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Fall term 2000
This Humanities Institute will bring together scholars and cultural workers from
many backgrounds and across disciplines to discuss the determinants and effects
of globalization, urbanism, post-colonial identity, and cultural production
within the context of sites and spaces along the US-Mexico Border. Our focus on
Los Angeles, Mexico City, and the US-Mexico border region avoids the oftentimes
metaphoric references to spaces and places that can dilute genuine discussion.
Los Angeles and Mexico City in fact form two poles which perhaps best exemplify
the tensions of the modern world, which include patterns of post-colonial
transnationalism and the creation of postmodern urban landscapes. We intend that
scholars in the humanities and the social sciences will talk to, not past one
another, on the subject of the nature of space under conditions of globalization.
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