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.
The Seminars will be conducted as a series of informal "brown-bag" lunch style meetings, held Fridays between 12 noon-1:30 p.m.
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
Gilberte Furstenberg (MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures)
Date: Friday, October 27, 2006
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14E-304
Marja Roholl (Rotterdam University, the Netherlands)
Date: Friday, November 17, 2006
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: 14N-417
"The Politics of Creolistics"
Michel DeGraff (MIT Linguistics and Philosophy)
Spring 2007
Date: Friday, February 16, 2007
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Location: 14E-304
"On Hybridity: Representations in Francophone Literature and Cinema"
Caroline Beschea-Fache (Indiana University)
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.
