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Spring 2005 Internment Colloquium

All lectures will be held on Wednesdays, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Room 600 William & June Warren Hall (Amsterdam, between 115 & 116 St) Columbia Law School.  Light lunch will be served.

Wednesday, March 23
Eduardo Mendieta, Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Stonybrook, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Cultural Studies

PRISONS, TORTURE, EMPIRE: ON ANGELA Y. DAVIS'S ABOLITIONISM

Commentator: Sandhya Shukla, Professor at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Wednesday, March 30
James Der Derian, Professor (Research) of International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University and Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Political Science

THE PRISON HOUSE OF LANGUAGE: SEMIOPOLITICS V. BIOPOLITICS IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM

Commentator:  Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University

Wednesday, April 6
Gina Dent, Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Women's Studies, History Consciousness and Legal Studies

ON LAUGHTER: PRISONS, POPULAR CULTURE, INTERSUBJECTIVITY

Commentator:  Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Center for the Study of Law & Culture, Columbia University

Wednesday, April 13
Simon Cole, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of Social Ecology, Department of Criminology

THE TERRORIST WITHIN US: THE CASE OF BRANDON MAYFIELD

Commentator:  Elizabeth Povinelli, Professor at Columbia University, Department of Anthropology, and Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Center for the Study of Law & Culture

Wednesday, April 20
Joseph Masco, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology

FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE: THEORIZING STATE SECURITY

Commentator:  Bruce Robbins, Professor at Columbia University, Department of English & Comparative Literature, and Center for Comparative Literature and Society

For more information, please contact culture@law.columbia.edu or call 212-854-2511.

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