| WHAT'S HAPPENING @ SCA - UPCOMING EVENTS WEEK OF APR 2-6, 2012

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WHAT'S HAPPENING @ SCA 

UPCOMING EVENTS WEEK OF APR. 2-6, 2012

All events are located at SCA 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, unless otherwise noted.
For more information on our upcoming events, please visit the SCA Events Calendar at http://sca.as.nyu.edu/object/sca.calendar

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
6:00 pm

Cleaving to the Scene of Shame:Stigmatized Childhoods in The End of Alice and Two Girls, Fat and Thin
a lecture by Kaye Mitchell

Kaye Mitchell, American Studies and English, University of Manchester

respondent: Heather Love, English, University of Pennsylvania

moderator: Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies and Religious Studies, New York University

Co-sponsored by the NYU Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.


THURSDAY, APRIL 5
4:00 pm

A/P/A  Institute,  Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality ,  NYU  Postcolonial Seminar, Dept of Performance Studies,  and the SCA Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies present:

A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities & the Initimacies of Four Continents
Lecture by Lisa Lowe
Lisa Lowe, Comparative Literature, UC San Diego

This lecture revisits Marx’s fetishism of commodities and nineteenth-century liberal policies of “free trade” in relation to products (like tea, sugar, cottons, and opium) that expressed the colonial and imperial relations between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.