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Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) Schedule: 2009-2010 Academic Year WHAT IS THE CED? The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) seeks to attract undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and friends across various disciplines and departments who share active research interests in Asian American studies, African American studies, Latino/a studies, pan-ethnic studies, and related fields, such as globalization studies and other ethnic studies. Funded by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Asian American Studies program, and other Northwestern University departments, the CED aims to foster a vibrant intellectual community and provide a safe space in which both faculty and students are peers, sharing insight into and probing questions about critical readings of the most recent, ground-breaking books and articles in our fields. When possible, the CED brings in the authors of pertinent research to speak firsthand about not just the results of their work, but also the processes behind generating such important research. The CED also serves as a forum for students to present their ongoing thesis/dissertation chapters and receive constructive feedback from a cross-disciplinary audience. At least one graduate student leads every CED meeting. We invite all students and faculty who would like to share their research in a supportive environment to contact us to discuss presentation opportunities. WHEN DOES THE CED MEET? During the academic year of 2009-2010 the CED meets regularly, usually on a Wednesday, for 1.5 hours, from 12 noon until 1:30 pm. A light lunch is provided, and your RSVP to pavithra.prasad@u.northwestern.edu is appreciated in helping to ensure sufficient snacks for everyone in attendance. THIS YEAR'S ORGANIZERS OF THE CED: Pavithra Prasad and Kareem Khubchandani are excited about receiving your input about books to read and presenters to bring to CED this year. If you would like to join our e-list, or if you would like to email us your ideas, please email Unless otherwise indicated, all CED meetings take place in the Asian American Studies conference room in Crowe 1-135, 12-1:30pm Wednesday, October 7, 12-1:30p @ Crowe 1-135: Organizational meeting. Wednesday, October 21, 12-1:30p: Discussion of Ph.D candidate in African American Studies Kortney Ryan Ziegler’s documentary film Still Black (2008). The film is available on the CED Blackboard site. The library also has a copy that you may check out. Wednesday, November 18, 12-1:30p: Phuong Nguyen, Post-doctoral fellow in Asian American Studies will present his work on Vietnamese American diasporic identity in the US. Wednesday, December 2, 12-1:30p: Lisa Calvente, Post-doctoral candidate in African-American studies lead a discussion on the representation of black diasporic identity visual culture and social performance.
Unless otherwise indicated, all CED meetings take place in the Asian American studies conference room in Crowe 1-135, 12-1:30pm Wednesday, January 13, 12-1:30p: Ramon Riviera-Servara, Professor in Performance Studies & Harvey Young, Professor in Theatre and Drama present and discuss a chapter from their collaborative work on borderlands and new directions in theories of transnationalism (forthcoming). Wednesday, February 10, 12-1:30p: 2 grad student presenters: Gregory Mitchell (Performance Studies) and Kim Singletary (Rhetoric) present their work on racialized images of American culture in Brazil and Germany. Wednesday, March 17, 12-:130p: Speaker to be confirmed. Unless otherwise indicated, all CED meetings take place in the Asian American studies conference room in Crowe 1-135, 12-1:30 Wednesday, April 7, 12-1:30p: Mary Ann Mohanraj, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago discusses her collection of short fiction on transnationalism and the Sri Lankan diaspora in the U.S, Bodies in Motion (2008). Speaker to be confirmed. Wednesday, April 28, 12-1:30p: Book discussion – Taking suggestions; TBD. Wednesday, May 19, 12-1:30p: Leela Gandhi, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, discusses her book Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin de Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (2006). Speaker to be confirmed. Wednesday, June 2, 12-1:30p: 2 grad student presenters: Victoria Fortuna (Performance Studies) and Neha Kamdar (Screen Cultures) presenting chapters from their dissertations.
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