2007–2008 SEMINARS

2006–2007 SEMINARS

Title: “‘They killed me once/Then wore my face many times’: Poetry as Counter-Hegemonic Media”
Keynote Speaker: Matthew Shenoda
Date: December 7, 2006, 5-7 pm
Location: UC Davis
Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies

Title: “Alimentary Tracts: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Parama Roy
Date: March 8, 2007, 4-6 pm
Location: 912 Sproul Hall
Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies, Undergraduate International Studies of Foreign Languages (USIFL) grant, UC Davis Humanities Institute, and the Center for History, Society, and Culture.

Title: “Can protecting intellectual property rights be of any consequence for poor people?”
Keynote Speaker: Anil Gupta
Date: April 3, 2007, 12 – 2pm
Location: Law School, Room 2064
Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies, Law School, University Outreach, International Agricultural Development, Community Development Graduate Group, and Community Studies Development.

Title: “The Sanctity of Memory and Hammam Culture in Assia Djebar’s Women of Algiers in their Apartment and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass”
Keynote Speaker: Brinda J. Mehta
Date: April 26, 2007, 4-6 pm
Location: 912 Sproul Hall
Sponsors: Middle East/South Asia Studies, USIFL grant, UC Davis Humanities Institute, and Center for History, Society, and Culture.