Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:30 pm, HUM 587
The Center for Modern Greek Studies
The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair
San Francisco State University
presents a lecture by Platon Mavromoustakos
“The Art Theatre of Karolos Koun & Modern Greek Theatre Practice”
Thursday, February 21, 2008
HUM 587
7:30 pm
Platon Mavromoustakos is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens, where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his Doctorate in Theatre Studies at the Institut d’Etudes Théâtrales, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, in 1987. He has collaborated with many state theatres in Greece and has directed several research projects on the history of Modern Greek theatre, the reception of Italian Opera and the History of Ancient Drama Performances in Europe and Modern Greece. He has published widely a number of books, articles and monographs including the study Theatre in Greece 1940-2000. A Survey (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2005) and is the General Editor of the Greek edition of Moliere’s Complete Works.
This public lecture is sponsored by the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
This event is open to the public and free of charge
For more information please contact:
The Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University
(415) 338-1892
email:modgreek@sfsu.edu
web: www.sfsu.edu/~modgreek
Paul Woodruff, Daryl K. Royal Professor of Ethics and American
Society at the University of Texas at Austin, will give the Third
Annual Raoul Bertrand Lecture in Classics on Monday, February 18, at
7:30 pm in Humanities 587. A reception will follow. As some of you
know, Raoul Bertrand, Professor Emeritus of Classics at SFSU, passed
away just before Thanksgiving at the age of 85.
The title of Professor Woodruff's talk is "The Necessity of Plato's
Metaphysics": in spite of the austere-sounding title, Professsor
Woodruff, perhaps best known for his translations of Plato,
Sophocles, and Euripides into elegant idiomatic English, can be
expected to give a lively talk easily understood by the educated
layperson.
The Center for Modern Greek Studies, San Francisco State University
Presents a lecture by:
Dr. Diane Touliatos
The Earliest Women in Music Thursday, November 8th
7:30 pm, HUM 587
Although women’s involvement in music and the arts was not generally acknowledged until the early 1980s, women have always been involved in music and arts from the earliest of times.
This lecture, based on Prof. Touliatos’ original research, will focus on the earliest known women composers in history that happen to originate during the epochs of Ancient Greece and Medieval Byzantium. Some of these women were known and celebrated during their time but later forgotten. A historical, visual, and musical legacy will be presented of these women (over twenty in number) and their important, innovative contributions to music. Their historical legacy will show the evolution of these women composers with an emphasis being devoted to the presentation of the works (music examples provided) by Sappho from Antiquity and Kassia from the early ninth century A.C.E., the latter being the earliest woman composer for whom there is preserved music.
Dr. Diane Touliatos is the Director of The Center for the Humanities and a Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri -St. Louis. She is the author of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection of the National Library of Greece (Ashgate, 2007). The National Library of Greece (Ethnike Bibliothike tes Ellados) is one of the richest depositories of Byzantine musical manuscripts and is surpassed by its holdings in Greece only by the multitude of manuscripts found in the monasteries of Mount Athos. In spite of being such a rich archive, the National Library has never published a catalog of its musical manuscripts - not all of which are Byzantine or Greek, but also encompass Turkey, the Balkans, Italy, Cyprus, and parts of Western Europe. The purpose of this catalog is to recover or, in some instances, to present for the first time the repertory of the musical sources of the library.
This event is open to the public and free of charge
For more information please contact:
The Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University
(415) 338-1892 email: modgreek@sfsu.edu web: www.sfsu.edu/~modgreek
Jan Millsapps, Professor of Cinema, will give a multimedia lecture on
the Soviet-US space-race and the launching of Sputnik 2. She'll also
talk about the subject of her new novel, Laika, a mutt who became the
first canine "cosmonaut." The lecture will be on Thursday, November
1, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Humanities 202.
The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and is free and
open to the public.
Jewish Studies Program
ACADEMICA JUDAICA
A Conversation with André Aciman
Award-winning Writer
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 4:00 PM
Humanities Building 587
André Aciman is the award-winning author of the book Out of Egypt , which is described by The New York Times as, "Remarkable, a mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world." André Aciman was born in Alexandria Egypt, has lived in Italy and France, and was educated at Harvard. Aciman's memoir reveals the devastation of the Jewish community as it was expelled from Egypt.
Aciman is also the author of Call Me by Your Name, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, and the co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. Aciman is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and Commentary.
For more information, call the Jewish Studies Program at 338-6075
Thursdays 11-12:15, HUM 115 (unless noted otherwise)
11/8 Barbara Voss - Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University “Archeologies of Sexuality.”
11/15 Shannon Steen - Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC-Berkeley
“Racial Geometries: Black Asian Internationalism.”
11/29 Jillian Sandell - Women Studies, SFSU
“Lost in Transnation, Found in Translation: The Visual Politics of Iona Rozeal Brown.”
12/6 Sunaina Maira - Asian American Studies, UC-Davis
“Citizenship and Empire: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11.”
12/13 Falu Bakrania - Ethnic Studies, SFSU
“Youth Culture & ‘Hybrid’ Identity: Gendered Negotiations of British Asian Music.”
Contact KasturiRay@yahoo.com
7 p.m., Wednesday, October 31
Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building
Join us for a special presentation by a most unlikely pair 'an
artist and an investigative journalist' who have combined their
talents to expose the secret network of airplanes, companies, prisons
and cover stories used by the CIA to transport terrorism suspects
around the world.
This show-and-tell on the culture of secrecy and the art of
investigation will be given by TREVOR PAGLEN and A. C. THOMPSON,
co-authors of /Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition
Flights/ (Melville House 2006).
7 p.m., Wednesday, October 31
Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building
San Francisco State University
Presented as a part of the Department of Journalism's Cultural
Diversity and News Media course, Journalism 610
TREVOR PAGLEN is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer
working out of the Department of Geography at the University of
California, Berkeley. His work involves deliberately blurring the
lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even
more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet
meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. His
work can be seen in the group show, Dark Matters: Artists See the
Impossible, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
A.C. THOMPSON is a staff reporter at the Center for Investigative
Reporting in Berkeley, where he explores criminal justice issues.
