Wednesday, January 22nd

Mark Sherry
Ed Roberts Post-Doctoral Fellow in UC Berkeley's Disabilities Studies

Queer/Crip Theory:
Transgressing the Margins


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Monday, March 10th

Susan Kahn
Senior Research Director, Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University

Reproducing Jews:
A cultural account of assisted conception


Co-Sponsored by Berkeley Hillel, the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, the Center for Middle East Studies and the Program in Medical Anthropology

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Tuesday, March 18th

Mandy Merck
Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
Visiting Scholar in Rhetoric & Film, UC Berkeley

Americantis:
Film Versions of an American Tragedy


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Wednesday, March 19th

Gananath Obeyesekere
Princeton University

The Work of Culture


Hosted by Lawrence Cohen, Director of CSSC

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Monday, March 31st

Judith Farquhar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Appetites: Food & Sex in Post-socialist China


Discussants will include:
Lisa Rofel, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Paola Zamperini, East Asian Languages & Culture, UCB

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Friday, May 2nd

Harry Oosterhuis
University of Maastricht

Perversion and the Modernization of Sexuality:
Krafft-Ebing's Stepchildren of Nature


Co-sponsored with the Department of History

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Monday, May 5th

Tom Boellstorff
Anthropology, UC Irvine

Dubbing Culture:
Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography
in an Already Globalized World


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Wednesday, May 7th

Chris Nealon
Department of English, UC Berkeley

The Eschatological Marriage Plot,
or, Reading Left Behind


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