SPEAKER SERIES 2010-2011

Thursday, January 20, 4:15-7:00 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Ann Komaromi

Samizdat: Material Texts and Extra-Gutenberg Publics

Organized by the Toronto Centre for the Book, University of Toronto, and co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States.

Ann Komaromi is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative Literature. Komaromi's interests include the avant-garde in literature and visual arts, the Russian novel, Soviet nonconformist art, and dissidence. A significant portion of her research has been focused on late Soviet writing and publishing, especially the Samizdat text and alternative textual culture. Her publications include an article on "The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat" (Slavic Review, 2004), "The Unofficial Field of Late Soviet Culture" (Slavic Review, 2007), and "Samizdat as Extra-Gutenberg Phenomenon" (Poetics Today, 2009). Komaromi was awarded a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) grant in 2006 for the study of uncensored texts of the late Soviet period. This grant contributed to work on current projects, including a catalogue and history of Soviet Samizdat periodical editions. She is also working on a book manuscript about Samizdat and uncensored novels of the late Soviet period.

Friday, January 21, 2-4 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Marc Stein

The U.S. Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution? Sex, Marriage, and Reproduction from Griswold to Roe

Co-sponsored by Sexual Diversity Studies, and The Constitutional Roundtable, University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Marc Stein is Associate Professor of History, Women's Studies, and Sexuality Studies at York University, Toronto. He is the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000); the editor-in-chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (Scribers, 2003); and the author of the new monograph, Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

Copies of this publication will be available for sale following the lecture.

Friday, Jananuary 28, 2-4 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Lane Relyea

CSI vs. DIY: Photography Between Aftermath and Aftermarket

Co-sponsored by the Department of Art, University of Toronto.

Lane Relyea is a Professor of Art History, Northwestern University. Relyea received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Since 1983, his essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including: Artforum, Parkett, Frieze, Art in America, and Flash Art. He has also written recent monographs on Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Artschwager, Jeremy Blake, Vija Celmins, Toba Khedoori, Monique Prieto, and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others, and contributed to such exhibition catalogues as Public Offerings, and Helter Skelter (both Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2001 and 1992, respectively). From 1987 to 1991, he served as editor of Artpaper, a monthly art magazine based in Minneapolis. After teaching for a decade at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, where he joined the faculty in 1991, he was appointed director of the Core Program and Art History at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas, in the summer of 2001.

Friday, February 4, 2-4 pm
Vivian and David Campbell Facility
Munk School of Global Affairs

Saidiya Hartman

The Seventh Ward and the Studio

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, and Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto.

Saidiya Hartman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Professor Hartman's major fields of interest are African-American and American literature and cultural history, slavery, law and literature, and performance studies. She is on the editorial board of Callaloo. She has been a Fulbright, Rockefeller, Whitney Oates, and University of California President's Fellow. She is the author of: Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in Nineteenth Century America; and, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. She has published essays on photography, film, and feminism, and is beginning a new project on photography and ethics.

Thursday, February 10, 2-4 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Nan Enstad

American Dreamers and Global Cigarettes:
Seeing the Corporation as an Art Form

Nan Enstad is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture and Labor Politics, and is currently writing a book tentatively titled, The Jim Crow Cigarette: Following Tobacco Road from North Carolina to China and Back.

Thursday, February 10, 4:10-6PM
Flavelle House, Room C (basement)
78 Queen’s Park Crescent

Ian Shapiro

On Non-Domination

Organized by the Department of Political Science, and co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto.

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School, and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His most recent books are: The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences; Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz); and Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror. His current research concerns the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth.

Friday, February 11, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk

William Warner

Protocols of Liberty: Committees, Declarations, Networks,
and the American Revolution

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, University of Toronto.

