An Examination of Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston
When: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 3 p.m.
Where: Women's Ctr., UCSB Campus, CA
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Lectures
Description: In 1989, Isaac Julien released Looking for Langston, using the figure of American poet Langston Hughes to explore historical attitudes toward black male homosexuality. According to Naima Keith, dissertation scholar in Black Studies, Julien’s film asserted the specificity of a black gay male figure located firmly within diasporic modernity. No longer the “face of the Harlem Renaissance,” Hughes is revised and updated according to a sensibility for which the repression of interracial, queer, and other homosocial themes is no longer feasible. Keith will re-examine the cultural studies paradigm of 1980s London, providing an in-depth reading of Looking for Langston that unearths Julien’s dialogue with artist Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography.
For more information about this event or to accommodate a disability, please contact Sharon Hoshida, acting director, or Beth Currans, program director, at the UCSB Women’s Center, (805) 893-3778, or by e mail at sharon.hoshida@sa.ucsb.edu or elizabeth.currans@sa.ucsb.edu. This event is free and open to the public, however, there is a charge for parking and there are parking permit dispensers in all of the parking lots. These dispensers do not give change, but they do take credit cards. There is ample parking available in the new parking structure, Parking Lot 22, directly across the walkway from the new Student Resource Building where the Women’s Center is located.
Phone: 805-893-3778
Event posted April 9, 2008
Last updated May 12, 2008
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