Date: 10/18/2016
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Mac Classroom
Description
Shirley Lim: “Anna May Wong: Glamourizing Racial Modernity”
Chinese American actress Anna May Wong broke the codes of yellowface, the derogatory depiction of Asians by European Americans, in both American and European theater and cinema to become one of the major global actresses of Asian descent between the world wars. Born near Los Angeles’ Chinatown in 1905, Wong made close to sixty films that circulated around the world, headlined theater and vaudeville productions in locations ranging from Sydney to Paris to New York and, in 1951, had her own television show, The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong.
Shirley Jennifer Lim is Associate Professor of History and affiliate faculty in Women and Gender Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, and Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The author of A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960 (NYU 2006), she is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled “Performing the Modern.”
Charles Taber: “The Rationalizing Voter”
Conventional models of voter decision making assume that citizens engage in a careful consideration of pros and cons, issues and traits, eventually casting their ballots for the candidates closest to them in issue space. By contrast, this talk will focus on unconscious political thinking and the subterranean forces that determine how citizens evaluate political leaders, groups, and issues. It is the culmination of a twenty-year collaboration to chart the stream of political information processing, which constructs political deliberation and behavior, and the impact of early, unnoticed feelings on this process. In a very real sense, the presidential election of 2016 is an illustration of The Rationalizing Voter.
Charles Taber has been on the faculty at Stony Brook University since 1989 and is Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, as well as a Professor of Political Science. Taber received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1991, and is a leading scholar in the fields of political psychology and computational modeling, with over 60 scholarly publications. He has been a pioneer in the use of computational modeling in political science, publishing the first article using this method in a major political science journal (American Political Science Review, 1992) as well as a widely-used text for computational modeling in the social sciences (Computational Modeling, Sage, 1996). Taber has made significant contributions to the growing literature on the psychological mechanisms that drive public opinion. In 2000, he received the Paul Lazersfeld outstanding paper award from the American Political Science Association for a paper on the causes of bias in political reasoning, published in the American Journal of Political Science. Along with Milton Lodge, Taber has developed an influential theory of unconscious thinking in political behavior. Their 2013 book, The Rationalizing Voter, from Cambridge University Press, won the Robert E. Lane Book Award and the Book of the Year Awards from the Experimental Politics and Migration and Citizenship Sections of the American Political Science Association. Taber’s research and career have been the subject of numerous profiles in the scientific and popular press, including in Science, Scientific American, and Mother Jones. He has received nine research grants from the National Science Foundation, has edited the journal Political Psychology, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading political science journals.
Location: Special Collections Seminar Room, second floor, Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library (room E-2340), Stony Brook University (directions).
Please note: food and drink are not permitted in the seminar room.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Kristen J. Nyitray
Head, Special Collections & University Archives
University Archivist
Associate Librarian
kristen.nyitray@stonybrook.edu
(631) 632-7119
Registration
This event is fully booked.
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