Professor Rakesh Bhandari is offering a fabulous new graduate course in Critical Theory in the Spring of 2012.
Check it out the syllabus here
Gary Wren's film series
Professor Gary Wren is planning a film series. Please get in touch with him if you are interesting in planning such event.
Donna Jones receivesd the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
ISF Advisory Board Member Donna Jones received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to for her book The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity, published by Columbia University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the Modern Language Association and that involves at least two literatures. The prize was one of eighteen awards that were presented on 7 January 2012, during the association’s annual convention, held in Seattle. Donna V. Jones’s Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude,Vitalism, and Modernity is a groundbreaking study of négritude and its major theorists, the poets Léopold Senghor and Aimé Césaire, that examines their adaptation and transformation of the philosophies of vitalism proposed by Henri Bergson. Carefully tracing the tradition of Western modernity that posits the mechanical state and mechanism as its dominant forms, Jones shows how Senghor and Césaire rework “vital force” in their metaphysics and poetics and how—even as it is implicated in forms of racism and colonialism— vitalism remains an important influence on modern discourses of postcolonialism and racial emancipation. Expansive in its range and precise in its readings, the book invites a Significant rethinking of important movements and philosophies of the Twentieth century. Donna V. Jones is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was previously affiliated with Princeton University and Stanford University. She received her MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She’s had articles published in journals such as Modernism/Modernity, Diacritics, and Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. Her two current projects are manuscripts entitled “The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Era of the Great War” and “The Tribunal of Life: Reflections on Race, Vitalism and Biopolitics.”
Should Access to Microcredit be considered a Human Right?
ISF student Deborah Marie Frias is doing research on ‘Should Access to Microcredit be considered a Human Right? Deborah was awarded the Osher Reentry Student Scholarship. She is pursuing a Judicial Adminstraction Fellowship in the San Francisco Courts.
ISF student Antonio Alcala is teaching a De Cal this semester.
ISF Students: Congratulations!
Attention Undergraduates! Win $1,000! Apply for the 2011 Jengyee Prize Leadership for a Better World
Commencement 2012
Please visit the UGIS Commencement Ceremony Information website for the additional information on commencement.
