Thursday, November 19, 2009
7 pm, Reavis 211
Presented by Shelley Salamensky,
Assistant Professor, Performance Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles.
"Home" is a powerful symbolic notion across cultures and eras: a metaphoric site of origin, birth, growth, refuge, and reintegration, as well as one of death and closure. The temporal and spatial disorientations of today's increasingly fast-paced, unsettled, virtualized, global lifestyle may leave even the more fortunate among us feeling "homeless," if only conceptually. In this lively presentation, Professor Salamensky explores a wide variety of fascinating contemporary literary, performance, film, and art works, as well as bizarre social phenomena, drawn from Jewish, East Asian, Southeast Asian, American, and other cultures that, she argues, can help us to re-imagine home, exile, longing, belonging, time, and place for the future.
Sponsored by College of Liberal Arts and Science, the department of English, the Department of History, and the Center fro Research on Festive Culture. This lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.