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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Please join Professor Barrett and the
Department of English for a talk by Denise Ferreira da Silva on Thursday, May 1<sup>st</sup>
at 2:00pm in the conference room. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Susan Brown
[mailto:susan.brown@ucr.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 18, 2008 11:58
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> (gsa-english@lists.ucr.edu);
(englecturers@listserv.ucr.edu); Andrea Denny-Brown; Carole Fabricant; Carole
Fabricant; Carole-Anne Tyler; Deborah Willis; Emory Elliott; Erica Edwards;
George Haggerty; George Haggerty; 'Heidi Brayman Hackel'; James Tobias; James
Tobias; Jennifer Doyle; John Briggs; John Ganim; Joseph Childers; Katherine
Kinney (KATHERINE.KINNEY@UCR.EDU); Keith Harris (keith.harris@ucr.edu);
Kimberly Devlin; 'Lindon Barrett'; Michelle Raheja; 'Rise Axelrod'; Stanley
Stewart; Steve Axelrod; Susan Zieger; Tiffany Lopez; Traise Yamamoto; Vorris
Nunley<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Denise Ferreira da Silva</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Please join the
Department of English for a talk by<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'>Denise Ferreira da
Silva<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Associate
Professor in Ethnic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on"><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Diego</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'>Thursday, May 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'>2:00-3:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'>English Department
Conference Room<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'>HMNSS 2212<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Light refreshments will be served</span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-right:-.75in;text-align:center;
text-autospace:none'><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:22.0pt'>"The Edges of the World: Universality and
Raciality in the Writing of the Radical Political Subject"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:26.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>In this paper, I
discuss contemporary left theorizing's return to the theme of the universal in
the framing of a radical political subject - such as Zizek's and Badiou's
embracing of St Paul - in light of the current political transformation in
Latin American states, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, in which racial subaltern
subjects -- the mestizo and the Indian -- are articulated in the framing of a
revolutionary subject. By reading these trends as responses to economic and
multiculturalist legal reforms deployed in the past 20 years or so, I will
argue that this apparent contradiction is an indication of how the present
global juridico-economic structuring challenges us to imagine emancipatory
projects that take seriously the centrality of racial/cultural difference in
the mapping of the post-Enlightenment political terrain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Susan Brown<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Management Services Officer<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Department of English<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Riverside</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
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