Cultural Studies
Newsletter, Vol. 5
Spring 2000
Tom Foster, Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American
Studies took over as the new director of Cultural Studies this fall.
Tom has been a cultural studies adjunct for four years and has been active
in organizing past cultural studies events such as the "Unthinking America"
conference. His research interests include American postmodernism
and popular culture, especially science fiction and technoculture; women's
writing and feminist theory; post-colonial and transnational studies. As
director of Cultural Studies, Tom advises graduates interested in or actively
pursuing a Ph.D. minor in Cultural Studies and serves as the liason for
Cultural Studies Adjuncts campus-wide. If you haven't already met Tom at
past events, feel free to e-mail him or stop by during office hours.
Recent
Events
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& Contact Info 468 Ballantine Hall 855-5546 e-mail: fostert@indiana.edu web site:http://www.indiana.edu/~cstudies/main/ Cultural Studies Office, 419 Ballantine Hall 855-0088 Laura Shackelford, Project Coordinator e-mail: cstudies@indiana.edu  Recent
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The exhibit was organized by cultural studies adjuncts Maria Bucur-Deckard (History) and Timothy Wiles (English) with support from the Russian and East European Institute, the Polish Studies Center, and others. The Arts Resource Consortium, an undergraduate organization headed by Kathleen Connors, received support from both the Indiana University Student Association and Cultural Studies to bring Curtis White to Bloomington to read from his forthcoming novel, America's Magic Mountain, and to speak about the canon debates. As director of the creative writing program at Illinois State University and the editor and founder of the alternative publishing venues, Fiction Collective 2 and Black Ice Books, White is at the crossroads of theorizing, publishing, and writing postmodern fiction. Cultural Studies also joined the Department of English, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Institute for Biblical and Literary Study, and others in sponsoring Peter Stallybrass's eye-opening lecture on "The Materiality of Reading 1450-1650"" in early October. Later in the fall, Medea Benjamin, economist and co-founder of Global Exchange, an organization that aims to strengthen ties between First and Third World citizens, spoke on sweatshops and the collegiate licensing industry. The lecture was part of an ongoing effort by local activists to improve working conditions at sweatshops that produce the University's sportswear. Those interested in future Global Exchange activities can contact Purnima Bose (English). Upcoming Events On March 2nd, Susan Jeffords, Prof. of English and Women's Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle, will lecture on "The Face of Terror: Why We Are Afraid of White Men." Jeffords' visit is a part of the American Studies Colloquium, "Militating the Millennium: Reflections on War, Public Memory, and U.S. Foreign Policy," organized by Eva Cherniavsky (English). Other lectures in the series that may be of interest include Wahneema Lubiano's lecture on "Race and Nationalism" (Feb. 4) and Michael Rogin's lecture on "Representations in W.W. II" (April 13). Winner of the MLA first best book award, Deidre Lynch (SUNY- Buffalo), will present a lecture on "Gothic Libraries and National Subjects" on March 6th. Per Jauert, Dir. of the Institute for Information & Media Sciences at Aarhus University in Denmark, will lecture on the media in Scandinavia (April 18th) and on contemporary Danish cinema (April 19th). Several lecturers will also come to IU for three dialogues on "Thinking Materiality: Epistemology, Language & Embodiment." More details on these lectures are available at http://www.indiana.edu ~thinkmat/ |
was co-organizer of the exhibit with important contributions to the project
from graduate students (such as Sarah Stevens) and faculty (such
as Sue Tuohy). The poster above was issued to mark the hundred-year
anniversary of the Paris Commune and is representative of efforts made
in Chinese official propaganda of the time to link China's Revolution to
past and present upheavals in other parts of the world.
