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The Department of Anthropology and Women of Anthropology Graduate
Group (WOAGG) welcomes: Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University) Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Room 345 "Disturbing Sexuality: Names, Bodies, Territories" Povinelli's work has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism. This critical task is grounded in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. Her most recent book examines how a set of ethical and normative claims about the governace of love, sociality, and the body circulate in liberal settler colonies in such a way that life and death, rights and recognition, goods and resources are unevenly distributed there. She explores how the distinction between individual freedom and social bondage subtends and animates most theories and practices of sexuality in postcolonial liberalisms. ---------------------------------- Please join us on Friday, March 16th at noon in Logan 436 for a faculty Global Gender Seminar with guest Neville Hoad. The seminar, “The 'African' HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Culture, Affect, Spectacle,” will be based on two papers by Hoad. Both papers concern AIDS, African sexuality, and affect. “Thabo Mbeki's AIDS Blues” came out in the journal Public Culture; the other (on the South African AIDS film “Yesterday”) is forthcoming in Sites of Production: History, Film and Cultural Citizenship. Eds. Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill, Thomas Lahusen. (New York: Routledge, 2007). The respondents will be Heather Love, Rita Barnard, and Lesley Marx, currently a Visiting Professor at Emory University and former Chair of both the English Department and the Film and Media Department at the University of Cape Town. Please feel free to read whatever you can. Those who are especially interested in the topic may come and borrow the DVD of the film “Yesterday” from the Women’s Studies office. (Neville will, of course, describe the relevant scenes for folks who haven't seen the film.) Neville Hoad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and co-editor of Sexual Identity Politics in South Africa's Transition to Democracy (Double Storey, 2005). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Public Culture, Cultural Critique, GLQ, and Postcolonial Studies.
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