The Emerging Epistemologies Project

The Emerging Epistemologies Project will consist of two events at UCLA built around workshops engaging with two junior faculty manuscript writers, Mignon Moore (Sociology) and Lucy Burns (Asian American Studies) in the winter quarter 2009 at UCLA and an event at UCR in spring 2009. The plan for the UCR event is forthcoming.

I. The workshop on Mignon’s manuscript, titled “Invisible Families: Gay Relationships and Motherhood among Black and Latina Women,” will be held on Thursday, February 12, 2009.

Professor Cathy Cohen (Political Science), University of Chicago, will be Mignon’s outside reader, Professor Gail Kligman (Sociology), and Professor Cesar Ayala (Sociology) will be Mignon’s UCLA faculty readers.

II. The workshop on Lucy’s manuscript, titled “At Rise: On Filipino American Theater and Performance,” will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2009.

Professor Martin Manalansan (Anthropology) UIUC, will be Lucy’s outside reader, Professor Rachel Lee (English), and Professor Victor Bascara (Asian American Studies) will be Lucy’s UCLA faculty readers.

Schedule for each event:

8:30-9:00: Coffee and pastries—participants arrive
9:00-11:30: Workshop
11:45-12:45: Lunch
12:45-2:30: Dessert and panel on “First books, Feminism, and the Future”

The dessert panel will feature four junior faculty from UCLA, UCR, and at least one other UC campus.  Each will speak for 5-10 minutes on their own book projects and how their project addresses, anticipates, and/or contributes to the future of the discipline within which they work, especially in relation to feminism, gender, and/or issues of sexuality.

After their presentations, we will open the discussion up to everyone at the luncheon, including the faculty mentors we have flown in and the UCLA faculty mentors for each workshop.  This will give the junior faculty who participate a tremendous opportunity to really think about these crucial questions in relation to their book projects and then get feedback from a number of senior faculty.  This panel addresses the themes we laid out in the proposal we submitted to UCHRI and also foregrounds the multi-campus reach of the project.

The morning event will be free and open to the public.  The luncheon will be open to the workshop participants, who will include outside and UCLA readers (see above), and invited participants from UCLA and UCR and the “First book” panel participants.  The post-luncheon panel will be free and open to the public.

Organized by Emory Elliott, Director, Center for Ideas and Society (CIS), UC Riverside, and Kathleen McHugh, English and Cinema and Media Studies; Director, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA.