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Sharon Luk, "The Life of Paper, a Poetics: Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California"

Sharon Luk
Assistant Professor of English
University of Oregon

The Life of Paper, a Poetics:
Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California

The Young Scholars Lecture Series is a Program of the University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California,
at UC Irvine, In Conjunction with

The UC Irvine Workshop in Blackness and the Asian Century,
A Program of the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, at UC Irvine

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian American Studies, African American Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and English, at UC Irvine

Light Refreshments will be available at the event.
For information contact: blackthought@uci.edu.

*The work of scholarship is often pushed to the background, in the contemporary configuration of the field of matters African American and the African Diaspora (this can remain true in some other configurations of contemporary knowledge as well). Wherein, on the contrary, theoretical disposition and proclamations of affiliation have often been afforded the foreground. While affirming acute theoretical work, this lecture series accentuates the exacting scholarly dimension of the work required from young practitioners in order for them to produce the most profound and lasting contributions to knowledge, both within the academic formation of the fields they inhabit and within contemporary practices of understanding in general.