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UNDER CONSTRUCTION<\/h3>
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2015-2016 Series<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Desert of the Real<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2015-16, COMMA hosted a year-long investigation of the desert’s arid affordances and apocalyptic imaginaries. As sites of political and aesthetic revolution, deserts solicit alternative\u00a0modes of viewing, thinking, and being. The series featured a film series, reading groups, and talks by scholars who traversed terrains both rich and desolate.<\/p>\n

George Miller\u2019s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior<\/em> (1981)<\/span><\/p>\n

May 27, 2016 at 1:00 in SH 2714<\/p>\n

\"MadMax\"<\/p>\n

Please join us for the final meeting in our 2015-16 series, \u201cIn The Desert of the Real\u201d with a screening of the second film in George Miller\u2019s Mad Max<\/em> series. Set in a post-apocalyptic desert landscape, the film interweaves themes of war, energy, resource scarcity, and environmental justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cRed Deserts<\/em>: A Color Without Substance\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A talk by Tarek Elhaik<\/p>\n

April 8, 2016 at 1:00 in SH 2623<\/p>\n

Please join us as we continue our 2015-16 series, \u201cIn the Desert of the Real\u201d with a talk by Tarek Elhaik (Department of Anthropology, UC Davis). This talk stems from a series of encounters with artists\u00a0whose \u201cEarth\u201d is grounded in what Elhaik calls a \u201cgeo-curation.\u201d Among these artists is Michelangelo Antonioni whose 1964 classic\u00a0Technicolor film Red Desert<\/em> will as our point of departure. By combining anthropological theories of color (Taussig, 2009; Levi-Strauss, 1964) and Deleuze\u2019s meditation on Antonioni\u2019s \u201cgeophysics,\u201d the talk remediates and reconfigures Earth as an enduring form and \u201cincurable-image\u201d (Elhaik, 2016) of the so-called Anthropocene.\u00a0 By assembling images from Red Desert<\/em> alongside those of Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty<\/em> (1970) and Tareq Teguia\u2019s film Inland<\/em> (2008) Antonioni\u2019s geo-curation emerges as a\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 human practice that inhabits the world as a desert without a substance.<\/p>\n

Abderrahmane Sissako\u2019s\u00a0Timbuktu<\/em> (2014)<\/span><\/p>\n

Feb. 26, 2016 at 1:00 in SH 2635<\/p>\n

Please join us as we continue our 2015-16 series, \u201cIn the Desert of the Real\u201d with a screening of\u00a0 Abderrahmane Sissako\u2019s award winning film, Timbuktu<\/em> (2014). Inspired by a public execution, Sissako\u2019s film\u00a0\u00a0 offers a gritty exploration of cultural conflict resulting from the occupation of Timbuktu by a jihadist faction. As always, we will reserve time after the film for discussion and pizza will be provided.<\/p>\n

Nacer Khemir Wanderers of the Desert<\/em> (1984)<\/span><\/p>\n

Feb. 12, 2016 at 1:00 in SH 2635<\/p>\n

Please join us as we continue our 2015-16 series, \u201cIn The Desert of the Real\u201d with a screening of the first film in Nacer Khemir\u2019s \u201cDesert Trilogy.\u201d Set in a small town on the edge of an immense desert, Wanderers of the Desert<\/em> interweaves myth and dream in order to explore tensions between modern and traditional values.<\/p>\n

2014-2015 Events<\/b><\/p>\n

Jed Esty, “Modernist Worlds at War: Wells, Welles, Spielberg, and Anglo-American Paranoia”<\/span><\/p>\n

October 22, 2014<\/p>\n

\"troops<\/a><\/p>\n

Please join COMMA on\u00a0Wednesday, October 22nd @ 4pm<\/strong>\u00a0for our kick-off event of the 2014-15 academic year as we welcome Jed Esty, author of\u00a0Unseasonable Youth: Modernism,\u00a0Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford 2012) and\u00a0A\u00a0Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England\u00a0<\/i>(Princeton 2004). He will be sharing new research regarding the War of the Worlds across media, from H. G. Wells, to Orson Welles, to Spielberg.<\/p>\n

This event will be held in South Hall, room 2714. Refreshments to follow.<\/p>\n

2013-2014 Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Garrity, “Vanessa Bell’s Sartorial Primitivism”<\/span><\/p>\n

April 11, 2014<\/p>\n

\"vanessa<\/p>\n

Jane Garrity is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. \u00a0Her research focus is on early 20th-century British literature, with a special interest in: modernism and empire; gender and sexuality studies; cultural studies.\u00a0 She is the author of\u00a0Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary\u00a0(Manchester University Press, 2003); the editor of a special issue on \u201cQueer Space,\u201d\u00a0ELN: English Language Notes\u00a0(Spring 2007); and the co-editor, with Laura Doan, of\u00a0Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women, and National Culture\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She is currently at work on a book titled\u00a0Material Modernism: Fashioning Bloomsbury. Her talk considers the effect of primitivism on\u00a0avante garde<\/em> fashions produced by Vanessa Bell’s Omega Workshop.<\/p>\n

“Shifting Ground” — Southern California Irish Studies Consortium Conference<\/span><\/p>\n

March 8, 2014<\/p>\n

In 1988, Edward Said, Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton spoke in Ireland in a series sponsored by Field Day on postcoloniality and Irish literature, culture and society. \u00a0This was just over a quarter century ago, and much has changed since. \u00a0The coming SCISC conference aims to take stock of some of these changes, to consider how critics of the new Irish and global order can approach \u00a0the shifting grounds of contemporary culture, and to explore how the past might be reimagined in the light of recent changes.<\/p>\n

Participants Include: David Lloyd (UC Riverside), Gregory Castle (Arizona State), Laura O’Conner (UC Irvine), and Catherine Flynn (UC Berkley)<\/p>\n

Download the\u00a0SCISC schedule 2014<\/a>\u00a0(pdf).<\/p>\n

Glyn Salton-Cox,\u00a0“Red Rhetoric and Parrhesiastic Politics: Foucault’s Late Lectures in the Mid-Century”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

December 3, 2014<\/p>\n

UCSB English’s new faculty, Glyn Salton-Cox, shares some of his current research on how the figure of the\u00a0parrhesiast —<\/em>\u00a0the “truth-teller” of Ancient Greece who Michel Foucault discusses in his 1984 lectures — can help us read contemporary revolutionary culture. This talk supplements the COMMA reading group’s ongoing discussion of Foucault’s final writings.<\/p>\n

2012-2013 Events<\/a><\/p>\n

2011-2012 Events<\/a><\/p>\n

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