{"id":207417,"date":"2020-02-13T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=207417"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:26:10","slug":"msu-presents-decolonizing-the-global-imaginary-talk-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2020\/02\/13\/msu-presents-decolonizing-the-global-imaginary-talk-series\/","title":{"rendered":"MSU Presents: Decolonizing the Global Imaginary Talk Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRAZIL\u2019S DECOLONIAL MODERNISM, TROPICALIA, AND THE CARIB REVOLUTION: Variations on a Tupi-Indigenous Theme<\/em>
\nThursday, March 26th (11:30 am) \u2013 Dickson Hall 179<\/a><\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Robert Stam (University Professor, Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU)
\n<\/strong>This lecture-video presentation will place in relation representations of \u201cfirst contact,\u201d in Brazil, the Brazilian Modernist Movement of the 1920s, and its relation to the \u201cIndian,\u201d along with Tropicalia\u2019s musical relation to the same theme in the 1960s, with emphasis on the representation and self-representation of the \u201ccunha,\u201d the indigenous Tupi woman, including as present-day activists.<\/p>\n

MUSLIM SPACES, JEWISH PASTS: Genealogies of the Split Arab \/ Jew Figure<\/strong><\/em>
\nThursday, March 26th (2:30 pm) \u2013 Schmitt 104<\/strong><\/a>
\nSpeaker: Ella Shohat, (Professor of Cultural Studies, Depts of Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU)<\/strong>
\nOn Orientalist Genealogies: The Split Arab\/Jew Figure Revisited<\/strong>
\nIn this essay, Ella Shohat argues that the question of the Arab-Jew must be posed in such a way as to address the complex imaginaries of both \u201cthe Arab\u201d and \u201cthe Jew,\u201d which, in contrast to present-day ethno-nationalist common sense, must be rearticulated as mutually constitutive categories. Elaborating on her earlier dialogue with Edward Said\u2019s account of the bifurcated Semitic myth– one rendered as the Orientalist (the Jew) and the other as the Oriental (the Arab), Shohat offers a genealogical reading of this gradual splitting, locating it prior to the partition of Palestine and even to the emergence of Zionism–with the dissemination of colonizing Enlightenment discourse. But more crucially, Shohat asks where the indigenous Jew of \u201cthe Orient,\u201d and more specifically the Arab-Jew, might fit conceptually within this split? Her talk features analysis of French orientalist paintings, specifically \u201cL\u2019execution de la Juive\u201d by Dehodenque, foregrounding the uses of gendered representations.<\/p>\n

UNRULY VISIONS<\/strong><\/em>
\nThursday, April 30th (2:30 pm) \u2013 SBUS 101<\/strong><\/a>
\nSpeaker: Gayatri Gopinath (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU)<\/strong>
\nThis lecture will be based on her 2019 book, \u201cUnruly Visions: Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora,\u201d where she will be speaking on Queer Diaspora. In 1991, Gayatri Gopinath received her Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Latin American Studies from Wesleyan University, and later received her Ph.D in English and Comparative Literature in 1998, from Columbia University. Her areas of interest include: Transnational queer and feminist studies; postcolonial studies; Asian diaspora studies; visual art; performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRAZIL\u2019S DECOLONIAL MODERNISM, TROPICALIA, AND THE CARIB REVOLUTION: Variations on a Tupi-Indigenous Theme Thursday, March 26th (11:30 am) \u2013 Dickson Hall 179 Speaker: Robert Stam (University Professor, Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU) This lecture-video presentation will place in relation representations of \u201cfirst contact,\u201d in Brazil, the Brazilian Modernist Movement of the 1920s, and its relation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":207424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-57_english-department","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207417"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207432,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207417\/revisions\/207432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}