William Warner is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught since 1997. He has also taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Prof. Warner received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. He is the author of Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation (1979); Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1986); and Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation of Novel Reading in Eighteenth Century Britain (1998). Professor Warner is currently at work on the Transcriptions Project, and has edited, with Clifford Siskin, This is Enlightenment, forthcoming in 2010 with U. of Chicago Press. He is a participant in the the UC Transliteracies Project, and is currently writing a book on the American Revolution.

Tuesday, February 15, 4:30-6:00 pm
Room UC140, University College

Matthew Brower

Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography

Co-sponsored by University of Toronto Art Centre, and the Faculty of Information.

Matthew Brower is a lecturer in Museum Studies in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, and the Curator of the University of Toronto Art Centre. As curator of UTAC, he has curated shows on Canadian painting, the conceptual furniture of Gord Peteran, and the video work of Mieke Bal. He co-curated The Brothel Without Walls, a primary exhibition for CONTACT 2010, which explored contemporary photography through the lens of Marshall McLuhan’s thought. He is currently co-curating an exhibition on the articulation of a feminist aesthetics of beauty in the work of Suzy Lake for 2011. His research explores the production and circulation of images in North American culture focusing on the question of how images function. He is particularly interested in images that occupy the intersections of art, science, and technology, and has largely pursued these interests through the representation of nature and the figure of the animal. He has published on twentieth-century Canadian art and visual culture, and 19th- and 20th-century American visual culture.

There will be a book launch following the talk, from 6-8 pm, in the University of Toronto Art Centre.

*Please Note: This event is completely sold out.*

Tuesday, February 15, 5:30-7:30 pm
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility
Munk School of Global Affairs

In Conversation with Brian Stewart:
Part I – Canada and Afghanistan (Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance)
Part II – Obama Watch: Historians Review the Obama Foreign Policy Record

Co-sponsored by Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, University of Toronto.

Participants - Part I:
Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance (Chief of Staff Land Strategy, Canadian Armed Forces)

Brian Stewart (Former foreign affairs reporter and senior correspondent for CBC TV News, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs.)

Participants - Part II:

John Milton Cooper (Professor-Emeritus, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison);
Robert Bothwell (May Gluskin Chair in Canadian History; Director of the International Relations Program, Professor of History, University of Toronto);
Ronald W. Pruessen (Deputy Director-International Partnerships, Munk School of Global Affairs, and Department of History, University of Toronto).

Moderator: Brian Stewart (Former foreign affairs reporter and senior correspondent for CBC TV News, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs.)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.

Joseph Masco is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches anthropology and science studies. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006, Princeton University Press), which won the 2008 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science and was co-winner of the 2006 Robert Merton Prize from the American Sociology Association. Recent publications include:"Sensitive but Unclassified: Secrecy and the Counter-terrorist State" in Public Culture, "Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis" in Social Studies of Science, and "Survival Is Your Business: Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America" in Cultural Anthropology.

Friday, March 4, 2-4 pm
Room 108N, Munk

Neferti Tadiar

Citizen-Man: Medium of Democracy

Co-sponsored by Women and Gender Studies, and the Asian Institute, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

Neferti Tadiar is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at Barnard College. Her academic interests include transnational and third world feminisms; postcolonial theory; critical theories of race and subjectivity; literary and social theory; cultural studies of the Asia Pacific region; and Philippine studies. Her work concerns the role of cultural practice and social imagination in the production of wealth, power, marginality and liberatory movements in the context of global relations. While her research focuses on contemporary Philippine and Filipino cultures and their relation to political and economic change, she addresses, more broadly, questions of gender, race, and sexuality in discourses and material practices of nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization. She is currently working on a book-project entitled: Discourse on Empire: Living Under the Rule of Permanent War, and beginning a new research project entitled Schooling National Subjects: Experience and Education in US Colonial Philippines. Her books include: Things Fall Away: Philippine Literatures, Historical Experience and Tangential Makings of Globality ; Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, co-edited with Angela Y. Davis; and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order. She is winner of the Philippine National Book Award (2005).

