Connelly Lecture: Foucault, Race, and Racism
Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University, will deliver the 2016 Connelly Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.
Chow's research comprises theoretical, interdisciplinary, and textual analyses. Since her years as a graduate student at Stanford University, she has specialized in the making of cultural forms such as literature and film (with particular attention to East Asia, Western Europe, and North America) and in the discursive encounters among modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and ethnicity.
Her book Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Duke, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she held appointments in the departments of comparative literature, English, and modern culture and media.
In her current work, Chow is concerned with the legacies of poststructuralist theory (in particular the work of Michel Foucault), the politics of language as a postcolonial phenomenon, and the shifting paradigms for knowledge and lived experience in the age of visual technologies and digital media.
Chow's visit is sponsored by the English department.
The College welcomes the participation of people with disabilities. Room 101 in the Rosenfield Center is equipped with an induction hearing loop system, which enables individuals with hearing aids set to T-Coil to hear the program. Accommodation requests may be made to Conference Operations, 641-269-3235.