Graduate Group in Cultural Studies Research Workshop

Faculty Coordinator

• David Schmid (Department of English)

Graduate Student Coordinators

• Gil Bitely (Department of English)
• Al Larsen (Department of Media Studies)
• David Squires (Department of English)

About the Workshop

The primary purpose of the Research Workshop is to draw together the community of cultural studies scholars across disciplines at UB and in the community. Membership includes faculty, staff, and students from approximately fifteen UB departments. Our research engages a wide range of historical and contemporary theories and methods of cultural critique and practice, with a special interest in how those interventions contribute to contemporary shifts in redefining both culture and its study at the levels of the individual, the national, and the global.

Meeting Schedule

Rob Latham (Department of English, UC Riverside)

March 3, 2009 | "The Urban Question in New Wave Science Fiction"

Chris Carlsson (writer, multimedia and graphic designer, political activist)
November 6, 2009 | "Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!"

Linda Williams (Departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)

March 26, 2010 | “Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field” [Keynote for "At the Limit: Pornography and the Humanities"]