This is a private reception for University of Toronto Faculty members, American Studies and English department undergraduate and graduate students, and invited guests.

Wednesday, March 9, 4-5:30 pm
Vivian and David Campbell Facility
Munk School of Global Affairs

Sarah Wilson

Book Launch:
Melting-Pot Modernism

Between 1891 and 1920, more than eighteen million immigrants entered the United States. While many Americans responded to this influx by proposing immigration restriction or large-scale "Americanization" campaigns, a few others adopted the image of the melting pot to oppose such measures. These Progressives imagined assimilation as a multidirectional process, in which both native-born and immigrants contributed their cultural gifts to a communal fund. Melting-Pot Modernism reveals the richly aesthetic nature of assimilation at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on questions of the individual's relation to culture, the protection of vulnerable populations, the sharing of cultural heritages, and the far-reaching effects of free-market thinking. Exploring the depth and nuance of an earlier moment's commitment to cultural inclusiveness, Melting-Pot Modernism gives new meaning to American struggles to imaginatively encompass difference—and to the central place of literary interpretation in understanding such struggles.

Faye Ginsburg

Screening Disabilities: Visual Fields, Public Culture, and the Atypical Mind
in the 21st Century

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, and Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, University of Toronto.

Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History, and Co-Director of the NYU Council for the Study of Disabilities. Her work over the years as a filmmaker, writer, and curator has focused on movements for social transformation, and the key role played by cultural activists in these processes, from her multiple award-winning book, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community, to her several edited collections on reproduction and gender, to her groundbreaking collection, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, to her forthcoming book, Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media in a Digital Age. Ginsburg is recipient of numerous grants including the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Spencer, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Thursday, March 10, 5:30-7:30 pm
Jackman Humanities Institute, Room 100

Carol Mavor

Blue is a Colour Where it is Hard to Find Anything Missing: the Aran Islands, Venice, the Cyanotype, and Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.

Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester, England. Mavor is the author of several books: Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott (Duke UP, 2007); Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess, Hawarden (Duke UP, 1999); Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs (Duke UP, 1995); and Black and Blue: The Bruising of "Camera Lucida," "La Jetée," "Sans Soleil," and "Hiroshima mon amour" is forthcoming from Duke UP (2011). Her essays have appeared in Cabinet Magazine. Art History, Photography and Culture, Photographies, as well as edited volumes, including Geoffrey Batchen’s Photography Degree Zero and Mary Sheriff’s Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art. Her most recent published essay is on the French child-poet Minou Drouet. Mavor’s writing has been widely reviewed in publications in the US and UK, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice. She has lectured broadly in the US and the UK, including The Photographers’ Gallery (London), University of Cambridge, Duke University, and the Royal College of Art. For 2010-2011, Mavor was named the Northrop Frye Chair in Literary Theory at the University of Toronto. Currently, Mavor is completing Blue Mythologies: A Study of the Hue of Blue (forthcoming from Reaktion in 2012).

This lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

Film Screening:

Freedom Riders

Written, Directed, and Produced by Stanley Nelson

Co-sponsored by Caribbean Studies, New College; Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College; Sociology and Equity Studies; Diaspora and Transnational Studies; Department of History; and Canadian Studies, University College, at the University of Toronto.

Nominated for the 2011 American Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay
Based in part on the book: Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, By Raymond Arsenault
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival 2010; Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2010.

Powerful and often harrowing, Freedom Riders dramatically captures the journey that changed America forever. In 1961, more than four hundred activists risked their lives by traveling together on buses and trains through the Deep South to end segregation. Filmmaker Stanley Nelson interviews many of the surviving riders whose non-violent beliefs were sorely tested by hostility, mob violence, and virulent racism. This ultimately triumphant story features testimony from the Riders themselves, state and federal government officials, and journalists who witnessed the rides firsthand.

Director Stanley Nelson will be in attendance.

