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October 2008 Events
October 10, 2008
12:00PM - 1:30PM, 1636 SSWB
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Poet and novelist R. Zamora Linmark will read from his poetry collections, which are set in contemporary Philippines and deal with such issues as the political killings of journalists, the myths surrounding former President Ferdinand Marcos's body in Batac, Claire Danes and her inane remarks about Manila, the playful signages he collected in his travels around the country, and the colorful brands of English language in the Philippines. He will also read from his forthcoming novel, Leche, (the sequel to his first novel, Rolling The R's.) Set in Manila in 1991, during the last year of Cory Aquino and the U.S. Military bases, and is about the hell that memories make out of us.
*This event is co-sponsored by the Program in American Culture
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R. Zamora Linmark, Poet and Novelist
October 17, 2008
12:00PM - 1:30PM, 1636 SSWB
The Indian Uprising and the Haunting of Justice in Malaysia
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This paper examines the cultural, historical, and psychological forces that contributed to a dramatic and unprecedented public demonstration of up to 40,000 Malaysian Tamils directed against the Malaysian government, as spearheaded by the “Hindu Rights Action Force” (HINDRAF) in November, 2007. It is argued here that only in an excess in and of the law, or in its relative transgression, a notion of justice is being made explicable to Tamils who perceive themselves to be victims, betrayed by an emergent force of Islamization wedded to ethnic politics. This is understood in terms of an emergent sense of historicity and through the incalculable demands for recognition that blur, and thereby, confound, legalistic definitions of identification in Malaysia.
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Andrew Willford, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
October 31, 2008
12:00PM - 1:30PM, 1636 SSWB
Anti-Art in Vietnam: Adventures in (in)visual Anthropology
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Vietnamese art has undergone a number of changes over the past 20 years since the government implemented its reforms known as Doi Moi. The most obvious transformation has been the rise of a global art market and its effect on artists' incomes. A less obvious change has been the rise of experimental art forms, such as video and performance, behind the scenes, away from public view. This talk will discuss the ways in which certain artists have been eluding the system and contributing toward alternative artistic expressions that challenge both State and the Market definitions of what it means to be a Vietnamese artist today.
*This even is co-sponsored by the School of Art and Design
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Nora Taylor, Department of Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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