CSA 2008 SEMINARS
*Please find eight (8) seminars listed below
I. Economy after the Cultural Turn
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact S. Charusheela or Colin Danby by January
20, 2008: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]]
Seminar Description:
Cultural Studies has helped us resist both culture’s reduction to an
epiphenomenon of an economic base, and its elevation to a pure space of
imagination divorced from material contexts and histories. At the same
time, recent scholarship shows an anxiety that the “cultural turn” has left
us unable to take questions of class, poverty, inequality, and globalization
adequately into account. The worry seems to be that subjectivity and
identity crowd out class and capitalism, hat poststructuralism ultimately
issues into a (neo?)liberal multiculturalism, despite an historical
conjuncture at which voracious capitalism has re-emerged as an urgent
challenge.
But even if we accept this urgency, what conception of the economy and the
economic should we turn to? Can we simply reverse the cultural turn and
return to the problematics of an earlier era? Should we? Or have we learnt
enough from a generation’s work in cultural studies, and a generation’s
critical work within political economy, that might help us rethink the terms
of the culture-economy engagement?
We propose a robust encounter between contemporary cultural studies and
contemporary heterodox economics – the scholarly work within the field of
economics that has refashioned and rethought base concepts and approaches to
economy. This seminar will address questions such as how we define economy
and the “economic,” what the relationship (if any) might be between varied
conceptions of economic and linguistic value, and how we conceptualize
capitalism and globalization.
Seminar Requirements:
Seminar participants will be asked to read a set of papers by scholars in
heterodox economics and related areas of social analysis. Seminar
participants will be urged to submit a short paper/work in progress to share
with members in advance. Those papers should be sent to the seminar
moderators by March 24th, and will be distributed to all seminar
participants by March 31st. The seminar will be conducted as an engagement
between fields of social analysis that focus on “economy” and papers by
participants from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and projects
who seek to incorporate recent heterodox conversations about ‘economy’ into
their work.
Seminar moderators:
S. Charusheela
Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway; Box 455055; Las Vegas NV 89154-5055
702-895-0467; [log in to unmask]
Colin Danby
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of
Washington, Bothell
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
18115 Campus Way N.E., Bothell, WA 98011-8246 (425) 352-5285
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II. The Opening Shots Project, Cinema and Web 2.0
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact Evan Heimlich by January 20, 2008:
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Seminar Description:
The internet offers possibilities for public yet focused collaborations on
film research. For example, each contribution to the Opening Shots Project
displays a digital capture of the opening shot of a chosen film, before
briefly explaining what the shot does and why it works. (See
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2006/06/movies_101_opening_shots.html#mor
e, and http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/opening_shots_project/.) Jim
Emerson, the founder and moderator of the Project, has indicated that,
schedule allowing, he may participate in this seminar.
This seminar will address the Opening Shots Project’s contexts and its
contents. Each seminar participant will be asked to read the Project to
date, and submit at least one contribution for publication in the Project by
February 1. During the spring each participant will be asked to read the
Project’s additional entries while participating in an academic blog
discussion centered on the Project.
The context includes how Web 2.0 (featuring user-generated content) relates
to cinema, film criticism, and scholarship. (On emerging models for
media-studies scholarship broadly, see
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/about.) Particularly this seminar
asks how the following two formations interface: on one hand, the
twentieth-century developments of a mass-public sphere, by cinema and its
marketing; on the other hand, the twenty-first century developments of
‘netizen’ space by Web 2.0.
In addition to the Opening Shots Project, secondarily the seminar will
reference larger-scale, Web 2.0 databases on films’ consumption—particularly
Metacritic.com, which allows users efficiently to compare, in terms of
“METASCORES,” a film’s user-generated reviews against an array of the
leading, professional reviews. (See http://www.metacritic.com/about/,
http://www.metacritic.com/about/scoring.shtml, and
http://www.metacritic.com/about/news.shtml.) What do Metacritic.com’s
layouts and rhetorics say about emerging changes in film consumption? What
is the political economy for Metacritic.com’s content? How does
Metacritic.com offer new approaches for studying films’ marketing and
reception by professional and amateur critics?
