Thursday 23 January 2025, 4pm
Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building
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Speaker: Anne Anlin Cheng
Professor Cheng will be discussing a chapter from her recently published book Ordinary Disasters: On How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, addressing themes of White and Asiatic femininity and feminism, ideas of female self-control and curation, the vicissitudes of agency within feminist thinking, and the Orientalism of American Transcendentalism and the Occidentalism of "Eastern simplicity".
Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies, at Princeton. She is an interdisciplinary, comparative race scholar who focuses on the uneasy intersection between politics and aesthetics. Her scholarship draws widely from literary and visual studies, race and gender studies, film and architectural theory, legal studies, and psychoanalysis. She works primarily with twentieth-century American literature and visual culture with special focus on Asian American and African American literatures. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race (2000), Second Skin (2000), and Ornamentalism (2018).
Moderator: Aleksandra Avgust (Oxford University) is a queer visual artist and writer originally from Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and is currently working towards her master’s in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her work focuses on modernist visual cultures, queer relationality and homosocial spaces, aesthetics of androgyny, potentiality of negative affect and subversive modes of embodiment.
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