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We plan to celebrate the end of the year with a party on May 15, in Room 110, 226 Bay State Road, from 3-5 p.m. We’ll hope to see you there!

Imperialism, Sports Culture and Tourism

Monday, April 2, 5:30pm / CAS 200 / 725 Commonwealth Avenue

Charles Lindholm

Professor of Anthropology, Boston University

“Adventure, Danger, and Authenticity”

&

William Moore

Associate Professor of American Material Culture, Boston University

“Gidget and the Waikiki Beachboy:  Assimilation, transgression, and Polynesian culture in postwar American youth fiction”

Click here for more information about the Contact Zone Series

Transnationalism and the Question of Empire

Monday, March 19, 5:30pm  / CAS 200 / 725 Commonwealth Avenue

Anita Patterson

Associate Professor of English, Boston University

“Henry James, John La Farge, and Impressionist Japonisme”

&

David Brody, Associate Professor of Design Studies, The New School

“Greenwashing in Hawaii: Design, Hotels, and Postcolonial Contact”

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Chinese Exclusion

Thursday, December 1, 5:30pm / CAS 200

Anna Pegler-Gordon, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

“Chinese Exclusion and Photographic Arts of Contact and Evasion”

Please see our Contact Zone Series page for a list of fall events.

Wampanoag Cultures

Monday, November 7, 6:30pm / CAS 313

Anne Makepeace, film director and producer

We Still Live Here, Âs Nutayuneân

Film screening and discussion on Wampanoag cultural revival

For more information about the film, please visit:

http://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html

Please see our Contact Zone Series page for a list of fall events.

Diasporas

Wednesday, October 19, 5:30pm / Room 110, 226 Bay State Road

Marilyn Halter, Professor of History, Boston University

“African and American:

Post-Colonial West Africans and the Remaking of the Atlantic World in the U.S.”

and

Cynthia Becker, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

“From the Backstreets to Mainstreet:

the Changing Aesthetics of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians”

Please see our Contact Zone Series page for a list of fall events.

Vernacular Studies

Monday, September 26, 5:30pm / Gabel Museum, Stone Science Building 253

Susan Kern, Asst. Visiting Professor, American Studies, College of William & Mary

“Thomas Jefferson, Vernacular Studies and Contact Zones in Late Colonial Virginia”

Please see our Contact Zone Series page for a list of fall events.

Fall Reception

Tuesday, September 20, 12-2pm / Room 110, 226 Bay State Road

Introduction to the Contact Zone Lecture Series

followed by a social hour for graduate students and faculty

Please see our Contact Zone Series page for a list of fall events.

Building on the success of last year’s House and Home series, Director Sichel has organized a 2011-2012 series entitled “Revisiting the Contact Zone:  Postcolonial Responses to American Exceptionalism”: A yearlong interdisciplinary study project funded by the Boston University Humanities Foundation. “Contact Zone” will be a series of interdisciplinary seminar talks, some with invited outside scholars and some with paired BU professors. Based on scholar Mary Louise Pratt’s model for the two-way, doubly enriching, and hybrid relations between powerful cultures and those that they colonize, “Contact Zone” is a new model for a richer look at post-colonial discourses.  We will expand the term to include contact zones within American culture – between European American and immigrant communities, between different media, and between the academy and the commercial worlds.

Please visit our Contact Zone Series page for a list of fall events.

Revisiting the Contact Zone:

Postcolonial Responses to American Exceptionalism

Fall Reception

Tuesday, September 20, 12-2pm  / Room 110, 226 Bay State Road

Introduction to the Contact Zone Series

followed by a social hour for graduate students and faculty

Vernacular Studies

Monday, September 26, 5:30pm / Gabel Museum, Stone Science Building 253

Susan Kern, Asst. Visiting Professor, American Studies, College of William & Mary

“Thomas Jefferson, Vernacular Studies and Contact Zones in Late Colonial Virginia”

Diasporas

Wednesday, October 19, 5:30pm / Room 110, 226 Bay State Road

Marilyn Halter, Professor of History, Boston University

“African and American:

Post-Colonial West Africans and the Remaking of the Atlantic World in the U.S.”

and

Cynthia Becker, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

“From the Backstreets to Mainstreet:

the Changing Aesthetics of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians”

Wampanoag Cultures

Monday, November 7, 6:30pm / CAS 313

Anne Makepeace, film director and producer

We Still Live Here, Âs Nutayuneân

Film screening and discussion on Wampanoag cultural revival

Chinese Exclusion

Thursday, December 1, 5:30pm / CAS 200

Anna Pegler-Gordon, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

“Chinese Exclusion and Photographic Arts of Contact and Evasion”

All events are free and open to the public / Refreshments and receptions follow

For further information please contact: nlefebvr@bu.edu

Series supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities

Orientation for incoming graduate students is scheduled for August 31, 2011.

Orientation Schedule

News Updates are suspended for the summer months. Stay tuned for new posts in September!