University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California,
a Multi-Campus Program and Initiative
Presents
THE UC IRVINE
WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL THEORETICAL ENQUIRY (CHASTE)
SPRING 2016 SEMINAR SERIES
DATES
Session 1: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 5:30-8:30pm
Session 2: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 5:30-8:30pm
Sessiom 3: Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 5:30-8:30pm
All Meetings in the Humanities Commons Conference Room – Humanities Gateway 1341
Seminar Session 3, we will shift our focus to the Anglophone Caribbean and Jamaica through a deep reading of Sylvia Wynter¹s The Hills of Hebron (1962) alongside selected theoretical writing and poetry of Kamau Brathwaite. These reading sessions have been organized in the spirit of intellectual improvisation and experimentation and as such, participants will be allowed to share and incorporate their own research interests and imaginaries where applicable.
This reading group is open to faculty and graduate students at UC Irvine as well as those at universities throughout southern California in departments, programs, and fields of study, including but not limited to: African Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art/Art History, Asian American Studies, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Central Asian Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Comparative Literature, Criminology, Critical Theory, Dance, East Asian Studies, English, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, European Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Geography, History, Law/Law and Society, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Planning and Policy Studies, Political Science, Sociology, South Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Urban Studies, Visual/Film Studies and Women¹s Studies.
Please email blackthought@uci.edu if you would like to participate, and for access to the readings. We look forward to hearing from you! This Seminar Series is organized by the UC Irvine Workshop in Critical Historiography and Social Theoretical Enquiry (CHASTE), which is a program of the University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California, a Multi-Campus Program and Initiative, with funding support from the University of California, Office of the President.
