March 27, 2008| Temple University| English Department| Tuttleman Hall, Room 101| 5:30 PM
TRANSLATOR, TRAITOR; TRANSLATOR, MOURNER (OR, DREAMING OF INTERCULTURAL EQUIVALENCE)
Rey Chow, Brown University
Rey Chow is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media. Her research interests include modern literature and film (with an emphasis on Asia), postcolonial studies, and critical/cultural theory. Professor Chow has authored seven books, most recently The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Columbia UP, 2002), The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work (Duke UP, 2006) and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility, (Columbia UP, 2007). She has also published over seventy articles and her work has been widely translated and anthologized. Professor Chow’s work has been recognized with awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Pembroke Center at Brown University, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
April 4, 2008| Temple University| Philosophy Department| TU Center City Campus, Room 222 | 4 PM
WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH MUSEUMS?
Beardsley Memorial Lecture in Aesthetics
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
