Jenifer K. Wofford’s “MacArthur’s Nurses” (2008)
Your Salonniere has organized the reading list for this summer’s Collegiate Seminar Faculty Retreat for Saint Mary’s College of California. The theme of this retreat, “Into the Woods,” focuses on perception and consciousness of the Unknown, the Other, and the Wild. Inspired by the advocacy work of poet and professor Barbara Jane Reyes, who also introduced me to Jenifer K. Wofford’s art, these selections, juxtaposed together, will hopefully reveal surprising similarities among artists who might otherwise seem disparate. I’m looking forward to seeing how the faculty respond to the works individually and as a collective.
Schedule for the Neville and Juanita Massa Institute
at Huntington Lake, Summer 2010
July 29- August 1
“Into the Woods”
Thursday, July 29
8:00 – 10:00pm, Session I: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (poem), 1817.
Friday, July 30
10:00 am – noon, Session II: Trinh T. Minh-ha, “The Language of Nativism” (46-64) (essay excerpt), from Women Native Other, 1989 [facilitator TBD].
7:30 – 9:30pm, Session III: E.M. Forster, “Introduction” and “Other Kingdom” (short story) from The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories, 1947 [facilitator TBD].
Saturday, July 31
10:00am – noon, Session IV: Carlos Bulosan, “The Growth of Philippine Culture” (115-123), “My Education” (124-130), “Freedom from Want” (131-134) (essays) from On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings and Jenifer K. Wofford, “MacArthur Nurses” (painting) 2008, and MacArthur’s Leyte Landing, (photo) October 1944 [facilitator TBD]
7:30 – 9:00pm, Session V: Louise Erdrich, “The Good Tears” from Love Medicine (novel excerpt) 1984.
Sunday, August 1
10:00am – noon, Session VI: Slavoj Zizek, “The Communist Hypothesis” (111-125) (philosophy excerpt) from First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, 2009.
Rashaan Alexis Meneses 