[csaa-forum] Grant Farrad at the CCR, UWS

[Gregory Noble]

The Centre for Cultural Research invites to the following seminar:

 

Grant Farred (Duke University): 'Out of Context: Thinking Cultural
Studies Diasporically'

 

Tuesday June 6, at 2pm. Venue: Female Orphan School Gallery, Parramatta
campus, University of Western Sydney. 

 

RSVP: t.dubey at uws.edu.au <mailto:t.dubey at uws.edu.au> 

 

 

 

Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically

 

Grant Farredi, USA

 

In this presentation, the project of Cultural Studies is thought as a
diasporic practice.  Cultural Studies is, for this reason, conceived as
a series of dislocations, as events that need to be read "out of
context".  In crafting this presentation through the prism of the
African diaspora, the intention here is to complicate how race is
understood in relation to Cultural Studies and, as importantly, to
suggest how by reading the diaspora Cultural Studies might produce a
different understanding of race.  This presentation culminates with a
brief reading of (South) African author, now resident in Australia, JM
Coetzee's most recent novel, Slow Man, in which the very notion of the
(African) diaspora is complicated by race -- by the invocation of the
Balkan diaspora; by the residual presence of that Australian presence
that "haunts" Coetzee's work, Elizabeth Costello and her critique of the
African diaspora; and, by the ways in which "whiteness" can be said to
dis- and rearticulate the very nature of the African diaspora.

 

 

 

 

 
Dr Greg Noble
School of Humanities and Languages
University of Western Sydney
Bldg C - Penrith campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia
 
and
 
Centre for Cultural Research
Bldg EBa - Parramatta Campus
http://www.uws.edu.au/ccr
 
Tel  +61 2 9685 9634
Fax +61 2 9685 9610
 
Co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other
(Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004)

 

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