Friday, April 26, 2019
Congratulation!!! Four more MALASheads on their way to their MAs!
Congratulations to Stewart Parker, Marc Ellis, Chelsea Carter, and Bhishmadut Contractor, our four MALASheads who just finished taking their comprehensive MA exam! Results forthcoming soon!
MALAS a proud co-sponsor of the IMPACT ZONES Surf Conference at SDSU!
Click the link beneath the groovy poster to be transported to the main surf conference website!
Friday, April 19, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI @ SDSU TODAY, MAR 13 2019 - 2-4:00pm DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTER - LA 61 Love Library
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKi
MAR 13 2019 - 2-4:00pm
Award-winning author Mark Z. Danielewski comes to San Diego State this Spring as part of the programming for the Library's exhibit Death of the Death of the Novel: the Larry McCaffery Archive. Danielewski is the author of the bestselling novel House of Leaves, National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions, and the novella The Fifty Year Sword.
With Pantheon's release of the five volumes of The Familiar, the New York Times declared Danielewski "America's foremost literary Magus." He is the subject of many scholarly books and articles, including Joe Bray and Alison Gibbons's Mark Z. Danielewski and Sascha Pohlmann's Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski.
His books have been translated into multiple languages.
MARK Z DANIELEWSKI
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019 AT 2PM
DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTER - LA 61 (BOTTOM OF LIBRARY DOME)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019 AT 2PM
DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTER - LA 61 (BOTTOM OF LIBRARY DOME)
Co-sponsored by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Ana Castillo @ SDSU | MAMA SCHOLARS EVENTS ! Co-sponsored by MALAS, The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program @SDSU #sdsumalas
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You are invited to the MamaScholars: Mothering in Academia Series. This series is organized with the goal of building community and opening healing spaces for MamaScholars. The series aims to create academically-informed consciousness-raising spaces for mothers and allies about the particular needs of mothering across culture, race, ethnicity, class, citizenship status, gender, sexuality, size, age, ability, and relationship status. In order to do this, we’ve invited scholars, community activists, and healers of color to promote educational tools for creating positive self-agency. At the heart of our vision is creating a mothering collective that advocates for mothers' needs in support of their academic goals.
Mothering in Academia Series is organized by the Nepantleras Feminist Collective and Dr. Irene Lara, and supported by the Student Success Fee (SSF), the Women’s Studies Department, Women’s Resource Center, SELACH, MALAS, Latin American Studies, Africana Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Safe Zones, and ONE SDSU Community.
Schedule:
MARCH 21, 6 - 7:30 pm:
Ana Castillo Community Reading at National City Library. No registration required.
MARCH 22, 9am-12pm or 1-4pm. Writing Workshop at SDSU. Pre-registration required (bit.ly/AnaCastilloWorkshop), limited capacity.
MARCH 23, 8:30am - 4:30pm. SDSU Scripps Cottage. Registration required (bit.ly/MamaScholars)
For more Details:
info/contact: hello@
follow us on Instagram for updates : @las_nepantleras
Saturday, March 2, 2019
SDSU Press Proud to Co-Sponsor the Wendelmoot Symposium Event of the Year! Blacktinx Queer Performance | E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University
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Blacktinx Queer Performance: Crossing Beyond the Crisis of Bordered Identities
In
this presentation, E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera will
discuss their ongoing research collaborations around issues of black and
Latinx (“Blacktinx”) queer performance. They will pay particular
attention to the history of earlier coalitions of black and latinx
queers that lay the groundwork for queer artists to create work that
moves beyond hard-and-fast boundaries of ethno-racial identities
#wendelmoot is a project of the SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature--this event is co-sponsored by the LGBTQ Research Consortium-SDSU, the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University--The Official Page, M.A.L.A.S. The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and San Diego State University Press.
wendlemoot.sdsu.edu
Check out more about our amazing dynamic duo from Northwestern University here and here:
https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/RamonRiveraServera
https://www.afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/e-patrick-johnson.html
Monday, February 4, 2019
#wendelmoot | The Third Wendelmoot CRISIS CRISIS Symposium featuring Dr. Agnese Pastorino, CERLIS Researcher (Sorbonne) | February 19, 2019 @4pm, Music Bldg 206 | SDSU Main Campus
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MALAS is proud to be co-sponsoring this lecture with SDSU English and Comparative Literature and SDSU Press:
Dr. Agnese Pastorino
Associate
researcher at the CERLIS research center Sorbonne University (Paris, France). Past
affiliations: Multimedia Producer, United
Nations English News (New York, USA, 2017); Marie Curie researcher, Sapienza
University (Rome, Italy, 2014-2017).
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Lecture Abstract: Nowadays,
youths have access to an enormous variety of audiovisual contents, produced and
distributed in a very fast pace through the Web. The rapid consumption and
production of audiovisual contents is especially diffused amongst young adults.
Recent
studies have shown how the playful reception of these video materials can have
negative consequences on their health and psycho-physical development. For
example, numerous researches have been conducted on the impact of violent video
games, or pornography. Also, recent public debate has focused on potential
audiovisual risks for youths, such as child-pornography and terrorist videos.