For more information about Marcus Garvey & Freedom Riders, visit:
http://firelightmedia.org/about/our-team/stanley-nelson/stanley-nelson/

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

"Gender Responsive" Prison Expansion, or Notes on a Rout and Hope for a Route

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, University of Toronto.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She received a BA and MFA in Dramatic Literature and Criticism from Yale, and a PhD in Geography from Rutgers. In addition to Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007), recent publications include "Race, Prisons, and War: Scenes from the History of U.S. Violence" (in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds., Violence Today: Actually existing Barbarism, London: Merlin Press, 2009), and "Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning" (in Charles R. Hale, ed., Engaging Contradictions, University of California Press, 2008). At the University of Southern California as director of the program in American Studies and Ethnicity, she saw the unit through to departmentalization, serving as its first chair. A member of the board of the Economic Roundtable, Gilmore is also a founding member of the anti-prison groups California Prison Moratorium Project and Critical Resistance, and a founding member and past-president of the Central California Environmental Justice Network. Awards include an NEA Grant, a Soros Senior Justice Fellowship, the James Blaut Award for Critical Geography, the Ralph Santiago Abascal Award for Economic and Environmental Justice, a Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring Graduate Students, and the Lora Romero Best Book Prize. Gilmore is president of the American Studies Association.

Odd Arne Westad

The Shock of the Global: The United States and the Origins of Globalisation

Co-Sponsored by the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and an expert on the history of the Cold War era and on contemporary international affairs. He co-directs LSE IDEAS, a centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy, is an editor of the journal Cold War History, and is an editor of the forthcoming three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. Professor Westad lectures widely on China's foreign affairs, on Western interventions in Africa and Asia, and on foreign policy strategy. His most recent book, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, received the Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Award, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award, which has been translated into fourteen languages.  He is now working on a history of Chinese foreign affairs since 1750.

Fall 2010

Thursday, October 7, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Mark Crispin Miller

Ghost Democracy: The Disappearance of the Vote in the United States

Co-sponsored by the Ryerson News Lab and Guelph University.

Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media Ecology at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in1977. Miller’s research interests include: modern propaganda, history and tactics of advertising, American film, and media ownership. His publications include: Boxed In: The Culture of TV; Seeing Through Movies, ed.; Mad Scientists: The Secret History of Modern Propaganda; Spectacle: Operation Desert Storm and the Triumph of Illusion; and The Bush Dyslexicon. His newest book is entitled, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order.

*Please note change in time.*

Thursday, October 14, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Mary Lou Lobsinger

Circuits: Computation, Architecture, and the Research University

Co-sponsored by the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Mary Lou Lobsinger is Associate Professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto. Her scholarly work has appeared in Grey Room, Werk, Daidalos, Journal of Architecture Education, Thresholds, Architecture+Ideas, Journal of the Society of Architecture Historians, and in numerous anthologies including Architectural Periodicals in the 1960s and ‘70s (Institut Recherche en Histoire de l’Architecture, 2008), Docomomo: Import-Export: Postwar Modernism in an Expanding World, 1945-1975 (2008), Le Citta’ visibili (il Saggiatore, 2007), and Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies (Coach House, 2007). She has held fellowships and research grants from the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Graham Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Design Council, the Graduate School of Design, and Harvard University. Lobsinger recently completed the book manuscript The Realist Impulse: Aldo Rossi and Postwar Italian Architectural Discourse, and is currently working on a second book project on architectural avant-gardism and the politics of post-materialism. Prior to the scholarly turn she was engaged in creative practice. Realizations have included installations for multi-disciplinary performance projects, and published photograph-text based works.

Friday, October 15, 2-4 pm
Room 108N, Munk

Thursday, October 21, 7-9 pm
St. Michael’s College, Alumni Hall, Muzzo Family
121 St. Joseph Street, rm. 100

Jim Campbell

A Triumph for the Tea Party? A New Republican Revolution or Will the Democrats hold onto Congress?

