Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has published widely on queer cinema and queer cultural politics in Asia, particularly Hong Kong. Her first book Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong is forthcoming in 2008 from the University of British Columbia Press. She has also been involved with Out On Screen: Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival in various capacities over the years as panel organizer, community programmer, and jury member. She is currently developing a new project on cinematic violence and intimacy in “body genres.”

Local Sex on Global Screens? Introduction

Local Sex on Global Screens? Video

Questions & Discussion Video

Local Sex on Global Screens? Podcast

Jacques Rancière is the Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris VIII where he taught from 1969 to 2000. He continues to teach, as a visiting professor, in a number of Universities, including Rutgers, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Berkeley. His work has been translated into 14 languages, and has been subject to numerous special issues, symposia and critical commentaries. His latest titles to appear in English translation are Disagreement, Politics, and Philosophy (1998), Short Voyages to the Land of the People (2003), The Philosopher and his Poor (2004), The Flesh of Words (2004), The Politics of Aesthetics (2005), Film Fables (2006), and The Hatred of Democracy (2007).

The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Introduction 1

The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Introduction 2

The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Video

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The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking Podcast

Devon Peña is Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies and an activist in the environmental justice movement. His book, The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border won the “1998 Outstanding Academic Book” award of Choice Magazine and the American Library Association. The book is a study of women workers and their struggles against capitalism and environmental destruction in the maquiladora industry of Juarez, Mexico. His most recent book is Mexican Americans and the Environment (2005, University of Arizona Press). Peña is adjunct professor with Women’s Studies, the Center for Water and Watershed Studies, Latin American Studies, Program on the Environment, and the Institute for Public Health Genetic.

Transnational Place-Making Video

Transnational Place-Making Podcast

Thomas Foster is Professor of English at the University of Washington, and the former director of the Cultural Studies Program and an adjunct faculty member in Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He is the author of The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (University of Minnesota Press). This talk forms part of his current book project, which is focused on the expropriation of cyberpunk convention by writers and artists of color and is tentatively entitled Ethnicity and Technicity: Race, Nature, and Culture in the Cyberpunk Archive.

Innocent by Contamination Video

Questions & Discussion Video

Innocent by Contamination Podcast