights and Social Justice Day Proclaimation
Prue Dana, Vice-Mayor, City of Oxford
The Address
Multipurpose Rooms A and B, Shriver Center
1:15 p.m.
"The Social Justice of Human Rights"
Steven DeLue, Senior Associate Dean, College of
Arts and Science and Professor of Political Science
Third Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Fair
Multipurpose Rooms A and B, Shriver Center
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
As an educational opportunity, the Third Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Fair:
- joins forces with organizations devoted to the elimination of hunger, homelessness, poverty, modern slavery, forced migrations, physical and mental abuse, ethnocide, and genocide- to communicate information that raises awareness about human rights and social justice efforts and action in our communities and around the world
- creates opportunities for students and the large community to be engaged on human rights and social justice networks and service programs (volunteer programs, social service programs, learning service programs, professional development programs and others)
Come and join us!
- America Second Harvest
- Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
- Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
- Cultural Survival
- Darfur Coalition
- Doctors Without Borders
- Family Resource Center
- Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless
- Hamilton Living Water Ministry
- Hope House Rescue Mission
- Hunger Network in Ohio
- MU Hillel
- Miami University's Office of Community Engagement and Service
- Office of Residence Life and Community Development
- Myaamia Project
- National Center for Homeless Education
- OXFAM America
- Planned Parenthood
- Pro-Choice Miami
- Seva Foundation
- Students for Free Tibet
- Students for Peace and Justice
- Teach For America
Third Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Film Festival
Location: Multipurpose Room C, Shriver Center
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Turtles Can Fly, 2005 - Kurdish film with English subtitles
(98 minutes), Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Discussion led by Carl Dahlman, Department of Geography
Web link: http://www.users.muohio.edu/dahlmac/
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. "Peace, propaganda and the promise land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" - In English (80 minutes) Directed by Bathsheba Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally. Discussion led by Sahar Qawasmi, Department of Architecture and Interior Design
2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. A Peck on the Cheek, 2002, Tamil film with English subtitles
(130 minutes), Directed by Mani Ratnam
Discussion led by Srinivas Krishnan, Artist in Residence, Center for American and World Cultures
Special Presentations
Location: Multipurpose Room C, Shriver Center
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Miami's Over-the-Rhine Residency Program
Thomas A. Dutton, Director, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
Web links: http://www.fna.muohio.edu/cce/
http://www.fna.muohio.edu/otr/
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Service Opportunities: How Miami Students Can Get Involved
Lauren Spero, Community Outreach Coordinator, Office of Community Engagement and Service
Web link: http://www.units.muohio.edu/saf/service/
Keynote
Location: Multipurpose Room C, Shriver Center
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. "Fighting for Justice in a Changing World"
Xavier Benavides, Training and Outreach Coordinator, OXFAM America
Web link: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
Workshop
Location: MacMillan Hall, Room 212
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. "Creating a Campaign for Social Justice"
Xavier Benavides, Training and Outreach Coordinator, OXFAM America
Web link: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
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"Globalization Comes Home: US Gay Cultures and the Consequences of Flexible Accumulation"
January 18, 2007
5:00 p.m. 115 Shideler Hall
This is a commentary on what is happening to LGBTQ cultures in the US when globalization "comes home"-- how globalization which is affecting so many other facets of US culture and social life is also affecting areas of LGBTQ cultures. This looks at changes in language, music, clothing and other public image markers, depictions of sexuality and desire in same-sex erotic videos, and reflects on evidence of significance of the consequences now that "the (gay) other" is now part of " (the gay) us."
