„Denkplatz Bremen“ 2009: Prof. Ella Shohat, Prof. Robert Stam

Ella Shohat

Picture Ella Shohat

Professor Ella Shohat teaches cultural studies at New York University. She has lectured and published extensively on issues having to do with race, gender, Eurocentrism, Orientalism, post/colonialism, often transcending disciplinary and geographical boundaries. Her books include: Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006), Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (University of Texas Press, 1989), Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998); and with Robert Stam, the winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award, Unthinking Eurocentrism (Routledge, 1994), Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2007); and currently they are in the final stages of writing Culture Wars in Translation (to be published by NYU press). Shohat is also currently co-editing a book on the cultural politics of Middle Eastern diasporas throughout the Americas (University of Michigan Press.) Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Polish, Italian, and Turkish. A recipient of Rockefeller fellowship, Shohat has also taught at Cornell’s School of Theory & Criticism, and served on the editorial board of several journals, including Critique, Meridians and Social Text.

Robert Stam

Picture Robert Stam

Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. His books include Literature through Film: Realism, Magic and the Art of Adaptation  (Blackwell, 2005); Film Theory: An Introduction  (Blackwell, 2000); Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Duke University Press, 1997); Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989); Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard.  (UMI, 1985, Reprinted Columbia Press, 1992), and Brazilian Cinema (with Randal Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1995). With Ella Shohat, Unthinking Eurocentrism (Routledge, 1994), Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2007). He has taught in France, Tunisia, and Brazil, and his work has been translated into French, Italian, Greek, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Ukranian, and Serbo-Croatian. He is currently a Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.


Öffentliche Vorträge

"Culture Wars in Translation"

8 June 2009, 6-8 pm
Gästehaus der Universität Bremen, Auf dem Teerhof 58, 28199 Bremen

"The Red Atlantic"

15 June 2009, 6-8 pm
Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstr. 4/5, 28195 Bremen, Olbers-Saal


Interview mit Ella Shohat und Robert Stam vom August 2009