Before working at the center, Thompson spent nine years writing for
the San Francisco Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, and received the 2005
George Polk award for local investigative reporting.
Images of Eroticism, Room HUM 133
6:00 PM Wednesday, November 7 th
Linda Williams
Professor in the Departments of Film Studies & Rhetoric
University of California, Berkeley
Hard-Core Art Film:
The Contemporary Realm of the Senses
Dr. Williams has published extensively on issues and figures in moving-image genre studies, including volumes on film spectatorship, feminist film criticism, and surrealist cinema. Her works include: Porn Studies (Duke UP, 2004, Ed.), Screening Sex (Duke, forthcoming), and
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible (UC Press, 1989, expanded edition 1999).
Event is free and open to the public
Reception to follow
Sponsored by the Departments of Humanities, English, and Women Studies
Announcement of an essay competition for graduate students majoring in art, sociology, philosophy, critical social thought, and interdisciplinary humanities at San Francisco State University; University of California, Santa Barbara; and University of Oregon.
Art as Social Praxis:
Art as Social Praxis: The Bettina Stockton Memorial Essay Competition
Bettina Stockton was an extraordinarily bright, questioning, imaginative human being. She was passionate about ideas and just as passionately committed to working for social justice. Tragically, she died much too soon, in 2005, as she was working on her Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology at the University of Oregon.
Bettina had received a B.A. in Studio Art at UCSB and her M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities at San Francisco State University. To commemorate her life and work several of her SFSU professors (Professors Anatole Anton, Sandra Luft and Mike Lunine) are planning a Memorial Symposium October 8, 2007 at SFSU. We are announcing an essay competition in Bettina’s honor for graduate students in art, sociology, philosophy, critical social thought, and interdisciplinary humanities, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, San Francisco State University, and University of Oregon.
We invite graduate students who share Bettina’s intellectual and aesthetic interests and commitment to working for social justice to submit essays dealing with any theme relevant to the theoretical, critical, social and aesthetic issues raised in or relevant to Bettina's dissertation proposal. These include, but are not limited to, the Sociology of Knowledge; the Sociology of Art; Critical Social Theory; Performance Art; Art and Social Activism; and the work and influence of the performance artist Joseph Beuys, including his involvement with the student movements of the 1970's and 1980's, his anti-nuclear and environmental activism, and his role in the creation of the Green Party in Germany. Bettina’s dissertation proposal can be read online at http://www.sfsu.edu/~collhum/pdf/bstockton.pdf. Essays should be interdisciplinary in nature.
The winner of the competition will receive a $500 award, as well as travel expenses and accommodations in order to present his or her paper at the symposium ART AS SOCIAL PRAXIS: THE BETTINA STOCKTON MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM, held on October 8, 2007, at San Francisco State University. Speakers at the Symposium include Professors John Bellamy Foster, Sociology, University of Oregon; Richard Lichtman, Wright Institute, retired; Sue-Ellen Case, Chair of Critical Studies, Theater Department, University of California, Los Angeles. We are planning to publish the papers presented at the Symposium.
Inquiries should be addressed to Professor Sandra Luft, Humanities Department (mail to: srluft@sfsu.edu) or to Professor Anatole Anton (aanton@sfsu.edu). Essays should be submitted in hard copy to Professor Anatole Anton, Philosophy Department, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94132 by July 14 (Bastille Day), 2007. Essays should be double spaced, and should be 3000-4000 words. Please include a cover sheet that includes your name, address, University ID, and email address. The winner of the competition will be notified by September 1.
The Poetry Center
Thursday, October 11th
HUM 512, 4:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Demosthenes Agrafiotis, visiting from his home in Athens, Greece, is an experimentalist who deftly combines poetry, painting, photography, intermedia, and performance with the written poem. He has authored over 13 books of poetry (in Greek and French) and essays (dedicated to analysizing different forms of art as cultural phenomenon), and exhibited his photography, paintings, drawings, and installations internationally, with a special interest in the relations between art and new technologies. His anthology-formatted magazine Clinamen (1980–90, co-published by Erato Publications in Athens, 1991–94) presented an amalgam of Greek poetry and art alongside work from Europe and America (with many first translations into Greek of prominent American and European poets). Also Professor of Sociology at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Demosthenes Agrafiotis will be making his first San Francisco appearance.
This event is co-sponsored by the Poetry Center, SFSU
Thursday, November 8th
7:30 p.m.
HUM 587
Free and open to the public
Although women’s involvement in music and the arts was not generally acknowledged until the early 1980s, women have always been involved in music and arts from the earliest of times.
This lecture, based on Prof. Touliatos’ original research, will focus on the earliest known women composers in history that happen to originate during the epochs of Ancient Greece and Medieval Byzantium. Some of these women were known and celebrated during their time but later forgotten. A historical, visual, and musical legacy will be presented of these women (over twenty in number) and their important, innovative contributions to music. Their historical legacy will show the evolution of these women composers with an emphasis being devoted to the presentation of the works (music examples provided) by Sappho from Antiquity and Kassia from the early ninth century A.C.E., the latter being the earliest woman composer for whom there is preserved music.
Dr. Diane Touliatos is the Director of The Center for the Humanities and a Professor of Musicology at the University of Missouri -St. Louis. She is the author of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection of the National Library of Greece (Ashgate, 2007). The National Library of Greece (Ethnike Bibliothike tes Ellados) is one of the richest depositories of Byzantine musical manuscripts and is surpassed by its holdings in Greece only by the multitude of manuscripts found in the monasteries of Mount Athos. In spite of being such a rich archive, the National Library has never published a catalog of its musical manuscripts - not all of which are Byzantine or Greek, but also encompass Turkey, the Balkans, Italy, Cyprus, and parts of Western Europe. The purpose of this catalog is to recover or, in some instances, to present for the first time the repertory of the musical sources of the library.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 7pm
SF State Poetry Center- HUM 512
Bay Area residents will share their experiences living, teaching and making friends in Namibia.
