Gerard Bouchard, History and Sociology, U of Quebec at Chicoutimi

The following presentations will be made at this symposium: Kirsten Fudeman, Assistant Professor of French, University of pittsburgh, 'What French and France Meant to Mediveval Jews'; Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz and Fellow, Pitt Humanities Center, 'Multilingual France, Global French'; Deena Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion and History, Department of Religion, Boston University, 'Recovering Lost Letters: The Literary Study of Cross-Cultural Encounter and New Direction in Medieval European History'.

A three-day festival of staged readings, lectures, and conference papers examining theater and performance in the South Asian diaspora:

Thursday, May 12, 2011, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. 'Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home and Abroad: A Critical Manifesto for a

Feminist Homecoming,' Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Montclair State University

7 p.m., a staged reading of Jihad Against Violence, written by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Bina Sharif, Ahmad Naumann, and Annie Lanzillotto

Speaker: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Filmmaker

Introduction by Prajna Parasher, Chatmham University

US/Cuba, 2006, 41 minutes, Spanish (with English subtitles).

Lecture given by Christine Raguet, Author, Sarbonne nouvelle, Paris 3

This talk, organized by Carol Bove, is the first session of the reading group in translation studies to run for three consecutive Wednesdays.

Lecture given by Michael Katz, C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont.

Postcolonial Feminisms and the Ethic of Care: South-to-South Dialogues is the inaugural symposium by the Asian and Latin American Women's Studies working group. We are convening for the second year to further develop the project. 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 following presentations will be made at this symposium: Kirsten Fudeman, Assistant Professor of French, University of pittsburgh, 'What French and France Meant to Mediveval Jews'; Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz and Fellow, Pitt Humanities Center, 'Multilingual France, Global French'; Deena Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion and History, Department of Religion, Boston University, 'Recovering Lost Letters: The Literary Study of Cross-Cultural Encounter and New Direction in Medieval European History'.

Gerard Bouchard, History and Sociology, U of Quebec at Chicoutimi

Faculty and graduate students in Pitt Humanities departments can access the reading by logging in to my.pitt.edu, clicking on the tab My Resources, clicking on Humanities Center, and then clicking on Colloquium Series where there is a link to the pdf file. Participants may also request the reading at humctr@pitt.edu