REMINDER: LISA LOWE LECTURE, Thurs April 5. PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE: 4-6pm, NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor

[M. Hilaire]

PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE:

 

The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis is pleased to announce:

The 2012 SCA DISTINGUISHED LECTURE by

LISA LOWE, Professor of Literature, UC San Diego

"A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities & the Intimacies of Four Continents" 

Thursday April 5, 4:00-6:00pm (NOT 6:30-8:30pm), 20 Cooper Square, 4th floor, Dept of SCA, NYU.

Lisa Lowe is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego and the author of the groundbreaking monographs Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP, 1994), and Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 1996), as well as the co-editor, with David Lloyd, of the anthology The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP, 1997). Professor Lowe co-edits, with Judith Halberstam, the Perverse Modernities book series at Duke UP.

This talk is generously co-sponsored by the A/P/A Institute, the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, the NYU Postcolonial Seminar, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Department of Performance Studies. This event is free and open to the public.