Further readings: TBA.
Seminar Organizer:
The organizer of this seminar is Evan Heimlich, a Specially Appointed
Associate Professor in Japan at Kobe University’s Faculty of Intercultural
Studies, who recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas in
American Studies. His dissertation is titled Divination by The Ten
Commandments: Its Rhetorics and their Genealogies. He also holds a B.A.
from Wesleyan University and an M.A. from the University at Buffalo (SUNY).
Heimlich, who has studied the hermeneutics of mass culture with scholars
including the late Leslie Fiedler, primarily is researching how mass mediums
deploy rhetorics of divination. He coordinated and chaired the CSA’s 2006
seminar on performativity. His publications include “Cinema in Control and
Conscience: Moviemakers from ‘Double V’ to McCarthyism,” a chapter in You’re
History, the anthology that answered Bob Geldof’s call for an Intellectual
Live 8. Contact modern.divination{at}gmail{dot}com
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ; #411 Cosmo Heights, 2-2-1
Shinohara-obanoyama-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-0015 Japan.
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III. Specters, ghosts and revenants: The return of that which returns
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact Sladja Blazan by January 20, 2008:
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Seminar Overview:
"And to superstition must we trust at the first," pronounces Van Helsing in
Bram Stoker's Dracula, echoing various scholars, writers and characters
before and after 1897, the publication year of the famous novel. It is
Immanuel Kant who first calls for a proper exploration of ghosts explaining:
"it should occur to somebody to insist upon the question, just what kind of
a thing that is about which these people think they understand so much"
(1766). The question posed by the German philosopher only gained in
significance since 1766, considering that ghosts (and the narrativization of
ghostly matters) never left "this mortal coil." On the contrary, during the
last decade ghosts have enjoyed a renaissance of sorts on TV screens as well
as in cinemas across the U.S.
Broadening from cinematic case studies (including current popular series
such as Medium, The Ghost Whisperer, Supernatural, Lost) this seminar will
explore the nature of ghostly figures and ways in which they could lend
authority to previously silenced voices. Embedded in the formation of a
so-called parallel reality, the ghost figure managed to shift otherwise
sedimented perspectives and articulate seemingly ineffable matters. The
seminar should demonstrate in which essential ways these conflict areas
shape the idea of the Self, highlight important influences from the
Anglo-American ghost tradition and put everything in the context of our
current time in which a return of that which returns becomes progressively
more apparent.
The general fascination excited by ghost stories, alone, identifies these
narratives as important bridges between narratives of the Self and
structural ties to the Other. In addition, Stephen Greenblatt and Jules
Michelet before, described historiography as a discourse with the dead. This
notion is shaping contemporary critical theory, where spectrality is
becoming a methodological tool for scholars trying to come to terms with
history (Benett 1999, Bergland 2000, Buse 1999, Derrida 1994, Finucane 1996,
Pytlik 2003, Ratmoko 2005, Stockhammer 2000, Weinstock 2004). The
ghostliness of history, alluding to the repetition of historical events,
revision of historical data and recreation of historical narratives, will be
at the center of our attention. Recalling current representations of ghostly
matters proves that the apparitional figure today lost its original
obscurity through repeated utilization. Thus, this seminar is not concerned
with the existence of ghosts, as they have obviously never left "this mortal
coil," but with reasons for their continuous presence and their by now tamed
nature in the Anglo-American cultural context.
The participants will prepare papers on the topic, which we will circulate
in advance and discuss during the conference. Please send a short proposal
(250 words) and a short bio to [log in to unmask] Thank you.
