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DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend the 2021-2022 Monica Moore Speaker Se
 ries lecture and MTL End of Year Reception. Steven Lee (UC Berkeley) will b
 e presenting “Left and Right Melancholy across the Pacific”\, with MTL Comm
 ittee -in-Charge faculty\, Professor Roanne Kantor\, and MTL Ph.D. candidat
 es Jenny Evang\, and Michelle Ha responding. Please join us for this talk o
 n May 19\, in the Terrace Room (Building 460\, 4th Floor) from 3:30-4:30 wi
 th an End of Year MTL reception to follow with a wonderful spread catered b
 y Tea Traditions including an assortment of tea sandwiches\, sweets\, scone
 s\, and spirits. \n\n \n\nSteven Lee (MTL PhD ’08) is Associate Professor i
 n English at UC Berkeley. The author of The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cu
 ltures and World Revolution (Columbia UP\, 2015) and co-editor of Comintern
  Aesthetics (University of Toronto Press\, 2020)\, he is a scholar of compa
 rative ethnic studies\, critical theory\, and American literature.\n\n \n\n
 Respondents:\n\n \n\nRoanne Kantor is Assistant Professor of English and\, 
 by courtesy\, of Comparative Literature. Roanne Kantor's primary field is G
 lobal Anglophone literature and its relationship to other literary traditio
 ns of the Global South. She also works on the conditions for interdisciplin
 ary research in the humanities\, especially literature's interface with med
 icine and the humanistic social sciences. Kantor is also a translator and t
 he winner of the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. Before coming to Stanf
 ord\, Kantor taught at Harvard\, Boston University\, Brandeis\, and The Uni
 versity of Texas at Austin\, where she earned her Master’s and Ph.D.\n\n \n
 \nJenny Evang’s research uses queer theory to address broader questions of 
 knowledge production. She is particularly interested in rethinking the stak
 es of queer historiography and temporality. Her research focuses on how we 
 produce and use archives in a broad sense\, including national and institut
 ional archives\, contemporary media archives\, and the status and the notio
 n of the archive as such. Her current project explores the relation between
  Scandinavian history\, the rhetoric of gender equality\, and homonationali
 sm. Before coming to Stanford\, Jenny earned a BA in Physics and Gender and
  Sexuality Studies at Brown University.\n\n \n\nMichelle Ha is researching 
 the history of Korean indentured labor migration to Mexico in the early twe
 ntieth century as a case study for theorizing migration justice. In particu
 lar\, her aim to situate this history within studies of racialized migratio
 n patterns across colonial and imperial contexts and explore how it reflect
 s as well as departs from theoretical formulations of colonial migration ad
 vanced in normative scholarship. Her research is informed by her training i
 n international human rights and refugee law and inspired by multidisciplin
 ary approaches to studying the politics of knowledge production\, translati
 on\, and transnational/racial solidarity.\n \nBefore coming to Stanford\, s
 he was based in the Yucatán Peninsula as a visiting researcher at el Benemé
 rito Instituto Campechano in Campeche\, Mexico. Her research term was suppo
 rted by a 2020-2021 Fulbright-García Robles fellowship. She was also awarde
 d Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship funding to study Yucate
 c Maya. She received an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicag
 o\, a JD from Harvard Law School\, and a BA in Government from Dartmouth Co
 llege.\n\n \n\nThe Monica Moore Speaker Series is named after the administr
 ator and soul of the interdisciplinary graduate program of Modern Thought a
 nd Literature for forty years. It is the only endowed lecture at Stanford t
 hat honors a staff member
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LOCATION:Terrace Room \, Building 460 Room 426
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SUMMARY:Monica P. Moore Speaker Series: Steven Lee on "Left and Right Melan
 choly Across the Pacific" 
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