In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the … Read more
The Department of Theatre and Drama presents the play 14, written and directed, by Assistant Professor José Casas. 14 is inspired by a true-life event in which a smuggler abandoned 30 Mexicans crossing the desert near Yuma, AZ, resulting in 14 dying of dehydration. The play is based on interviews and public accounts of Arizonans … Read more
This talk is part of the Critical Ethnic and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies’ 2018 Speaker Series, “ORIENTATIONS: On Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Occupation.” The signature style of Korean-born, NY based artist Anicka Yi—winner of the 2016-17 Hugo Boss Award—involves repurposing materials associated with feminine domesticity–cooking paraphilia, edible ingredients, bath and vanity products—and coassembling them alongside … Read more
This talk is part of the Critical Ethnic and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies’ 2018 Speaker Series, “ORIENTATIONS: On Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Occupation.” In this presentation, Karen will discuss how she is reading oral histories of Japanese Americans in Arizona against the grain, as artifacts of U.S. settler colonialism. She explores how Japanese American immigrants were … Read more
This talk is part of the Critical Ethnic and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies’ 2018 Speaker Series, “ORIENTATIONS: On Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Occupation.” On 3.16.18 CEA/PIAS will host a graduate student workshop with Prof. See from 1-2:30 pm in Haven Hall 3773 (RSVP with Michael at pascualm@umich.edu). The public lecture will be held from 4-5:30 … Read more
As a deconstructive tool, does the decolonial necessarily expose colonial powers, structures, laws, and institutions? What are the flaws of a decolonial theory that regards a materialist perspective while occluding the spirit of the mind and body? It is as if the method and the theory exist in parallel universes, never to touch or entice … Read more
Dr. González-Rivera’s research on western Nicaragua’s pre-1979 LGBTQ histories reveals a complex story. She documents a long-standing Indigenous “transgender” tradition in open-air markets, which rests on pre-colonial economic opportunities for women in tiangues and Nicaragua’s unique association between commerce and femininity. Dr. González-Rivera further contends that contemporary Nicaraguan negative attitudes towards trans women, while less … Read more