Research Seminars 2009-2010

Cultural Studies Ph.D. students and faculty are inivted to read the materials recommended by our distinguished visitors for the seminar.

Some copies may be available for pickup at the Ph.D. office.

 

***Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 - 4:00             Scott 102.1

Agnes Heller,         Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York.  Also Professor, ELTE.

“Autonomy of Art or the Dignity of the Work of Art.”

A Theory of Modernity.

Recommended reading:

Agnes Heller, A Theory of Modernity.  Blackwell, 1999.  Chapters 8-10 on Culture and Civilization, pp. 115-172.

 

***Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 -  3:30      WH 226

Alison Hearn, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario                               

Seminar for Year Two PhD students on media research.

Recommended reading:

Alison Hearn, "'Meat, Mask, Burden': Probing the contours of the branded 'self'", Journal of Consumer Culture, 2008.

 

***Friday, January 29, 2010 - 2:15        Scott 102.1

Brian Rotman, Professor, Dept. of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University.     

"Language, mathematics, diagrams, and gesture: some interconnections."

Recommended readings:

(1) Brian Rotman, Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being. Duke University Press, 2008.

(2) Ann Brubaker, "Between Metaphysics and Method: Mathematics and the Two Canons of Theory." New Literary History, 2009. 39: 869-890.  Some copies of this article will be available for pick-up in the PhD office when classes resume in January.

 

***Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 3:30       WH 226            

Tanya Richardson, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Seminar for Year Two PhD students.

"Ethnographic research "

Recommended reading:

Tanya Richardson, "Walking Streets, Talking History: The Making of Odessa," in Kaleidoscopic Odessa.

 

***Friday, March 12, 2010 - 2:30       Scott 102.1      

Timothy Murray, Director, Society for the Humanities, and Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University.             

Renate Ferro (Dept. of Art, Cornell University)

“Digital Art and Culture”

Recommended readings:

(1) Timothy Murray, "Digital Incompossibility: Cruising the Aesthetic Haze of New Media," chapter 8 of Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds.  University of Minnesota Press, 2008, pp. 195-214.

(2) See Renate Ferro's web site at www.renateferro.net