Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:11:12 -0800
From: Monika Mehta <meht0003-AT-tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Diaspora and Film Symposium






                      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
            http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Diaspora.htm


 1:30 pm Opening Remarks

1:45 - 3:15 pm Panel I
Gayatri Gopinath (Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis)
^ÓBollywood/Hollywood: Queer Representation and the Perils of
Translation^Ô
Sirida Srisombati (History of Consciousness Program, UC Santa Cruz)
^ÓTwo Tales of Globalization: Transnational Circuits of Thai Television^Ô

3:30 - 4:45 pm Panel II
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (Dept. of History of Art, UC Berkeley)
^Ó^ÒShe^Òs my sister^Ò: Adoption and Longing in Josephine Baker^Òs Zou Zou
(1934)^Ô
Riché Richardson (Dept. of English, UC Davis)
^ÓThe Caribbean Problematic in Contemporary American Media^Ô

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?; Nguyen Tan Hoang (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.

"Born to Be Bad: Trash Cinema Conference and Film Festival"
http://www.trashcinema.com
Tamao Nakahara
Department of Italian Studies
6303 Dwinelle, #2620
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2620
phone: 510-527-6915

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