Confessions of an Aca/Fan: (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
I have long regarded the Creative Industries folks at Queensland University of Technology to be an important sister program to what we are doing in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Like us, they are pursuing media and cultural studies in...
Trinketization (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
19th May 2008 The Centre for Cultural Studies Presents a symposium on Walter Benjamin's ‘Critique of Violence’. Four great speakers (30 mins each) and our venue are now confirmed. This will happen on the afternoon of 19th May 2008 - 2pm - 6pm. Venue: RHB Cinema - chair: John Hutnyk 2pm Elina Staikou “Force of Name: The Critique of [...]
Trinketization (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Pantomime Terror: UK Hip Hop at War, May 6 2008 Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies presents: John Hutnyk, Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London Pantomime Terror: UK Hip Hop at War (or Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’) When: Tuesday, May 6, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Where: Room LB 646, McConnell Library...
The-F-Word.org (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The fabulous FatFu (of the famed Notes from the Fatosphere feed), has helped me set up a eating disorders feed I call the Eating Disorders Digest. I’ve also set up a Yahoo! Group called Eating Disorder Studies for activists at all levels to discuss the medical, social, and cultural studies on eating disorders, and [...]
History is made at night (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Carrying on the discussion about gender and dance music , here's an extract from 'Women and the Early British Rave Scene' by Maria Pini, originally published in 'Back to Reality? Social Experience and Cultural Studies', edited by Angela McRobbie (Manchester University Press, 1997). Maria Pini based this work on interviews with women in the rave scene, and later expanded on the subject...
Kruse Kronicle (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
The following passage comes from Kenneth E. Bailey's Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels. Bailey lived more than sixty years in the Middle East and has made Middle Eastern culture, as it relates to the Bible,...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Field trip brings college class to Nevada brothel Va. students interview prostitutes for course on American consumption Prostitution 101: Class takes field trip to brothel April 11: Consumption is this year's theme in the cultural studies class at Randolph College, so obviously a field trip to a Nevada brothel was in order. updated 5:18 p.m. ET, Fri., April. 11, 2008 PAHRUMP, Nev. - Nicki...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: B (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
James Wimberly writes: > Firing John Yoo: a comment: [T]he relevant fact [is] that... Professor Yoo is employed to teach a vocational subject, law. This isn't a prestige issue. Particle physics, cultural studies and remedial English fall on one side of the vocational/non-vocational distinction; law, medicine, nursing, flying training and plumbing school on the other. > All teaching carries...
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Looking back, 2002 was the year of the big break - another corporate re-organisation created a business unit with a brief to broaden the accessory offering and someone with a budget decided to invest in a bit of in-house qualitative field research: carry out a multi-cultural study to explore what people carry and why and use the results to inform and inspire the design process. Easy....
Conversation Agent (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
"The most effective form of communication is one in which the recipient is already predisposed to believe the information." [Center for Cultural Studies & Analysis] One day I would love to be a strategist at a "think and do" tank. It's possible I already am without using the title. What seems like a million years ago and was only two, the company I worked at engaged in a full business...
Targuman (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
I mentioned in my previous post another blog that is occasionally featured in some higher ed sites called “Confessions of a Community College Dean.” The author is referred to as “Dean Dad” and provides this description of the blog: In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990’s moves into academic administration and finds [...]
digital digs (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Oh yes it is that time of year again. Jeff offers some apt thoughts on NOLA and Mark Bauerlein's conservative baiting of rhet/comp. Here's the thing about Bauerlein. He seems to object to rhet/comp's cultural studies/liberatory bent toward gender, race,...
humanities researcher (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
I'm pleased to say I've just joined the BABEL working group - an engagingly engaged and non-hierarchical network of scholars interested in ... all sorts of things. The ideas that intrigue me most are their interest in pre-modern cultural studies, in multiple temporalities, and in the subjectivity of the humanities scholar. Their website is brilliantly energetic. I've never met Eileen...
PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
I am writing from the Law, Culture & Humanities conference being held in Berkeley this year. First of all, anyone interested in interdisciplinary work at the intersection of law, literature, history, philosophy, cultural studies, visual studies, etc., should watch for the call for papers for next year’s meeting. This conference is quite collegial, providing a great opportunity...
Too Much To Declare (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
could this be the way forward in British politics?
