November 13
– 4:15 p.m. “The Future of Space: Inventing Architecture” Elizabeth Grosz, Human Sciences Program, George Washington University
Humanities Auditorium 7:30 p.m. “Culture and Land Speculation” Fredric Jameson, Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University
November 14
– 9:00 a.m. “The Coffin Learns to Dance: Maritime Space and Imaginary Economics” Allan Sekula, California Institute of the Arts
– 10:30 a.m. Roundtable Discussion with symposium participants
November 30
-“Uses of the City in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Chen Kaige’s Temptress Moon” Rey Chow, Department of English, University of California, Irvine 4:15 p.m. Humanities Auditorium
In this era of international power transfers, our final speaker will be Rey Chow, author of Primitive Passions: Visuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize.