Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar
Hollywood Africans, 1983
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
The Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar is on "leave" until Spring 2002.
The Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar (CSFS) is an informal seminar bringing together faculty interested in postmodernism, critical pedagogy, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, media and film studies, popular culture, critical theory, among other critical perspectives. We discuss questions regarding race, class, ethnicity, and gender. The participants are responsible for running the seminar, and for constructing a reading list. After the group decides on a theme for the upcoming semester, then each participant submitts a reading for discussion.
The CSFS has been meeting almost every Tuesday (while classes are in session) since the Fall, 1995. In the past we have read articles from Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight, The Cultural Studies Reader, and seminar participants have created reading packets. We have read articles by Stuart Hall, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, bell hooks, Kobena Mercer, and Cornell West.
For more information, contact donald.maier@plattsburgh.edu
Cultural Studies Sites
Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Manchester Institute for Popular Culture
PSU Professor Amy Bass on Cultural History
Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center
Globalization Sites
"The
Ethics of Globalism," Donald J. Puchala
UNESCO's
Universal Ethics Project