Thursday, September 18, 2014 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Room E
Join the Cultural Studies Program and Middle East Studies Program for the Fall 2014 Cultural Studies Colloquium (CSC), a forum for interdisciplinary research.
Featuring....
Ella Shohat, New York University
Speaker BIO
Ella Shohat is a professor of Art and Public Policy, and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (NYU Press, 2012), Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006), Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (University of Texas Press, 1989), and Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998), among others. She is a recipient of many fellowships, including: The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, 1999; the University of California "Regents Lecturer," U.C. Davis, 1997; the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (1991-1992), where she also taught at The School of Criticism and Theory (2006). In 2010, she was awarded a Fulbright research/lectureship at the University of São Paulo, Brazil working on the cultural intersections between the Middle East and Latin America.
