UWP Lecturers T May 12 Gregory Bredbeck Memorial Lecture

[John Ganim]

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>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.
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>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
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>The Speaker will be David Eng
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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.
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>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.
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>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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