Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Sponsored by MIT's Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies and Foreign Languages and Literatures, the CB/BS Seminar will provide a forum for informal discussions of issues related to the history and current ramifications of translingual, transnational, and transcultural phenomena. We are interested, for example, in asking new questions about national identities and emergent hyphenated identities, rethinking race and gender through cross-cultural and historical comparison, and interrogating the impact of border crossings on artistic production. Through interdisciplinary discussions of these and other related issues, we hope to generate new vocabulary, approaches, and theories for examining contemporary translingual/ transnational/transcultural realities.
We plan to launch the CB/BS Seminar in Fall Semester 2005. The Seminar will be conducted as a series of informal "brown-bag" lunch style meetings, held Fridays between 12:00-1:30 p.m.
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In Search of Don Quixote was a one-time student trip to Spain to coincide with the festivities celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Miguel de Cervantes’ literary masterpiece Don Quixote. The two-week expedition through Castilla la Mancha was organized by two Lecturers in Spanish with the intention of serving as a impetus to update the Elementary Spanish curriculum at MIT. Armed with video and still-image cameras, the students documented their entire journey through the Spanish countryside, effectively capturing the essence of Spanish culture. These primary resources are currently being complied in to an interactive medium to transform the Elementary Spanish course of study that is customized to the MIT student.
See pictures from the trip on the In Search of Don Quixote page!
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, City University of New York “When Islam Was All the Rage”
Miriam Cooke, Duke University “Networking for Power and Change: Muslim Women’s Transnational Activism and the Construction of Alternative Identities”
Nilüfer Göle, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Visiting Professor, MIT “Europe and Islam: Lost in Translation”
Moderated by Arundhati Banerjee, MIT
Date: Friday September 23, 2005
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: 3-343
le Grand Voyage (2004)
Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi
Film screening and discussion with Director Ismaël Ferroukhi
French and Arabic with English subtitles
Date: Tuesday October 4, 2005
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Location: 26-100
A Fond Kiss (UK, 2004)
Directed by Ken Loach
Date: Wednesday November 2, 2005
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Location: 2-105
Head On (Gegen Die Wand) (Germany, 2003)
Directed by Fatih Akin
Date: Thursday November 17, 2005
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Location: 56-114
Poniente (Spain, 2002)
Directed by Chus Gutiérrez
Date: Thursday December 1, 2005
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Location: 56-114
Professor Narendra Subramanian
Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University
Introduction and Moderator:
Professor Joshua Cohen
Department of Political Science, MIT
Date: February 23, 2006
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: 4-249
Can anime lead to improved international relations?
A roundtable discussion with:
Ambassador Seiichi Kondo
Director of Cultural Diplomacy,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
Discussion led by Professor Ian Condry (Associate Professor, MIT)
Date: March 2, 2006
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Location: 32-144
Yasmin (2004)
Directed by Kenny Glenaan
Date: March 2, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 56-114
Berlin-based performance artists:
Cristina Gomez-Barrio & Wolfgang Meyer
Performance followed by a discussion on sex, the city, and music.
(Part of 21F.062 the City is a Woman)
Date: March 7, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 2-147
L'Esquive (2004)
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Date: March 21, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 56-114
My Son the Fanatic
Directed by Hanif Kureishi
Date: April 5, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 2-105
Being Young, Being Here, Being Muslim:
A Panel Discussion with MIT Students
Date: March 13, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 32-124
European Short Films & Chinese Animation
Date: April 7-9, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 10-250
More information, please visit: http://web.mit.edu/shortfilm/
Radhika Gajjala
Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University
This talk will examine the notion of virtual community, and the false binary of virtual and real ("IRL" vs "VL"), which are pivotal to any discussion of online community formations, as well as, how the digital encounters of interactive meaning-making in these digital diasporic spaces produce not only social and digital spaces of cultural representation but also contact zones of culturalcontestation.
Date: April 12, 2006
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: 32-144
“Violence and Desire in Japanese Popular Culture”
April 14 - 15, 2006 (Friday / Saturday) @ MIT
Schedule of Public Events:
Friday April 14, 2006
Panel Presentation – Anime, Art and World Politics
Professor Ikumi Kaminishi (Tufts) on Takashi Murakami's Superflat project
Professor Anthony Lioi (MIT) on Hayao Miyazaki and environmental apocalypse
Professor Helen Hardacre (Harvard) on religious themes in anime.
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: 32-155
Reception for audience and to welcome participants
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: Stata Center Student Street (immediately outside 32-155)
Samurai Champloo (2004, Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe) anime screening and discussion on anime hip-hop samurai warriors
Kou Furukawa (author, Samurai Champloo movie book)
Set in the Edo Period (1600-1868), this recent anime TV series remixes classic swordplay themes against a backdrop of contemporary Japanese hip-hop music, challenging us to consider the complexity of cross-cultural fertilization and innovation. Note: some mature themes (R-rated sex, drugs, violence).
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: 3-270
The Violent Commodification of Desire
Professor Anne Allison (Duke University) on Pokemon capitalism and commodified desire
John O'Donnell (Founder, Central Park Media) on otaku entrepreneurs and anime distribution
Professor Ian Condry (MIT) on anime fans and the creative destruction of online piracy
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2006
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm (Panel Presentation)
Location: 32-155
The Cool Japan research project receives generous support from MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures section,
MIT Japan Program, Harvard's Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, and MIT Comparative Media Studies program.
For more information, please contact Professor Ian Condry (condry@mit.edu) or 617-253-4771.
Rome Open City (Roma città aperta) (1945)
Directed by Roberto Rossellini
Date: Wednesday April 26, 2006
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: 4-237
Captains of April (Capitães de Abril) (2000)
Directed by Maria de Medeiros
Date: Thursday April 27, 2006
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: 2-105
Click here for an index of pictures from the event.
Date: Saturday May 13, 2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Cambridge Boathouse