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f03/leap.html
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Poland after Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical Interpretation Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives during Nazi occupation, more than half of them Polish Jews. Despite this unprecedented calamity, Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their hometowns in Poland experienced widespread hostility - including murder - at the hands of their neighbors. How was such anti-semitism possible? |
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"Student Writing Across and Against the Disciplines: Extending Cultural Studies Pedagogy" "Neoliberal risks" examines the uneven consolidation and disintegration of disability identities in a moment of danger, when neoliberalism has achieved global hegemony and dominant state forms no longer work to sustain any checks on corporate capital but areinstead allied with capital in an ongoing, and geographically uneven, reconsolidation of class power. The risks generated in and by this moment of danger are multiple: the initiatives spearheaded by international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have privatized social services upon which disabled people often rely, imposed "user fees" that limit access to health care or pharmaceuticals, and often decimated or contaminated natural resources or environments, creating a world that is often literally toxic to disabled or HIV positive people. The presentation, however, considers more hopeful risks, detailing and analyzing disabled counter-globalizations that have been forged from the World Social Forum to transnational AIDS activism. |
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"China's Uncertain Future"
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
4:30 p.m. 115 Shideler Hall
Despite its dazzling economic growth, China faces an uncertain future. Its continued economic rise is by no means a foregone conclusion. Many risk factors, such as massive environmental degradation, inefficient capital markets, rising inequality, and deterioration in government services, could derail China's progress. Externally, China also faces uncertain relations with the West. Its authoritarian system will limit the degree to which China can cooperate with the international community on key strategic and economic issues. The only way to reduce China's uncertainty and continue its progress is to accelerate economic and political reforms."
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"(Re)Imagining American Indianness in the National Museum of the American Indian" Abstract These four fragments highlight American Indian visibility, memory, and trauma and situate NMAI amidst these tensions. Three questions guide my presentation. First, how can North American Indian experiences and identities be reimagined and rearticulated within the NMAI? Second, to what extent can this museum function as a case study for the complicated relationship between visibility, memory, and trauma? And, third, to what extent can this case study provide a theoretical model for visual representations and discussions of traumatic histories? |
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Dr. Kinshasha Holman Conwill |
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Ellen Price This talk will focus on a series of art work created from photographs of my relatives from the early twentieth century. These works are an examination of identity and the space between known and unknown, the “so many whys”. Using the repetition and multiplication offered by the lithography printmaking process, the partially viewed facial features suggest fragmentation and an incomplete knowledge of the subjects bearing my surname. |
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Cecelia Cutler received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2002. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the City University of New York, Lehman College whereshe teaches applied linguistics.
Her dissertation explores the speech practices of white middle class hip hoppers in New York City, how they construct their authenticity linguistically and discursively, and how stylistic variables can reveal linguistic convergence to another group’s vernacular.
She is also interested in language ideologies and attitudes towards non-standard varieties of English. Most recently she has begun exploring the dynamics of identity formation among immigrant youth and the extent to which they resist or embrace hegemonic racial categories such as whiteness.
Cutler was featured on the PBS documentary “Do You Speak American?” She has published pieces in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, the Language and Linguistics Compass, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Education, and Popular Music and Society.
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"Carnaval in Rio: Race, Class and Nationality in Samba School Competitions"
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
5:30 p.m. MacMillan Hall, Room 212
Popular music in the Andes has for many years been dominated by bands of panpipes, reed flutes, and guitars performing music for local consumption. Many of the poor youth of the region, a majority of whom are of mestiso or Indian heritage, found music as a means by which to express themselves, generally for local or regional audiences. In recent years, however, Andean bands have expanded into the international market, reflecting the tendency towards globalization of popular and ethnic music in general. Today it is possible to see Andean bands in traditional garb playing traditional instruments, in major and indeed some minor cities throughout the world. What prompted this move from regional to global audiences? What are the economic and social implications of this trend? How has the music been impacted? These and other issues will be discussed in this presentation.
Suggested readings:
Garcia, Mara a Elena
2003. The Politics of Community: Education, Indigenous Rights, and Ethnic Mobilization in Peru. Latin American Perspectives 30(1):70-95.
Turino, Thomas
1988. The Music of Andean Migrants in Lima, Peru: Demographics, Social Power, and Style. Latin American Music Review / Revista de Musica Latinoamericana 9(2):127-150.
2003. Nationalism and Latin American Music: Selected Case Studies and Theoretical Considerations. Latin American Music Review / Revista de Musica Latinoamericana 24(2):169-209.
