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October 1st
Location: (Johnson Center F )
Time: 4:30pm
Meet Cultural Studies Core Faculty
~ Alison Landsberg, Denise Albanese, Tim Kaposy, Dina Copelman
October 15th
Location: (Johnson Center F )
Time: 4:30pm
Meet Cultural Studies Core Faculty (Johnson Center F)
~ Tim Gibson, Peter Mandaville, Roger Lancaster
October 29th
Location: (Johnson Center E )
Time: 4:30pm
Deborah Britzman's interests include Psychoanalysis and education; curriculum theorizing and history; epistemology and learning; socio-cultural-historical studies of social conflict and war; studies in ambivalence in learning and teaching; theoretical study of social difference, inequalities, and ethical relations.
Britzman, winner of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education's 2007 Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator's Award, is the author of several books, including Novel Education: Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning (2006), After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning (2003), Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition (2003) and Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning (1998). She is currently a distinguished research professor in the Department of English at York University.
For more on Deborah Britzman: http://www.freireproject.org/content/deborah-britzman
November 5th
Location: (Johnson Center D )
Time: 4:30pm
Jonathan Simon currently holds the position of Associate Dean in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works as a Professor of Law. Simon also serves as faculty co-chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice.
Before joining the Boalt Hall faculty in 2003, Simon was a professor at the University of Miami School of Law and the University of Michigan. Prior to that, he clerked for Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Simon's research focuses on the role of criminal justice in the modern punitive state, the prevalence of insurance culture, and the intellectual and social history of legal affairs. He frequently advocates a cultural approach to legal scholarship and criminology.
Simon is the author of Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990 (1993) and the co-editor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility (with Tom Baker, 2002) and Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism (with Austin Sarat, 2003). His most recent book is Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007). Simon serves as co-editor of Punishment & Society and is an associate editor of Law and Society Review.
He regularly updates a blog, Governing Through Crime.
November 19th
Location: (Mason Hall, Room D3 - A & B )
Time: 4:30pm
The Un-Disciplined Past: History and Cultural Studies Part One, Part I
A Symposium Featuring:
Anna K. Clark is a Professor of History and holder of the prestigious Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota. She is currently an Editor for the Journal of British Studies and Editor foremost for the American British Studies Journal. Her academic specialties and interests include: Irish history, history of sexuality, gender analysis, British and European history, The British Empire, and history of women.
Clark is a prolific author within the topic of sexuality, gender, and British History, having published numerous journal articles, edited several collections, and has published several stand alone books, notably: Desire: The History of European Sexuality (2008); Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004); The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (1995).
Her most recent book, Desire: A History of European Sexuality (2008), is a survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present day. It traces two concepts of sexual desire that have competed in European history: desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly; and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary. It follows these changing attitudes toward sexuality through the major turning points of European history. This work also integrates the history of heterosexuality with same-sex desire, and focuses on the emotions of love as well as the passions of lust, the politics of sex as well as the personal experiences.
Her current ongoing research is tentatively titled "Engendering the British State" which is, "a research project on the poor law, imperialism, the franchise, and criminal law in nineteenth-century British imperial history." Clark is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University where she received her B.A. in History and Literature (1980).
She also received her M.A. with Distinction from the University of Essex in Social History (1982) and her Ph.D. in Modern European History from Rutgers University (1987).
Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Born in Britain, Eley is a widely published scholar of 19th and 20th century German and European history; his long list of publications include: Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1980), From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German Past (1986), Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002), and more recently, A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005) and The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? with Keith Nield (2007).
During 2004-07, he chaired the Department of German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Studies, and in the Fall semester of 2002, Eley acted as Director of the Program in Film and Video Studies. For many years, he directed CSST, the Program on the Comparative Studies of Social Transformations. Additionally, he has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of Sussex. His teaching interests include: German, British, modern European history; historiography; cultural studies; European Left, 1848-present; German liberalism 1848-1933; cinema and the construction of the national past; conceptions of class in history and politics; nationalism, fascism, and state formation.
Jeffrey Stewart is returning to George Mason for this symposium after several years at UC Santa Barbara. He serves there as Chair of the Department of Black Studies. His activities as a historian are eclectic, to say the least. He has written as much on literature, music, and art as he has on traditional history. In addition to writing about art, Stewart has also been active in the curatorial community, putting together a number of exhibitions. In 1989 he served as guest curator at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The book that came out of this exhibit, To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss, was the first book Stewart had published. More recently, he has curated exhibits on Paul Robeson and Ed Love.
Perhaps Stewart's most traditional work as a historian is 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History. This book was originally published in 1996, but has been republished several times, most recently in 2006. As the reviews at the bottom of the linked page show, its reception has been overwhelmingly positive, by both lay and scholarly audiences. Positive reception is the general rule for Stewart's works, although Everett Akam's review of Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race in the Journal of American History takes issue with Stewart's interpretation of Alain Locke, which he feels is not sufficiently radical. (Akam's review may be found using JSTOR. Search for Vol. 80, No. 2, Sep., 1993). Still, Akam is in the minority.
Obviously, the flexibility Stewart displays as a scholar makes him an ideal contributor to a discussion on the "un-disciplined" past. Despite his flexibility however, several common interests underlie the majority of his work. Race is an important issue in nearly all of his scholarship. His areas of expertise include the Harlem Renaissance (particularly the philosopher Alain Locke), the black arts movement, and museum studies. Although not listed in any of his official biographies, the new "Chair's Message" for the Department of Black Studies and Stewart's recent contributions to The Arena, a bi-partisan forum for political debate, show that the Obama administration has recently become a keen interest for him.
December 3rd
Location: (Johnson Center E )
Time: 4:30pm
Meet Cultural Studies Affiliated Faculty:
Michael Malouf received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is an assistant professor in the English department at George Mason University where he teaches courses on modernism, Irish and Caribbean literature, postcolonialism, and cultural studies. He has published articles on James Joyce, postcolonialism, the Caribbean, and Irish studies in journals such as Jouvert, the James Joyce Quarterly, and Interventions as well as essays in two book collections, The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture (Duke UP) and Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics (Delaware UP). His book, Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics, is with the New World Studies series published by the University of Virginia Press (2009). He is currently working on two projects, one on modernism and the sensibility of global English and another on petroculture.
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