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

*Please note new time and room*

Friday, October 22, 11 am - 12:30 pm
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 3037
100 St. George Street

Jim Campbell

The Economic Records of the Presidents: Party Differences and Inherited Economic Condition

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

James E. Campbell is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is also the President of Pi Sigma Alpha, and The National Political Science Honor Society. He is a former APSA Congressional Fellow, and a program director at the National Science Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of six political science journals, and on the executive councils of seven political science organizations. Professor Campbell has published four books, and more than sixty book chapters and articles in major political science journals. His most recent book is the second edition of The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote, published in 2008 by Texas A&M University Press. He is also the author of Cheap Seats: The Democratic Party's Advantage in U.S. House Elections, and The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections. Prior to joining the UB faculty in 1998, he served on the faculties of the University of Georgia (1980-88), and Louisiana State University (1988-98).

Tuesday, October 26, 10 am to 12 noon
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility
1 Devonshire Place, Munk School of Global Affairs

IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN STEWART:

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Christopher Hedges

Co-sponsored by the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs

Join senior Canadian foreign affairs journalist and Munk School Distinguished Senior Fellow Brian Stewart in conversation with Christopher Hedges, Distinguished Visitor in the Centre for the Study of the United States, on topics ranging from the moral and political dimensions of modern war to the erosion of democracy in the contemporary U.S.

Brian Stewart is one of Canada’s most respected foreign correspondents. He reported for The National and hosted "CBC News: Our World." Mr. Stewart received a Gemini Award as “Best Overall Broadcast Journalist” in 1996, and for “Best Information Segment” in 1994 for Rwanda: Autopsy of a Genocide. His documentary, The Somalia Affair, won top prize for investigative reporting at the Canadian Association of Journalists awards in 1993. He is the 2009 Ross Munro Media Award Recipient; awarded by the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA), in concert with the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, the Ross Munro Award recognizes Canadian journalists who have made a significant and extraordinary contribution to increasing public understanding of Canadian defence and security issues.

Christopher Hedges is the F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor in American Studies, at the Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto. Prof. Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. He is the author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) and Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009). Prof. Hedges received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. His latest publication, The Death of the Liberal Class (2010), will be launched on November 4th at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology.

Thursday, October 28, 7:00 - 10 pm; (doors open 6:30 pm)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave.

Passage

Directed by John Walker

The film screening will be followed by a Roundtable discussion with: Kay Armatage, Cinema Studies; Heidi Bohaker, Department of History; and, Darrell Varga, Canada Research Chair, Contemporary Film & Media Studies.

Co-Sponsored by: Cinema Studies, Innis College, and Department of History, University of Toronto.

The film’s historical subject is Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Passage is a truly remarkable piece of historical filmmaking, a lyrical model of how to construct a historical project while showcasing both the processes of making that history, as well as the changing political stakes of a specific historical narrative over time. For its unparalleled brilliance in showcasing the historical consequences of making choices in the production of historical narrative, Passage is exemplary for the “promotion of history,” a central criteria of the Erik Barnouw Award, which was awarded to John Walker in 2009.

John Walker is one of Canada's finest directors/cinematographers working in the documentary genre, and his films have won international acclaim. From the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television he has received seventeen nominations andawards, including the coveted Donald Brittain Award for best social/political documentary—Utshimassits: Place of the Boss; best documentary director—The Hand of Stalin; and best feature documentary—Strand—Under the Dark Cloth, a personal portrait of his mentor. His film on the Cape Breton coal miners’ choir, Men of the Deeps, won three Gemini awards.

Darrell Varga is the Canada Research Chair, Contemporary Film & Media Studies, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax; Kay Armatage is a Professor of Cinema Studies and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto; and Heidi Bohaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Toronto.

*Please note new time and room.*

Wednesday, November 3, 12 noon - 2 pm
Room 108N, Munk

Chris Hedges

The Death of the Liberal Class

Co-Sponsored by the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. He is the author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), and Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009). Hedges also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He is the F. Ross Johnson Distinguished Visitor for th Centre for the Study of the United States in 2010.

