[CS] Fwd: Visiting British scholar activists this week

[Paula Harmon]

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Subject: 	Visiting British scholar activists this week.
Date: 	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:11:39 -0400
From: 	Natane Halasz <nhalasz at hampshire.edu>



*THIS COMING WEEK! PLEASE CIRCULATE! PLEASE COME!*

The Creative Writing Programand theProgram for Arts and Social Action in 
the School for IA invite you to two 'informal talks' *this week* by 
visiting British scholar activists (and partners in life) Paul Gilroy 
and Vron Ware:

*5.30pm on Thursday 28th March at The Center for Feminisms* (refreshments)

*VRON WARE*: *The Politics of Feminist Curiosity*

*'Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very 
frightening'*

Inspired by the words of Gertrude Stein, Vron Ware reflects on her 
life-work fighting racism and militarism. From combating fascists in the 
1970s to investigating the British Army in 2008, Vron will talk about 
how the politics of feminist curiosity have guided her in her life as an 
activist, scholar and writer. Vron Ware has engaged in life-long 
activism around questions of post colonialism and race, She is currently 
a Research Fellow at The Open University, UK. Author of the influential 
book *Beyond the Pale: white women, racism and history,*she has also 
written *Out of Whiteness: color, politics and culture* and *Who Cares 
about Britishness?*. Her new study of racism and diversity in the 
contemporary British Army, *Military Migrants: Fighting for YOUR 
country*, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. She was editor of 
the anti-fascist, anti-racist, magazine Searchlight from 1981-3 and 
taught at Yale from 1999 to 2005.

*4pm on Friday 29^th  March at  THE CULTURAL CENTER *(refreshments)

*An Andrew Salkey Memorial event*

*PAUL GILROY*: *BETWEEN THE RIOTS:  Black Arts in Britain between the 
riots of the 1980s and the riots of 2011*

A scholar of Cultural Studies 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Studies> and Black Atlantic 
diasporic culture with interests in the "myriad manifestations of black 
British <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_British> culture, his works 
include: /The Empire Strikes Back - Race and Racism in '70s Britain/; 
/There Ain't No Black In the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race 
and Nation/; /The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness/; 
/Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line/ 
<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006690>, /After 
Empire: Multiculture or Postcolonial Melancholia/; /Black Britain - A 
Photographic History/ ; "Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies of 
Black Atlantic Culture 
<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674060234>"

Paul taught at South Bank University 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bank_University>, Essex University 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_University> and then Goldsmiths 
College 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths_College,_University_of_London> for 
many years before leaving London to become chair of the Department of 
African American Studies and Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of 
Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University>,. He was first holder of 
the Anthony Giddens 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Giddens> Professorship in Social 
Theory at the London School of Economics 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics> before he 
joinedKing's College London 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_College_London> last September. 
Heis known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the 
Black Atlantic diaspora <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora>, as a 
commentator on the politics of race, nation and racism 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism> in the UK, and as an archaeologist 
of the literary and cultural lives of blacks in the western hemisphere. 
According to the US /Journal of Blacks in Higher Education/ 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Journal_of_Blacks_in_Higher_Education&action=edit&redlink=1> he 
has been consistently among the most frequently cited black scholars in 
the humanities and social sciences. Gilroy's theories of race, racism 
and culture were influential in shaping the cultural and political 
movement of black British people during the 1990s.

*Vron Ware and Paul Gilroy are also Hampshire parents - their son Marcus 
is an alumn.*

Their presence is supported by IA Arts & Social Action Program, Creative 
Writing Program, Andrew Salkey memorial, The Office of Diversity and 
Multicultural Education,The Cultural Center, Center for 
Feminisms,Feminist Studies, Feminists United Collective, The Global 
Education Office, School of CSI- and others!

-- 
Natane Halasz
Administrative Assistant
School for Interdisciplinary Arts
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
nhalasz at hampshire.edu
(T) 413.559.5824
(F) 413.559.5247
www.hampshire.edu/academics/index_ia.htm
www.facebook.com/SchoolForInterdisciplinaryArtsAtHampshireCollege


-- 
Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
http://cs.hampshire.edu


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