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Research Focus Group Roundtable: Race and the Question of Palestine: Lana Tatour in Conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber

1930 Buchanan Buchanan Hall, Isla Vista, CA, United States

The Catastrophes RFG invites you to a roundtable with Lana Tatour, in conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber and moderated by Sherene Seikaly, about Tatour's recent co-edited volume (with Ronit Lentin), Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book maintains that the colonization of Palestine cannot be understood outside the grammar of race, and it stresses the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism, settler ...

Talk: Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion-Realms through the Lens of The Peony Pavilion

1930 Buchanan Buchanan Hall, Isla Vista, CA, United States

In his talk, Lam will give a revisionist history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the idea of emotion as space – which the Chinese call “emotion-realm” (qingjing) – rather than a state of mind. If The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting, 1598) is the romantic play par excellence in early modern China, it is not because, as many assume, it celebrates emotion as the innermost essence of a liberated individual. Rather, it ...