Seminar Organizer:
Sladja Blazan
Visiting Scholar, Humboldt Fellow
Germanic Languages and Literatures
New York University
19 University Place, room 325
New York, NY 10003
Ph. 212.998.8659
Email: [log in to unmask]
Sladja Blazan is a visiting professor at New York University where she is
working on her current book on ghostly figures in nineteenth-century
Anglo-American narratives as a Humboldt fellow. She received her Ph.D. from
Humboldt University Berlin after finishing her M.A. studies in Berlin, New
York and Dublin. Her publications two books, American Fictionary:
Postsozialistische Migration in der amerikanischen Literatur (Heidelber:
Winter, 2006) and Ghosts, Stories, Histories: Ghost Stories and Alternative
Histories (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and various
articles in literature, art and culture magazines and edited collections
such as (forthcoming) “The Importance of Being a Ghost: Mapping Genealogy
without History in Narratives of the Early American Republic. ” American
Literatur; “Haunting History: The Ghostliness of History in Contemporary
Novels.” Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities. Wilfried Raussert, und
Rüdiger Kunow, eds. (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007); “Performing Ethnic Heroes in
New York Novels of the 1990s.” CinematoGraphies: Visual Discourses and
Literary Strategies in 1990s' New York. Günter H. Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann,
and Karl-Heinz Magister, eds. (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006); with Judith Hopf.
"Turning Tables." No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at
Night. (Köln: König, 2006). Her interdisciplinary work focuses on
interconnections between literature, philosophy, sociology and feminism.
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IV. Queer Worlds: A Seminar in Queer Cultural Studies
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact Travis Sands by January 20, 2008:
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Seminar Overview:
In recent years, queer studies increasingly has been marked by
considerations of what practices of queer critique can contribute to
conversations about race and racial formation, the transnational flows of
bodies and cultures, and the “provincialization” of Anglo-US critical
epistemologies. As many have noted, recent work in queer studies has drawn
on sexual epistemologies often elided in earlier queer critical work, and
queer studies has experienced a shift towards intersectional analysis—a
shift that has set off new debates about disciplinarity and the limits of
what queer can be and mean. Echoing the title of a recent Social Text
special issue, this seminar will ask “What’s queer about queer studies now?”
even as we problematize the temporal assumptions inherent in this question
and give particular attention to efforts in queer studies that engage fields
of normalization beyond and in addition to the heteronormative. This same
question has framed much of the work of an interdisciplinary research
cluster that the seminar leaders have organized at the University of
Washington, and our intent here is both to open dialogue between
participants from across institutions and disciplinary formations and to
encourage collaboration between scholars from different locations.
This seminar is animated by our concern with keeping “sexuality” open as a
domain of critical inquiry. We contend that any consideration of the
ever-mobile logics of global capital requires a consideration of how
sexuality has constituted and been constituted by transformations in
transnational political, economic, and cultural formations. Through
collaboration, we hope both to develop new frameworks for ‘thinking sex’ in
a context that emphasizes the unevenness of global capital and the
non-analogous relations between sexual life-worlds, and to perform a queer
critical praxis that produces knowledge in critical relationship to the
expressive individualism, intellectual exceptionalism, and heteropatriarchal
protocols that remain the sine qua non of academic production.
Toward these goals, the seminar will follow three primary trajectories: the
first will consider how sexuality is presently being deployed in a range of
queer critical projects, and how questions of space, scale and
disciplinarity inform multiple productions of “sexuality” as an
epistemological object; the second will query how and the extent to which
“queer,” in its present articulations, names an interdisciplinary
pedagogical praxis; and the third will explore the difference between
thinking about queer world-making and engaging in it through cultural study,
public scholarship, and coalition building. In preparation for the seminar,
participants will be organized into small clusters, and will collaborate
electronically to develop short dossiers on one of the following: queer
epistemic shifts, queer locations and globalizations, queer pedagogy, and
queer public intellectualism. These dossiers will be circulated prior to
the seminar, and will be supplemented by a small set of readings to provide
common points of reference.
