UWP Lecturers Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture

[Susan Brown]

Please join the Department of English and LGBIT Studies for the Gregory
Bredbeck Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, May 12th at 4:00pm in HMNSS 1500.

 

To: Faculty, Graduate Students, and Lecturers

 

Subject: Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture

 

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

 

The Speaker will be David Eng

 

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.

 

David Eng’s talk will be: "The Queer Space of China"

 

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.

 

 



 

A flyer for this talk is attached.  I hope everyone will be able to attend!

 

George

 

George Haggerty

Professor of English

University of California, Riverside

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