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DATE: 12/29/2006
CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, www.international.wisc.edu, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu
BOOKS ON GLOBAL FEMINISM, PINOCHET’S CHILE HEADLINE 2007 “WORLD BEYOND OUR BORDERS” SERIES
Madison, WI – Books on global feminism and Pinochet’s Chile will lead off the University of Wisconsin–Madison International Institute and Borders Books spring 2007 series, “World Beyond Our Borders.”
The series, featuring books by UW–Madison faculty, has presented over 30 authors since its inception in 2003. “World Beyond our Borders” highlights readings and discussions on international subjects. All events are at 7 p.m. at Borders West, 3750 University Avenue, Madison, WI. The dates are subject to change.
Thursday, February 8 — Aili Tripp (Political Science, Women’s Studies) and Myra Marx Ferree, (Sociology), editors, Global Feminism (New York University Press, 2006). Through a series of important essays, this book details and analyzes the work of feminist activists around the world, revealing much about women’s changing rights, treatment and global impact.
Tuesday, March 6 — Steve J. Stern (History), Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973-1988 (Duke University Press, 2006). Stern’s timely book is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Tuesday, April 10 — Rebecca L. Walkowitz (English), Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Columbia University Press, 2006) and editor of Immigrant Fictions:Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). In Cosmopolitan Style, Walkowitz engagingly shows how Joyce, Conrad, and Woolf developed a repertoire of narrative strategies that were later transformed by Rushdie, Ishiguro, and Sebald. Immigrant Fiction, a special issue of the journal Contemporary Literature, suggests that immigrant writers need to be read across several “geographies” of production, circulation, and translation.
Tuesday, May 8 — Aseema Sinha,(Political Science), The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana University Press, 2005). Winner of the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, American Institute of Indian Studies, the book offers a new look at economic development in India, focusing on interactions between the central state and regional elites.