Brooklyn Language Day
March 3, 2011
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
The Lucky Ones: Immigrant Brokers and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class
The Lucky Ones: Immigrant Brokers and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class
Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history at Columbia University, and author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010). Ngai has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, NYU Law School, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is now working on Yellow and Gold: The Chinese Mining Diaspora, 1848–1908, a study of Chinese goldminers in the 19th-century North American West, Australia and South Africa.
Language Politics in France and the Francophone World: A Historian's Perspective
Language Politics in France and the Francophone World: A Historian's Perspective
David G. Troyansky is professor of history and chair of the History Department. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and a visiting faculty member at the Université de Limoges. He is the author or co-editor of four books, including Old Age in the Old Regime (Cornell University Press, 1989) and Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World (University of Nebraska Press, 2009). In his talk he will offer reflections on history, language and identity and will focus on both the language politics of the French Revolution and the role of Francophonie in the contemporary era.
Photography and the Narrative Construction of Loss In Eduardo Belgrano Rawson's Fuegia
Photography and the Narrative Construction of Loss in Eduardo Belgrano Rawson's Fuegia
Magdalena Perkowska is associate professor of Spanish at Hunter College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. In her book, Historias híbridas: La nueva novela histórica latinoamericana (1985-2000) ante las teorías posmodernas de la historia (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert, 2008), she explores Latin American historical novels written and published at the crossroad of two moments: global postmodern rewriting-crisis of history, and political redemocratization in Latin America. She is a contributor to several critical anthologies on Latin American literature and the author of many articles published in academic journals. At present, she is finishing a book on photographic novels from Latin America (Visual Folds: Photography and Narrative in Contemporary Latin American Fiction) and is working simultaneously on the most recent fiction from Central America.
