Potluck Dinner and Discussion
Postcolonial Modern:
Hybrid Culture and Multi-Modernities

Sunday, November 10, 2002
6:30pm - 9:30pm (discussion will begin ca. 7:30pm)

The Knapp House, 130 E. Gilman Street
(between N. Pinckney and N. Butler, East of the Capitol)
See map
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~knapphouse/

Open Invitation -- Please bring a dish or beverages to share
and feel free to bring interested faculty and students

Multi-Modernities.
How might we chart their geographies and narrate their histories?
To whom do they belong?
What social and political trajectories do they complicate?

Hybridities.
How do they emerge in struggles over hegemony?
How do they unsettle nation-states and their ideological incorporation of the modern?
How are contact zones of cultural purity conjured within the hybridity that is a condition of all human cultures?

We will use the following essays as a springboard to discussing these questions: Nestor Garcia Canclini. "From Utopias to the Market" and "The future of the Past" from Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995 pp. 12-40, 107-144. Timothy Mitchell. "The Stage of Modernity" from Questions of Modernity , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. 1-34.
The essays are available at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/SocialSciRef/ssrhome.htm
Hard copies also on reserve at the Social Science Library, 8th floor Social Science Building

Questions? Email: btcs@mhub.facstaff.wisc.edu

This Border and Transcultural Studies Event is made possible by funding from the Institute for International Research with the gracious cooperation and help of the residents of Knapp House.