Contact Zone Series
Revisiting the Contact Zone:
Postcolonial Responses to American Exceptionalism
Spring Semester 2012
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”
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”
Fall Semester 2011
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
To learn more about Professor Mary Louise Pratt’s (New York University) concept of the “contact zone,” listen to the AMNESP community discuss the concept at the Fall Reception. Please click here to access the audio:
Fall Reception 9-20- 2011
To view the flyer for this event, featuring the cover of Professor Mary Louise Pratt’s Imperial Eyes: Travelwriting and Transculturation, please click here:
Fall Reception Flyer
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”
To listen to Professor Susan Kern’s lecture, please click here to access the audio:
Susan Kern 9-26-11
To view the flyer for this event, featuring the cover of Professor Susan Kern’s The Jeffersons at Shadwell, please click here:
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”
To listen to Professor Halter’s and Professor Becker’s lectures, followed by a lively conversation with Boston University students and faculty, please click here to access the audio:
Halter-Becker
To view the flyer for this event, featuring photographs from Professors Halter and Becker , please click here:
Halter_Becker
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
To listen to Anne Makepeace discuss the film with students and faculty from Boston University, please click here to access the audio:
Introduction to Anne Makepeace
For more information about the film, please visit:
http://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html
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”
To listen to Professor Pegler Gordon’s lecture followed by a lively discussion with students and faculty from Boston University, please click here to access the audio:
To view the images that accompanied Professor Pegler-Gordon’s lecture, please click here to access the PowerPoint file:
Anna Pegler Gordon Slides Boston University 12.1.11