Endangering Race & Class in a Globalizing World: Transnational Perspectives

"Metaphors of Globalization"

Wednesday, February 20,2008
4:30 p.m
Konover Auditorium

Faculty & Student Focus Group Discussion
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
Location: Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center
Student Union, 4th Floor

Lisa Lowe is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego and an affiliated faculty in Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies there, in 2007-08, she is Visiting Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke, 1996), coeditor of THe Politics of Culture in the Shawdow of Capital (Duke, 1997), and essays on race, culture, an immigration within globalization.

Dr. Lowe is the first of three speakers in this symposia series for Spring 2008. Additional speakers will be on campus in March & April.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies, Institute for African American Studies, Women's Studies Program & the Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs.