Communication
& Critical/Cultural Studies Journal Publishes First Issue
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, the new interterdisciplinary
and international quarterly journal, edited by Robert Ivie, Professor
of Communication & Culture at Indiana University, published its first
issue this March. Among the authors appearing in its initial issue
are John Lucaites (Communication & Culture ), Douglas Kellner,
Henry Giroux, and Barbie Zelizer. CCCS features critical inquiry
that cuts across academic boundaries to focus on social, political, and
cultural practices reflecting on the requirements of a more democratic
culture. Information about its editorial policies and board, submission
procedures, and subscription is available from Routledge at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14791420.asp
"Crossroads in
Cultural Studies" Conference
The fifth international “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference, sponsored
by the Association for Cultural Studies, will be held at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between June 25th and 28th this year.
The conference will feature Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Professor
of Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, and Meaghan Morris, Professor and Chair of the Department
of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, as keynote speakers.
Cultural Studies adjunct, Phaedra Pezzullo (Communication &
Culture) is session leader for a panel on “The Popularity of Nature” this
year. A full conference schedule and registration information are
available on the conference web site at http://www.crossroads2004.org
Two New Hires
in CMCL
The Department of Communication and Culture has recently hired Mary
Gray to start in fall 2004. She received her doctoral degree
in Communication from the University of California at San Diego.
Her dissertation focused on "Coming of Age in a Digital Era: Youth Queering
Technologies in the Rural U.S." She is also the author of In Your
Face: Stories From the Lives of Queer Youth, published by Haworth Press
in 1999. Ted Striphas, currently teaching at Ohio State University,
will also be joining the department of Communication and Culture next Fall.
His research and teaching interests include work on the media ranging from
the history of the book to new media such as the internet. He has
published articles on Oprah's Book Club and the impact of Borders and Barnes
and Noble on consumer culture among other topics. |
Recent
Events
Last April, the Cultural Studies Program joined the departments of Anthropology,
Religious Studies, History, Art History, Horizons of Knowledge, and
others in co-sponsoring a lecture by Professor Lucette Valensi,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Professor Emerita
Lucette Valensi is an internationally known scholar with an expertise in
the social history of Muslim societies. In her lecture, "The Flight
Into Egypt: Christian and Muslim Traditions," Prof. Valensi discussed her
most recent book, The Flight Into Egypt, a comparative cultural analysis
of the myth of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt, and the episode of
Jesus' infancy. The episode, briefly mentioned in the Gospels, became
popular in both Christian and Muslim literary and artistic traditions over
the centuries. Prof. Valensi’s visit was organized by Cultural Studies
adjunct, Joelle Bahloul (Anthropology).
In the fall, the Cultural Studies Program joined the Department of Spanish
& Portuguese, Horizons of Knowledge and others in bringing Jo Labanyi,
Professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for
Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton, to speak.
A pioneer of Spanish Cultural Studies, Professor Labanyi lectured on “Memory,
Things, and the Limits of Subjectivity” on Tuesday, September 16th.
Her visit was organized by Melissa Dinverno (Spanish & Portuguese)
and Maryellen Bieder (Spanish & Portuguese).
Cultural Studies also contributed to a lecture, on October 17th, by Professor
Manuela
Ribeiro Sanches of the University of Lisbon, a visiting scholar in
the Department of Comparative Literature this year. Her lecture,
“‘Where’ is the Post-Colonial? In-Betweenness, Identity, and “Lusophonia”
in Trans/National Contexts,” examined theories of the post-colonial from
the vantage of Portugal, thinking through the ways in which the postcolonial
is understood in contemporary Portugal and the influence these understandings
have on the reception of post-colonial studies in "Lusophone" contexts.
Later in the fall, the Cultural Studies Program joined American Studies
in co-sponsoring a visit by José Muñoz, Professor
of Performance Studies at New York University, on October 23rd. In
in his lecture, “Cruising Utopia: Notes on Queer Futurity,” Muñoz
considered the utopian kernal in queer art and public culture in New York
City before the “official” birth of the lesbian and gay movement.
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