Tuesday, November 19, 2019

See you Thursday for MALAS's 3rd Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture featuring Carlos Kelly, Thursday at 11am, November 21, 2019, in SDSU's GMCS 333. Free and Open to the Public

See you Thursday for MALAS's 3rd Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture featuring Carlos Kelly, Thursday at 11am, November 21, 2019, in SDSU's GMCS 333. Free and Open to the Public.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

MALAS Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture II: Dr. Alice Balestrino, "Of Patriarchy, Patrimony, Patriotism, and Other Feral Things: Ripping the Paters Apart in Chelsea Cane's MAN-EATERS #1" November 7, 2019 in GMCS 333 from 11am to 12:15pm on the SDSU Main Campus | Free and Open to the Public!


November 7, 2019
GMCS 333
11am to 12:15pm
Free and Open to the Public!

Dr. Alice Balestrino
Of Patriarchy, Patrimony, 
Patriotism, and Other Feral Things
Ripping the Paters Apart in Chelsea Cane's MAN-EATERS #1



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Dr. Alice Balestrino holds a Ph.D. in American literature from Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”. Her dissertation, Extra-Vacant Narrative. Reading Holocaust Fiction in the Post-9/11 Age, develops the philosophical concept of vacancy as a reading strategy for Holocaust uchronias, idealized or fictional conceptions of a particular period of time (especially in the past), and fictionalized autobiographies published in the aftermath of 9/11. She has published on Jewish- American Holocaust literature and post-memory, on alternate histories, on post- 9/11 fiction, and, specifically connected to her lecture today, to narrative strategies for the representation of memory in graphic novels: “Placing Time, Timing Space. Memory as Border and Line of (Hi)Stories in Richard McGuire’s Graphic Narrative Here,” published in RIAS – The Review of International American Studies. She has lectured on Art Spiegelman’s MAUS and In the Shadow of No Towers at University of Bologna and University of Naples, L’Orientale. She taught American culture at the University of Milan as an adjunct professor and has recently joined the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is pursuing a second Ph.D. focusing on the philosophical currents of Italian Critical Theory. Presently, in Illinois, she works as the program coordinator of IFUSS – An International Forum for U.S. Studies.

This is the Second Lecture in The Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture Series, 2019-2020 sponsored by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsoring support comes from Amatl Comix, the new comic book publishing initiative of San Diego State University Press, and SDSU Press. The lecture is hosted by the 281 souls in English 220: #nakedsexybeasts: An Introduction to the Study of Literature, Film, Photography, Comics, and Streaming Media.




About Edward Said (via wikipedia)



Edward Wadie Said

1 November 1935

24 September 2003 (aged 67)
New York City, United States
EducationPrinceton University
Harvard University
Spouse(s)Mariam C. Said


20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Postcolonialism
Notable ideas
Occidentalism, Orientalism, the Other

Edward Wadie Said 
(/sɑːˈd/; Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد [wædiːʕ sæʕiːd], Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.[3] A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.
Educated in the Western canon, at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci,  Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.[4]
As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book Orientalism (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient.[5][6][7][8] Said's model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle-Eastern studies—how academics examine, describe, and define the cultures being studied.[9][10] As a foundational text, Orientalism was controversial among scholars of Oriental Studies, philosophy, and literature.[11][4]

Sunday, November 3, 2019

MALAS Present its New Lecture Series! The Edward Said Cultural Studies Lectures, 2019-2020 | Featuring MALAS Alum Hayley Kasden on Comix | "The Monstrosity of Femininity: Reading Chelsea Kane’s MANEATERS #1"




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Come to the SDSU main campus Tuesday at 11am to GMCS 333 for a lecture on Comix by Hayley Kasden, MALAS alum

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The first of our Edward Said Cultural Studies Lectures, 2019-2020
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 in GMCS 333 at 11am – Free and open to the public! malas.sdsu.edu

Hayley Kasden
The Monstrosity of Femininity

Reading Chelsea Kane’s MANEATERS #1

About Hayley Kasden
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Hayley Kasden earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature at San Diego State University and then continued on to a Master’s degree concentrated on cognitive approaches to literature in SDSU’s Liberal Arts and Sciences program (MALAS). Cognitive Literature draws upon contemporary psychology and the neurosciences to dissect the ways in which literature allows us to explore consciousness, perception, emotion, behavior, and social ideology. Through the perspective of another, a narrative allows the audience to encounter the spectrum of these qualities of the human condition without the threat of true experience. However, as Kasden dove deeper, she realized that, although the neurosciences explain what happens in the brain and psychology provides explanations as to how these phenomena occur, the story remained incomplete without answering why. Kasden’s research attempts to place the missing piece to the cognitive puzzle of narratives by introducing a fourth layer to her analyses – philosophy. Reviving the centuries-old questions that have gone unanswered, she attempted to paint the portrait of our faceless selves in the 21st century.Presently, Kasden works in bio-tech as a technical writer at Illumina’s West Coast headquarters in La Jolla; her work there focuses on web development and design.

About MAN-EATERS #1 via NPR
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Even if it didn't happen to be about preteen girls turning into enormous, slavering, murderous panthers, Man-Eaters would still be a remarkable comic. Though writer Chelsea Cain starts out by telling a straightforward story, she's impatient with the trappings of conventional narrative. She and lead artist Kate Niemczyk are far more interested in making a feminist statement through other means. To flesh out Man-Eaters' world, a place where women are viewed as dangerous animals, Cain and Niemczyk create page upon page of fake ads, educational pamphlets and other propaganda. Ultimately Cain even abandons the story altogether, devoting the last chapter in this volume to a fictional magazine, Cat Fight ("A Boy's Guide to Dangerous Cats"). [“In Wildly Satirical 'Man-Eaters,' Teen Girls Turn Into Ferocious Panthers” (March 6, 201 )by ETELKA LEHOCZKY | http://bit.ly/man-eaters]

This is the first lecture in The Edward Said Cultural Studies Lecture Series, 2019-2020 sponsored by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsoring support comes from Amatl Comix, the new comic book publishing initiative of San Diego State University Press, and SDSU Press. The lecture is hosted by the 281 souls in English 220: #nakedsexybeasts: An Introduction to the Study of Literature, Film, Photography, Comics, and Streaming Media.




About Edward Said (via wikipedia)



Edward Wadie Said

1 November 1935

24 September 2003 (aged 67)
New York City, United States
EducationPrinceton University
Harvard University
Spouse(s)Mariam C. Said


20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Postcolonialism
Notable ideas
Occidentalism, Orientalism, the Other

Edward Wadie Said 
(/sɑːˈd/; Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد [wædiːʕ sæʕiːd], Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.[3] A Palestinian American born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.
Educated in the Western canon, at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci,  Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno.[4]
As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book Orientalism (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient.[5][6][7][8] Said's model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle-Eastern studies—how academics examine, describe, and define the cultures being studied.[9][10] As a foundational text, Orientalism was controversial among scholars of Oriental Studies, philosophy, and literature.[11][4]