Speak with former volunteers from the US Peace Corps, Volunteer Services Overseas, and World Teach, including Peter Orner, the author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, the SF State Class of 2011's freshmen book. Email mira@sfsu.edu for more details.
Panelists include:
Ami Ehrlich volunteered in Namibia with the United State Peace Corps (http://www.peacecorps.gov/) from 1999-2001. She taught English at Ebenhaezer Primary School in Karibib, a small town in the central region of Namibia. While there, she also facilitated an after school life skills program and developed a partnership with a local church library to provide the school children regular access to books. Ami is currently a Global Program Officer at Room to Read (http://www.roomtoread.org/), an international non-profit organization in San Francisco that establishes school, libraries and other educational infrastructure in developing countries.
Mira Foster is currently a librarian at SF State, and volunteered in Namibia with the United State Peace Corps (http://www.peacecorps.gov/). Mira taught English, health education and library skills from 1999-2001 at Onayena Junior Secondary School in the northern Owambo region of the country. While there she lived with a host family of fourteen and developed the school's new library into a learning center utilized by local schools.
Timothy Foster, originally from the United Kingdom, taught in Namibia from 1998-2001 with Volunteer Services Overseas (VSO) (http://www.vso.org.uk/). In his first year he taught mathematics and developed a campus computing lab at Ponhofi Secondary School, located along the Angolan border. During his second year he was evacuated from Ponhofi because of spillover fighting from Angola's civil war, and moved to Nehale Senior Secondary School in Onayena village, also in the Owambo region. While at Nehale he taught mathematics, tutored teachers in mathematics instruction, and developed computing and Internet facilities at two local schools. Timothy now lives in San Francisco and works as a computer engineer for AT&T.
Eileen O'Neill Guerard, a volunteer with World Teach (http://www.worldteach.org/), taught English, writing, and some P.E. to ninth and eleventh grade students at Oshigambo High School (OHS), a private school established in the 1960s by Finnish Lutheran missionaries in northern Namibia. The school itself is famous for having schooled some of SWAPO's freedom fighters. When Eileen worked there in 1999, OHS educated about 300 pupils in grades 8 - 12, mostly from the northern areas and primarily from the Ovambo tribes. It counted among its staff about 20 teachers, hailing from Namibia, Ghana, Burundi, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria as well as two from the United States. Eileen's major claim to fame at OHS was teaching her ninth graders to sing "Shiny Happy People," and moderating the eleventh-graders in some impromptu sex-education that probably would have gotten her fired in the U.S.
Peter Orner was a Worldteach volunteer (http://www.worldteach.org/) in Namibia in 1991-1992 and taught at three primary schools, Rehoboth and Klien Aub in the south, and Karibib in the west central part of the country. He taught various courses, including 4th grade English, 7th grade English, History, Physical Education, Woodworking, as well as a course for teachers. His novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, although fiction, is based in part on his memories of Namibia. The book is currently being translated into French, Italian, and German. Winner of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship, Orner is an associate professor at San Francisco State.
Annual Meeting 2007 Call for Proposals
The Real Test: Liberal Education and Democracy's Big Questions
January 17-20, 2007
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Association of American Colleges and Universities invites you and your colleagues to submit a proposal for our 2007 Annual Meeting -"The Real Test: Liberal Education and Democracy's Big Questions." Proposals can be submitted online through July 24, 2006. Please see:
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting
for complete information.
About the Conference
The efforts to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast challenge educators to engage--with new intensity--the complex connections between knowledge and responsible action. How do we learn from past experiences, identify problems and opportunities, and implement credible solutions? How should we direct our efforts to prepare students to be responsible
citizens and leaders in times both of crisis and relative tranquility? How do we apply the lessons of Katrina and Rita to the complex contexts of our own local communities and institutional missions? What changes do we need in the core practices of liberal education?
Conference Framework: Principles of Excellence
AAC&U's National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) has drafted a set of principles and recommendations to suggest ways for the academy to fulfill the promise of excellence for student learning in college. These "Principles of Excellence" turn a spotlight on the learning students need from colleges and call for far-reaching changes--in both expectations and practices--to ensure that all students receive a liberal education that prepares them to thrive in an interdependent and volatile world.
"Ultimately," the Leadership Council argues, "it is the quality of the learning, not the possession of a diploma, that will make all the difference--to individuals, to an economy dependent upon innovation, and to the integrity of the democratic society and shared global community we create together." We invite you to submit proposals that address one or more of the themes and questions outlined here:http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM07/cfp_info.cfm#framework
The quality of proposals is always outstanding. The number of proposals has been growing every year. We look forward to all that we learn from you and hope you will join us as we explore the role of liberal education in the lives of our students, in the character of our institutions, and in our hopes for the future.
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans.
For more information about the Annual Meeting, email meetings@aacu.org or call 1-800-297-3775.
Association of American Colleges & Universities
1818 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
http://www.aacu.org
Meet recent Technical & Professional Writing graduates currently working in the field. See their portfolios and hear their job stories.
For more information: http://www.sfsu.edu/~tpw
Speakers to include:
Glenn Chadwick
Certificate, ‘00
State of California
Geremy Cohen
BA, ‘05
ActiveGrid
Julia Cope
Certificate, ‘02
Wells Fargo Bank
Carol John
BA, ‘06
Cisco Systems
Layne Karafantis
BA, ‘06
OSIsoft
Kamil Walas
Certificate, ‘06
Genentech
Monday, Dec. 4
6:00 pm, HUM 381
Afterwards, join the TPW alumni group at Chevy’s in Stonestown Mall.
