INTERNATIONAL
CULTURAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Fall 2005 Speaker Series: “Bringing Class Back In”
Although
cultural studies originated with strong Marxist foundations, many critics
lament that in recent decades class analysis has been subsumed under other
categories of analysis--e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, nation -- or even
disappeared altogether from cultural studies.
This Speaker Series aims to bring "class" back in to cultural
studies by featuring scholarship that focuses on the interface of socioeconomic
and cultural analyses. Themes include
class consciousness and identity; class conflict; class mobility; signifiers of
class; labor and unionism; mechanisms of capital accumulation; poverty;
cultures and images of class; class and globalization; class and
race/gender/nation; comparative systems of class.
All
presentations are free and open to the public.
Time: 12:00pm – 1:20pm
Place: East-West Center, Burns Hall
2118
Wed. Sept. 7th – Patrick Alcedo, Southeast
Asian Studies, University of California-Riverside
” Sacred Camp: Class and Transgenderism in a Philippine Religious Festival”
Wed. Sept. 14th – Mari Matsuda, Georgetown
University Law Center
“The Last Public
Place:
class consciousness and
the decline of public education in the United States”
EWC Room 3015
Wed. Sept. 21st – Hagen Koo, Sociology, UHM
"Globalization and
Middle-Class Culture in South Korea"
Wed. Oct. 5th – Nandita Sharma, School of Social Sciences, York University
"Home Economics:
Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada”
Oct. 12th - Jon
Goldberg-Hiller, Political Science, UHM
“Defending Society: Sexuality,
Race and Class in Contemporary America”
Wed. Oct. 19th
– Peter Hoffenberg, History, UHM
“’Ornamental’ and
‘Absent-Minded’ Imperialists? Bringing 'Class' Back into
the Study of Modern
British Imperialism”
Wed. Nov. 16th – Subramanian
Shankar, English, UHM
“The Postcolonial and the
Vernacular:
Class Politics in African Literature
and Cinema”
Wed. Nov. 30th – Christine Yano, Anthropology, UHM
“Airborne Dreams: Japanese American Flight Attendants &
the Development of Global Tourism”