This design is intended to produce collaborations and discussion that will
address the following questions: How have US formations of “gay” and
“lesbian” sexualities been instrumentalized in the service of exceptionalist
discourses such that they become hegemonic on a global scale? How might the
practices and epistemologies of non-hegemonic queer worlds enable us to
track different histories of sexuality, histories that demand “alternate”
understandings of capitalist modernity? How might such practices and
epistemologies inform more dynamic understandings of the intellectual work
presently being done in sexuality and queer studies? How do emerging queer
epistemologies enable interventions that are anti-imperialist, anti-racist,
and attentive to the imperatives of rethinking sex beyond the liberal
paradigm of rights, state recognition, and domestic privacy? What queer
intellectual histories, communities, and affectivities get lost or
deprivileged in these emerging epistemologies? What critical frameworks can
be produced for thinking “queerness” as a practice that extends beyond the
academy and that does not simply reproduce “queer” as an object of academic
(sub)disciplines? And finally, how might these new directions enable forms
of politics and collectivity that imagine “otherwise” to craft queer worlds
to come?
Seminar Organizers:
Travis Sands (University of Washington, English)
Calla Chancellor (University of Washington, Women’s Studies)
Jessica Johnson (University of Washington, Anthropology)
Jason Morse (University of Washington, English)
*Please direct all correspondence to:
Travis Sands
Department of English
University of Washington
Box 354330
Seattle, Wa 98195-4330
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 206.612.3658
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V. Replications: Performing and Re-staging America at Home and Abroad
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact Barbara Lewis or Susan Tenneriello by
January 20, 2008: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]]
Seminar Overview:
Driven by price and desire, the composite sense that is America today and
was America yesterday depends on the appeal of unity and expansion, with the
visual, technological, economic, and performative absorbing the
sensibilities of the diverse and different yet downplaying the significance
of such disparities. Being like our neighbors, having what they have, doing
what they do has long been an American aspiration. Why are we so invested
in replicating what is seen, known, done? What standard does the demand for
sameness impose? How does this new spectacle of sameness, if indeed it is
new, connect to the constant reproduction, of replication promoted in the
formula film, in the rush to mallification, and in the commercial mandate to
have every Starbucks or McDonald’s or hotel room look virtually like any
other in an endless chain of cities in an erasure of difference? What impact
does constant reproduction have on our collective psyche?
Valuing sameness is by no means a new tenet of the American dream, which is
not limited geographically to the United States, but is marketed globally.
We have only to remember Henry Ford and the cookie-cutter conformity of his
Model T’s early in the twentieth century or the craze for Uncle Tom
memorabilia unleashed by Stowe’s famous novel or the passion for a memento
of the Jinny Lind concert tour in the nineteenth. Is there a difference
when the impulse to sameness is motivated by dreams of mobility, as in the
car, or by belonging to the culture of the book or exalted art, as with
Stowe and Lind, versus the reduction within four cornered borders as is
suggested by the frame of the photograph? Is there a downside to such a
pursuit of sameness? In the extreme, the spectacle of sameness informs the
culture of lynching, which celebrates an American conformity at the same
time that it punishes, even executes, an American difference. What are the
cultural and political and social costs of the project of sameness? How has
the spectacle of sameness, the desire for replication, evolved or changed
from earlier eras?
Our seminar explores the notion of replication in culture and the persistent
role "American" plays as producing agent in deploying spectacles of
sameness. The focus of our inquiry pursues the influence of replicated
experience on public perceptions, as well as how “consumer-friendly” fields
of cultural signage are repeated worldwide. Our interest is in looking not
just at the influence and extent of what is American in the twenty-first
century, but also at the increasing attention to be paid to constructs or
critiques of the American in earlier eras and in other New World locations,
whether in the Caribbean, in South or Central America, Canada, or Mexico.
We conceive the seminar as a launch point for on-going inquiry among
conference attendees. We seek a range of perspectives that investigate the
American project as stage (or staging) of cultural replication worldwide.
Interdisciplinary approaches to the subject are especially welcome. Possible
points of investigation include but are not limited to:
How is America perceived and how has that perception changed over time?