The SFSU Program in Critical Social Thought Announces its Second Annual Symposium:
THE THOUGHT OF WALTER BENJAMIN
CHAIR:
PROFESSOR SAUL STEIER, HUMANITIES: INTRODUCTION AND SUMMATION
PANELISTS:
PROFESSOR JOEL SCHECHTER, THEATER ARTS: BENJAMIN AND BRECHT
PROFESSOR JAMES MARTEL, POLITICAL SCIENCE: WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE RITUALS OF CONSPIRACY
PROFESSOR SANDRA LUFT, HUMANITIES: BENJAMIN AND THE LANGUAGE OF CREATION
PROFESSOR ANATOLE ANTON, PHILOSOPHY: FIRE ALARM
DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
TIME: 4-5:30 PM
ROOM: ETHNIC STUDIES CONFERENCE ROOM (Phil McGee Room)
Wendy Chapkis
University of Southern Maine
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Thursday, February 15h
10:00 - 11:00
HUM 316
"Sex Trafficking, Migratory Prostitution and the Politics of Prohibition"
"Sex Trafficking, Migratory Prostitution and the Politics of Prohibition" will explore the strategic conflation of "sex trafficking" and "migratory prostitution" by policy makers attempting to advance a conservative political agenda on sexuality, labor and immigration. Included in this discussion will be an examination of the impact of the so- called (anti-) "Prostitution Pledge" now required of grant recipients of US federal AIDS and anti-trafficking funding.
Wendy Chapkis is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of several books in the area of gender and sexuality including Beauty Secrets: Women and the Political Appearance and Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. She is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on the criminalization of the medical use of marijuana entitled Dying to Get High.
The Women Studies Department
Invites you to a talk by Senior Scholar Candidate
Leslie Salzinger
Boston College
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Tuesday, February 20th
3:30 - 4:30
HUM 316
"The Disassembly of Production and the Taming of Lady Luck: Gender as Cause and Consequence in the Contemporary Transnational Economy"
In the contemporary transnational economy, tropes of femininity shape production strategies and constitute workers on the shop floor, whereas masculinity performs an analogous role in finance. If we look across time, it becomes clear that these genderings are not inherent in the activities themselves, but emerge within larger, shifting constellations within capitalism. Attending to these gendered dynamics helps to reveal the social world behind "free market" models, making current processes of domination easier to discern and thus more available to critique.
Leslie Salzinger is an ethnographer, specializing in the study of gender, feminist theory, economic sociology and transnational processes. Her book, Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories focuses on the formation and consequences of gendered subjectivities in transnational production on Mexico's northern border. Her current research investigates the gendered constitution of markets and value among peso/dollar traders in banks located in the New York and Mexico City. She is an Associate Professor on the Sociology faculty at Boston College. She got her PhD from the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley in 1998 and is teaching this year at UC Berkeley in Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology.
The Center for Modern Greek Studies
The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair at San Francisco State University
Cordially invites you to a lecture by
The Honorable Consul General of Greece, San Francisco,
Xenia Stefanidou
"The European Union, Then and Now: The 50th Anniversary"
"As we prepare next month to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, creating what is now the European Union, there is plenty to celebrate, not least an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity in Western Europe" (Financial Times)
Tuesday, March 27, 2007, 7:30 pm
Humanities building, Room 587
San Francisco State University Campus
The Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University
Cordially invites you to a lecture by
Professor Andre Gerloymatos,
Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada)
"The Civil War Within:
The British Intelligence Services and the Greek Left"
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 7 pm
Humanities Building, Room 587
San Francisco State University Campus
Andre Gerolymatos is a Professor of International Studies and History at Simon Fraser University. In addition, he is the Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies. Within the School of International Studies, Dr. Gerolymatos specializes in intelligence, military and diplomatic history. His interests include the role of intelligence organizations in warfare with particular emphasis on the implementation of guerrilla and urban warfare in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as well as terrorism as a recent byproduct. Furthermore, he has done research on how these aspects of conflict impact on international politics and diplomacy. He has examined the evolution of conflict in Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East within the context of these themes and continues to observe the pervasive influence of intelligence organizations on the state. Dr. Gerolymatos brings a wide range of experience to the School of International Studies that ranges from academia to government work.
Publications include:
Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and Military Intelligence
Gathering in Classical Greece, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben Publishers, 1986.
Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece 1940-1944, New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1992.
Greece and the New Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities, 1975-1995, Eds. André Gerolymatos, Harry Psomiades and Van Coufoudakis, New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1999.
The Aegean Sea After the Cold War: Security and Law of the Sea Issues , Eds. Aldo E. Chircop, Andre Gerolymatos, John O. Iatrides, London: St Martins Press, 2000.
The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond , New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry 1944-1949, New York: Basic Books, 2004.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part IV, Series F: Europe 1946-1949, 6 Vols., edited with Denis Smyth; University Publications of America, 2002.
The Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University
Cordially invites you to a lecture by
Professor Andre Gerloymatos,
Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada)
"The Civil War Within: The British Intelligence Services and the Greek Left"
Thursday, March 29, 2007, 7 pm
Humanities Building, Room 587
San Francisco State University Campus
Andre Gerolymatos is a Professor of International Studies and History at Simon Fraser University. In addition, he is the Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies. Within the School of International Studies, Dr. Gerolymatos specializes in intelligence, military and diplomatic history. His interests include the role of intelligence organizations in warfare with particular emphasis on the implementation of guerrilla and urban warfare in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as well as terrorism as a recent byproduct. Furthermore, he has done research on how these aspects of conflict impact on international politics and diplomacy. He has examined the evolution of conflict in Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East within the context of these themes and continues to observe the pervasive influence of intelligence organizations on the state. Dr. Gerolymatos brings a wide range of experience to the School of International Studies that ranges from academia to government work.
Publications include:
Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and Military Intelligence
Gathering in Classical Greece, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben Publishers, 1986.
Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece 1940-1944, New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1992.
