Please email this address if you would like to receive a free publicity packet More info at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Diaspora.htm There's no place like home: (Trans)nationalism, Diaspora, and Film A Symposium with Hamid Naficy Friday, April 11, 2003 142 Dwinelle Hall UC Berkeley Campus http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Diaspora.htm 1:30 pm Opening Remarks 1:45 - 3:15 pm Panel I Gayatri Gopinath (Women and Gender Studies, UC Davis) “Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Representation and the Perils of Translation” Sirida Srisombati (History of Consciousness Program, UC Santa Cruz) “Two Tales of Globalization: Transnational Circuits of Thai Television” 3:30 - 4:45 pm Panel II Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (Dept. of History of Art, UC Berkeley) “’She’s my sister’: Adoption and Longing in Josephine Baker’s Zou Zou (1934)” Riché Richardson (Dept. of English, UC Davis) “The Caribbean Problematic in Contemporary American Media” 5:00 pm Hamid Naficy (Dept. of Art and Art History/Film and Media Studies, Rice University) "House, Home, and Homeland in Diasporic and Exilic Cinemas" Reception 7:30 - 9:30 pm Diasporic Aporias: Films and Filmmakers Anita Chang (in person), Mommy, What's Wrong?; Nguyen Tan Hoang (in person), Pirated!; Caveh Zahedi (in person), The World is a Classroom; Cauleen Smith, Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron; Tran T. Kim Trang, Aletheia; Walid Ra'ad, Hostage: The Bachar Tapes; Shashwati Talukdar, My Life as a Poster. Prof. Naficy is the author of The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (University of Minnesota Press, 1993) and An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (Princeton University Press, 2001). He has edited Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (Routledge, 1999). Organized by Monika Mehta and Tamao Nakahara, with programming assistance from Irina Leimbacher. Special thanks to the Dept. of Comparative Literature, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The Center for South Asia Studies, The Center for African Studies, The Film Studies Program, The Dept. of Anthropology, The Center for Race and Gender, and the Dept. of History of Art. For information, please see http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tamao/Diaspora.htm or call 510-527-6915. "Born to Be Bad: Trash Cinema Conference and Film Festival" http://www.trashcinema.com Tamao Nakahara Department of Italian Studies 6303 Dwinelle, #2620 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2620 phone: 510-527-6915 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]