<rmm> FW: Rey Chow lecture in Amsterdam, October 1, 10.00-12.00

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The Modern East Asia Research Centre (MEARC) at Leiden University and Leiden University College The Hague are happy to invite you to attend a lecture in Amsterdam by one of the important thinkers in the humanities today,
Prof.dr. Rey Chow (Duke University) entitled
Framing the Original: Toward a new visibility of the Orient
This lecture is hosted by ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis), University of Amsterdam
Admission is free and registration is not necessary.
Chair: Chris Goto-Jones (Leiden University)
Discussant: Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam)
Lecture details
Date       Friday, 1 October 2010
Time      10.00-12.00
Venue    Doelenzaal (Library of the University of Amsterdam, UvA), Singel 425, Amsterdam
Abstract
With the rise of China to the status of an economic superpower, the paradigms for studying East Asia are undergoing fundamental changes in the early twenty-first century. What are some of these changes and how may they be understood in relation to issues of ideology, media technologies, and international cultural politics? These questions will be explored in this lecture with a focus on the film Lust, Caution.
Rey Chow is the Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. She contributes to as many disciplines as she weaves into her elegantly structured, comparative critiques, and her ever-expanding oeuvre confronts the interlocking and overlapping fields of film, sex, gender, ethnography, postcolonialism, visual culture, cultural studies, and Asian society and politics.
Rey Chow’s books include Writing Diaspora (1993); The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work  (2006); and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007). She has edited the collection Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (2000). Her book Primitive Passions received the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association in 1996.
In 2010 the first anthology of her work, The Rey Chow Reader (Paul Bowman, ed.) was published by Columbia UP.
Please note that the time and place of the event differ from the normal MEARC lectures.
For more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with MEARC via info at mearc.eu

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