Greece and the New Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities, 1975-1995, Eds. André Gerolymatos, Harry Psomiades and Van Coufoudakis, New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1999.
The Aegean Sea After the Cold War: Security and Law of the Sea Issues , Eds. Aldo E. Chircop, Andre Gerolymatos, John O. Iatrides, London: St Martins Press, 2000.
The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond , New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry 1944-1949, New York: Basic Books, 2004.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part IV, Series F: Europe 1946-1949, 6 Vols., edited with Denis Smyth; University Publications of America, 2002.
The Philosophy Department invites the campus community to a talk by Dr. Isabelle Peschard on "Values in Science: Responsibility and Significance" at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 23, at 4:00 p.m. in HUM 386.
Dr. Peschard holds two doctorates: in Fluid Mechanics from the University of Aix-Marseille in Epistemology from the Sorbonne. She currently is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences), University of Twente, the Netherlands, where she is participating in a collaborative project to develop a philosophy of Science in Practice. Her research focuses on the formation of scientific knowledge and the development of technologies in their relation to values.
The Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, in partnership with the University Bookstore and the Friends of the Library, is reviving the "celebration of SFSU faculty authors." The event will occur April 18, 4-6 p.m. on the 5th floor patio of the Administration Building and will celebrate authors of the 21st Century.
As you know, the Dean of Faculty Affairs, in partnership with the J. Paul Leonard Library and the University Bookstore, have previously requested copies of recent publications both for a rotating display on the 4th Floor of the Administration Building and for the Library's special collections and the Bookstore's faculty authors section. If you have already forwarded your books to Faculty Affairs, then you need not do so again. If you have not, then please provide information (your name, publication, date of publication and publisher) to Dean Marilyn Verhey, David Hellman (Library Collection Development Coordinator) and Ken White (SFSU Bookstore).
For purposes of the upcoming faculty authors reception, we are interested in publications from 2000 to the present and have gathered information from Faculty Affairs, the Library and the Bookstore in order to have as complete a list as possible. If you have already submitted a book to Faculty Affairs, you need not do so again. However, if you want to ensure that we have the necessary information on our master list, please send your name, title and date of publication to ctfd@sfsu.edu by Monday, March 26.
Localizing Publications for a Global Audience: What Translators and Professional Writers Need to Know
Monday, March 5, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m., HUM 587 (Humanities Symposium Room)
How do organizations share their information, ideas, and images with people all over the world? They localize their publications to fit target languages and cultures.
Localization of publications for global audiences involves both translators and professional writers. It also involves sophisticated new tools and technologies, plus specialized project management and work processes.
Explaining how all of this works will be Doug Person, an experienced Localization Engineer at ENLASO, which is a major localization services provider. He also will explain how SF State writing and language student can best prepare themselves for careers in the exciting and growing field of publications localization.
Nan Alamilla Boyd
Sonoma State University
Wednesday, February 28th
10:00 - 11:00
HUM 316
"Sex and Tourism: The Economic Implications of the Gay Marriage Movement"
In this presentation, historian Nan Alamilla Boyd will discuss the
economic stakes of the current U.S. - based gay marriage movement, its
impact on the fast-growing gay tourist market, and the relationship
between gay tourism and the globalization of GLBT identities.
Nan Alamilla Boyd is currently Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies
Department at Sonoma State University. She has a BA in History from UC
Berkeley, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University. Her book, Wide Open
Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 was published in 2003 by
the University of California Press. She also currently sits on the Board
of the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society.
Dionne Espinoza
California State University - Los Angeles
Friday, March 2nd
10:00 - 11:00
HUM 316
"Out of the Movement Kitchen: Chicana Feminisms and Women's Movements in the Southwest, 1968-1978."
The presentation examines the link between cultural nationalism and the rise of Chicana feminisms and demonstrates how the organizational cultures and regional developments of the Chicano movement influenced forms of feminist consciousness and women's organizing.
Dionne Espinoza is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at the California State University, Los Angeles. Her teaching and research areas center on Chicana/Latina activism, cultural studies, and comparative women of color in a national and global context. She has published articles in Velvet Barrios: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Sexualities, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies and has recently published a co-edited volume of the writings of Enriqueta Vasquez, a Chicana activist who participated in the development of Chicana feminist thought.
Wendy Chapkis
University of Southern Maine
Thursday, March 8th
10:00 - 11:00
HUM 316
"Sex Trafficking, Migratory Prostitution and the Politics of Prohibition"
"Sex Trafficking, Migratory Prostitution and the Politics of Prohibition" will explore the strategic conflation of "sex trafficking" and "migratory prostitution" by policy makers attempting to advance a conservative political agenda on sexuality, labor and immigration. Included in this discussion will be an examination of the impact of the so- called (anti-) "Prostitution Pledge" now required of grant recipients of US federal AIDS and anti-trafficking funding.
Wendy Chapkis is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of several books in the area of gender and sexuality including Beauty Secrets: Women and the Political Appearance and Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. She is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on the criminalization of the medical use of marijuana entitled Dying to Get High.
Thursday, March 1, 7:30 pm
San Francisco State University
Humanities building, Room 587
The Center for Modern Greek Studies, The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University is pleased to present a lecture on Greek-Turkish Relations by Emeritus Professor Theodore Couloumbis
THEODORE A. COULOUMBIS
Theodore A. Couloumbis is professor emeritus at the University of Athens, Division of European and International Studies. He is also Vice-President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), having served over the years as Member of the Board of Directors and Director General of this non-profit think tank. During 1995-96 he was a senior fellow with the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC and currently he is a policy scholar with the Southeast Europe Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His work focuses on conflict resolution in the post-Cold War international setting and on aspects of Greek foreign policy. He is co-author (with James H. Wolfe) of a well-known text book, International Relations: Power and Justice, Prentice Hall, 4th ed. 1990, author of US, Greece and Turkey: The Troubled Triangle (Praeger,1983) and co-editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Frank Cass and ELIAMEP). Among his recent publications is a co-edited volume entitled Greece in the Twentieth Century (London: Frank Cass, 2003) and The Greek Junta Phenomenon (New York: Pella, 2005). He has served as president of Eliamep in Athens (l993-95), president of the Institute for Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki (1988-90) and president of the Hellenic Society for International Law and International Relations (1985-87). In the years 1965-83, Couloumbis was professor of international relations at the American University's School of International Service in Washington DC where he received several awards for outstanding teaching. From 1983 to 1989 he was professor of international relations at the School of Law of the University of Thessaloniki, moving to the University of Athens early in 1990. In addition to his scholarly output, he is a regular columnist and frequent contributor to the Athens daily, Kathimerini. He has been also a member-at-large of the Hellenic Council on Foreign Policy since its establishment in 2003. He holds B.A. (1956) and M.A.(1958) degrees in political science from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. (1964) in international relations from the American University.
