Critical Perspectives Speaker Series III

Özyeğin University Critical Perspectives Speaker Series III will be held in FEAS 116 on Çekmeköy Campus on April 18, 2014, Friday between 13:00 and 16.00.
The event will be in English.

I. Prof. Rosa Linda Fregoso
Prof. Fregoso, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz Social Sciences Department, will give a speech on “Feminicide (Women Killings) in Latin America, Human Rights and the Limits of Carceral Feminism”. Her main research interests include human rights, culture, gender and racial violence, media and visual arts and cultural politics in the America.

Some of her selected works:
• Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas (co-edited with Cynthia Bejarano), Duke University Press, 2010.
• Coming to Grips with Feminicide, Truthout, 13 January 2012
• meXicana encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands, University of California Press, 2003.
• The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Works by Lourdes Portillo, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
• The Bronze Screen. Chicana and Chicano Film Culture, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.


II. Prof. Herman S. Gray
Prof. Gray, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz Social Sciences Department, will give a speech on “Television as a Resonance Machine: Identity, Politics, Neoliberalism”. His main research interests include black visual cultures and the production of subjects, jazz archives,  the role of music in the production of cultural identity, media representation and cultural politics.

Some of his selected works:
• TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF THE TRACE co edited with Macarena Gomez Barris (Minnesota Press) 2010.
• "John Coltrane and the Practice of Freedom" in L. Brown (Ed) John Coltrane & Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirtuality and The Music (Oxford) 2010.
• CULTURAL MOVES (California) 2005.
• WATCHING RACE: TELEVISION AND THE SIGN OF BLACKNESS. 2nd Edition (Minnesota) 2004.
• "The New Conditions of Black Cultural Production, Or Prefiguring of a Black Cultural Formation." In L.C. Bower, D. T. Goldberg, and M.Musheno , eds. Between Law and Culture: Relocating Legal Studies. (Minnesota), pp. 224-271, 2004.

Please click here to see the event program, and here for the event poster.