Experiencing
CSC Experiencing
Cultural Studies Colloquium a forum for interdisciplinary research
George Mason University | Spring 2015
Evidence
What is at stake in projects that demand we experience evidence?
What possibilities for the decolonization of knowledge practices might become available from surrender to experience?
Thursday, February 19, 4:30-‐6:30pm Student Union I (SUB I), Room 3A
Carlos Decena
Rutgers University
Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Co-‐sponsored by Latin American Studies and Women and Gender Studies
Carlos Decena is the author of Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-‐Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men (Duke University Press, 2011) as well as articles in Social Text, Papeles de Población, and GLQ, among others. His presentation will draw from on-‐going fieldwork on Yoruba religious practice and transnational kinship building in the Dominican Republic, Havana, and New York/New Jersey.
CSC is presented by the Cultural Studies Program of George Mason University, bringing scholars of diverse methodological, theoretical, and topical expertise to share new and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. We are grateful to University Life and the ICC for funding that helped make this possible. For questions or more information, please email colloquium coordinator Craig Willse, [email protected], or contact the Cultural Studies office at 703-993-2851 | http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu.
Cultural Studies Colloquium a forum for interdisciplinary research
George Mason University | Spring 2015
Evidence
What is at stake in projects that demand we experience evidence?
What possibilities for the decolonization of knowledge practices might become available from surrender to experience?
Thursday, February 19, 4:30-‐6:30pm Student Union I (SUB I), Room 3A
Carlos Decena
Rutgers University
Associate Professor Women’s and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
Co-‐sponsored by Latin American Studies and Women and Gender Studies
Carlos Decena is the author of Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-‐Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men (Duke University Press, 2011) as well as articles in Social Text, Papeles de Población, and GLQ, among others. His presentation will draw from on-‐going fieldwork on Yoruba religious practice and transnational kinship building in the Dominican Republic, Havana, and New York/New Jersey.
CSC is presented by the Cultural Studies Program of George Mason University, bringing scholars of diverse methodological, theoretical, and topical expertise to share new and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research. We are grateful to University Life and the ICC for funding that helped make this possible. For questions or more information, please email colloquium coordinator Craig Willse, [email protected], or contact the Cultural Studies office at 703-993-2851 | http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu.