What is the price for being Americanized?
What is its appeal?
What does it give and what does it take away, what does it satisfy?
Can the American agenda be considered a giant step toward or a retreat from
the destination of a more just global future?
How would the optimum global economy best be described, achieved?
What happens to resistant practices within global replication?
How does cultural replication affect distinct traditions?
Seminar Requirements:
We ask seminar participants to send a 500-word abstract, institutional
affiliation, brief bio (max.100 words), and contact information to seminar
co-leaders.
Seminar Format:
Selected participants will each submit a 10-12 page paper by 3 April 2008.
Participants will paired prior to the conference for on-line discussion and
provide responses in the seminar. Co-leaders plan to engage participants and
audience in critical dialogue toward creating a framework of major themes
and areas for future development.
Seminar Organizers:
Barbara Lewis, Associate Professor, is the Director of the William Monroe
Trotter Institute for the Study of Black History and Culture at the
University of Massachusetts-Boston, where she holds a joint appointment in
the Departments of Africana Studies and English. As a theatre historian,
she has published on lynching and performance, minstrelsy, and the black
arts movement of the sixties. As a playwright, her work has been presented
at festivals and on professional stages nationally and internationally. As
a Francophone scholar, she co-translated Faulkner, Mississippi by Edouard
Glissant, which was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1999). Dr. Lewis
has taught at City College, Lehman, and New York University. Prior to being
named Director of the Trotter Institute, she was Chair of the Department of
Theatre at the University of Kentucky.
Susan Tenneriello is assistant professor of theatre at Baruch College,
CUNY. She writes extensively on theater, dance and visual art, pursuing
interdisciplinary work in cultural aesthetics. Current work on the
nineteenth-century spectacle industry appears in the Journal of American
Drama and Theatre 19:3 (Fall 2007). Her performance criticism is published
in Theatre Journal, Women and Performance, Slavic and East European
Performance, and The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America. She is
also a playwright and member of America-in-Play.
Barbara Lewis ([log in to unmask])
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Massachusetts-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
859-536-0679
Susan Tenneriello ([log in to unmask] )
Assistant Professor
Department of Fine and Performing Arts, B7-235
Baruch College
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
646-312-4066
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VI. Taking Risks in Literature and Culture
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact Helen Kapstein by January 20, 2008:
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Seminar Description:
In his 1992 book Risk Society, Ulrich Beck describes a society organized by
its response to risk in which “risk may be defined as a systematic way of
dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by
modernization itself.”
We are now accepting proposals for a seminar on risk, a concept most often
associated with sociological studies of risk cultures, actuarial risk
assessment, and economic studies of risk-taking and –sharing, but here
enlarged to apply to literary and cultural representations of and
experiments with risk. Risk-taking might be approached from the perspective
of a specific field of inquiry such as public policy, psychology, medicine,
or finance, or from a theoretical angle such as danger, threat, uncertainty,
or challenge. The goal of this seminar is to use the concept of risk to
probe the seam between literature and culture and to take our own risks in
the uses and definitions of these theories and categories.
Seminar Requirements:
To apply for this seminar, the prospective participant should submit a
proposal (in the format of his/her choice) describing the research project
that brings them to the question of risk. Include contact information with
email address and a brief bio. Email submissions preferred.
Once accepted for the seminar, participants will be asked to read Mary
Douglas’s Risk and Blame (Routledge, 1994), Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society
(Sage, 1992), or another theoretical statement on risk. They should also be
prepared to circulate abstracts of their projects to the other participants.
We will aim to move back and forth between our theoretical readings and the
research projects in order to generate a deeper knowledge of what might be
gained (and also what the risks are) in considering risk-taking for our
respective objects of critical inquiry.
