INTERNATIONAL
CULTURAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Spring 2006 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. Jan.
25th – Ravi Vatrapu,
Information and Computer Science, UH Manoa
” Bring back class! Some reflections on the praxis of "going to the
movies" in
the USA and India”
Wed. Feb.
22nd – Sut Jhally,
Department of Communications, UMass Amherst
"Q:
Why can’t Americans think
straight about race?
A: Because
they can’t think straight about class."
Wed. Mar. 8th
– Bianca Isaki, Political Science,
University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Hawai'i for Humanity": practicing community for the
world in oratorical contests (1944-46)”
Wed.
Mar. 15th – Richard Rath,
History, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Media
Divides in American History”
Wed. Mar.
22nd – Aihwa Ong, Center
for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley
"Self-fashioning
Shanghainese: Translating Across Spheres of Value"
at Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Wed. April
12th – Purnima Bose,
Department of English and Director, Cultural Studies, Indiana University
“From Agitation to Institutionalization: The Anti-Sweatshop
Movement in the New Millennium”
Wed. April
19th – S. Charusheela, Women’s Studies and Political Science,
UH Manoa
“Engendering Feudalism”
Wed. April
26th – Heather Diamond,
American Studies, UHM
“Mail-Order Ethnicity and Classy Consumption: middle-class
escapism and the marketing of third world culture”