DATES
Workshop – April 10, 2010
Conference – Fall, 2010
LOCATION: 548 William Pitt Union
Reframing Gender, Power, and Resistance in Latin America and Asia is a two-part project consisting of a one-day workshop on April 10, 2010 and a one-day conference in the fall of 2010. This project will bring together leading scholars in Asian and Latin American studies to create new understanding and knowledge in the areas of gender, race, and class. The purpose of this project is to deepen the understanding of the postcolonial human conditions, and produce new knowledges in the overdetermined process of subjectivities by exploring intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class at various localities in Latin America and Asia. Latin America and Asian linkages have been particularly understudied despite the increasing political, economic, and cultural importance of the relationships between the two. By purposefully privileging these linkages, we intend to move from a responsive production of theories toward a more self-representative, self-affirming, non-exploitive understanding of the people negotiating with their immediate contexts and larger environments. In the preparatory workshop in Spring 2010, twelve scholars in Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian Studies will lead an intensive seminar with Pitt faculty and advanced graduate students. The workshop will serve as the platform for the inaugural conference in the fall 2010. The leaders of the workshop will work together to develop the conference and a post-conference book. The keynote speaker of the workshop is Dr. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California Berkeley. Kiran Asher Elora H. Chowdhury Yukiko Hanawa
Elizabeth Monasterios Young Rae Oum Prajna Parasher Julieta Paredes Michelle Rowley Millie Thayer Trinh Minh-ha Sasha Su-Ling Welland Ara Wilson Date: April 10, 2010 Registration 8:30 to 9 AM Opening Ceremony 9:00 to 9:30 PM Keynote Speech by Dr. Trinh T. Minh-ha 9:30 to 10:45 AM Panel I 11: 00 - 12: 15 PM Panel II 1:15 – 2:30 PM Panel III 2:45 – 4:00 PM Concluding Roundtable 4:15 to 5 PM Sponsored by: UCIS, Asian Studies Center, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Center for Latin American Studies, Provost office, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Center for the Study of Latin American Literatures, Japan Endowments and Pitt Humanities Center
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change,
Department of International Development, Community, and Environment,
Clark University
http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=442
Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/women/EloraChowdhurybio.html
Senior Lecturer, Japanese Language, Department of East Asian Studies, New York University.
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/east.asian.studies/faculty/profiles/hanawa.html
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Chair, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~hispan/faculty/monasterios.html
Korea-Japan Postdoctoral Fellow, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor, Director Film and Digital Technology, Chatham University
http://www.chatham.edu/departments/writing/undergraduate/film/facutly_get.cfm?FacultyID=163
www.prajnaparasher.com
Aymara/Bolivian feminist, lesbian activist, poet, and founder member of Mujeres Creando and Asamblea Feminista.
Assistant Professor to the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Maryland.
http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/about/faculty/rowley.html
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
http://www.umass.edu/sociol/faculty_staff/thayer.html
Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.trinhminh-ha.com/
Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Women’s Studies, University of Washington.
http://faculty.washington.edu/swelland/
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Study of Sexualities, Duke University
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/WomensStudies/ara.wilson
Location: TBA
Leaders: Parasher, Rowley, Asher, Welland
Theme: Ethics and Ontologies of Gender Research, Locating the Researcher
Leaders: Hanawa, Oum, Monasterios, Thayer
Theme: Translingual and Transnational Politics of Gender, Representation, Nationalism.
Leaders: Chowdhury, Wilson, Paredes
Theme: Dislocating Gender/Sexuality/Class/Race, Politics of Gender and Development, Human Rights