<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey everyone.. In case you hadn't heard Rosi Braidotti, an amazing feminist theorist is continuing her visit at UCR next week.. I read a lot of her work last quarter for my feminist discourses class, and she it truly an insightful, amazing, and compelling woman. Her ideas question and incorporate the theories of many other magnificent thinkers (Butler, Halloway, Spivak, Freud, Lacan, D&G, Irigaray, Kristeva, etc.) , but one of the things that really interested me, was her discussion on sexual difference, cyborgs, and how technology and the 'new world' affect our status as feminists. I highly recommend that anyone on campus this wednesday or thursday try to check out either of her two remaining events.. listed below. She is the type of woman, you will feel privileged to tell people you met in person.<DIV>seriously - she's a really big deal.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV>-Carly Kimmel<BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu">caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 8, 2007 5:36:25 PM PDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"ENGL_274_001_07W":;, <A href="mailto:caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu">caroleanne.tyler@ucr.edu</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>ENGL_274_001_07W: Rosi Braidotti</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I wanted to remind you that she is speaking here three more times before she leaves, and she has expressed an interest in co-organizing an international conference here on feminism some time in the near future, which I would love to see some of you involved in.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Her two talks this week are:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"Toward the Posthuman"<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>April 10 (Wed.), 3:00-4:30 p.m., HMNSS 1500 (On how biotechnologies, genetic engineering, information technologies, etc., have tranformed our sense of what it means to be human.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>She is especially interested in the post-anthropocentric aspect of the post-human condition and how this affects racialized, sexualized, and naturalized differences in the global era).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Roundtable Discussion, April 11 (Thu), 2:00-3:30 p.m., 1500.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This is a great opportunity to have a seminar discussion with a world-class feminist scholar who is interested in Butler, Deleuze, Irigaray, Agamben, Freud and Lacan, Spivak, and some of the other thinkers we talked about or referenced last quarter.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We can ask her some of the questions we wondered about when we read her work, such as what she means by "real life women" or "female feminists." <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">She is brilliant, lively, funny, down-to-earth, and very approachable.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Like many of us, she came from a working class family (both her parents were factory workers) and therefore has a very irreverent take on the academy.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>She is also an immigrant, having moved from Italy to Australia, to the Netherlands, another experience many at UCR share with her, including, I'm sure, some of you.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I would love to see our class there in force because I know we could have a wonderful conversation with her.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Good luck this quarter and I will be getting back your commented on reading questions and papers over the next week or two.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And again, congratulations on putting together a wonderful conference!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CAT</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>