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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#000080">Please join the
Department of English and LGBIT Studies for the Gregory Bredbeck Memorial
Lecture on Tuesday, May 12<sup>th</sup> at 4:00pm in HMNSS 1500.<br>
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</font><font size=2>Graduate Students, and Lecturers<br>
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Subject: Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture<br>
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I am delighted to announce that the Second Annual Gregory Bredbeck
Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 12th at 4:00 pm in HMNSS
1500<br>
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The Speaker will be David Eng<br>
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David Eng is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a core faculty member in the
Asian American Studies Program. He is author of The Feeling of
Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke,
forthcoming) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
(Duke, 2001). In addition, he is co-editor with David Kazanjian of
Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003), with Alice Y. Hom of Q
& A: Queer in Asian America (Temple, 1998), and with Judith
Halberstam and Jose Muñoz of a special issue of the journal Social Text
(2005), “What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?” Eng is a board
member of the Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW) and a former Board
Chair of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS). Before
Penn, he taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Harvard
University, and the University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is at
work on two new projects, an analysis of the relationship between
political and psychic genealogies of reparation and a study on the
emergence of gay and lesbian life in China, “The Queer Space of China,”
from which his presentation is drawn today.<br>
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David Eng’s talk will be: "The Queer Space of China"<br>
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This presentation explores the emergence of gay and lesbian life in
contemporary China in relation to liberal distinctions between public
space and private desires. Following anthropologist Lisa Rofel's recent
scholarship on expressive desire, Professor Eng investigates the ways in
which Chinese gays and lesbians are positioned as ideal individuals who
are uniquely capable of embracing their private desires and thus are at
the vanguard of a new modernity in China. As part of the presentation,
Professor Eng will discuss Stanley Kwan's 2001 film Lan Yu.<br>
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A flyer for this talk is attached. I hope everyone will be able to
attend!<br>
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George<br>
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George Haggerty<br>
Professor of English<br>
University</font> of California, Riverside<br><br>
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