Voices in Cultural Studies October 3, 2008 4:30PM Dr. Lisa Lowe, UC San Diego
"Metaphors of Globalization"
Dr. Lisa Lowe is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego and an affiliated faculty in Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies there; in 2007-08, she is Visiting Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke, 1996), and coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke, 1997), and essays on race, culture, and immigration with globalization.
Voices in Cultural Studies October 17, 4:30PM, Dr. Jackie Stacey, Manchester University
"The Cinematic Life of the Gene: Cloned Bodies on the Screen"
Jackie Staceyis Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University in the UK until September 2007 when she begins as Research Chair in the Research Institute on Cosmopolitan Cultures at Manchester University. She is a co-editor of Screen and of Feminist Theory. She is author of Star Gazing: Female Spectators and Hollywood Cinema (1994) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997) and co-author (with Sarah Franklin and Celia Lury) of Global Nature, Global Culture (2000). She has also co-edited a number of books, including Romance Revisited with Lynne Pearce (1995) Thinking Through the Skin with Sara Ahmed (2001) and Queering Screen with Sarah Street (2007). She is currently working on a new book for Duke University Press entitled: The Cinematic Life of the Gene.
Voices in Cultural Studies, November 14, 4:30PM, Dr. Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmentalism, and The Asthma Files Informating Environmentalism"
Kim Fortunis a cultural anthropologist, based in an interdisciplinary department of Science and Technology Studies, whose research focuses on how "the environment" is understood and governed in different historical and geographic locations. She is the author of Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (University of Chicago Press, 2001), and currently is co-editor of Cultural Anthropology.