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The NYU Africana Studies program is sponsoring a conference entitled "Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies", being held at Tishman Auditorium at Vanderbilt Hall at NYU on Oct 11-12, 1996. Isaac Julien will be screening his film "Black Skin, White Mask" at 7:30 pm on Friday Oct. 11th. Panel discussions on Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th will include: Francoise Verges,Gayatri Spivak,Stuart Hall, Kobena Mercer, and Ella Shohat.
The English Institute at Harvard University held the 55th annual session Friday Oct. 11th, 1996. 2pm - Sun. Oct. 13, 1996 5pm at Longfellow Hall in Cambridge, MA. The conference was entitled "Public Fantasy"; "What is the role of fantasy in collective imagination-in the social institutions, media technologies, and aesthetics of identity that shape the public sphere?" (from the "press" release) The sessions are as follows: Racial Imaginaries: w/ Saidiya Hartman, Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha Erotic Arts w/ Lee Edelman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Constance Penley, and Leo Bersani Mediated Publics w/ Diana Fuss, Thomas Keenan, Kobena Mercer, and Patricia White Collective Memories w/ K. Anthony Appiah, Marianne Hirsch, and Margaret Homans