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 Speakers Series 2011-2012
Thursday, November 17, 2011 W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History University of Chicago home page "Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture" 7:30 p.m. Scott House 105 __________ Thursday, November 24, 2011 Christopher Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology , University of Pennsylvania "The Intoxication of Narcotic Modernity: Addiction, The Body, and The City" 7:30 p.m. Scott House 105 __________ Thursday, February 9, 2012 Davide Panagia, Canada Research Chair, Professor of Cultural Studies, Trent University home page "10 Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics" 7:30 p.m. Scott House 105, Traill College __________ Thursday, March 8, 2012 Randy Innes , Post Doctoral Fellow home page “The Rhythm of the Image: Time, the Artwork and Visual Culture” 7:30 p.m. Scott House 105 _______________________ Thursday, March 29, 2012 David Pettigrew, Philosophy Department home page Southern Connecticut State University "The Geography of Genocide in Eastern Bosnia" 7:30 p.m. Scott House 105
EventsWednesday February 1 Workshop on academic publishing with Courtney Berger (Duke Univ. Press) 6:00 p.m. Scott House 105
Speakers SeriesThe Cultural Studies PhD Program offers an annual Speakers Series to our Trent community and to the wider public. These talks are open to everyone, free of charge. Typically, they are on Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm in Scott 105 at Traill College, and are followed by a question and answer period, and then cordial conversation at the Trend pub, with cash bar. The speakers’ series brings distinguished visitors to Trent University to discuss their latest books, and to describe their scholarship and perspectives on a wide range of objects and issues in cultural studies, including the arts, the sciences, the configurations, textures, and conflicts in modern culture, and the changing nature of contemporary knowledge.
Research SeminarsArising from the Cultural Studies PhD Speakers’ Series, the PhD Program offers a series of intensive research seminars with a number of our distinguished visitors. These research seminars are organized to provide an opportunity specifically for Cultural Studies PhD faculty and students, and our collegial network, to engage in depth with cutting edge intellectuals and their current work. To focus these seminars, our guests recommend special readings of manageable length which participants are invited to read before the seminar. The PhD office makes an effort to prepare some of these materials for pick-up.
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