Karen Kelsky
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Thursday, February 22
10:00 - 11:00
HUM 316
"Private Matters: The Lesbian Subject in Japan"
"Private Matters" explores the work of Kakefuda Hiroko, the most important lesbian social critic in Japan, with a focus on her 1992 book, What It Means to "Be A Lesbian." Kelsky focuses on the question of lesbian subjectivity (shutaisei) in Kakefuda's thought, and relates it to debates on pornography, feminism, and activism in the Japanese lesbian community from the 1990s through the present.
Karen Kelsky is Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, and Core Faculty of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Her work deals with women, sexuality and race in Japan and East Asia. She published Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams with Duke University Press in 2001. Her current work is on the lesbian and FTM communities in urban Japan. She is on the Board of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association.
Drucilla Barker
Hollins University
Tuesday, February 27
10:00 - 11:00
HUM 316
"Beyond Women and Economics: Rereading Caring Labor"
Caring labor -- attending to the physical and emotional needs of others -- is seen as the quintessential form of "women's work." This talk argues that feminist discourses on caring labor that do not disrupt this image mask the constitutive roles played by race, ethnicity, class, and nation in the notion of care.
Drucilla Barker is a Professor of Economics & Women's Studies and Director of Women's Studies at Hollins University. A founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), she is the coauthor, with Susan Feiner, of Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (Routledge 2003) and Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, Theory, and Policy (Routledge 2006).
Invite you to a presentation by:
Aliki Barnstone who will be reading from her recently published volume of translations of C. P . Cavafy's poetry.
Tuesday, February 6, 4:30 pm,
HUM 512, Poetry Center Reading Room
SF State campus
All are invited to attend
Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her books of poems are Blue Earth (Iris, 2004), Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book, Madly in Love (Carnegie-Mellon, 1997), Windows in Providence (Curbstone, 1981), and The Real Tin Flower (which was introduced by Anne Sexton and was published by Macmillan in 1968, when she was twelve years old). Her translation, The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy came out with W.W. Norton in 2006. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice. She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken, 1980; second edition, 1992) , The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (University Press of New England, 1997) , The Shambhala Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Poetry (Shambhala, 1999; 2003) , and she introduced and wrote the readers’ notes for H.D.’s Trilogy (New Directions, 1998) . Her poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has recorded a collaborative C.D. with musician Frank Haney. She has two books forthcoming in 2007: Pique , a book of poems (the Sheep Meadow Press), and her study, Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Development (University Press of New England). Barnstone spent the fall of 2006 in Greece as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. Her Fulbright project is a book of poems in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust. She is Professor of English in the Creative Writing International Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Recent paintings and works on paper by Beverly Voloshin are on display in 484 Humanities Building, Mondays through Fridays, 9 AM to 5 PM, 18 September to 3 November.
Voloshin works in oil, charcoal, and acrylic in both figurative and abstract modes. She is also a professor of English at San Francisco State University.
A reception will be held on Wednesday, 4 October, from 3 to 5 pm, in 484 Humanities Building.
Eric Lott, Professor of English, American Studies, and Cultural Studies at the University of Virginia will be presenting the inaugural Edward B. Kaufmann lecture Thursday, October 12th, at 2:00 pm in Humanities Building Room 587:
"Hollywood in the Age of Globalization: The Case of _National Treasure_"
The event is open to the public, with reception to follow.
Dr. Lott is the author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the
American Working Class (Oxford UP,1993) and _The Disappearing Liberal
Intellectual_ (Perseus Press, 2006). Spanning popular culture, literary studies, critical theory, social and cultural histories, contemporary politics, and beyond, Dr. Lott's work engages practical political progressivism through an uncompromising style of activist critique. He is among the most creative and important of today's American thinkers and critics.
We hope you, your colleagues, and your students can join us.
For more info, please contact:
Ted Geier theo@sfsu.edu
Sponsored by the College and Department of Humanities
Presented by the Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at SFSU; co-sponsors: Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Hellenic Students Association of SFSU
Monday, November 13th
2:10-3:50 pm
HUM 133
“Modern Greek Poetry Readings: Cavafy, Serefis, Elytis and More”
by Martha Klironomos, Professor of English and Director, Center for Modern Greek Studies, SFSU
Tuesday, November 14th
2:00-4:00 pm
HUM 473
Lecture, The Delphic Festivals of 1927 and 1930 in Greece: An Attempt at Greek Revivalism
By Dr. Papadaki, Visiting Scholar in Modern Greek Studies
Thursday, November 16th
4:30-6:30 pm
HUM 587
Screening of the film, “Brides” (“Nifes”) Directed by Pantelis Voulgaris
Marcus + Fronto:
The Reception of Roman Homoeroticism in the 19th Century
Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at UCLA,
Wednesday, Nov. 8
7:30 p.m.
HUM 587
Read profiles of faculty that are new to the College of Humanities this fall semester.
Michael Anderson, assistant professor of classics. Will teach courses in Roman and Greek archaeology and civilization. Ph.D. in archaeology from Cambridge University, U.K. Most recent position: visiting lecturer in history at University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: Roman archaeology, Pompeii and Herculaneum, material culture of daily life, and computer modeling and processing of archaeological data.