For photos and descriptions of Peruvian cuisine, please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_cuisine
For a video of popular Peruvian dishes, please see, "Peru", Mucho Gusto, - The Peruvian Cuisine. La Gastronomu a del Peru:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-S85BtUGs, produced by PromPeru, the Peruvian Commission for the Promotion of Peru.
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ROB GIFFORD TALK
3:30 PM
Monday, Sept. 24
Hall Auditorium
TITLE: China Road
ABSTRACT: Robert Gifford, National Public Radio’s London reporter and five-year Beijing correspondent for NPR, will talk about his journey along China’s Route 312 in 2004. His journey began at the eastern terminus of 312 in booming Shanghai and he followed the important highway 3000 miles, passing through coastal factory towns, through the rural heart of China, then into the Gobi Desert, where this route joins the ancient Silk Road. Gifford’s terminus is Route 312’s end at the border with Kazakhstan. This highway journey cuts through many aspects of Chinese society, economy, and geography, and illustrates the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. The largest migration in human history is taking place along highways such as Route 312, as tens of millions of people leave their homes in search of work. A fluent speaker of Mandarin, Gifford talked with many people on his trek, conversations that helped him think through issues that many Westerners are asking:
As Gifford traveled, he saw signs everywhere of the booming urban economy, but he also saw many of the country’s frailties and some of the deep-seated problems that could derail China’s rise. He suggests that all is not well in China’s heartlands, that serious problems lie ahead, and that the future of the West has been inextricably linked with the fate of 1.3 billion Chinese people. Rob Gifford is the author of “China Road: a journey into the future of a rising power,” which was published in the U.S. in May, 2007 by Random House. Patrick Fraser, Photographer |
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"Hands Across the World" Global Rhythms will celebrate their 10th Anniversary Concert at Hall Auditoirum on September 29th 8.00 PM with a total of 84 artists. In this 10th Anniversary Concert, Global Rhythms will feature guests from Broadway along with artists from India and Afghanisthan for the first time. Jeff Queen from the Broadway show Blast will combine with 8 hip hop dancers as well as a 15 year female prodigy from India, Rajna Swaminathan, and a 14 member All Stars drumline featuring Jason Koontz, James Sparling and Mariane McAdam's Modern Dance company of 12 dancers. Sitar virtuoso Ms Anupama Bhagwat who resides in Italy and India will be featured with Habib Wardak from Afghanisthan. Two acts of Clown Logic, a sketch of comedy theater will be presented by Tim Simeone, Darren and Beth. Two pieces of India's Mozart AR Rahman will be premiered by the Misfitz, a 14 member all female A Capella Team from Miami University and more music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams will be featured by a 20 member percussion ensemble with Bollywood style dancing choreographed by Meera Seshadri and Tami Robinson (This team has recently returned after a successful concert tour in India earlier this year). A taste of Carnatic saxophone by Sid and Shyam from India as well as Latin percussion by Pat Hernly will combine with Leon Enneking's 16 member Gyle Ensemble (from the percussion traditions of Ghana). India's most celebrated classical ballet dancer Roja Kannan will choregraph two pieces set to an arrangement on the steel drum, tabla and sitar. The Rock-It String Quartet immersed in Western Classical tradition will be featured for the first time performing a piece set to nine scales with a voice quartet from India while Bill Albin has a folk West African piece choreographed with pumkins! The show is directed by Srinivas Krishnan, Artist in Residence at the Center for World and American Cultures. Suggested reading at: To learn more about this event, visit the Center for American and World Cultures website at http://www.muohio.edu/cawc, click on the calendar of events |
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Hauser, Mark Higman, Barry W. Kelly, Kenneth G. Pérotin-Dumon, Anne In 1807 the British legally abolished the African slave trade in its Empire, marking an end to a major epoch of colonial history of the Americas. The abolition of the slave trade wrought significant changes to the social, political, and economic realities of colonial Jamaica. In what ways did the burgeoning inter-island trade affect the social networks of enslaved peoples? How important was the abolition of the trade for their everyday life? Mark Hauser considers the ways in which internal and informal trade circumvented colonial frontiers. This incongruity has implications for the ways in which the material world shaped everyday life and for the ways archaeologists conceive human interaction. |
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Fourth Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Day
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Program Human Rights and Social Justice Day Proclamation and Address Fourth Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Fair As an educational opportunity, the Third Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Information Fair:
Fourth Annual Human Rights and Social Justice Film Festival - Special Presentations - Human Rights and Social Justice - Writing Contest MacMillan Hall Photo Exhibit - Contest The Photo Exhibit is part of the Study Abroad Photography Contest organized by the Office of International Education OIE which this year added the View of Human Rights and Social Justice as a new category of the contest. |
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Jackson uses the recent controversies surrounding the public "meltdowns" of comedians Dave Chappelle and Michael Richards to explain some of what makes contemporary racism in America so different from just about anything this nation has experienced in the past. Racial Paranoia, he argues, is not about Blacks being hypersensitive. It is also not just the same thing as racism. The key to understanding race/racism today, he claims, is based on our ability to understand what racial paranoia "does" in contemporary society and how that relates to debates about "political correctness".
