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Crossing: A Braided Memoir
Russell Scott Valentino, Professor, Comparative Literature
11:30 am-1pm. A light lunch will be served.
Crossing: A Braided Memoir employs the compositional technique of the braid to explore the composite themes of mixture, translation (crossing with something on your back), and transgression (crossing the line). Crossing is both physical, as in movement from one place to another, one shore to another, and metaphysical, as in what happens when you die. It also holds a wealth of figurative associations from the mixing of cultures and languages to religions and races. It is movement across thresholds of various kinds, barriers, borders. It is bastardization when opposed to purity.Russell Scott Valentino is the author of two scholarly monographs, numerous essays and articles, seven book-length translations of fiction and literary non-fiction from Italian, Croatian, and Russian research grants, two NEA literature fellowships, and a handful of awards and prizes. He teaches in the University of Iowa's Translation Workshop.
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Discursive Eruptions and the Behind-the-Scenes: When and Why "Science" Is a Lightning Rod for Anthropologists
Virginia Dominguez, Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:30am-1pm
POROI is pleased to announce the publication of POROI Journal Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2011)
This special issue of Poroi includes revisions of a sample of papers presented at the symposium “Sexing the Colorlines,” which took place on November 16, 2009 at the University of Iowa. The UI Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry and the Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts co-sponsored the symposium, where presenters considered the role that gender, race and ethnicity, class and nation played in the construction and material reality of sexualities. Sexing the Colorlines: Black Sexualities, Popular Culture, and Cultural Production is edited by Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Miriam Thaggert, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley.