Although several influential voices have expressed concern about potential
risky uses of harmful audiovisual contents, the Web is based on a liberal
approach to media production and distribution. This perspective has been
founded on the first amendment of Constitution of the United States, which
defends the principle of freedom of expression. In this regard, European
institutions are implementing policy initiatives aimed at proposing
international solutions for a safer online environment. Based on several years
of research on these issues, the lecture will show the perspectives of
different stakeholders involved in media use and policy-making, by paying
particular attention to young people and European institutions. Through a
sociological eye, the author pays attention to some of the main contemporary ethical
challenges: on the one hand, the hedonistic universe of media consumption and,
on the other, the ethical approaches adopted by policy-makers with regards to
online harmful contents.
Agnese Pastorino’s Featured Lecture is
the Third Presentation in the Wendelmoot Symposium Series Sponsored by the
Department of English and Comparative Literature @ SDSU—additional support
provided by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences; and San
Diego State University Press.
literature.sdsu.edu | wendelmoot.sdsu.edu
Sponsored
by the Department of English and Comparative Literature @
SDSU—additional support provided by MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal
Arts and Sciences and San Diego State University Press
About the Origins of the Wendelmoot Symposium Series
An Interview with William Nericcio, Wendelmoot Curator, 2018-19
• What are your plans for the series (e.g., what events do you envision)?
I am planning to coordinate a series of lectures/presentations/
•
What organizes your vision for the series (e.g., what are your
motivating interests and reasons; how does this series strengthen or
steer the department as a whole)?
Never
before has fear and loathing, crisis and crisis management, been so
near and dear to the hearts and minds of our faculty and our students.
The realities of our current context— political and economic—coupled
with the tenuousness of the entire academy (especially the Humanities)
means that the subject of crisis is right at hand for ourselves and our
colleagues. Developing
a lecture series focused on “Crisis” allows us to convert a negative
anxiety filled with the unknown, into an intellectual project that will
assuage as it enlightens, relieve pressure as it illuminates the current
cultural conundrums roiling Literature, to be sure, but a host of
disciplines across the humanities and sciences. I envision the lecture
series as serving to
further allow for the evolution and strengthening of English and
Comparative Literature ties to the Digital Humanities Initiative.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
New MALAS Seminar, Spring 2019, "The Mestizo Metropolis: Latinx and African Cultural Landscapes in the American Global City" with History Professor Angel Nieves
Latinx and African Cultural Landscapes
in the
American Global City
Dr. Angel Nieves
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The Simpsons Visit “Little Ethiopia”
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This hybrid lecture class will focus on the strategic roles
that emerging Latinx and African communities play in various urban centers
across the U.S. – including cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and
New Orleans – by exploring how both groups establish and maintain distinctive
social and cultural identities in the American metropolis. Beginning our
investigation in the 19th century, we will develop a broad historical approach
to evolving community realities, and will focus on the continuing demographic
changes of the present generation. We will study this present-day process using
current interdisciplinary theories of globalization, diaspora, and
nation-building. The varying forms of cultural expression, production, and
representation of both groups will be explored through film, literature, art,
architecture, and the media. In small groups students will develop a cultural landscape report for a
building, place, neighborhood, region, or city with a growing Latinx and/or
African immigrant community. For their final project, students will develop a
Google Site for public display and dissemination.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Spring 2019: New MALAS Seminar at SDSU | Torture and Service to the Modern State with Dr. Geoff West
Dr. Geoff West
The rise of the modern nation-state was predicated on the willingness of citizens to sacrifice their lives for the state. It also demanded loyalty and a commitment to carry out the state's will. But how have those demands intersected with the rise of liberalism, individualism, and the idea of human rights? Using literary texts, historical records, and philosophical debates on violence and human rights, this course aims to critically examine how torture has been envisioned both by the state and its critics through the lens of torture. Does service to the state preclude the rights of others to their bodies?
Geoffrey is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of California San Diego. He studies citizenship and service to the state in the late nineteenth century. He focuses on the relationship between gender, race, and subject status and how they relate to military service in a global imperial context. Geographically, his work is centered on the Northern Great Plains but connects with North, East, and South Africa, as well as Southeast Asia. He teaches in the Humanities Program at Revelle College at UCSD. The program combines a classical Western Liberal Arts focus on the Great Works with a five part writing sequence. Geoffrey has lived in San Diego since 2006 when he, his partner, and his dog moved from New York City to the West Coast. In his free time, he enjoys snow-free winters and frequent trips to Disneyland.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
MALAS Spring 2019 Seminar! World Cities with Professor Kate Swanson
Course MALAS-600C
WORLD CITIES
Professor K. Swanson
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
New Spring 2019 MALAS Seminar: Women in Muslim Societies with Professor Amira Jarmakani
Women in Muslim Societies Professor Amira Jarmakani
Grounding itself in the theoretical frameworks and foundational questions of Islamic feminism, or questions of gender justice both in relation to Islam and in Muslim-majority contexts, this course is interested in exploring the following questions: What is Islamic feminism? What is a Muslim society? Is Islam modern? How does colonialism inform all of the previous questions? We will both look at the way in which Islamic feminisms articulate with the concerns of other feminisms indigenous to the global south and the way in which Islamic feminisms have emerged as oppositional discourses to colonialism, patriarchal nationalism, and Western feminism. We will read literary, historical, and ethnographic texts with the aim of exploring the following topics (among others): colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberal globalization in relation to Islams and feminisms; Muslim feminist interpretations of Islamic texts; the notions of emancipation and agency within Islamic feminisms; Islamic feminisms and/as transnational feminisms; feminist engagement with fundamentalisms (including neoliberal market fundamentalism); and gender justice and sexuality in Islamicate societies.
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