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The College of Arts and Letters
"Powerful Visions" Series
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“Powerful Visions”
The
Arts and Letters Powerful Visions Lecture Series
was launched in 2004. Through the generous support and cooperation of
the Huntington Library
the lectures are held in the month of February in
the “Overseers’ Room” usually
at mid-day. Each year the event has been “standing room only” with
representative members of the California State University Los Angeles
(CSULA) campus—faculty, staff, and students along with a generous
mix of folks from the local community, as well as
members and friends of the Huntington Library.
The Series began in 2004 with a very simple premise:
to provide an occasion and opportunity for faculty, staff and students
within the College of Arts and Letters at CSULA to gather in a refined
and serene environment to share cutting edge research in a manner that
opens spaces of critical thought, engage meaningful intellectual and social
exchange, and project powerful visions for academic work, social activism and critical aesthetics.
Each year, those who have attended have been challenged by creatively
constructed and intellectually astute presentations. Undergraduate and
graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend and special attention
is given to foregrounding their voice in the scholarly conversation.
2008: Studies in/of Narrative:
Four Critical Essays on Social Facsimiles and Fractured Images of EverydayLife.
Michael Calabrese
Professor of English
"Editing Piers Plowman and Teaching the Medieval Past"
Kristiina Hackel
Assistant Professor of Television, Film and Media Studies
“The Cinematic Mask: Charlie Chaplin as a Modern Primitive.”
Jim Ovelmen
Assistant Professor, Animation, Department of Art
"Looks Like Animation: Facsimiles of Animation Practice into Contemporary Fine Art (Fractured Expectations and Side-Tripping)"
Hema Chari
Professor of English
“Raking the Ashes of Memory: Fragmented Silences and Trauma in Kazuo
Ishiguro’s A Pale View of the Hills"
2007 Studies in Epistemology:
Knowing through/in Literature, Philosophy, Music and Language
Paola Marin
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
“In Praise of Multiplicity: The Centrality of Humanities in Education”
Andrew Knighton
Department of English
"Thoughts on Thinking, Composed in the Intervals of More Hurried Academic
Labor"
Susan Kane
Department of Music
“ . . . The Rest of the Story”
Joseph Prabhu
Department of Philosophy
“Engaging the World Critically”
2006: Studies in Cultural Diversions:
Four Critical Examinations of Cultural Performance and Racial Encounter
Manual Aguilar-Moreno
Department of Art
“Ulama: The Survival of the Pre-Columbian Ballgame in Northern Mexico”
Victor Viesca
Department of Liberal Studies
“Mural or Graffiti?” Chicana/o Aersol Art in Nuevo La”
Michael Willard
Department of Liberal Studies
“Collecting Visions: The Politics of Popular Culture and Interracial Exchange
in 1940s Los Angeles”
Michelle Hawley
Department of English
“(Re)Placing Children’s Literature: Urban Spaces in Latina/o
Picture Books”
2005: Studies in Politics and Poiesis:
Four Critical Examinations of Cultural Production and Social Life
Susan Mason
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
“Guerilla Theatre: Performance, Poiesis, and Stealth”
Patrick Sharp
Department of Liberal Studies
“ ‘A Very Pleasant Way to Die’: Race and the Official Representation of Hiroshima”
SanSan Kwan
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
“Shanghai Refracted: Chinese Postmodernity”
Robert DeChaine
Department of Liberal Studies
“Mobilizing Global Rhetorical Culture: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines
and the Crafting of Humanity."
2004: Studies in Race and Representations:
Four Critical Examinations of Race and Visibility
Gregory Fried
Department of Philosophy
“Seeing the Past and Future in Early American Photography”
Bryant Alexander,
Department of Communication Studies
“Raced Bodies and the Erasure of Identity in the Classroom”
Micol Seigel
Department of Liberal Studies
“The Evidence of Appearance; Race and Visibility in the US and Brazil”
Steve Classen
Department of Communication Studies, Media and Film
“Re-viewing TV and Jim Crow: A Case Study Past and Present ”
For more information: contact the Associate Dean,
College of Arts and Letter 323.343.5626.
The Huntington, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is located at 1151
Oxford Road, San Marino, California 91109 626.405.2135