We will be hosting a launch of Hedges’ new book entitled, The Death of the Liberal Class, following his talk.

TVO, "Big Ideas":

Chris Hedges lecture from November 4th will be broadcast on TVO's "Big Ideas" on January 22 at 5pm, and repeated the next day, same time. The video and audio podcast will go up on iTunes shortly before the broadcast, and on the www.tvo.org website on Monday, January 24th.

TVO, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin":

To View Chris Hedges' appearance on "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" on TVO, follow these links below:

http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779880&ts=2010-10-22%2020:00:00.0

The links are also on the TVO YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AgendaStevePaikin

CBC, "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight":

To View Chris Hedges' appearance on "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", follow the link below:

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/videos.html?id=1633278884

Co-sponsored by the United States Consulate General Toronto, Centre for International Studies, and Centre for the Study of the United States

CHAIR: Louis Pauly, Director, Centre for International Studies

David Jacobson was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Canada on September 25, 2009, having been nominated by the President and unanimously confirmed by the Senate.  On October 2, 2009, Ambassador Jacobson presented his credentials to the Governor General of Canada and became the 22nd U.S. Ambassador to Canada. Before coming to Ottawa, Ambassador Jacobson served as Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel. Prior to serving in the White House, Ambassador Jacobson spent 30 years as a lawyer in Chicago gaining expertise in the areas of complex commercial, class action, securities, insurance and business litigation as a partner at the law firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP. He has also gained extensive experience working with regulatory and administrative agencies and all levels of government. In addition to his litigation experience, Ambassador Jacobson has helped clients large and small to address the legal and business issues they confront as they adapt their business models to incorporate new technologies. Jacobson has written and spoken extensively on the importance of new technologies and the novel legal issues they present. While working as a partner at Sonnenschein, Ambassador Jacobson also founded AtomWorks, an organization to bring together corporate, civic and academic leaders in order to foster nanotechnology in the Midwest. He served as a member of CEOs for Cities, a national bipartisan alliance of 75 mayors, corporate executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders organized to advance the economic competitiveness of cities. He has served on other boards, including the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and the Better Boys Foundation. Ambassador Jacobson received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and was the Administrative Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He received his B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University. Ambassador Jacobson and his wife, Julie, have two children, Wynne and Jeremy.

Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9812

Thursday, November 11, 4-6 pm
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility
Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

James Kloppenberg

Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

The webcast can be found here: 
http://hosting.epresence.tv/MUNK/1/watch/197.aspx

James Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University, specializing in American and European intellectual history. Kloppenberg was educated at Stanford (M.A., 1976, Ph.D., 1980). He has written about the rise and fall of social democracy in Europe and America; eighteenth-century American politics and ideas; the career of the American philosophy of pragmatism from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century; European interpretations of American culture from Tocqueville through Weber; and the relation between contemporary critical theory and historical writing. He has been chair of the History of American Civilization program, and has addressed the direction of the field in "Transnational and Multi-Disciplinary: The New Goals of American Studies Programs," American Studies Association Newsletter 28 (March 2005). His books include The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998), A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell, 1995), co-edited with Richard Wightman Fox; and Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Professivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press, 1986). He has held fellowships from the Danforth, Whiting, and Guggenheim foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Kloppenberg has held the Pitt professorship at the University of Cambridge, and has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In recognition of his teaching, he has been named a Harvard College Professor, and awarded the Levinson Memorial Teaching Prize by the Harvard Undergraduate Council.

Copies of Prof. Kloppenberg's new book will be available for sale following the lecture in the first floor lounge..

The webcast can be found here: 
http://hosting.epresence.tv/MUNK/1/watch/197.aspx

Please Note: Registration for this conference is completely full.

