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Gary AndersonUniversity of PlymouthLena SimicLancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts'A Family Protest' |
This paper is written from the point of view of artists who believe that their primary task is to try to think through their arts practices and positions as family members, in the name of social and ecological justice. more >>> |
Jeanne ArmstrongWestern Washington University'Globalization, Violence Against Women in Border Communities & Cultural Studies' |
This paper is, in part, concerned with the role of cultural studies as a lens through which to understand and address forms of oppression and exclusion based on racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism and other forms of discrimination. more >>> |
Daniel AshtonInstitute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University'Games for Change: A Cultural studies and social impact gaming |
This paper will introduce the Games for Change movement and examples of social impact gaming. Many of these games bring together political analysis with an understanding of the importance of cultural forms, and in doing so present an instructive challenge to Cultural studies. more >>> |
Richard Cante
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Judith Butler’s critical project has further approached becoming a fully
blown “ethical” one in her last three published books: Undoing Gender, Precarious Life, and the work in which I am particularly interested today, Giving an Account of Oneself. more >>> |
Mary Caputi
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In his review of Michael Haneke’s 2005 film Caché, critic Roger Ebert
(2007) declared that the film succeeds “precisely because it leaves us hanging” |
Ashley Dawson
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Despite its long commitment to studying the interface of culture and power, cultural studies has not been quick to dissect the institutions and structural forces responsible for the planet’s unfolding environmental crisis. more >>> |
Emiliana De Blasio
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This paper examines the rise in academic importance of Italian cultural studies in the 1990s. |
Birgitta FrelloRoskilde University'Essentialism, Hybridism and Cultural Critique' |
Transgression concepts – such as ‘hybridity’, ‘diaspora’, ‘creolization’, ‘transculturalization’ |
Dieter FuchsUniversity of ViennaRoland Emmerich’s Independence Day: |
The representation of the American President in contemporary culture can be traced back to a role profile that emerged in early modern England and Italy. It echoes Sir Thomas Hoby’s book on The Courtier (1561) which defines the Elizabethan political man as a ‘soldier and scholar’, more >>> |
Justin Gifford
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At first blush, it might seem merely an extraordinary coincidence of literary history that Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison and Robert Beck (a.k.a. Iceberg Slim), one of the bestselling black American writers of all time, both attended the Tuskegee Institute at the same moment during the Depression. more >>> |
Ian Glenn
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This paper looks at Bourdieu’s attack on Cultural Studies from a double
perspective: an unpublished interview with the author in which he traced his own |
Dominique GrisardUniversity of Basel, Switzerland.'Female Hunger Strikers and Suicide Bombers in Western Media. A Transversal
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A feminist perspective on what we call terrorism not only leads us to question the gendered economies of life and death dichotomies, it also compels us to read contemporary debates as part of what could be called a transversal foucauldian genealogy. |
Stephanie Hart
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In Lisa Crystal Carver’s Drugs Are Nice: A PostPunk Memoir, she characterizes American postpunk as “a promiscuous generation—with ideas as well as with the flesh” more >>> |
Robert J. Helfenbein
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Cultural Studies—a controversial and contested approach to the study of
the social world—embraces a theoretical approach to the study of interactions
between the lived experiences and interpretations of people and the social structures that act upon and encode meaning to those experiences more >>> |
Penelope Ironstone Catterall
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Viruses are not neutral objects
of biomedical concern but take on meanings that demonstrate how knowledges are
created and disseminated and the effects these knowledges have on lived, material experiences. more >>> |
Adam Kaasa and Debra RolfeLondon School of Economics'Embodiment and the city farm: potentials of cultural studies for the analysis and influence |
Within the past few years environmentalism has undergone a sudden transformation from a niche concern of hairy hippies to one that is mainstream and even fashionable. This is unsurprising, as we are living at a time of unprecedented global peril, more >>> |
Kilian KröllChoreographer in Residence at Caldera (Oregon).Charles O. AndersonMuhlenberg College (Pennsylvania)'Dancing in TAR: A Dialogue About Embodied Identity' |
The dance stage provides an evocative medium to explore and critique the implicit abstraction of identity and the muted racial discourse within contemporary rhetoric around “global citizenship.” |