Seminar Organizer:
Professor Helen Kapstein
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212.237.8591
John Jay College, CUNY
English Department
445 W 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
Seminar moderator:
Helen Kapstein is a tenured Assistant Professor of English at John Jay
College, The City University of New York. She earned her PhD in English and
Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her areas of scholarly
interest include postcolonial and contemporary British literatures, cultural
and media studies, and southern African literature and culture. Her current
book project is entitled A New Kind of Safari: Tourism in Postcolonial
Literature and Culture and her recent publications include an article on
domestic tourism in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American
Studies (January 2007), an article on Bessie Head in Critical Essays on
Bessie Head (Praeger-Greenwood, 2003), and an article on South African
detective fiction in the journal Anthropology and Humanism (June 2003).
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VII. Transoceanic Dialogues: Working Group
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact May Joseph by January 20, 2008:
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Seminar Overview:
This seminar is interested in drawing into conversations research from the
Pacific Rim, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Gulf, and the South
China Seas that engages with trans-oceanic exchanges. The seminar will
privilege research on material culture, the body, the senses, movement,
everyday life, cities and performance. The objective of the cluster is to
initiate a transoceanic dialogue where work on the Indian ocean engages with
the debates and controversies of work emerging out of other oceanic and
water bound paradigms. What are some of the tensions and difficulties of
doing transoceanic work. How might we begin to create a context for shared
exchanges that builds upon the growing work around oceanic histories and
river logics. There will be required texts to be read that will emerge once
the working group has been established. Participants will prepare three
page position papers that situate their own work within the larger
frameworks of oceanic studies and offer key texts they find helpful to their
own thinking through their particular areas of research. This is a working
group whose primary focus is to learn from different genealogies,
disciplines and approaches. Its objective is to establish a working cluster
that can meet every year to continue to exchange research.
Seminar Organizer:
May Joseph is a theater director and Associate Professor of Global Studies
in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute,
New York. Joseph has written widely on Indian Ocean cultural flows, and
works on globalization, urbanism, performance and visual culture. She is
the author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (Minnesota,
1999) and coeditor (with Jennifer Fink) of Performing Hybridity (Minnesota,
1999). Other co-edited volumes include City Corps (Journal of Space and
Culture), New Hybrid Identities (Women and Performance, 1995) and Bodywork
(Women and Performance, 1999). She is completing a book on urban
citizenship called Metro Lives: Performing the City, forthcoming from Duke
University Press. Joseph is on the editorial boards of Cultural Studies and
XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and a puppeteer with the Penny Jones Early
Childhood Puppet Theater in New York City. Email: [log in to unmask]
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VIII. What is Childhood Studies- and how do we teach it in the classroom?
[Individuals interested in participating in this Cultural Studies
Association seminar should contact Stephen Gennaro by January 20, 2008:
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Seminar Overview:
“Childhood” has become a hotly contested subject in academic discourse. Its
growth in popularity parallels the emphasis over the last half century in
the field of cultural studies to give voice to the “voiceless.” Childhood
& Children’s Studies now occupy an important place in academia, as
illustrated by the fact that York University in Toronto and Rutgers
University have both recently added degree granting Children’s Studies
programs. In this seminar, a potential syllabus for a first year
undergraduate course “Introduction to Children’s Studies” will be looked at
- and a series of constructivist activities will be used for each week of
the syllabus- to illustrate ways of engaging student activity and critical
thought in both small seminar and large lecture style classrooms.
Participants in this seminar are asked to read the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of The Child (available at http://www.unicef.org/crc/) in
advance and come to the seminar with an activity designed to help teach some
aspect of the convention. At the completion of the workshop each
participant will be given a copy of each of the seminar’s activities, in
addition to a copy of each of the activities designed by the other 14
participants. Please note that this is a workshop for all teachers, not only
those in childhood studies, since many of the activities used in this
workshop can be adapted and used to cover other areas of cultural studies.
Seminar Organizer:
Stephen Gennaro is a cultural historian of youth and media. He has over 10
years of teaching experience at all levels from nursery school to
undergraduate and has been developing curriculum for public school boards
and private institutions for close to 15 years. Stephen is currently
teaching in the Children's Studies Department at York University in Toronto,
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