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Potluck and Discussion
"Hybridity" and (Post)Modernity

Sunday, February 7, 1999
5:00-8:00 p.m.

Come enjoy food, conversation, and discussion in the first of four Border Studies seminars for the spring semester, 1999. Come for just the potluck or stay and participate in the discussion.. Information on our spring conference, 'Comparative Literacy' in a Global Age (March 25-28), other Border Studies events, and the progress of the "cluster" hires for Cultural Studies in Global Context will be available.

Where: Neil Whitehead's House

Bring: Bring a dish or beverage to share. Bring colleagues, friends, students, or anyone interested in Border Studies. Pass the Word!

Discussion: What is "hybridity"? What are its meanings? Its history? Its politics? Its relation to issues of power? Its usefulness? Its problematic? Its connection to the real and illusory disruptions of (post)modernity? Is it useful in your work? As a jumping off point for discussion, we are putting on reserve in reading rooms in Helen White (7188), Van Hise, Social Science Library (8432), Ingraham and the Humanities Institute (1401 Observatory Dr.): Homi Bhabha, Intro to The Location of Culture ; Pnina Werbner, Intro to Debating Cultural Hybridity ; Susan Friedman, from Mappings (82-93); Robert J.C. Young, Intro to Colonial Desire ; Monika Fludernik, Intro to Hybridity and Postcolonialism . We encourage you to read this material, but it is NOT necessary to do so to participate fully in the discussion. Neil Whitehead and a graduate student (to be announced) will initiate discussion with a few remarks.

The Border Studies Research Circle is sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the International Institute. Steering Committee members include Susan Friedman (English and Women's Studies), Alicia Kent (English), Mary Layoun (Comparative Literature), Ruben Medina (Spanish and Chicano Studies), Thongchai Winichakul (History), and Neil Whitehead (Anthropology). Contact Friedman (ssfriedm@facstaff.wisc.edu) for further information or to be put on the mailing list.