Krisztina Lajosi
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Even the most mathematical minded musicologists would agree that music is more than scattered notes printed on a piece of paper and that a musical piece is only partially identical with the score. |
Stephen MaddisonUniversity of East London'The Biopolitics of the Penis'
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At the 1983 American Urological Association Conference in Las Vegas, Dr
Giles Brindley, a researcher from the UK, presented a paper on the physiology of the erection. At the climax of his presentation, Dr Brindley dropped his pants so that he could show the audience his erect penis, more >>> |
Laura MalacartUniversity of East LondonDis-simulation
WATCH THE FILM |
In September 2005 an emergency services exercise took place in Milan on
the wake of the London July bombings. The event was heavily publicised and a large amount of media attended joined by the media team of the police. Crowds flooded North Station Square to assist at the spectacle the atmosphere electrified by the uncertainty about the format of the event and its morbid nature. more >>> |
Ana Cristina MendesUniversity of Lisbon, Portugal'The Brown Culture Industry: Theodor Adorno meets Talvin Singh' |
What interests me
here is not so much to focus on an apparent Adornian tendency to unify the |
Paul O’BrienNational College of Art and Design, Dublin.'Art, Culture & Ecology' |
A number of recent artists have referenced environmental issues in their work. The most prominent was Joseph Beuys, who incorporated a commitment to political ecology and whose art was shaped by a mystical perspective, more >>> |
Jason PhillipsWilfred Laurier University (Canada)Palimpsestuous Behaviour: Democracy, Resistance, Downtowns, and Skateboards |
I reconsider the palimpsest as a conceptual tool that helps us to more effectively read culture and cultural practice. Specifically, I will show that the palimpsestuous structure of the central business district represents a threat to democratic practice and potential more >>> |
Jan PinselerUniversity of Lueneburg (Germany)'Power and Hegemony in Reality Crime Programmes' |
Images of crime constitute an important part of every day media output. Both, fictional and real crime stories do more than just represent crime. Rather, they provide us with knowledge about crime. |
Stephanie PolskyGoldsmiths, University of London'The Resistance to Visual Culture' |
Visual Culture has taken its cue from Culture Studies by placing its emphasis on the experiential, extratextual element within the visual media encounter. more >>> |
Aljosa Puzar
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Almost seventeen years after the act of independence and over a
decade after the war in Croatia, questions can be made about the real impact of transitional state (and of adjunct identity politics) on the collective spirit of solidarity and change such optimistically depicted by Turner's communitas more >>> |
Vincent F. Rocchio
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I would argue that Cultural Studies, the Cultural Studies we have known for over 20 years now, is already dead, we just don’t realize it yet. More precisely, the historical role of Cultural Studies has already passed, but we keep acting it out: Cultural Studies is in a paradigmatic crisis but does not seem to realize it. more >>> |
Lee RodneyUniversity of Windsor, Canada'Visual Culture and the Politics of Edutainment' |
Edutainment is a neologism that came into use with a genre of educational television programming in the 1980s and 1990s, a sector which has grown exponentially into specialty channels too numerous to mention. More recently, the term as been appropriated to criticize the shifts within higher education that have taken place as universities recast themselves as major players in global economy where knowledge production is one commodity among many more >>> |
Nancy SchiesariThe University of Texas at AustinFort Hood DiariesWATCH THE FILM |
There are 15,000 licensed tattoo parlors in the United States. River City Tattoos in Killeen, Texas home to Fort Hood, the largest military base in the free world is unlike any one of them. more >>> |
Urszula Terentowicz-FotygaMaria Curie-Sklodowska University'The Great Divide over Culture and Politics: |
The idea behind the paper was to compare two different approaches to the study of
culture: the British tradition originated by the Birmingham Centre and semiotics of
culture formulated by Yuri Lotman. The two schools, of very different paradigms,
underlying interests and goals, developed alongside and yet in relative disregard of each other. more >>> |
Ricky VargheseUniversity of Toronto 'Deconstructions, Reductions, Speculations: Toward a Rereading
and Re-
writing of Cultural Studies in a Time of Empiricism' |
There is a tendency in contemporary university pedagogy against the
notion of lyricism. The lyrical text is banished, put aside, and the quantitative |
Daniel White
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Entropy is defined by the degradation of order toward chaos; negative entropy is the increase of order by the reduction of disorder (chaos). For Nietzsche the two are paired in a cascading river of generation and destruction that ever loops back on itself. more >>> |
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