Annual Common Seminar Graduate Student Colloquium: Cultural Production and Uneven Development

April 18, 2018 - 6:00pm to April 19, 2018 - 7:00pm

All graduate students and faculty are invited to attend this year's Annual Common Seminar Graduate Student Colloquium, overseen by this Common Seminar Instructor, Susan Z. Andrade, who will lead discussion and commentary with Annual Distinguished Lecturers Nick Brown and Prabhat Patnaik (learn about their related lectures here).

Cultural Production and Uneven Development

18 APRIL, 501-CL

6:00-6:50 PM

Session I: Mediated Places

•Rebecca Giordano (HAA), “Here and There: Uneven Circuits in Adrian Piper and Juan Downey’s Map Diptychs.”
 
•Paula Kupfer (HAA),  “The Panama Canal Zone and the Cultural Imaginary.”
 
•Katie Loney (HAA), “Design Reform and The Journal of Indian Art.”
 
•Commentary and Discussion
 
 

19 APRIL, 602-CL

11:30 AM-Noon: Welcoming Box Lunch, Alcove

1:45-2:25 PM

Session II: Representing Africa

•Andrea Hanna (COMMRC),  “Symbiosis and Unevenness:  Sino-African Relationships.”

•Josh McDermott (SOC), “Contesting Development.”

•Commentary and  Discussion

 

2:25-3:20 PM

Session III  Representation/Categorization

•Jake Eisensmith (HAA),  “Complicating the Corsair: Uneven Development of the Early Modern Pirate.”

• Emily Finkelstein (HAA),  “Art has to be National, Artist has to be National: An Exploration of Unevenness in the Art of the Global East”

•Andres Obando (HLL), “Inventing the Andes, Nineteenth Century Travelers in Perú.”
 
•Golnar Yarmohammed Toulski (HAA),  “Same Difference:  Modernism in Two Art Historical Surveys”
 
•Commentary and Discussion
 
 
3:20-3:30 Coffee Break, 6th Floor Alcove

 

3:30-4:10 PM 

Session IV: The Popular

•Shelby Brewster (THEA), “Speculative Cultural Production from the Extractive Zone.”

•Codee Spinner (MUSIC), “Sublime Frequencies: Tracing Histories of Appropriation in World Music.”

•Commentary and Discussion

 

4:10-4:20 Coffee Break, 6th Floor Alcove

 

4:20-5:00 PM

Session V: Gender and Violence

•Cesar Romero (HLL), “‘An unknown sex confuses those guys’: Masculinities and Uneven Development.”
 
•Jonathan Godinez (HLL),  “Bolano’s 2066 and Gendered Violence on the US/Mexican Border.”
 
•Commentary and  Discussion