Trinketization (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first “Laboratory” of the Centre for Cultural Studies Beyond Text project will be on “Sonic Borderlands” and will be held 3-8 November 2008 (at Goldsmiths College all through ‘reading week’ and on the saturday at Coventry Cathedral in conjunction with Nirmal Puwar’s *Noise and War* event with Nitin Sawhney). Workshops at Goldsmiths will include [...]
mukuge (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Details of my academic week contact time this term: Cultural studies - 2 hours Discipline/practical elective subject - 3 hours Research (technical) - 7 hours Research (design) - 7 hours Computer skills - 3 hours (every other week) Industrial placement prep - 2 hours (every other week) Sub-total: 21.5 hours Self-study time: as much as contact time on the very least Total: 45 hours Number of opening...
mukuge (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
It's a bit freaky to look at the list of compulsory readings for this term's elective cultural studies (titled Production and Consumption ) and realize that I had read most of them at my own leisure in my first year. I repeat: at my own leisure . *shudder* Well, to me it means I still need to revisit them for note-taking. It also means I need to find something interesting in midst of 'compulsory readings'...
Sherman Dorn (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
I'm too exhausted right now to think too much aboutBérubé's visit today. I know that his synapses work at least three times as quickly as mine do, he and I disagree about the definition of cultural studies (and at and on this point I think he's right), and we also disagree about the underlying rationale for academic freedom (and I think I'm right about that). But all of that is for another day, I think...
Death By 1000 Papercuts (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
A Trip to the Hezbollah Children Museum If culture is destiny, then happiness is not in the cards for today's children in Southern Lebanon. Our Man in the Bay State, Boston Herald writer, Darren Garnick, has a revealing piece out, " The Hezbollah Children’s Museum — A Cross-Cultural Study ". Revealing because it takes a look at one of the joys of childhood--and childhood lost. As the parent of a boy...
sans everything (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
I recently came across this TV interview with cultural studies superstar Slavoj Zizek. From the looks of it, Nitebeat is or was a late night talk show. They must have been hard up for guests that night, because the host clearly has no idea what to make of Zizek. Yet the world’s greatest Slovenian philosopher [...]
MindBlog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Tracy and Matsumoto have performed an interesting cross cultural study of nonverbal displays of pride and shame in sighted, blind, and congenitally blind individuals: The research examined whether the recognizable nonverbal expressions associated with pride and shame may be biologically innate behavioral responses to success and failure. Specifically, we tested whether sighted, blind, and congenitally...
Studying in Finland (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
University of Bamberg is located in Bamberg, German. It is a kind of paradox, however, University of Bamberg is the oldest and the newest university in Bavaria. It has the following specialization: Cultural Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences, Applied Information technology, and Economics. It was founded in 1647as Academia Bambergensis by Prince-Bishop Melchior Otto Voit von Salzburg. [...]
Canuckflack (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
I had no idea “milk bars” were greeted with such consternation in 1950s Britain. “Milk Bars, Starbucks and the Uses of Literacy,” written by Joe Moran and printed in the November 2006 edition of Cultural Studies, touches upon a number of cultural influences affecting British youth in the 50s. Like jukeboxes: “… By the end of [...]
OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
By Steve Featherstone Harper’s Magazine, September 2008 In July of last year I was stranded for a week at a military base in Kuwait, waiting for a flight to Kabul. I was traveling with four members of a new U.S. Army unit called the Human Terrain Team (HTT). One morning the team sat at a long table [...]
Nouslife (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
I think I see a little niche appearing for cultural studies: health. It makes sense when you think about it but now there's a research-based reason to factor in issues such as identity, self-presentation etc as significant in health care. Part Of The In-group? A Surprising New Strategy Helps Reduce Unhealthy Behaviors: "These studies highlight the importance of identity in health behavior and
The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Britt Peterson's Chronicle of Higher Education article on the champions of "literary Darwinism" portrays these "scientific" literary scholars as threatening to overturn the currently entrenched academic approaches associated with Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. But at the level of its...
Trinketization (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Release! Tuesday, 2 September 2008 10am – 6pm Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre Graduate Student Conference Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London Release! is the Centre for Cultural Studies’ annual MA students conference: a moment of friendly and relaxing interactivity. Everyone is invited to attend, participate and discuss about the latest outcomes of cultural research at Goldsmiths....
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Five members of the California University of Pennsylvania community traveled to China's Hebei University through the International English and Cultural Studies program.
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
An Experimental Study of Consumers’ Attitude and Behavior towards Online Fashion Shopping: Cross-Cultural Study of Malaysia and United Kingdom 1.0 Title The working title of the research is initially drafted as An Experimental Study of Consumers’ Attitude and Behavior towards Online Fashion Shopping: Cross-Cultural Study of Malaysia and United Kingdom....
