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Dr. Kate Liu and Dr. Wenchi Lin Talks by two contemporary Taiwanese film scholars 2PM, Tuesday, July 17, 2007Room 599Buchanan Tower397 – 1873 East MallUniversity of British Columbia Wenchi Lin. The Subtle Complexity of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Poetics The emergent studies of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s poetics have mainly been cinematography oriented, just as most of the earlier…

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Rita has been working on a campaign to urge the Japanese government to apologize to the Korean, Chinese, Filipina, Burmese, Indonesian and Dutch women and children who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during WWII. Women and children as young as twelve were held at “comfort stations,” raped and tortured and forced…

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The Writer-in-Residence Programat Simon Fraser University presents Count Me In:Writing Public Selves SFU, Harbour CentreThursday, May 31, 2007 A colloquium exploring “the turn to language” asmedium and limit in current writing practices. What are the social and creative conditions of this turn? How do writers deal with the uneven effects of power relations, representation, and…

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Come help kick off an exciting new reading series! THURSDAY, MAY 17*Play Chthonics* Spring Reading : Fred Booker: Hiromi Goto: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk: Meredith Quartermain READING 7:30 pmRECEPTION 9:00 pm Room: COACH HOUSEGREEN COLLEGE, 6201 CECIL GREEN PARK ROAD, UBC (Green College is located at the north end of the UBC campus, across the street…

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home now. after granada, i passed briefly through frankfurt again, and had a lovely visit with katja sarkowski and her partner alex. breakfast with astrid franke, and afterwards delicious ice cream from what katja and alex assured me was the best in best shop in frankfurt. debriefed the conference a bit. learned much as well…

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spent the morning at the al hambra. nasrid palaces beautiful– carved plaster work, reflecting pools in central courtyards, arch after arch. evidence of the reconquista everywhere– huge architectural differences between the moorish kings (modest and interior) and the christian conquerors (all about external pride). beyond the walls granada, picturesque cluster of white houses on a…

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late night in seville. highlight of the german conference was reading experimental poetry to social and political scientists.talks in huelva and vigo about race, feminism, globalization and the two novels. both sfg and fox are being taught and written about down here, which is very cool.vigo looks strangely like st. john´s, especially down at the…

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sitting out in the balcony of the beautiful liepig hotel in frankfurt. life feels slower, everything i’ve seen or touched since landinghas been so aesthetically pleasing. olive bread, soft round wine, the double doors to my hotel room, the breakfast table with two tulips and an anthurium, the safe inside my closet, the tiles in…

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i was just checking my mailbox at school. garry morse mentioned awhile ago that he was making a package for me, which i thought was nice, but then didn’t think about it again. well, i just got the package. there are seventeen– count ’em– seventeen chapbooks– in it!! i’m not impressed by production for the…

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So I’m more or less in my new place now. It’ll be great to get those last boxes cleared away.Much travel coming up– to Frankfurt for a conference called “Negotiating Diversity”, then to Spain for talks in Huelva and Vigo. I’ll detour to Cordoba and Granada while I’m in the south– have had a longstanding…

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