[Englecturers] Naoki Sakai's lecture and campus visit

[yamamoto at ucr.edu]

Hello All,
As many of you know, renowned scholar and theorist Naoki Sakai
will be at UCR this Monday and Tuesday.  Professors John Kim
and Setsu Shigematsu have worked very hard to bring Professor
Sakai to campus, and it is imperative that we show him (and
the CHASS administration) that there is an interested and
intellectually vibrant group of faculty and students working
around issues related to Asian/American literary, culture and
diaspora studies.  While such interests do not fully encompass
or represent all facets of Professor Sakai's work, they
crucially intersect with it.  This is a tremendous opportunity
to further develop the intellectual community for which the
Asian/American Literary and Cultural Studies Group was created
last spring.  

So: what can you do?  Please attend as many of the following
events as your busy schedules allow.

Monday, 5 November
Professor Sakai's public lecture, 2:00 in HMNSS 1500.  

Tuesday, 6 November
10-11:30, HMNSS 2412: Professor Sakai has kindly agreed to
meet with A/ALCS for a discussion of his essay, "Two
Negations: The Fear of Being Excluded and the Logic of
Self-Esteem."  This is an amazing opportunity.  "Two
Negations" is structured around a fascinating discussion of
John Okada's No-No Boy, as well as two Japanese texts.  The
essay has been sent as an attachment in other emails, and I am
including it here (I have had difficulty in the past with
attachments in this mail program, so let me know if it doesn't
come through).  Please plan to attend, and come prepared to
engage in lively discussion. This is an especially important
opportunity for graduate students in Asian and Asian American
literary studies.  

11:30-1:00,  The Barn.  LUNCH! (which, though not paid for by
A/ALCS or CompLit, will provide more opportunity to chat with
Professor Sakai).

NOTE to English Department Graduate Students:
I especially urge those of you working in Asian American
literary and cultural studies -- but also those with interests
in so-called Minority Discourses, Transnational and Diasporic
literatures, Critical Theory, Globalization studies, Feminist
Theory, and Critical Race Studies -- to attend as many of the
above events as possible.  
Traise Yamamoto
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323
951.827.1789
951.827.3967 (fax)
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