[CS] Fwd: CHANGES TO THESE EVENTS: Visiting British scholar activists this week

[Paula Harmon]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	CHANGES TO THESE EVENTS: Visiting British scholar activists 
this week
Date: 	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:46:52 -0400
From: 	Natane Halasz <nhalasz at hampshire.edu>


Due to totally unexpected travel problems beyond their control, we 
regret that the visiting scholar activists will not be coming to 
Hampshire College this week. We hope to reschedule their visits in the 
future.
_HOWEVER, both events will proceed WITHOUT the visitors:_

 1. Hampshire faculty will lead a discussion related to Vron Ware's
    feminist work at *5.30pm on Thursday, March 28th at The Center for
    Feminisms* (light refreshments)
 2. Video clips sent by Paul Gilroy will be screened at *4pm on Friday,
    March 29th at The Cultural Center *(light refreshments)

We apologize for the change of plans, and hope many will still join us.

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

On 3/25/2013 10:11 AM, Natane Halasz wrote:
> *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


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.hampshire.edu/pipermail/cs/attachments/20130327/7c3833cb/attachment.html>