Sarita Cannon, assistant professor of English. Will teach courses in modern American literature. Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley. Most recent position: postdoctoral research fellow in American Indian studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests: ethnic American literature, African American studies, Native American studies, autobiography and feminist theory.
Hsiu-huei Lin Domizio, assistant professor of Chinese. Will teach courses in intermediate Chinese language, 20th century Chinese literature, Chinese linguistics and teaching Chinese as a second language. Ed.D. in applied linguistics from Columbia University. Most recent position: assistant professor, National Taiwan Normal University. Research interests: the investigation of L2 learners' pragmatic competence and their use of communication strategies with reference to cross-cultural differences and the testing and assessment in teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language.
Camille Dungy, associate professor of creative writing. Will teach M.F.A. Poetry Workshop, Advanced Poetry Workshop, Craft of Poetry, Community Projects in Literature and seminars on contemporary African American poetry. M.F.A. in creative writing from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Most recent position: associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Research interests: contemporary poetry, African American poetry, musical structure and the poetics of song, and cultural studies.
Jon Funabiki, professor of journalism. Will teach various journalism classes and establish a new center in the Journalism Department that will focus on the fast-changing developments in community, ethnic and independent media. B.A. in journalism from SF State. Most recent position: deputy director of media, arts and culture at the Ford Foundation. Research interests: community, ethnic and independent media; news media ethics and diversity; media and philanthropy; and global media and freedom of expression issues.
Mindi Golden, assistant professor of communication studies. Will teach courses in interpersonal communication. Ph.D. in communication from University of Utah. Most recent position: lecturer at San Jose State University and University of San Francisco. Research interests: communication and social support among Alzheimer caregivers.
Paul Hoover, professor of creative writing. Will teach M.F.A. poetry workshops and a variety of graduate seminars on poetry. M.A. in English and creative writing from University of Illinois. Most recent position: visiting professor of creating writing at SF State. Research interests: post-modernism, contemporary American poetry, German romanticism, ancient Vietnamese poet Nguyen Trai, and interdisciplinary African American arts.
Julietta Hua, assistant professor of women studies. Will teach courses in feminist methodology, gender and the law, and gender and immigration. Ph.D. in ethnic studies from University of California, San Diego. Most recent position: lecturer of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego. Research interests: human rights, global feminism, Asian American studies, and gender and law.
Paul Morris, assistant professor of English in composition. Will teach undergraduate courses in composition and graduate courses in composition theory and English education. Ph.D. in English studies from Illinois State University. Most recent position: graduate teaching assistant at Illinois State University. Research interests: English education with an emphasis on literacy learning and critical literacy, composition and rhetoric, and British literature and historical contexts.
Kasturi Ray, assistant professor of women studies. Will teach courses in feminist theory, history and culture. Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Most recent position: assistant professor of global studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Research interests: women and work, globalization, immigration, and diaspora studies.
Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, assistant professor of humanities. Will teach courses in classical South Asian culture, modern South Asian culture, comparative form and culture, Delhi-cultural biography of a city, South Asian religions, and Gandhi. Ph.D. in South Asian languages and civilization from University of Chicago. Most recent position: post-doctoral fellow at the South Asian Language Resource Center, University of Chicago and lecturer at University of Chicago. Research interests: South Asian traditions of dissent, India's intellectual and literary history, and South Asian social history.
Justin Tiwald, assistant professor of philosophy. Will teach courses in Chinese and Indian philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and moral psychology. Ph.D. in social thought from University of Chicago. Most recent position: graduate student at University of Chicago. Research interests: classical Confucianism and Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, virtue ethics, and contemporary political philosophy.
Leah Wingard, assistant professor of communication studies. Will teach courses in language and social interaction. Ph.D. in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language from University of California, Los Angeles. Most recent position: graduate student fellow at the Center on the Everyday Lives of Families, University of California, Los Angeles. Research interests: discourse analysis, family communication and child socialization.
Laura Yim, assistant professor of English in literature. Will teach courses in early modern British and American literature. Ph.D. in English and American literature from Brandeis University. Most recent position: lecturer at Boston University. Research interests: Renaissance literature and culture, post-colonial literature and theory, and indigenous American law and politics.
SFSU Museum Studies announces its forthcoming exhibition highlighting objects from the Sutro Egyptian Collection: Diet, Doctors & Death - Health in Ancient Egypt! Curated and presented by graduate students in Dr. Jean DeMouthe's course, MS 730 Museum Exhibition Design & Curation, the exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday, April 18 and runs through Friday, May 11, 2007, in the Museum of Ancient Civilizations (MAC), Humanities Room 510.
As always, admission is free and hours are Monday through Friday, 11-4pm.
Come to our FREE events supporting the new show:
FREE Educator's Preview Day
Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Time: 2-4 PM
Location: Humanities 510
For ALL educators, grades 3 and up. Preview the exhibition before bringing your classes on a field trip or tour! Enjoy light refreshments and hands-on activities. RSVP recommended to museumst@sfsu.edu. Field trip dates for grades 3-8 are still available on a first come, first served basis, and booked in one-hour slots at 10:00, 11:00 and 12:00. Group tours can be scheduled at 1:00, 2:00 or 3:00, also first-come, first-served. Hosted by graduate students in Christine Fogarty's course, MS 710 Museum Education and Schools Outreach.
FREE Exhibition Opening/Public Reception
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Time: 4-7 PM
Location: Humanities 510
Sample food from ancient Egyptian recipes, mingle among the mummies, and shop in our Egyptian Emporium! Proceeds generated from the Emporium benefit the Museum Studies Student Scholarship Fund.
The College of Humanities is located at Font Boulevard and Tapia Drive on the SFSU campus. For a map of SFSU, click the following link:
http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumap/
For more information about the Museum of Ancient Civilizations and its exhibition and school outreach program, or, for general information about the Master of Arts degree in Museum Studies, contact us at (415) 405-0599 or museumst@sfsu.edu.