Friday, November 12, Saturday, November 13,
Sunday, November 14
Campbell Conference Facility, Munk

Monday, November 29, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Noël Sturgeon

“Avatar” and Activism: Ecological Indians, Climate Justice, and Disabling Militarism

Co-sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

Noël Sturgeon is Professor of Women's Studies and Graduate Faculty in American Studies at Washington State University. She is the author of Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action (Routledge 1997), Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural (University of Arizona, 2009) and numerous articles on environmentalist, antimilitarist, and feminist movements and theories. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers; a Visiting Scholar at Murdoch University, Australia; at the JFK Institute at the Frei Universitat in Berlin, and at the Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC; and a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at York University, Toronto.

Thursday, December 2, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk

Friday, December 3, 10 am-12 noon
Room 208N, Munk

The Image and the Archive

A workshop exploring scholarly research into images and its relationship to archival resources. Research areas will include photography, documentary and avant-garde film, and Victorian visual culture.

Featuring:
Mark Garrett Cooper
(Department of English, University of South Carolina), Interim Director of Moving Image Research Collections
And
Elspeth Brown (Department of History, University of Toronto and Director, CSUS)
James Cahill (Department of French and CSI, University of Toronto)
Sophie Thomas (Department of English, Ryerson University)

Moderated by: Charlie Keil (Department of History and CSI, University of Toronto and JHI Faculty Fellow)

Friday, December 3, 2-4 pm
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility
Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Andrew DuBois

Roundtable:
The Anthology of Rap

Andrew DuBois is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He co-edited a collection of critical essays called Close Reading: The Reader (Duke UP, 2003), and is the author of Ashbery’s Forms of Attention (U of Alabama, 2006). A special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly called “The Song is You: Opera, Lyrics and Literary Study,” edited with Katherine Larson, is forthcoming in the Fall. The Anthology of Rap (Yale UP, 2010), co-edited with Adam Bradley of the University of Colorado, collects roughly 300 lyrics from thirty years of recorded rap, accompanied by historical essays that contextualize the poetic innovations that both characterize and help to define hip-hop as a domestic culture and global force.

The roundtable participants are:

Christian Campbell: Writer, Poet, Cultural Critic, and Assistant Professor of English (University of Toronto) specializing in Caribbean Literature, Black Diaspora Literatures and Cultures, and Poetics.

Karina Vernon: Writer, Publisher, and Assistant Professor of English (University of Toronto) specializing in Black Canadian Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, and Diaspora Studies.

Del Cowie: Toronto-Based Music Journalist whose writing has appeared in VIBE, XXL, Eye Weekly and Sway, as well as online websites such as Amazon.com and AOL Canada. He is currently the hip-hop editor at national monthly music magazine Exclaim!

Angelica LeMinh: Reader, Writer, Blogger, and Performance Artist whose work appears in Pound and metro_textual.wordpress.com.

Masia One: Toronto-Based Rap Artist

Reflect: Toronto-Based Rap Artist

Copies of this publication will be available for sale following the lecture.

Monday, December 6, 4-6 pm
Room 208N, Munk

T.V. Reed

Music in the African American Civil Rights Movement: On Liberation Musicology

T.V. Reed is the Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University. His areas of research and teaching include: interdisciplinary cultural theory, popular culture, digital cultures, environmental justice cultural studies, and social movement cultures. Reed also writes and manages the matrix, “Cultural Politics” [culturalpolitics.net], with websites addressing each of these research areas. His book The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (U Minnesota Press, 2005) was nominated for the John Hope Franklin prize. He is also the author of Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of Social Movements (U of California Press, 1992). Reed has two books in process, one on 30s radical novelist Robert Cantwell, the other an introduction to critical digital culture studies. Reed was elected in 2006 to the National Council of the American Studies Association. He has been a Mellon Fellow at Wesleyan University, a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany, a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Visiting Lecturer at Yunnan University in China and ICU in Tokyo, Japan.