From: "Weihsin Gui" <wgui-AT-Brown.edu>
Subject: "Other Orientalisms"  - Lectures at Brown University Spring 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:09:50 -0500


Hello everyone, here's some information on a lecture series taking place at
Brown University this spring. Thanks! -- Regards, Weihsin

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Brown University Lecture Series, Spring 2004
"Other Orientalisms"

For the last quarter-century, the critique of orientalism has proliferated
in such diverse fields as literary and cultural studies, the social
sciences, and area and development studies.  The vast array of social,
cultural, and political formations that have come under the rubric of
"orientalism" has prompted attempts across the disciplines to ground the
term in historical, geographical, and generic particulars, such that today
we speak of early modern orientalism, U.S. orientalism, or Romantic
orientalism.  The critique of orientalism, in other words, has produced a
multiplicity of orientalisms.  The lectures in this series bring together
leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences to examine the
entanglement of orientalism with the construction of particular differences
(such as race, class, and gender) and the continuing value of orientalism's
various critiques to the theoretical interrogation of the concept of
difference as such.

Feb.16 "Rethinking Orientalism"
Henry Yu, Department of History, University of British Columbia & University
of California, Los Angeles

Feb.27 "Re-Orienting the Renaissance-the View from Agra"
Ania Loomba, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

Mar.24 "Nakagami, Irigaray, and the Way of Breath"
Margherita Long, Department of Comparative Literature, University of
California, Riverside

Apr.8 "Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the
Everyday"
Harry Harootunian, Departments of History and East Asian Studies, New York
University

Apr.22 "Occluded Voices, Occult Transmissions: Religion after Religion in
Literary Modernism"
Gauri Viswanathan, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University

All lectures will begin at 5PM, with receptions to follow.  Email
other_orientalisms-AT-yahoo.com for the locations of specific lectures or more
information on the series.

"Other Orientalisms" is sponsored by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and
Research on Women, the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and
Media Studies, the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Race
and Ethnicity in America, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the
Graduate Student Council.


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