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 noon-1:30 p.m.

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CB/BS Seminar Brown Bag Lunch Series, 2005-2006

Fall 2005

Date: Friday September 30, 2005
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304 
CB/BS Seminar Launch Event

"Native Speakers?: A Dialogue on Issues of Asian Anglophone Writing"
Tuli Banerjee and Emma Teng (MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures)

Date: Friday November 18, 2005
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304  

"Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Complexities and Contradictions"
Marja Roholl (Rotterdam University, the Netherlands)

Spring 2006

Date: Friday February 24, 2006
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304  

"You Mixed?  Race, Adoption, and Identity"
Sally Haslanger (MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy)

Date: Friday April 7, 2006
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304  

"Globalization: Is It Fair?"
Philip Khoury (Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT)

**If you are interested in presenting your work at the CB/BS Seminar, please contact Emma Teng at eteng@mit.edu. 

 

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CB/BS Seminar Brown Bag Lunch Series, 2006-2007

Fall 2006

Date: Friday October 20, 2006
Time: 12:15 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304 

"The Pedagogy of Intercultural Understanding"
Gilberte Furstenberg (MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures)

Date: Friday, October 27, 2006
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304  

"Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Complexities and Contradictions"
Marja Roholl (Rotterdam University, the Netherlands)

Date: Friday, November 17, 2006
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14N-417

"TBA"
Michel DeGraff (MIT Linguistics and Philosophy)

Spring 2007

Date: Friday, March 16, 2007
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304  

"Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism"
Sarah Song, (MIT Political Science)

**If you are interested in presenting your work at the CB/BS Seminar, please contact 253-4771.