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SUMMARY: Nimrods: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION: Join us for the first Noted Scholar Lecture of 2024. Speaker: 
 Dr. Christopher B. Patterson in conversation with Dr. Mila Zuo  Wednesday\,
  January 17\, 2024 12:00-1:30 PM Pacific Time DUE to weather\, this event i
 s now online only Dr. Christopher B. Patterson will discuss his newly relea
 sed prose-poetry book\, Nimrods\, in a conversation with Dr. […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><span data-contrast="auto">Join us for the
  first Noted Scholar Lecture of 2024.</span></p><p><strong>Speaker:</strong
 ><br /><strong>Dr. Christopher B. Patterson i</strong><strong>n conversatio
 n with Dr. Mila Zuo </strong></p><p><strong>Wednesday\, January 17\, 2024</
 strong><br /><strong>12:00-1:30 PM Pacific Time</strong></p><h2><strong>DUE
  to weather\, this event is now online only<br /></strong></h2><p><span dat
 a-contrast="auto">Dr. Christopher B. Patterson will discuss his newly relea
 sed prose-poetry book\, <em>Nimrods</em>\, in a conversation with Dr. Mila 
 Zuo about poetry\, pictures\, and parents. <em>Nimrods</em> shamelessly mix
 es autotheory\, queer punk poetry\, musical ekphrasis\, haibun\, academic (
 mis)quotations\, and bad dad jokes to present a bold new take on the autobi
 ography: the fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir</span><span data-contrast="aut
 o">. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false\,"201341983":0\,"33555
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 lt="" width="233" height="300" />Kawika</span><span class="NormalTextRun SC
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  data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW101968543 BCX0" data-c
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  </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW101968543 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="
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  data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)"> American whose family is primarily from
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 won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Creative
  Prose\, and was adapted into a free-to-play video game\, </span></span><sp
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  a runner-up for both the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science
  Book Award\, and a finalist for the 2021 John Hope Franklin Publication Pr
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  venues. He co-founded two educational podcasts: New Books in Asian America
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 p><p><span data-contrast="auto"><strong><img class="alignleft wp-image-2804
 6 size-medium" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/4
 0/2023/12/Mila-Zuo-BW-1-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" />Dr. 
 Mila Zuo</strong> is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre an
 d Film at UBC\, as well as the Graduate Advisor for the Cinema & Media Stud
 ies graduate programs. Her research areas include transnational Asian cinem
 as\; film-philosophy\; abject and enchanted epistemologies\; star studies\;
  digital and new media\; and critical theories of gender\, sexuality\, and 
 race and ethnicity.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true\,"1342331
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 st="auto">Her book </span><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/vulgar-beauty
 "><i><span data-contrast="none">Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global
  Sensorium</span></i></a><i><span data-contrast="auto"> </span></i><span da
 ta-contrast="auto">(Duke University Press\, 2022) focuses on the affective 
 racialization of Chinese women film stars\, demonstrating the ways which vu
 lgar\, flavourful beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. A
 ccompanying research can be found in </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">W
 omen & Performance: a journal of feminist theory</span></i><span data-contr
 ast="auto">\, </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Celebrity Studies Journa
 l</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">\, </span><i><span data-contrast="au
 to">Journal of Chinese Cinemas</span></i><span data-contrast="auto">\,</spa
 n><i><span data-contrast="auto"> Feminist Media Histories </span></i><span 
 data-contrast="auto">journal</span><i><span data-contrast="auto">\, </span>
 </i><span data-contrast="auto">and in various anthologies on contemporary c
 inema and media studies. In addition to her scholarly work\, Zuo writes\, d
 irects\, and produces narrative films\, visual essays\, documentaries\, and
  music videos. Her short films have screened in international film festival
 s and universities\, including </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watc
 h?v=eYLVGQ4HU3M"><i><span data-contrast="none">Carnal Orient</span></i></a>
 <i><span data-contrast="auto"> </span></i><span data-contrast="auto">(2016)
  which premiered at Slamdance Film Festival\, and her short narrative film 
 </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Kin </span></i><span data-contrast="au
 to">(2021)\, which was the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Media Arts Fellowsh
 ip\, and screened at HollyShorts Film Festival. She is currently working on
  her third film\, </span><i><span data-contrast="auto">Mongoloids\, </span>
 </i><span data-contrast="auto">a hybrid docu-fiction project about the Chin
 ese Cultural Revolution and its impacts across generations. This research c
 reation work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Co
 uncil’s Insight Development Grant. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117
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 </p><p><span data-contrast="auto">Co-presented with the Public Humanities H
 ub\, UBC.</span></p>
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