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Thursday, April 2

Constellation and Flow: How Citizenship Captures Capital Flight
Time:
5:30 pm
Presenter:
Aiwha Ong
Location:
324 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center

The Pitt Graduate Program for Cultural Studies' Annual Distinguished Lecturer will be Aiwha Ong, Professor of the Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley, whose talk is entitled, "Constellation and Flow: How Citizenship Captures Capital Flight." She is the author of Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987); Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999); Buddha in Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (2003); and Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006). She also co-edited Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (2005); and Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008). Her latest collection is Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate. She will deliver her lecture on April 2nd from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in 324 Cathedral of Learning. She will be introduced by Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Asian Studies Center Nicole Constable. Professors Miller and Fernandes will respond. A small reception outside the hall will precede the lecture at 5pm.