[Sisters] sara ahmed comes to hampshire!!

[Hira Nabi]

Hi sisters,
as most of you know sara ahmed's coming to hampshire tomorrow to speak. for
those who've taken classes with prof. monique roelofs, we're all acquainted
with ahmed's incredible work. for those who aren't, this is a SUPER good chance
to check it out.

love,
your radical signers

ps. have a fun and safe hamp halloween.
also, take care to remember that Consent is most definitely NOT UNSPOKEN.

here's some info about the talk:

https://intranet.hampshire.edu/viewDetails.php?messageNumber=25649

Thursday October 30
SARA AHMED
Happiness, Empire and Melancholic Migrants
Public Lecture
5 pm. Main Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall
Reception to follow the lecture

This paper will explore how the imperial mission was justified as a
'happiness mission', as a way of elevating the other from an unhappy
to happier state of existence, or in a utilitarian frame, as a way of
maximizing global happiness. The paper considers how the happiness
mission gets translated into a happiness duty for migrants in
contemporary contexts. Drawing on readings of the film Bend it Like
Beckham, and related representations of British Asian struggles, the
paper argues that happiness is promised in return for proximity to
whiteness. The melancholic migrant appears as the one who fails to be
converted, who refuses to let go of suffering, and who stubbornly
holds onto memories of racism.

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths
College, University of London. In 2008/2009 she is the Blanche, Edith
and Irving Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies and Gender
Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Differences that
Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1990); Strange Encounters;
Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (2000); The Cultural Politics of
Emotion (2004) and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
(2006). The book from which her paper will be drawn, The Promise of
Happiness, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

The Race and Empire Series is sponsored by the Humanities Program, the
Office for Diversity and Multicultural Education, and the President's
Office.