[Hum_events] Calendar Events (6): LGBT Event; Hum Consortium Event;
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Coming Events (see below for announcements; see end of message to unsubscribe):
--> “Be Fabulous: Lessons from the Life of Sylvester, the Queen of
Disco”
--> The Paradox of Secularization and ‘Laïcisation’ in
Nineteenth-Century France
--> Political Hinduism
--> "MUSCLE JEWS AND THE POLITICS OF REGENERATION"
--> CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "The Uses of Literature: Primo Levi and
Dante in Hell. Correspondences and Paradigm Shifts."
--> Transnational Feminism: A Range of Disciplinary Perspectives
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4/29/05 (Fri)
“Be Fabulous: Lessons from the Life of Sylvester, the Queen of Disco”
12:00PM
In: Haines Hall, 279
The Sociology of Gender Working Group and the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program are pleased
to present:
Joshua Gamson
University of San Francisco
In discussion with
Mitchell Morris
University of California- Los Angeles
On
“Be Fabulous: Lessons from the Life of Sylvester, the
Queen of Disco”
Friday April 29th
Haines 279
Noon
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women
The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by
a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife.
-- submitted by LGBT Studies Program (lgbs at humnet.ucla.edu)
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For more information, contact lgbs at humnet.ucla.edu
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This event is taken from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Studies Calendar.
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5/2/05 (Mon)
The Paradox of Secularization and ‘Laïcisation’ in Nineteenth-Century France
4:00PM until 6:00PM
In: 306 Royce
The UCLA Humanities Consortium
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar Series
Nations and Identities: The Secularization Thesis
presents
ELLEN KOEHLER
When scholars consider the conjunction of secularization
and national identity in the modern period, France
provides the archetypical example. According to this
model, the historical process of excising religion from
society, culture and politics triumphed in the late
nineteenth-century construction of a body of secular
ethics (morale laïque) removed from the influence of
religious institutions and beliefs and dependent on a
common understanding of civic rights and responsibilities.
This seminar will reconsider this accepted relationship
between secularization and laïcization by examining the
debate in the decades preceding legal separation of church
and state in 1905 within the French Protestant community.
While the role of theologically liberal Protestants has
long been acknowledged in the creation of laïc morality,
it was within the more orthodox bloc that laïcité was
first theorized and elaborated in the early nineteenth
century. As separation’s most long-standing proponents,
they argued the fallacies and dangers of a state religion
and, paradoxically, the right of lay citizens to act
publicly on the basis of religious motivations without
restriction or requirement of belief or denomination.
Taking into account the longer historical development of
laïcization reveals a more nuanced attempt to accommodate
religion to the diversity of the modern nation, rather
than a strict separation of religion from public life.
Such a reassessment of civil society at a crucial moment
in its development, moreover, has potential implications
for the reevaluation of contemporary French religious
tensions and for the investigation of the evolving place
of religion in the modern world.
ELLEN KOEHLER is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
at the UCLA Humanities Consortium. She received her Ph.D.
in European History from the University of California,
Davis in 2002. Her research focuses on religion and
political culture in nineteenth-century France and
Switzerland.
This seminar is the sixth in a series made possible by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and contributions from the
Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, the
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the
Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies.
Limited seating available, no reservations required. For
further information, please contact Mark Pokorski:
mpok at humnet.ucla.edu or 310.206.0559.
-- submitted by Thi Dao (thidao at humnet.ucla.edu)
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This event is taken from the Humanities Consortium Calendar.
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5/6/05 (Fri) through 5/7/05 (Sat)
Political Hinduism
9:00AM until 6:00PM
In: Haines 118
The political ascendancy of the Hindu right in India since
the mid-1980s has been a subject of much scholarly inquiry.
This conference is not intended to cover terrain that has
already been well explored, but rather it seeks to open new
lines of inquiry and bring cultural anthropologists,
scholars of Hinduism, media and cultural studies
practitioners, historians, and scholars of Indian culture
more broadly into conversation with each other. The
distinguished scholars who will be presenting papers at this
conference will pose different kinds of questions, such as:
What is the relationship between Hindu militancy and
Hindutva to Hinduism on the ground? Have Hindu modes of
worship and religious practices witnessed any dramatic
changes? We have all heard much about 'Vedic science', but
is the Hindi film also a barometer of these changes, and not
only in the most obvious ways (increasing references to
terrorism in Pakistan, for instance)? Again, we have heard
(correctly or otherwise) a good deal about the elevation of
the Ramacaritmanas into an allegedly hegemonic text under
the aegis of Hindutva, but can we entertain broader
considerations about how certain texts, religious
practices, deities, and 'margas' have prospered while
others have declined, been demoted, or have suffered from
neglect? is it only the upper castes which have mobilized in
the name of Hindutva, or have the lower castes done so as
well? Can there be 'political Hinduism' that is something
other than Hindutva?