Dr. James Clifford, Professor in the History of Consciousness
Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a
Kaufmann Lecture as the keynote address at the Annual Humanities
Symposium in the College of Humanities this Saturday, April 21st. His
talk, 'Indigeneity Today' will commence at 4:30 pm in Humanities Room
587. Reception to follow.
Dr. Clifford is a world-renowned historian and critic in the fields of
anthropological, literary, and cultural studies, the author of works
such as The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography,
Literature, and Art (1988), On the Edges of Anthropology (2003), and
co-editor with George Marcus of Writing Culture: the Poetics and
Politics of Ethnography (1986).
We hope you, your colleagues, and your students can all be in
attendance. The Symposium begins at 10 AM in Humanities Room 587 and
features work from a broad range of topics and critical
perspectives such as gender and sexuality studies, transnational
identity politics, contemporary critical theory, and literary
studies. Speakers represent a diverse host of disciplines and
departments including History, Humanities, Comparative and World
Literature, and Women Studies and address issues of identification and
articulation across variegated phenomenal encounters and critical
contexts, from the classical to the contemporary, universal to
hybrid.
Coordinate Considerations
San Francisco State University Humanities Symposium
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Humanities Room 587
10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Session One
Foundations & Traditions (locations)
Sociability as the Vocation of Individual Morality: The Political
Theories of Spinoza and Kant
Maria Zalewska humanities
Hermeneutic Alternative to Causal-Science: Problematizing Modernist
Scientific Inquiry
Tanzeen Doha philosophy (sjsu)
Italo Calvino's 'Lightness' in The Baron in the Trees
Alexandra Lawrence italian language and literature
Generating Gothic in Jane Eyre
Vered Weiss comparative and world literature
~lunch~
12:45 PM
Session Two
negotiations (locations)
The artist's song to a 'shadowed' identity: binaries and restrictions
in post civil war Spanish poetry
Virginia Ramos humanities
The Orphan Market: Patria, Patrimony, and Paper Money in the Work of
Juana Manuela Gorriti
Will Arighi comparative and world literature
Print Power: An Exploration of 19th Century Missionary Writing in India
Sarah Anne Glauser humanities
Romance Manga: Silent Anxieties and Desires in Japanese Graphic Novels
Amber Morales humanities
3:00 PM
Session Three
constructions and mediations (locations)
Voices from a Third Space: Dutch-Moroccan Strategies of Literary
Identification and Recognition
Anouk Bachman humanities
Reading Asian American Adolescent Sexuality: Queer Transections of
Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Nancy Wan women studies
Brown Love, White Disciplines: Taxi dance halls and the making of the
Filipino American, 1920-1930s
Allan Lumba history
4:30 PM
Kaufmann Lecture
Indigeneity Today
James Clifford
professor of the history of consciousness
university of california, santa cruz
Closing Remarks
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at SFSU Colloquium Series
The Russian Program Presents:
Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story
a new documentary film by Marina Goldovskaya, one of Russia's
best-known documentary filmmakers, based on in-depth interviews with
the best-selling novelist, Anatoly Rybakov.
The film focuses on Anatoly Rybakov, who was among the few authors in
the Soviet Union who dared to write about the 1930s, when Stalin
established his regime, and about the Holocaust. As the title
suggests, the film also tells the story of Russia. Goldovskaya
creates not only a portrait of the writer but also a self-portrait,
and a portrait of several generations of her contemporaries. As
Goldovskaya explains, her primary goal was to reveal something about
the current state of Russia.
After the film, a Holocaust survivor, Mikhail Felberg, one of the
protagonists of the documentary, will discuss his experiences with
the audience.
Date: Wednesday, April 26
Time: 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Room: HUM 473
The Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University
Cordially invites you to a lecture by
Professor Andre Gerolymatos,
Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada)
"The Civil War Within:
The British Intelligence Services and the Greek Left"
Thursday, May 10, 2007, 7 pm
Humanities Building, Room 587
San Francisco State University Campus
Andre Gerolymatos is a Professor of International Studies and History at Simon Fraser University. In addition, he is the Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies. Within the School of International Studies, Dr. Gerolymatos specializes in intelligence, military and diplomatic history. His interests include the role of intelligence organizations in warfare with particular emphasis on the implementation of guerrilla and urban warfare in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as well as terrorism as a recent byproduct. Furthermore, he has done research on how these aspects of conflict impact on international politics and diplomacy. He has examined the evolution of conflict in Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East within the context of these themes and continues to observe the pervasive influence of intelligence organizations on the state. Dr. Gerolymatos brings a wide range of experience to the School of International Studies that ranges from academia to government work.
Publications include:
Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and Military Intelligence
Gathering in Classical Greece, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben Publishers, 1986.
Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece 1940-1944, New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1992.
Greece and the New Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities, 1975-1995, Eds. Andr� Gerolymatos, Harry Psomiades and Van Coufoudakis, New York: Pella Publishing Company, 1999.
The Aegean Sea After the Cold War: Security and Law of the Sea Issues , Eds. Aldo E. Chircop, Andre Gerolymatos, John O. Iatrides, London: St Martins Press, 2000.
The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond , New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Red Acropolis, Black Terror: The Greek Civil War and the Origins of Soviet-American Rivalry 1944-1949, New York: Basic Books, 2004.
British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports from the Foreign Office Confidential Print, Part IV, Series F: Europe 1946-1949, 6 Vols., edited with Denis Smyth; University Publications of America, 2002.
The Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, San Francisco State University is pleased to announce a public lecture by
Anthony Kotidis, Professor of Art History at the University of Thessaloniki, who will present a slide-show presentation on
"Twentieth-Century Greek Art"
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 7:30 pm, in HUM 587
at the San Francisco State University campus
This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, U.S.A.
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