Friday, Nov. 14, 2002 12:00 pm, Ballantine 004 Due to techinical difficulties, the audio broadcast of this colloquium is not available. Gail Hershatter (University of California at Santa Cruz) "Forget Remembering: Oral Narratives and Archive Delirium on the Trail of China's Recent Past"

Gail Hershatter is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she directs the Institute for Humanities Research and co-directs the Center for Cultural Studies. Her most recent book is Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (University of California, 1997), which has just appeared in Chinese translation. She is completing a short "state of the field" reference book on studies of twentieth-century Chinese women. Her current research project, from which this talk is drawn, is entitled "The Gender of Memory: Rural Chinese Women and the 1950s."