PROGRAM: ALL events will be held in HAINES 118
Friday, May 6
9 - 9:30 AM The Politics of Hinduism: Introduction to the
Conference
Vinay Lal (History, UCLA)
9:30 - 11 AM Tilak's Arctic Home Theory: Religion,
Politics, and the Colonial Context
Madhav Deshpande (Sanskrit and Linguistics, University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor)
11:15 - 12:45 AM Vande Mataram: the Genesis and Power of a
Song
Julius Lipner (Divinity, Cambridge University, UK)
12:45 - 2:15 PM LUNCH
2:15- 3:45 AM Religious Categories, Translation and
Everyday Life
Veena Das (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
4 - 5:30 PM C. Rajagopalachari and the Cultural Work of the
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Paula Richman (Religion, Oberlin College)
Saturday, May 7
9 - 10:30 AM Making Hinduism Global: New Guru-Oriented
Religious Movement as Confluent with or Counter to Hindutva?
Joanne Waghorne (Religion, Syracuse University)
10:30 - noon Nationalist Nostalgias, Diasporic Desires:
Identity and Tradition in an Era of Transnational Media
Purnima Mankekar (Cultural and Social Anthropology,
Stanford)
Noon - 1:15 PM LUNCH
1:15 - 2:45 PM Ramdev and Ravidas: How Hinduism gets
Political for Dalits
Chris Pinney (Anthropology & Visual Culture, University
College London)
2:45 - 4:15 PM Getting a Life: The “Hanumayana” as
Emerging Epic
Philip Lutgendorf (Hindi and Indian Studies, University of
Iowa)
4:30 - 6 PM Patriotism and the Hindi Film
Ron Inden (History, and South Asian Languages &
Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Event is free and open to the public. Parking can be
purchased for $7 at the kiosk for Structures 2 or 3.
-- submitted by Center for the Study of Religion (religion at humnet.ucla.edu)
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A full announcement can be viewed at the URL
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/calendar/fulltext/fulltext33876304016.html
For more information, contact www.humnet.ucla.edu/religion
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This event is taken from the Center for the Study of Religion Calendar.
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5/9/05 (Mon)
"MUSCLE JEWS AND THE POLITICS OF REGENERATION"
1:00PM until 2:30PM
In: 306 Royce Hall
The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Presents
Monday, May 9, 2005 • 1 PM • 306 ROYCE HALL
Todd Presner (University of California, Los Angeles)will
be giving a seminar on his ongoing work on "MUSCLE JEWS
AND THE POLITICS OF REGENERATION."
We'd love to have you join us for the seminar. We will be
predistributing a copy of the paper to those who RSVP by
Thursday, May 5th.
To RSVP, please email cjs at humnet.ucla.edu
-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (cjs at humnet.ucla.edu)
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For more information, contact cjs at humnet.ucla.edu
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This event is taken from the Center for Jewish Studies Calendar.
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5/11/05 (Wed)
CMRS Faculty Roundtable: "The Uses of Literature: Primo Levi and Dante in Hell. Correspondences and Paradigm Shifts."
12:00PM until 1:00PM
In: Royce 306
As an Italian raised on "The Divine Comedy," Primo Levi uses
echoes of Dante’s vision to describe the unicum of suffering
and genocide in the Auschwitz "Lager." In this talk, Dr.
Aino Paasonen (Antioch University, Los Angeles, and CMRS
Associate) will touch on cosmology, definitions of the
"singular human animal," the uses of literature in everyday
life, and the thirst—sometimes impossible to satisfy—for
justice. Voicing a modern ethical imperative rooted in the
Graeco-Roman-Judeo-Christian past, Levi's scientific and
literary world-view make of Dante, in some measure, a
"Virgil." Advance registration not required. No fee.
-- submitted by Karen Burgess (cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu)
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For more information, contact cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu
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This event is taken from the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Calendar.
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5/18/05 (Wed)
Transnational Feminism: A Range of Disciplinary Perspectives
4:00PM until 6:00PM
In: 306 Royce Hall
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women
and the
Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies
Present
This roundtable will consider new scholarship on
transnational feminism from a range of disciplinary
perspectives, with the goal of identifying the distinction
of subject matter and methodology with which researchers
are approaching this exciting area.
Participants include:
Maylei Blackwell, Chavez Center, UCLA
Ellen Dubois, History, UCLA
Spike Peterson, International Relations, University of
Arizona
Leila Rupp, History, UC Santa Barbara
Nayereh Tohiki, Women’s Studies, California State
University, Northridge
This program is free and open to the public. Limited
seating is available, but no reservations are required.
-- submitted by Thi Dao (thidao at humnet.ucla.edu)
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This event is taken from the Center for Modern & Contemporary Studies Calendar.
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