ICS Speaker Series: Cultural Studies--What's Next?

Fall 2008 Speaker Series International Cultural Studies Certificate Program

“Cultural Studies: What’s Next?”

Roundtable Discussion
Jon Goss: Geography
Geoffrey White: Anthropology and East West Center
Mari Yoshihara: American Studies
Ming-Bao Yue: East Asian Languages & Literatures

~Moderated by Current ICSCP Director~
Wimal Dissanayake: Academy for Creative Media

Cultural studies has been variously described as interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and anti-disciplinary. During the last two decades it has made rapid progress making a deep impression on the thinking of humanities and social science scholars. At the same time, cultural studies has become a victim of its own success. Some complain that it has moved away from its original intentions and has begun to confine itself largely to questions of textual representation. Others delight in its embrace of poststructuralism and postmodernism. Should it be reduced to the study of popular cultures? How does the politics of culture enter into our work? If culture is a set of contested practices of representation linked to social formations, what should be our research priorities? As one commentator observed, cultural studies is a discipline continuously shifting its interests and methods both because it is in constant and engaged interaction with its larger historical contexts and because it cannot be complacent about its authority. What are the implications of this for our field? We plan to explore these and related issues in our roundtable discussion.

Date: Wednesday, September 3rd
Time: 12 pm – 1:20pm
Place: Burns Hall Room 2118

Sponsored by:
The UHM/EWC International Cultural Studies Program
Telephone: 808-944-7593 Fax: 808-944-7070 Office: Burns Hall #2069
Email:culture@hawaii.edu Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~culture

Event Sponsor
International Cultural Studies Certificate Program, Manoa Campus

More Information
Patty Harris: ICS Program Manager, 944-7593, culture@hawaii.edu, http://www2.hawaii.edu/~culture/