Please note that the dialogues take place in two different rooms, Herter 301 or 601. Printer friendlier version "Investigating Issues of Translation and Power"  Tuesday, September 18th, 5:30 p.m., Herter 601 Edwin Gentzler , Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Director, Translation Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Maria Tymoczko , Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Faculty, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Rethinking National Cinemas"  Tuesday, October 2nd, 5:30 p.m., Herter 301 Anne Ciecko, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst  Patrick Mensah , Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Re-figuring Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America" Tuesday, October 16th, 5:30 p.m., Herter 601 Dana Leibsohn , Associate Professor of Art, Smith College Sura Levine, Associate Professor of Art History, Hampshire College "(De)provincializing Europe:  The Ethics of Cultural Study"  Tuesday, October 30th, 5:30 p.m., Herter 301  Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan , Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst  Sara Lennox, Director, STPEC (Program in Social Thought and Political Economy) and Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Punk:  Twenty - Five Years and No Future"  Tuesday, November 6th, 5:30 p.m., Herter 301 David Lenson , Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Roger Rideout , Professor, Department of Music and Dance, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "National Identity in the Public Sphere" Tuesday, November 20th, 6:30 pm (note time change)  Srirupa Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Michelle Stephens , Assistant Professor, Department of English and American Studies, Mt. Holyoke College "El Mexterminator and Synthetic Sadhus: Race, Nation, and Globalization" Tuesday, November 27th, 5:30 p.m., Herter 301 Randall Knoper , Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Sunaina Maira , Assistant Professor, Department of English and Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst  "Cultural Studies in the Future of Comparative Literature" Tuesday, December 11th, 5:30 p.m., Herter 601 Lucien Miller , Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst William Moebius , Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst