“Between Innovation and Imitation: Media, Globalization and Cultural Hybridity in India”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Between Innovation and Imitation: Media, Globalization and Cultural Hybridity in India,” a talk by Radio/Television/Film Professor Shanti Kumar.

Wednesday, November 28, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Kumar’s research interests include television and new media technologies, global media studies, and postcolonial theory. He is the author of Gandhi Meets Primetime: Television and the Politics of Nationalism in Postcolonial India (University of Illinois Press, 2005) and co-editor of Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU Press, 2003).

“Cultural Alterity of Turkish Roma (‘Gypsies’) and Political Dis/Enfranchisement”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Cultural Alterity of Turkish Roma (‘Gypsies’) and Political Dis/Enfranchisement: Identity Politics, European Union, and Urban Development,” a talk by Ethnomusicology Professor Sonia Tamar Seeman.

Wednesday, November 21, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Seeman has done field research in Macedonia, Southeastern Europe and in Turkey on Rom, Turkish, and transnational musical practices. Her recent research interests explore emergent Turkish cultural expressions and ongoing configuration of ethnic and gendered identities in the wake of the European Union accession processes. Her talk draws from fieldwork conducted among Roma communities and organizations in Turkey to explore the dynamics of local, national and transnational politics, and implicates the key role of public performances of music and dance in forging political consciousness.

“Selena’s Memorial and Civic Maintenance in the Borderlands”

The Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies presents “Selena’s Memorial and Civic Maintenance in the Borderlands,” a talk by Professor Deborah A. Paredez, Department of Theatre and Dance.

Wednesday, November 14, 12-2pm
E. P. Schoch building – EPS 1.128
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Paredez’s recent work has focused on U.S. Latina/o performance and popular culture. Her articles, “Remembering Selena, Re-membering Latinidad,” (Theatre Journal, 2002) and “Becoming Selena, Becoming Latina” (Women and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, Duke University Press, 2007) comprise part of her forthcoming book, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory, that explores the afterlife of the Tejana performer, Selena Quintanilla Perez.