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What is Ohio’s Latino heritage? Who are the Latino immigrants to Ohio? How long have they lived here? Where are they from, and why have they come here? Where have they settled? Where do they work? What are their traditions, customs and religion? What languages do they speak? How do they live? What is their future? What is our future together?
Dan La Botz will explore the history of immigrants to Ohio from Latin America and the Caribbean, one that has remained largely hidden from all but the immigrants themselves. The newest immigrants, most of them without documents and afraid of deportation, often hide their identity.
With the sudden explosion of Latino immigration to the Midwest and the South we have suddenly become aware of a great demographic shift that is changing and challenging our society and our government. Latino immigrants are embraced by certain sectors of our society and rejected by others, yet few understand the motives of the immigration and the experience of the immigrants.
The talk will be followed by a question and answer period.
Suggested readings:
La Botz, Dan
2007, The Immigrant Movement Between Political Realism and Social Idealism. New Politics, 11(3).
Vargas, Zaragosa
1991 Armies in the Fields and Factories: The Mexican Working Class in the Midwest in the 1920s. Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, 7(1):47-71.
Farm Labor Organizing Committee - Historic Latino workers' organization
International Herald Tribune story on protests against Painesville raids
NPR Story on the Butler County Sheriff
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This presentation will focus on Latinos in the U.S. media. The U.S.census estimates 42 million Latinos are in the U.S., representing close to 14% of the population. Clara Rodríguez will examine the history of Latinos in Hollywood film and their current representation on television in light of the long-standing existence of Latino communities in the U.S., and the rapid growth of the U. S. Latino population in the last two decades. |
Fordham's programs for Sociology and Anthropology
Suggested readings:
Mastro, Dana E. and Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth
2005 Latino Representation on Primetime Television, Journalism and Mass
Communication Quarterly 82(1): 110-131.
Rodríguez, Clara
2004. Heroes, Lovers and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood,
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Also available in
paperback from Oxford University Press, 2007.
1997. Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media,
Boulder, Co.: Westview Press.
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Readings: 2007. Mina, Carlos. Tango. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana
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If you work full time, you should not be poor, and your children should be doing better. The New Hope program is a social contract in which wage supplements, subsidized child care and health care, and intensive case management are provided in return for at least 30 hours of work a week. A comprehensive study of the participants in the New Hope program tracked parental work and children's development over eight years compared to a control group in a rigorous random-assignment experiment. Families in treatment and control groups participated in an ethnographic study as well. With the wage supplement, no parent working full-time lived in poverty. Poverty rates declined dramatically; employment and earnings increased among participants who were not initially working full-time; and children, particularly boys, performed better in school and acted out less. The program even increased rates of marriage among single mothers. There are some principles in this story for policy: consistency, guarantees, continuous access, universality, and a positive contract between citizens and government. New Hope shows what this country could achieve to ensure that all children of working parents have an equal chance at success. |
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